Butte record., 1856-08-09
vigiIanceism aud the Press.

Figilanceism aud the Press.
1t has been very generally understood
that the democratic press alone have op-
posed Vigilance-isIl This is correct, in q
measure: but it is nevertheless true that
portion of the Democratic Press of the State,
and given it preference over the republican
institutions of our government. 1t is also
true that the only democratic daily paper in
San Francisco that favored the Vigilance
doctrine, was suffered to die out aud has
been sold under the hammer. 1t was in
bad company, and those who were instru
mental in guiding and controlling Vigi-
lance affairs had ''nary red" of patronage
to bestow upon it. However honest it may
have been in its Vigilance sentiments, there
were other more congenial spirits who
"waxed fat and kicked,' while the demo
cratic Globe was nabbed and sold by the
Sheriff. A lesson, that we trust the demo-
cratic press will always heed, and never
neglect principle, the constitution and laws
of the country to run after strange idols
1t was movement in which the democratic
press were not expected to join, and when
| the Globe favored the movement, and even
made appeals to the democratic press of the
State in its favor, it was, nevertheless, suf-
the State summoned to hold an inquest on
its remains, the verdict would be Served
it right
The democratic press of California are not
alone ia opposition to Vigilance-ism The
two San Jose papers, one Of them K. N, and
the other Republican, oppose the Vigilance
institution. The Shasta Republican, flying
the Fillmore flag, has steadily and perse-
veringly opposed the monster, and its many
stalwart blows have not. fallen harmlessly
upon Committee-ism's one-eyed carcase-
With these few honorable exceptions, the
majority Of the democratic press of the
State have constituted the opposition to the
institution now holding its bloody orgies in
San Francisco.
A portion Of the Ki-Yi and independent
vigilance press, are endeavoring to make
Vigilance or antiVigilance, the issue of the
next election. The press in the employ of
the mob at San Francisco, it would appear,
have no better sense than to insult the in
| telligence of the people, by asking them to
permit the question of Vigilance-ism to
override every other question, and control
their suffrages al the coming election. 1t
matters not with what party men have
heretofore acted, and no matter where the
beck of Vigilance-ism may lead them, they
are expected to abandon their former pro-
fessions and embrace Vigilance ism, the
moment the KiYi and woolly headed press
see proper to make the issue. Was there
ever greater insult offered to an intelligent
people, than to suppose that such question
would induce men to abandon principles
which they had professed all their lives, and
embrace those of their opponents' To
abandon the institutions of their country,
and sustain in their stead, an armed mob
Men who are decidedly in favor of Buchan-
an are to abandon him, and support Fre-
mont or Fillmore, the moment that Ki-Yi-
ism turns into the canvass the one-eyed
monster now reyelling in human gore at the
city of the Bay. Why do they wait before
making the issue' Why do they not trot
out and enter their one-eyed guyastecutus,
and raise over their human flesh loving pet
the KiYi and woolly headed flag of bare
skulls and bloody bones, and see the intelli-
gent freemen of California fail down and
worship the hideous monster, as the heather
worships his wooden god, or as the press in
the employ of the committee, worship the
golden calf of Viglance' If the scheme is
so sure of success, why do they not trot out
their flesh eating Cyclops, and show his
paces' They pretend that they are organ
lied for the punishment of crime, and yet
their organs acknowledge they have viola
ted the laws of the country, by requiring of
the next legislature a general amnesty bill.
They have winked at crime in San Francisco
until it has become familiar to them and they
hope to make its beauties captivate the peo-
pie, and induce them to send men to the
next legislature who will legalize murder
1t is possible that they may do So. We have
serious doubts, however, about the matter.
The Vigilance Committee knew they were
violating the law, and the law should be
permitted to take its course, not as it has
been administered in San Francisco, but
as it has been administered here in Butte,
where offenders can only evade the law by
digging through the bottom of the Jail
NEGRO FIGHT.-Two gentlemen of fast
color got at loggerheads last night at the
Orleans Hotel One of them was the Old
Virginia Niger George, who rings the bell,
blacks boots. and waits on gentlemen. The
other is cook at the Orleans Hotel. George
had imbibed some bad whskey while en-
gagged in political discussion with some
white friends who entertained Black Repub-
lican notions, and he waxed angry and left