Butte record., 1856-08-02
The Mint aud the Mobiles.

The Mint nnd the Mobiles.
The Mob organs are making great add
about the fact that the Superintendent
the Mint has seen proper to require the EN-
n,ovees of that establishment, to WITHDRAW
from their sworn allegiance to the Vigilanc
Committee, or leave the employment of tn
U. States Government. They denounce thi
as petty prescription and presumptive AFRO
gance on the part of Judge Lott. the Super
intendent. We regard it as a most righseou
movement, because we fail to see how mel
can swear to support the Constitution of tn
U. States, and, at the same time, swear tf
supper. .ne action Of the Vigilance Com
mittee, when the two are inconpatioie'-
Whether Judge Lott has received ORDERS ior
this course. we know not, but DO not see
how he could act differently under his oath
of office Were all the fedetal officers OF
like metal, the disgraceful scenes now being
enacted in San Francisco, would never have
been permitted to disgrace our annals
The organs of the Vigilance Committee, in
condemning the act of Judge Lott as pro-
scripticn. do not appear to remember that
the Vigilance Committee have prescribed
every one who opposed their illegal actions.
hibited prescription in this matter, that
should sink them so low in contempt, that
the resurrection trumpet would not awake
them. Every newspaper that dared to utter
a sentiment adverse to the Committee, was
prescribed and placed down in their Black
List. We have yet to learn that their ban
has destroyed single interior Press opposed
to them.
The action OF Judge Lott is correct, and
We only wish that he Was in position OF
greater usefulness A few men of his JACK
son-lke frmncss, would 5000 restore order
in mob ridden San Francisco. Was Judge
Lott in the Custom House instead Of the
poppinjqy in buckram. who now figures al
the head of that establishment, fort Gunny
Bag would not long disgrace free city. a
free State, and the only free government on
earth
OF all the Federal officers on the Pacific
coast, Judge Lott is the only one. in our cs
timation, who has any thing like correct
idea of his duty as an officer. The head of
the army on the Pacihc, who lacked the en-
erg, to auell handful of indians in Oregon,
II J.
permitted to dim the lustre of his former
achievements, by standing idly by while the
institutions of his country are violated
the barriers Of the Constitution broken
down, and American citiheus deprived Of
their liberty by a lawless mob, with the
American flag still dying over ,hem-their
appeals to the laws Of their country of no
avail-their claims as American citiSeus un-
hcclcd! Verify, the army Of the Pacific
needs r-novating.
The American Navy, too, proudly floats
in the Bay OF San Francisco, while an Ameri-
can citizen is illegally detained in durance
vile his appcs's for protection unheedet,
and the plaintiSe cries from his hearth
stone unhcard. We had supposed that IT
WAS the duty of the Army and Navy to pro-
tcct our institutions anil citizens again
enemies abroad AMI traitors at home. 1t
was nobly done in the kostza affair, and
hasely neglected with Judge Terry. There
is not a commander of an American vessel
of war on the Pacific, who wears his epau-
let's with houor, or who has discharged his
duty TO his country.
Wbv is all this Why do We stand idly
hv aud pcrmit the laws aud CONSTITUTIONS ot
our country to he thus violated Has the
climate of Calitoruia changed Americans into
Mexican Greasers, that they thus Tolerate
mobs who ovcrturn Governments