The Nevada journal., 1855-07-13
Salufat0ry.

garded the press as the upholder of moral
ity and virtue, the disseminator of correct
principles, and the reflection of the tone
of public sentiment While our connec-
ton with it lasts, we shall bend our eff
forts, humble though they be, to further
its object and maintain its character But
IN assuming our present position, we have
fears that we may be found unequal to the
task of supplying the demand thus made
upon our judgment and intellect; and these
fears are not little increased by the rec
ollection of the well known ability with
which the JOURNAL has been conducted
by our predecessor.
A new theatre is opened to US for ac-
ton, and ike de6utan.e we make our ap-
pearance on the stage and offer a timor-
GUS bow to an expectant public. The scenes
and the piece are entirely new, for we COM
mence to-day the advocacy of principles
to which we have heretofore been a stran-
ger. 1t is no part of our character to oc-
cupy an equivocal position. We commence
from this hour the advocacy of the princi-
pies of the great American party.
Born in the Wing faith and reared in
its cause, our earliest attachments we're to
the Wing party, and we frankly confess
that the heart still yearns for its early love,
and can only ignore it till the last pulsa-
ton. But the tie that binds us to coun-
try and the friends who have stood by US in
the home Of our adoption, and more than
all, the devotion which we bear to the
American Union, around which those
friends are clustered and cling, is stronger
than any bond beside. Believing that the
American party einbodies much of the in
telligence and moral worth in California,
and that the success of its principles must
Danish all sectional agitation, so much to
be deplored, we have ranged ourselves un-
der its banner, and from this time hence
forth are wed to its fortunes for veal or
woe
But in no case shall we barter away our
native independence, and advocate the
election of men whom we know to be
unworthy of the position which they seek.
The bonds of party should never be SO
strong, as to compel, virtually or otherwise,
any member thereof to cast his sufrages
against his honest conviction of right.
Submission without reserve in every case
to the will Of party msjiority, if acknowl-
edged as party law, is subyersive Of the
pure principles on which every party should
be founded. tits license for demagogues
to wire-work themselves into a nomination
we'll knowing that in a dominant party it
is equivalent to an election. We acknowl-
edge fealty to party principles, but we
recognize no party as ours, that outrages
our convictions of what is necessary for
the public good.
Slight and triling causes will not drive
us from the support of the men selected to
represent the principles which we have es-
poused, and nothing but firm belief that
they are wrong will ALLEVIATE us from the
principles themselves.
No intolerance shall characterize our
sheet. We war against no religion, or
creed of any church Our arm shall only
be raised against influences dangerous to
the welfare of society, and the perpetuity
of the American Union.
Among the citizens Of Nevada County
there are many born on foreign soil, whom
1t has been our pleasure and pride to num-
Der among our friends. That friendship
on cur part will not in the least abate.
We advocate the divestiture of none of
the civil or religious rights which they now
enjoy, nor any privileges, but such as they,
it true American citizens, would not will
nngly surrender for the national veal.
In every stage of the coming contest we
shall endeavof to pursue none of our op-
ponents with vindictive spirit, but as far
as in US lies, fairly and courteously and
never will our sheet become the engine to
settle private quarrels, in which the great
mass of our citizens are not interested.
With pleasure will we watch and note
the Improvements going on in our midst,
and labor to the best of our abilities to ad-
vance the prosperity of our little city.
But to the interests of the miners-the
great interests of the state, we shall give
especial attention.
We shall chronicle with pleasure instan-
ces of individual success, the discovery of
new localities and new methods for more