The Nevada journal., 1856-03-21
THE JOURNAL.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 81.
Our Party.

6HlcIlCdu party ID Olle Vi tiilliitHI hVpt'
Conservative men alike from the North
and the South look to it rs the exponent
of the true policy for the Pacific coast
Separated locally from the older States of
the confederacy, and being the offspring of
the Union of North and South, it bchooves
lis not to espouse the cause of either, but
save our strength and influence till they
can be made effectual in mediation. CALI
lforria is the treasury of the nation. Or
gold is as necessary to the prosperity of
the American people, as the cotton and
sugar of the South, the manufactures and
commerce of the East, or the grain of the
West.
With the inexhaustable resources at our
command, so indispensable to the preser-
walton of healthy state of affairs, through
out the Union, and in fact the whole COM
mcrcial world, it is incumbent upon us as
State to keep aloof from the sectional
coutcntions which now nhappily divide
our Atlantic brethren, till those resources
are more fully developed, and meanwhile
outstanding our strength and influence, we
may be the more potent at period not
far distant, to disarm the fratricidal elc-
ments of their sting and effect harmony
in the American family.
The policy for us to pursue is plain and
ummistakable. Nothing can be gained to
the State by mingling in the family quar-
rels of the nation, but ON the contrary
much may be lost. A large and vigorous
party exists at the North which holds in
in its grasp much of the Legislative power
Of the Union as the late election OF one
of their number to high position demon
stratcs. On the votes of that party de-
pends the recovery to this State of the
Indian War Debt, a sum of little less than
q million of dollars Besides, the coast is
not provided with adequate military de-
f6nses. The danger of a war with Eng
land is more and more assuming threat.
ening shape, and there are not sufficient
arms in the State to equip above seven
thousand men.
To defend ourselves against foreign
enemy we are powerless without the as
sistancc and cooperation of the general
government, and without the votes of the
northern party on the floor of the lower
House of Congress, sectional though it
may be, we cannot hope to be placed in
an attitude to bid defiance to foreign foe
As selfpreservation is the first law of
nature, it is assurcdly our State policy,
not to array ourselves in open opposition
TO that party, especially when from our
weakness nothing can be gained to the
Union, from our dependency nothing can
be gained to ourselves, but on the contrary
much may be lost.
The position taken by the American party
on questions where slavery is directly or re-
motely involved, is proud and noble one.
worthy the imitation of older parties and older
States, 1t is perfect silence and neutrality OH
the subject. Leaving to others the distracting
issues Of the day, We decide to mind our own
business and who is there, not bound by party
shackles, with temerity or effrontery so great,
TO declare that such is not the obvious policy
Tor our young State to pursue? None but
sectional agitators, who are the bane of every
State, can desire to embroil us in a proftless
contest, which here, more than any where else,
would engender virulence of spirit which
nothing could quench.
There orc but two parties from which the
people of California arc called upon to choose
Ono is that party headed by Pierce, who pro-
claimed in his inaugural that he was opposed
10 agitation, but hagrantly violated all his
pledges in few short months by saactioning
scheme, which, has put torches iu the hands
Of every political inceudiary in the Union.
This party endorses the entire course of the
Administration, anJ urges upon US the policy
of ehtangGns ourselves in the unnatural and
unholy feuds which distract the older States,
"l1u WI" ""iNH NC uA HOihliiS u no. Leo
on by arch agitators every man who desires to
see showercd upon us all the horrors of civil
war, should flock to the standard of that party.
With distraction for its cry word, and dsunion
on its banner, it invites every Hotspur to en-
list in the inglorious struggle.
But the American party has a higher and a
% boiler aim. 1t proposes to treat every man
born in the great Republic, without regard to
local interests and prejudices as one ola broth
cihood having common origin, common de-
signs anl common destiny.
1t proposes to allay sectional jealousies, ,rath-
or than fan them into a fame 1t offers to
him from the sunny South the great principle
for which he has contended on his native soil