The Nevada journal., 1855-01-12
Senatorial.


ncsday evening to discuss the Senatorial
question. 1t was fully determined to
nominate and support, to the full extent,
Whir candidate. Several informal bal
lots were had for the purpose OF Jeel'ng,
hut nothing was done to indicate with GER
taintv who would be the nominee. Ot
course, saws our informant, no nomination
viii be had until there is full meeting
Of all the Whis members. In the bal
Iotings Col. Phil Edwards, Of Sacramen-
to, had the highest vote.
Judging from outside talk, Col. Wood
ytards the best chance for nomination.
Mr. Crabb, Col. Baker and others, are
spokon Of and received some votes. We
mus. admit ouself much surprised at
the above intelligence. 1t is right and
proper for wings to support whis and
elect him if possible; but we ask Is it
worth the trouble to elect man with on
u the name Of wLig to identify him with
the party. Such a one is Col, r. n.
Wood. He is omphatically a supporter
octhe present administration in It's grand
Nebraska svindlc, and in his zeal for pro-
raganism, believes even the gross treacL-
erv and violation Of sacred compromises
involved in the Nebraska scheme to be
praiseworthy. No such whig is worthy
the support Of the party. We do not be-
lieve there is one from this county in the
Legislature that would vote for him even
under the dictate Of king caucus. If
there is one he cannot render a greater in
suit to this county-for if there is man
emphatically unpopular here, it is Col.
Wood
Col Edwards IS not personally unpop-
ular here, bat if we mistake not is a
supporter Of the administration in the
measure VIC have alluded to. If he is he
Is not ft for the position. He cannot
serve God and mammon He cannot be
,supportcr Of Pierce and Douglas, and
be a trustworthy whig And SO Of every
man calling himself whig who will 60
10 the Senate to upheld or sanction the
iniquitous measure that has been made
.he test Of democracy! Sorcvolting is that
,.st TO even Democrats that the party has
been rent in twain, and immense MAORI
ties have rcbuked the ADMINISTRATION
Yet we are called upon to support a whig
who will be more Of a Democrat than most
Democrats themselves, and fortify Dem
ecratic administration in its weakest point.
However much we might have been in
clined to acquicsce i'll the Nebraska bill
ri first, on account Of the claimed princi-
PIE Of squatt6r sovereignty, that princi-
pie has been so traycstied and burlesqued
by the operations of the first election,
hat We turn from the whole subject III
disgust Senator Atchison, one of the
chief glorifyers of the principles of the
bill went into the border counties just be-
fore The election for delegate in Kansas,
and urged the Missourians to 90 over the
border and vote for pro-slaycry man
They went over by thousands In one
district, having bat II legal voters SOC
~otcs were returned. In another, having
lbout 81, over 1000 were returned. The
roals we're lined with wagons full Of Mis-
sour.aAs gong to vote. The real voice O
settlers vas choked off, and pro-slavery
deleea.t>to Congress, Gen Whitfield, wa
elected, Il spite Of the boastod squatteI
sovereignty, and by the cxegtions Of tht
very men who claimed the passage Of th,
bill on such principle. By the Missouri
Compromise, Kansas was guaranteed a
free State. But the Nebraska bill viola
ted that compromise and instituted squat
ter sovereignty and now the supporter
q. the bill have consummated the intended
infamy BY numbering even squatter SOY
oreisnty. 1t Is the tlackest transaction
il ou: national history. It is tradin!
political scheme by which Pierce an'
Douglas have sold themselves to the Soa,h
snd Whies are now called upon to r4tiG
the bargain, and promote It's reward W.
believe We know too well the tempe D
the Nhiss il the Legislature to suppos
they Will do SO. One reason Of the de
feat Of our nominees to Congress at tn
last election was that neither Of them wa
an Anti-Nebraska man Had Stowe bee1
nominated he would have been triumph
antly elected. Had the Broderick con
vention nominated Bryan and Cofroth in
stead Of reaching after an unworthy com
premise, they would have been abio t