The Nevada journal., 1856-08-22
Which IS THE MOST RELIABLE ?-The


Republican and Democratic parties are
making much ado in this State about
Raci6c Railroad. With the former the
professions may be earnest among the
rank and file of the party. But with
the leader, Fremont, q Southern Dem
| ocrat, this new born love for internal
improvements is of suspicious char
acter His anteeedents are not such as
to inspire entire confidence. He be-
longs to species of politicians which
were never known to favor the building
of works Of internal improvement. lie
belonged to the strict constructionist
school that denies the constitutional
power of the government to lend assis-
tance to carry out any scheme proposed
of the nature of Pacific Railway, and
we have never learned that he changed
his principles on this subject till nom
nation for President hoated before his
vision. There is no proof that he has
undergone a real conversion. When
las he ever renounced the erroneous
doctrine that the government has the
right to conquer, purchase, or steal all
the territory adjoining, but no consti-
tutional power to improve one rod of
ground thus acquired? He has never
given to the world any confession of
faith that indicates an abjuration of old
doctrines which as southern Democrat
he has been presumed to favor. His
partizans in the North are, many of
them, internal improvement men and
doubtless are anxious that the federal
government shall WELD all the power
by it possessed to open an inter-oceanic
communication between the East and
West.
But we want collateral security in ad-
dition to the dictum of an aspirant for
Presidency that Fremont is au fait on
the internal improvement question which
above all others is THE question we are
interested in.
AS for the labored attempts of the
Democrats in this State to prove them
selves and their nominees Pacific Rail
road men, they are hypocritical to the
{ last degree. The letter of Mr.. Brent,
one of the delegates to the Cincinnati
convention, confirms what was known
before, that the Democracy are oppo-
sed to internal improvements in any
shape by the general government
Buchanan's strength, if he has any,
mast come from the South, and we chal-
lehge the production of a single South
f ern Democrat, who is openly and avow-
edly in favor of internal improvements,
or viii consent that there is authority
in the federal constitution for their
construction by government. Mr.. Brent
declares that the convention of which
he was member was farmed out to
Virginia, a state notoriously adverse to
a railroad. The railroad plank attemp-
ted to be inserted in the platform was
t rejected, and not till after the convic-
D ton was forced upon the Convention by
the delegates from this State, that Cali
fornia was lost to the Democracy, unless
e a pretense Of favoring a railway could
: be shown in connection with the pro-
n ceedings of the party, was even an
equiyOcal endorsement of the measure
n allowed to go before a humbugged peo-
pie. The resolution attached to the
: Democratic platform, pretending to fa-
e vor railroad to the Pacific, was design
ed to catch votes There is not an hon
? est intention by the party to grant one
: dollar from the national treasury for the
S furtherance of the great work. The
; Democracy of this State know it, and
! connive at the cheat. What other in
ference can be drawn from the platform
of the party, adopted at Sacramento at
the last State Convention ?
The old doctrine of strict construc-
o ton of the constitution, was on that oc-
S casion again reiterated, and every body
S knows that the Democracy have al
ways denied the Constitution strictly
: construed, allowed appropriations for
canals or railroads to be made by Con-
gress.
Again, the administration of Frank
;. lin Pierce has been notoriously adverse
y to the railroad. Yet the Sacramento
S convention cordially approved '-of the
principles and policy { tl4e-adszqQQiAlistra-
'.on Of President Pierc and urged their
8 adoption and enforcen ent upon all sac-
4 succeeding administr; ions" The OPP
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