The Nevada journal., 1854-02-10
Introductory.

BY the above it will be seen that the ed
itoriel department of the Journal is no lon
ger in the able hands of Mr.. SARGENT.
That we should fill that post with the
same ability and satisfaction of the public,
is almost more than we can hope for and
certainly it would be more than we could
expect, to give the same degree of satisfac-
ton to every one. Our course as an edi-'
toI, however, is pretty we'll known in Ne.
vada. From January to July, 1852, we
bore that connection with the Journal.
We leave the public to decide the degree
of satisfaction with which our labors were
then received. The course there marked
out, will, to a considerable degree govern
us in future.
While we are, and always have been,
Whig,-born and bred such-and such
from firm conviction of our duty to our
country, we do moi feel bound to party
tactics. And while we will ever be found
battling for those great principles marked
out by Clay, Webster and others who stood
with them side by side, striving for their
cOuntry's best interests yet we will not
feel it to be our duty to hide the guilty
politician from that odium which may just
ly fall upon him for unprincipled acts of
sel6shness he may have committed, mere
ly because he is whig
Neither would we feel it to be our duty
to condemn the acts of others indiscrimi-
nately, because sthey are democrats. If
they have faithfully battled for any, meas.
ure, in doing which they have truly serv-
ed their country's best interests-we would
sooner accord to them the praise which
they have SO richly earned.
We are Californian. We are here for
life. Our home is here, and we have no
other. All those interests which make life
an object to a man to live for, are here !;
and consequently we are welded to her
prosperity Her interests are ours her
enemies are our enemies and those
who would build up the permanent
prosperity Of the State are our friends.
We hope ever to be watchful of those hav-
ing her interests In keeping. and wherever
we find then, ready to barter the good of
the people for their own aggrandizement,
to "cry aloud and spare not"
We have served some year and half as
practical and laboring miner; ard per-
haps for this reason we have inculcated a
keener regard for the interest of this class
of men than many others. But other and
even important interests are daily assum-
ing place in our midst, which cannot and
will not be forgotten. We are constant
ly and even rapidly building upa commu-
nifty, the Importance of which has but few
equals in the world. The Improvements
which have already been made, mark the
foot hills Of the Sierra Nevada as the
permanent abode Of a numerous population.
Go where you will, though the debris of a
recently unbroken and unexplored forest
are visible, still the enterprise of man is
there. Our towns are no longer looked
upon with indifference. Nevada, though
but recently the abode of the itinerant mi
ner, is now populace town, and contains
much 10 make it interesting to the world at
large. It's traffic in gold is prominent
among the list of mining towns and may
be, inferior to none.
The great enterprise of supplying our
mines with water has already advanced
to state of forwardness that makes her
the favored among her sisters. But other
enterprises are yet in embryo, the accom-