The Sierra citizen., 1854-03-25
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1854.

6AIO hUA1, MAhCa 20, loo4.
Our Senior Ed. has been laid OH the
shelf all the week, not la Edmund Kean,
in pawn, but very i'll, and consequently we
could not pay that attention to the typog-
raphy of the Citizen we desire. What
ever happens, however, it shall be our
constant endeavor to produce paper
alike creditable to ourselves and the
county. Thus far we have met with the
utmost indulgence, and the Cittzen's sue
cess has been beyond our most sanguine
expectations; business men and merchants
have sustained and encouraged US man.
fully, while our subscription list has in-
creased daily This is the seventh week
of our existence, and not murmur nor
any sign of discomfort or dissatisfaction
from any quarter has reached our ears;
while on the contrary we have been well
coined with open arms by everybody
But few newspapers have lived so long
without more or less enemies, and We feel
q proud satisfaction in knowing that we
are free from that description of persons,
and that we have pleased the varied taste
of all. For the very liberal encourage
ment we have received our sincere thanks
are rendered, and hereafter we hope to move
%1o nf
have done before, and shall make extra
efforts to merit continuance of favor.
Lower California and its Conquerors.
PROGRESS is the order Of the day
throughout all parts of the United States,
and where it is carried on by discretion
and justice to all parties we will lend
our feeble aid, heart and hand, but when
on the other side it brings no good to our
common country and all evil to those
whose welfare it is intended to benefit
when, in fact, it becomes system of op-
preston and plumber such US characterizes
the operation of the fillibusters in Lower
California, our instructive sense of right
compels us to put our seal Of condcmna-
tion upon it. Had the expedition been
organized with patriotic motives and
manly sympathy for our oppressed ana
imbecile neighbors, thousands, and tens OF
thousands were it necessary. Of honorable
men in California as well as in other parts
of the confederacy, would have aocked to
the standard of the two-star Republic and
crushed the pseudo-King's emissaries and
laws to atoms, and placed in their stead
wise and trustworthy public officers and u
liberal form of government under which
the people of that unfortunate and mis-
ruled country could not but prosper aud
be happy. Such is not the case however;
there was no necessity for 1.-THE expedi-
ton was uncalled for--iil-timed, il.-judged,
and must per force Of circumstances prove
an abortion. All men who have any re-
spect for the laws of their own country
and honor the laws of nations-who have
any conscientious scruples about right and
wrong, will stand aloof; those who indi-
screetly were led into the vortex, as they
become convinced of their danger will
gradually desert. Finding no sympathy
among thinking men, and having no re-
sources to replenish their exhausted means
and skeleton regiments, the officers unable
to maintain their position, one by one will
find their way to the peaceful shores ol
their own country.
The last proceeding Of the Great am
was to compel the inhabitants Of San
Vicente to swear allegiance "at the point
of the bayonet," to his excellency's repub.
lie. He assembled, by force, the people
of that district in Convention, and dictated
q document for their signature excuipatina
him and his troops from any rohberies
and abuses that had been inflicted upon
the people by bis orders, wording it in
such way as to make it appear that they
executed the document Voluntarily
whereas they did it under the most press
ing compulsiou. Two of his men be,
coming Disguised with his bombast and
heartily sick of his tyrany, determined te
leave and pursue more honorable oocrs,
to obtain q livelihood. They were ar
rosted, tried by court-martial, and shot
shot, forsooth! for deserting suci al
iniquitous and lawless band. How long
we ask, viii the Government Of the Unitet
States stand ;ams.y By and see such unpar
5oDah's sarasrs pePetraseda Why are th'