Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-18
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We gather from the published statements of
tic passengers by the orizaba, that the state of
alairs in California is lamentably unsettled
Nothing much is thought or talked Of but the
doiugs of the rciguing regency-the Vigilance
Committee. TWAS thought that the law would
be able ere long, however, to assertits supreme
cy, but from all that We can find Of the popular
i.cling it will be long before any general salts
factory quiet will be restored. If, as is intima-
tad, the authority of the State aud Committee
should come in collision, the revolution is yet
long ways from its elimination. One is re.
aiaded by the state of things there now, of
Ii, bloody September era entrance, of the mys-
.si2us trials and sentences of the Red Tribunal
q aobespeirre, Danton and Marat In fact the
ialogy in some things seems striking. The
fage Of California were for long time out
ngd in their rights-corruption lust aud de.
parity seemed to riot in high places and control
t. municipal authority. The people, moved
!Jsn impulse like that which assembled the
F'ash States General, came together and en-
'al-l themselves into u great committee of the
saale to crush out their corrupted rulers. All
c:lqsiasm and popular feeling seems to be on
L. side of the Committee. The Herald news
if:r is the only one opposed to them in San
I7nisco.
tits difficult, ioy a great aggregated power in
Safe like this to either know or agree upon
tie accomplished eud of its mission. All histo-
y proves that revolutionary steps like these be-
steOunter.reyolutions, and then it goes on like
tie disturbed wave of a sca--permcating, until
f1i1t restores itself by sheer exhaustion. Thus
fvss that the English revolution of the 18th
Catury, centered in CrOmwell-and after him
tie dread Of the fierce dcmocracic" had be-
come so deep-rooted that with one great national
H:eaim the people welcomed to the throne that
degenerate scion Of rOyalty-Ch Charles the Sec
Ona So it was in Poland-Hungary-
in '9S-aud in 4s
These irresponsible popular executives ovcrdo
their primary object and become a tyranny, and
in time 6eset either a proncness to or an acqui-
eSeeaee in strong centralized power. Unsuc-
cesSiui or exaggerated effort in revolution only
make the succeeding power stronger. The pow
e. OIL spain Is stronger in Cuba now than it was
before the Lopez expedition. England breads
Caartlism-slnsgish Italy breads the French Ea-
&c that once under the semblance of redeeming
be, levied war supplies from her. Whether it
Is 9s'ter to bear the ills they have or fly to I'm
Known ones, is question with all these nation
>, We believe this illegal uprising on the Pacific
Soaat Will bring about better state Of things.
ias State government in future will be more
saeent and the people more aversc to self
constituted mob law. It is not revolution in
proper terms-it is only an attempted renoya-
w. Like the soldiers who, in the days of our
'sSo!u'lOn, broke out from their cncampment
anu demanded redress Of grievances from the
Continental Congress So it is with these pco.
Pc without being disatfected to their form of
s''eFnment, they only demand proper admin
'suatlon OF that form which exists. The moral
:. :. Dc learned from tho unhappy situation, the
A'sats Of citizens and stagnation of industrial
pursuits, Is, that Higher Lavish can never be
substituted for acknowledgements reform
ith1inpupity.
mo CoSvESTIoN.- VA, Wednes-
ny July IA Convention of0ld-line Wings
net AZ metropolitan Hall at ten o'clock this NOR
IT, ng, ana was temporarily organized-W II.
.Sf ariand, Of this city, in the Chair, r. o. Rid
tsNay, Of Richmond, and 7. Peters, of Lynch
"uTg, Secretaries
EoFfy-One counties and four cities were repre-
s so,t by one hundred and twenty-one dele,
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