Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-23
~ ENGI,IsHv1Ew oFTHEsAN
EARNCTSCO REVOLUTION.
IPrDu a. Tlon1an TlDea, Q 49,

-, a s; H. TSof;ticsl or social aspects presents
= ranSt perbleEilE problem fheir SOCIAL stand
Hrs prufezsez 70 be What Is teednAeAlIy S44llea
H-orSekT. Yet one man e1dSeas 1notnsT IN me
Senate house n Washington, ana IS edl,ltS1 y
oor-l1sif Of the American world for 50 doing
1i1s4 Is \ E,roSlem which We ask somebody 70
soIve. So. aEa1n, their standard Of SOCIAL order
and law uFSifssseS 10 be the same IS onrs- Inc
TThited States Courts 20 back to the presidents
of English Courts and the decisions Of sSnslisn
lawyers thcy 20 hack 10 CakS upon AlttEet0ts 20
Roytss-,,S. and even 70 RomGn law, The Arnesl-
csns T-i5e thernseIres upou their hereditary code
and their e<tabiShed PRINCIPLES Of law. Ihen
they have al the feeling IN favor Of social order
yrhie4 prosperous trade manufactures and COM
meree produce. Ee1 York is governed by
regular system Of police IS LONDON: but co
existing with this regular and eStab !Ishe1 system
Of law is the state Of things IN Kansas CaaiioEa'
and yTe NAV add as the United States have an /
dertaken the responsibility Of It; Nicaragua ana
Central America Who viii explain tins extFa-
ordinary IuixtI,res We can understand baThar. |
ism and we can understand civilization. bat bar
barism and civilization together are very dlt1cult
IN understand. Who viii solve this sphynx and
riddle of a peoDle-this centaur. half man and
| b,if ot,adripedi There is an old remark, that
that If Won give horse fish's tail you produce
| On eccentric animal. This combination Of OPP
1 nosites that we have In American society Is &C.
/ centric strange and monstroua There must be
some deep element Of disorder, some radical DIS
ease or weakness in the United States system, OF
| some prim0rdial incongruity and jar, which can
produce at once three such scenes OF chaos IS
| Kansas. California and Nicaragua Parent States
have generally been reflected in their offspring.
the public system, at home has naturally migrat-
ed with the emigTant, and the colony has, IN the
nain been a sample of the mother country, sun
| they exhibit all her main public features An
| English colony naturally succeeds to English law
and English Justice But the United States have
law and order at the centre and confusion at the
i extremes The instant we are out of the settled
4 States of the Union we are in kind OF political
commencement Of things, in which society seems
to be beginning again, and struggling upward
from the barbarous TO the civilized state, from
disorder to regularity, and from wild and savage
to civil justice.
/ California has been recently exhibiting Por-
teous mob scene on most solemn and striking
nodel-we say P0rteous mob scene, but there
is this difference, that the mob In California;
which seems 70 consist of the most respectable
iclasses. has not limited themselves to one case,
\ hut has erected itself into permanent trlbun
al of Justice It appears that in California muir
der has not metsiitherto at all certain or regu-
liar punishment man, it seems, could com
init murder in open day and in the publ:
streets, and, If he had good backing Of pubic
and private friends. could depend on immunity:
A certain 'James P. Casey, who is described
as an editor ofa paper in San francisco, as 81
prominent man among the gamblers and shout
der strikers" and as "a successful ballot-box
lStuffer-so successful that on counting the votes
Of his ward it was found that he was elected one
of the Supervisors Of the County by alarge ma
iority. although he was not even known by the
voters as q candidate" appears to have taken adj
vantage of this privilege tn shoot in the open
streets 4 rival editor, "a Mr.. James King, Of
William" a surname which is explained by .the
use of the old style of Maryland and Virginia, "a
distinguish two Of the same name, as James
KiIg, son of William King, from James, son oi
George King" The murdered man had been {
successful gold discoveIer, buthad lost fortune
of $3.50, 900, which he had made in four years
lin A certain firm of adams d Co., IN which he
had lodged it. and whose receivers, ~. G. Woods
and Cohen" had thoroughly cheated him at the
winding-up of the accounts. Indignant at his
treatment, Mr.. James King, OF William, set up
small sheet called the Erentng BnLtettn, mainly
for the purpose ofexpoSipg the frauds as well Of
Woods & Cohen as Of other fraudule men o.
lhusinesssin San Francisco. "tionest, frank and
straightforward, thoroughly deteSting vice, and
! possessed of great moral and physical courage.
Mr. King attacted in this paper ''the hydra-mon
ster corruption, which was sapping the very
unsparing hand. His paper attracted Thousands
Of honest "miners, laborerS, mechanics and mer
! chants" advertisers hockcd TO his desk; in 1
short time he was obliged to enlarge his sheet
and the popular and influential Ecentng Butte
tin, continued TO attack with increasing energy
all the blots Of Californian society, the vices
Judges iuries, men in high political positions
our bands of ballot.box suffers, our hosts Q
. Gamblers. our scores Of dishonest and pettifog
Sing LAWYERS" Jealousy at his editorial success
7 and revenge for his unsparing satire at las
B brought Mr.. Casey upon him. Mr.. King, thong
a man Of known courage, and accustomed TO ejec
; suminarily all threatenerS OF personal v1olenc
. from his editorial room, was conscientiously op
posed to duelljng, while at the same time, tn
? always went about well armed" against open a
8 tack The only alternative was to shoot him ur
: prepared Nor had Mr.. Casey calculated amis
$ his resources for security, as things ordinaril
, round him, anda carriage was ready TO bear hiI
j. 10 the jail" which was put at his disposal
e place ofrefwgs--a somewhat singular purpos
to put Jail to, and rather contrary to the gent
c raj design for which jails are supposed to hav
: been made.
# But there is a point beyond which huma
# nature will not endure wrong, and when regula
II justice fails wild justice comes in. The honest
c and public spirit Of Mr.. King had gained him Il
!, respect of all the best society III San Francisco
z The respectable citizens, on the news of It
murder, Immediately assembled, formed q Con
mittee and public purse, purchased arms, an
munition and cannon, took possession OF II
a city, and established q military guard The ia
n was besieged by 1900 armed men; riff,
t %were posted on the roofs of the houses owe
10 looking it, and "a heavy piece Of ordinanC
l. pointed dead at the great iron door" Unpr
: pared for such an attack, the authorities deli
y cred up the murderer, who was taken before Il
!. COMMITTEES and examined. The value of h
}. confessions, which implicated many in his gull
o had, up to the last intelligence, delayed b
death, but the new tribunal of justice still sit
Is and is supreme At San Francisco. which is o
3 cupied with armed troops, patrols, and night
y and daily guards, which acknowledge the Al
thority Of the self:constituted Government
So much for California. At Kansas the civ
v war continues to rage, and from Nicaragua y
( hear that the general insecurity which prevail
under the new Government is at last turning Il
e Nicaraguans themselves against American inf