The Nevada journal., 1856-04-11

ISSo AhON pNAobAJ NOhHNNtSN' OhC POI
ought not to possess it as its most promi-
nent attribute, to the exclusion of the 9TH
or, but such is the case. The Democratic
party, through its organs seem extremely
anxious to monopolize the vast quantities
which are known to exist in this country,
and turn them to its own use.
Six years has political piracy been per-
pctrated upon the people and property Of
this State, and when at last the honest vo-
ters triumphcd over the hordes of thieves,
and cormorants who infested tho govern
ment, and in spite of ballot-box stufhng
regained their rights in popular election,
with an unblushing front, the same men
who arc guilty of every unholy calling,
assume the garb and air of moral and po-
litical reformers, and accuse their success
ors of the same crimes of which they them
selves have been convicted before the peo-
pie. A brand more indelible than Cain s
on their brows, they preach of those noble
qualities which adorn mankind, but to
which they are utter strangers. Hypoc-
risy has lost its meaning when compared
with the brazen impudcnce of notorious
political rascals ranting with affected fer
vor over imaginary evils pcrpetratcd on
the people by their opponents, the lachets
of whose shoes they are not worthy to un
loose.
The American party had no sooner as
sumed the rcins of government than the
pop-gun batteries of unscrupulous sheets
opened upon it. Finding no vulnerable
point they resort to wholesale charges of
corruption which has origin in their own
fetid imaginations and no where else The
American party is accused of falsifying its
promises to the people at the last election;
of increasing beyond precedent the expen-
ses of the Legislature instead of diminish
ing them; Of passing odious and enormous
State Prison Bills, and of attempting va
rious other reprehensible measures which
the choicest Billingsgate is selected to
characterize.
But the American party has never yet
stuffed Governor upon the people, who
has signed robbery water lot bills, State
Prison Acts involving upwards of one mil
lion dollars, and awarded contracts under
them to favorite; approved Bills making
his friends preferred creditors and vetoing
the same when bis enemies were party
complained that his salary was four thou
sand dollars too high, but took it all, and
as much more in contingents, and left the
clerks for whom the contingents were pro-
vided to seek their pay at the hands of the
Legislature or remain unpaid; and certi-
fed to printing which he had ordered with.
out the color of Law, in order to bolster
up partisan press at the expense of the
State.
Neither L-s che American party elected
a controller who, without authority from
the Statutes issued a quarter of million
dollars in State indebtedness, which every
honest legislator was bound to repudiate.
The party too has not so disgraced it
self as to elevate to the Treasury mar
whose books at the expiration of his tern
of Office present an almost inexplicablc
mass Of ignorance and malfeasance com
bincd
Nor has the party dragged half fedget
lawyers from Justice Courts and made then
legal advisers of the State, to squandel
not only all that was provided to protec
the State in her rights, but surrender with
out an effort, by tacit connivance every
suit into the hands of opponents
The party has not elected Legislature
which gives pap to one hundred and six
teen attaches, and remains five months il
session; which spends months and thou
sands of dollars over Senatorial squabblt
to no purpose; which makes extravagan
State Printing laws and refuses to repea
them while the party is in power; and doe.
Il thousand other acts which every body
reads as the infamous chapters in our his
tory as. State.
All those things the American party has
never done, but on the contrary when the
present Session of the Legislature will
have closed its labors, the State govern
ment can show cleaner balance sheet in
its favor, than any previous administra-
ton in the same length of time. The sly
insinuations which are thrown out against
our party ale unworthy of any considera-
tion whatever. They are intended to
poison the minds Of the people and affect