The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15
REPUBLICANISM

Desperate is the case with our Phalanx enemies
and their efforts to gain the supremacy they have
lost are correspondingly desperate also. One of
the wiles OF that Satanic party, lately put in use,
Is that OF arousng sectional strife in the united
and harmonious ranks of the American party.
They know when an internecine war is once kind
led among us, sectional issues it must ultimate
ly, without the nobest and most protracted efforts
of every lover of the Union, spread to the ranks of
all parties until the same deadly and unappeasable
animosity exists in California between men from
different portions of the Union which now blasts
with sirocco breath the once patriotic, social and
political society of our old Atlantic homes But
what care our enemies for the good of the State
the Union, when selfish ends are to be attained
The history of their party in this State has been
the history OF ill-gotten gains wrenched from our
young government in accordance with the maxim
of Marcy, that he is fool who does not pluck
feather from the public goose. Office the phalanx-
ers relgiously believe, was made for them, and if
their prerogatives are to be usurped by the people,
and the usurpaion long persisted in, they have no
interest in the welfare of the country, but would
be ready to apply the torch of Erostratus to the
temple wherein now worship in peace and harmo-
ny the fraternal representatives from every portion
of the Union
Insidious efforts are being made by our enemies
to light an Internal blaze in our party to consume
our strength, and lay the remaining wealth of the
State once more open to the political libusters who
have fed and foraged upon US since the admission
of California into the American confederacy.
Against these articles of willy and unscrupulous
enemy it is the province and the duty of every
American to guard.
1t is true there is but little to be feared in our
ranks for the combustible material is wanting but
the good sentinel upon the watch towers Of the
party should guard with vigilant eye the safety
OF the treasure entrusted to his keeping. Allow
the American citadel to be sacked and razed to the
ground, and who is there with hope SO sangune, or
vision OF the future so acute, as to see farer,
more rational, more substantial structure erected
in its stead? Ample in all its proportions to unite
within its sacred walls the conservative patriots
alike from the enterprizing North and chivalrous
South no jarrng notes of sectional discord belong,
or find lodgment there. One pulse BEATS not
with sluggish vibrations, for the great American
Unity No frightening efforts of a skulking and
vanquished foe disturb the steady regularity of
those pulsatons.
Instead Of the havoc intended to be spread
throughout the American army, enemies will
die by the disease they seek to scatter As well
might you attempt to twist rope Of sand, as COM
bine the discordant and repelng elements of Gwin-
ism and Broderickism into cord of strength
The shoulders striking John Van Burenism of the
one element of California Democracy will refure to
shake hands with the Sternly fortified disciples OF
jeff. Davis, over the Kansas-Nebraska question
buried by common consent. There is affinity
between Tammany and Derringers, and the instant
one faction gets the upper hand Of the other in
intestine conflict the singna is sounded for Q tan
genital flight of the weaker to any ism that de-
plores the degeneracy Of the times and the want
of public pap.
The wolf is in the camp of the phalanxors, and
all we have to do is to keep him out of ours Re-
publcanism can gain no firm foothold in our party
There is none so foolish who does not know that
nothing can be gained by its advocacy. Right or
wrong, if principles may be- its success can only
protract the political disorder of the country, which
every patriot hopes to allay. In this state, the
more we ignore the grounds of contention occupied
by our brethren in the East the better for us all
Remove the generic cause of animosity in the At
lantic States from our midst. and that obstacle
which has interposed to make enemies of should be
friends 'who had else like kindred drops been min
gled into one" will be known only in name among
Californians. Let to this for the good of the
State socially morally and politically and for the
success and glory of our palty.--Nevada Journal.