Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-01-12

Of tbe people.
Let Cur citizens think on our suggestions
and If IN accordance with their sentiments
let measures he at once taken to place our
solves il the Tight read @ enjoyment Of The
l brilliant future thai iscfearly within our
grasp.
WHERE SHALL WE HAVE CUR sTAEE CAPITOL
/ This is a question that has been discussed
in most of our city and country papers. 1t
is subject too, on which much gass and a
considerable money has already been expen-
ded, and vet some would still continue indie
finitely the agitation of the question to the
evident preiuice of the interests of the State
generally. We speak thus positively from
the fact that it is high time that the State
Capitol should speedily find permanent To-
cation somewhere; this being evident to all,
we need not argue that point further The
The question now resolves itself upon the
proper place for that location. In answer
to this question, the people of Nevada Coun-
ty have already expressed through the me-
dunn of the Press, that they are decidedly in
favor Of Sacramento City, as the most favor
able position basing their reasons upon the
centrality of her location and the ready and
easy access which all portions of the State
have to this the most beautiful and enterpris-
ing Of our inland Cities 1t is in fact. the
heart Of California, it being the centre of a
circle from whence radiates the life giving
principle Of our State. 1t is true that San
Francisco is the great public mart it is the
grand emporium of our commerce, and con-
sequently must ever remain the principal
city upon the Pacific coast But San Fran
cisco is to the external, what Sacramento is
to the internal. San Francisco is what you
may call the mouth and stomach of our State
it is the regular and only channel through
which the nutriment must pass, but from
thence it passes to the heart which is Sacra-
mento, and by it the life and energy of which
that substance is possessed, is diffused from
North to South, and from East to West.
throughout our State and country. San Fran
cisco, Notwithstanding her greatness, is from
the very nature of that greatness disqualified
for the location of our Capitol. In fact, she
does not want it. Turning our eyes from the
great metropolis Of the Pacific, where shall
they find resting place? At Benicia, no.!
For what is Benecia? what can it be? with
out either position or capital, it may hope in
vain for future prosperity sufficient to JUS
tify the location of our California Capitol, of
itself, it possesses no virtue. But not so with
Sacramento. Here we find a f1ourishing and
prosperous city; city which in spite of the
elemental wars which have so often threaten
ed her destruction, is still noble city for all
that. She has proven herself to be possessed
of bone and sinew sufficient to bear her up
under all emergencies, while at the same time.
She is capable of building for herself a perma-
money in growth ard prosE Gritty u s1ualed by
even the possibility Of any other interior city
in the country. To sum it all up. if she does
not receive it nOac, she aCiU receive it at a
ullAO hhCh tA0 nCCSoSd1y y CApSuSCS Sudll nave
been thribbled, yes, and then quadrupled
again In Sacramento city, is concentrated
the interests of the mining region, both North
and South, unless indeed it be the extreme
South, and even there they could never be
benefited by its remaining at Benicia. But
on the contrary, as it would be to the interest
of the State generally, even the extreme
South would be Indirectly benefited by the
removal of the Capitol to Sacramento. Ina
few years, this city will be linked to all the
principal cities and villages of the State
and that too with an iron band strong as are
those in the States, which, with lightning
spread are constantly bearing upon them
selves the whole commercial and agricultu-
raj interest of the country. Here then is the
place-and the only proper place for the as
sembfing of our Representatives and Sena-
tors. Confne them in Benicia, and it would
prove to them prison from which they
would be constantly trying to make their es-
cape. But place them in Sacramento, and
they are at once in the very soul, as it were,
of a music whose enlivening strains would be
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