Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-18
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PUBLIC SENTIM ES,T AND PO-
LITICAIl NECESSITY.
There never has been time, since the settle
ment Of California by Americans, when public
sentiment was so strongly Californian as now.
There never has been period at which there
Wa such a prevailing determination amongst
the voters of the State to exercise their suffrage
for men and measures t'latwere clearly, distinct-
" aud uuequirocally for the interests of Caifor-
min in general, and tho Pacific Railroad in par
ticular This is n flct-an obvious, striking
and uncomfortable fact; and, we may add, sig
nificant indication of approaching results. 81
Eactl" exclaims A. B. and o. Sin tie name of
common sense, of common Justice and decency,
is it not time that such public sentiment was
beginning to show itsalf2r We answer, yes
California has been Sufficiently long fed upon
empty promiseAtoo long yictimized by oft re-
peated protestations tiat have never been fulfill
ed-too long supporting m influence in Con-
gress which never has and never can favor
project that could be tortured into semhlance
ofinterRdl igiProtenie3t. We believe it impoS-
siblc to longer whectle the people of California
into the support of any party that has not al
ready qualified and justified, by acts more par
tcularly than words, upon the great question of
n Pacific Railroad. Slx successive years of be-
travail have made the people of California take
stand upon this subject which cannot fail TO be
understood It would be more than lniracu-
lOuS to see tine state carrying It's IOrpedrance 10
a greater extreme. It would indicate moro
ridiculous and malignant insanity than tia Con-
gressional lunacy which has been so long main
tanned, through fear of seeing the apparition OF
Internal i,apTOsninent upon the Constitution.
A speedy Communicates with the Pacific, so
far as the same can be done by the exercises OF
proper % constitutional authority is cant, too
transparent, too sickening, too mawkisl, for the
people of California to longer swallow. 1t has
lost its vail. Its mask has got so far disordered
that it can never be again adjusted to suit the
views or purposes of State that demands
lailroad laid in iron. Paper railroads. or com
mnnication made by the windy promises of ny
pocritical politicians, will not answer the neces-
sites of n commonwealth that is annually con-
tributing $50, 100000 to the support and con-
venience of their Eastern neighbOrs. The par
ty that carries the State of California IN the en-
suing election, must be, in heart and soul, in
promise and prospect, Pacific Railroad party,
Irrespective of antecetlent difficulties of what
ever kind; and party that holds in unbridled,
utter and uncomfortable contempt the can't of
constitutional obstacle so far as this great ma
tional highway is concerted.
Nothing can disturb us in this conviction of
the present popular sentiment Of California, and
the political necessity Of all parties who are be-
ginning to cater for yotes;-nothing we mean but
the reelection of men who have for six long
years denied California n railroad on account Of
their conscientious constitutional objections.