San Andreas independent., 1856-09-24
Independent IN all Things Neutral
In Nothing"


In Nothing"
The title of our paper defines our position
and the position we now take we are determin-
ed to maintain
While. we have our own views with regard
to the qsestions of political excitement that is
now agitating the public mind While some
men and some measures are dear to us because
we believe them the most capable of shedding
honor and stability on the institutions of the
country yet we will never refuse the voice of
honest enquiry place in our columns, but we
are the hired advocate of no political party or
partizah.
We advocate the claims of the people,---of the
sun-burned farmer and the hardy miner, the
mechanic and the workingman 1t is to the
interest of those whom the future glory and
prosperity of our state depend that we look
and our pen and voice will always be ready to
battle in their service
We support men for no office who does not
recognise the rights of these classes.
We ignore that race of beings who heretofore
fattened on the spoils of Office, and elevated
themselves to wealth and dignity on the ruins
of our State, ruined by the Harpies who have
clung to political position with the tenacity OF
a drowning man, and clutched with eager
grasp each cent that fell into Golfers.
Ruined in the estimation of all good men by
the non-payinent of our debts, while there
should be sufficient in our treasury, and ruined
by the unhallowed transactions of men whose
hands are dyed in blood, and whose hearts are
dyed deeper still in the unhappiness they have
occasioned. Men who, assuming the only posi-
tion which would entitle themselves or their
abilities to respect, have left the criminal and
degraded paths of debauchery and gambling
have reached forth after political preferment
To all such we are opposed and we call upon
the laborious portion of our State to come to
the rescue against them, while we have the
strength to drive these meE from their positions,
yet they look to us for support while we groan
daily under the burdens they impose upon us.
Yet they whisper the name of party in our ears,
and we sink supinely into apathy. Oh, truly is
that word party breathed by Syren's voices
the higher, holer nobler influences of our be-
ing are chained by the spell it casts upon us,
and we refuse to raise the arm in self-defense,
of our rights and its utterance.
Why is this? Is it because we fear7 Or has
party, like the old man of the sea, as he sat on
Sinbad's shoulders, so completely settled upon
us that we are unable to shake it off.
1t is time we look to this; time we learn to
think and act for ourselves-to govern ourselves
and place our State in the position God in
tended we should occupy. It time we should
teach the political huckster he is no longer
needed-and tread on to that dignity and glory
our State seems so pre-eminently fitted to as
sume
Ours is indeed glorious State in its natural
advantages. In its vast hills are deposites
of untold wealth, and many Pactolus runs
yellow with its golden treasures. Even the
waves that lave our shores bear upon their
bosoms glistening particles of wealth; and our
streamlets, gulches, ravines and plains are rich
: in golden ore.
Our vallies wave with golden grain, and will
soon furnish the world with provisions Our
citizens are from every cline, and we stand, as
itwere, the connecting link by location, between
the refinement, civilization and enterprise of
one of the proudest nations of the world, and
the dark and benighted heather in the fast an
chored isles of the ocean, and the countries of
Oriental but Pagan Asia.
In the course of but few years, knowledge
of our nstitutions-political and moral-will
ho, tI,o
and the influence that knowledge may exert,
may awaken many slumbering slave and serf
to dignity as a man, or place them deeper,
deeper still in moral and political thraldom.-
There is a fearful responsibility resting upon us
in the moral world We may spread the bless
ings of our free and enlightened influences over
the world by example, and by the same we
may disgust those who live among us. And
how is this to be done? By government By
those we place in political position-by our ru-
lers. And who so fitted to make laws for us
as those who know our requirements, and our
wishes-those who are identified with us p
Lat the laboring portion of our community look
to this and take from among themselves men
to support them by their laws, and soon the
result we have so anxiously looked fora per-
manent basis to our Constitution and Laws
will be formed, and we shall hasten on to a
glorious future for our State.
TRUE BiLL-We learn that the Grand Jury,
now in session at Mokelumne Hill have found a
true bill of Indictment for murder, against Pedro
Espinosa, the Chilian, who shot the Mexican,
Francisco Gaieta His trial will be held in the