Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-03-08
Mr. l.. u. Fisher
The County Seat.

By the Senate proceedings 1t Wouio ap-
near that that body has passed the Assembly
bill providing for vote of the people OF
Amador upon the question of removing then
comfy seat. We learn however, that the
hin was so mutated and clogged with a
mendments designed to defeat its main object,
that it would be impossible to recognize it as
the one passed in Assembly.
1t will be remembered that one of the pro-
visions of the bill, as it passed the lower
house, was to the effect that the successful
town in the contest should pay the expense
of removal To this Volcano did not object.
Regarding the provision as an economical
one for the county she was entirely willing to
recognize it; and held herself in readiness to
pay all legitimate expenses connected with
the removal, and to construct at her own
cost good and substantial buildings in lieu
of the miserable, rickety shells at Jackson
But this provision with regard to the ex-
pense of removal of the county seat and con-
struction of public buildings Notwithstanding
no other Legislature had ever assumed to take
so much local authority upon itself in SINH
lar connection) did not fill up the measure Of
the Senate's sagacityl That body must needs
insert an amendment that the county of Am
ador must give bonds to the citizens Of Jack
son. to indemnify them for what they claim
to have expended in county seat affairs, and
we suppose the expense they acoah be at in
conducting the new campaign, Oh, most
reverend, grave, and potent seniorsW What
wisdom!-what immaculate justice! 1t is
wonder you did not insert in the act, in so
many words, that the county should pay the
whskey bills of those sent out by Jackson to
electioneer Reconsider, and insert this pro-
vision 1t might as well be there, for as the
law now stands of course jackson would in
clude in her account current the money ex-
pended for electioneering whiskey, setting it
down as sundries"
The object of this amendment is apparent.
1t presents rare blending of ingenuity and
stupidity--the former quality, united with
unblushing audacity being exhibited by the
author of the amendment, and the latter by
his instrument. The object Of the amend
ment was that jackson might again raise her
syren song (check-mated IN Assembly, about
taxation "debt," 4" "repudiation,' &c Its
object was to kill the bill; for it were quite as
well to pass no act, as an impracticable one
--one that is, in fact, nothing more or less
than a rank insult to the citizens of Volcano
and vicinity. and indeed to the whole people
of the county.
The other Senate amendments we will not
allude to. Suffice it to say that the people of
Volcano and this portion of the county gen
orally, do not thank the Senate for any such
law as that which they propose shall be enac-
ted. The people of Amador have labored
under the impression and belief that they were
or at least ought to be sovereign in their own
county with respect to county affairs. Nor
has the action of the Senate, virtually deny
ing them their local rights, changed the opin-
ion of the people of Amador in the slightest
degree. They still believe that they should
be sovereign in the management of their local
affairs, and they will maintain that belief until
it shall finally triumph We cast no reAec-
tions upon the senate; If the members of that
body, clothed with little brief authority"
see proper to go beyond their duty, why, like
spoiled children crying for the sugar bowl,
they must be permitted to have their swn
way" for little time. But day of retri-
button will come; for the people will decide
that sovereignty mustcontinue to vest in them |
not that it can be transferred to the mem
bers of the Senatel Though the present
upper branch of thelaw-making power may
decide that the different counties shall not be
allowed their local rights, another Senate will
decide differently, for the will OF the people
cannot be very long resisted with success.
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