Butte record., 1856-04-19
The Election this Day.

maJoFiiy Of the people will this day vote
as the best interests CT the county may
dictate, and uher the ballots are counted
and the result declared, will have the
satisfaction Of knowing that the county
has not become prey to that spirit of
speculation, so rife in California, as to
not only destroy the confidence Of indi-
vidusls, and communities, bat also
threatens to destroy or render subservi-
ent to it's unholy ambition, the organi-
sation Of counties and of the State it.
telf We firmly believe that the people
Of Butte County, by thair vote, will this
day rebuke this disposition to mike the
public interests sub.ervient TO private
Minis and personal aggrsndizement.
Should this sPirit receive such check
to-day, six months, or QUE year hence,
the solid men Of the county viii have
an opportunity to witness the financial
ebasm they have avoided swallow up, not
the welfare and prosperity of the county
bat on'y individuals, whose capacities
are moi sufficient 10 disentangle tho web
which bottle-belied spiders are constant
ly weaving for the unwary It matters
not to this spirit Of specu ation, what in
terest is mad to 10 subserve thsir aims
That which oonfsrs the greatest benefit
is ths mora eagerly soagAt. whils the
lessor are by no means rejected. The
State ha, presented opportunities to such
unprincipled speculation, and has blcd
time and again from the punctures thus
inflicted, at San Jose, at Vallejo, at Be-
nicia, AID at Sacramento. It seems 10
be generally conc.dsd that the State
Capitol has, finally, found res. for the
sole Of its foot. Ifso the State has ac-
compli.hed more within the past SIX
years, toward, the formation Of steady
habits, than have many Of the counties,
and among them Butte. The spirit sr
rage rather, for speculation in embryo
city lots still RACES in the upper country,
and it, efforts are directed against the
county interests, as the larger ones wsrs
against the State. Whether it will &C
complish as many removals, the returns
of this day will determine.
Butte County has suffered from such
an attack before, and although GONZALES
cent, is no. yet prepared to withstand
relapse into the removal fever. The
county has thoroughly demonstrated the
truth of the old ad&ge, that "a rolling
stone gathers no Inos, for during the
fist three years of her existence, daring
which time her capitol was removed to
Hamilton, she contrs scted debt OF near
" forty thousand dollars-and. during
the three years it has been at Bidwell,
that debt has been discharged. The
people Of the county paid that forty
thousand dollar bonus to the spirit of
speculation, E second attack of which
they are this day combating, and they
must either conquer or como down with
another bonus These are some of the
reasons which lead US to suppose the re-
mo7al question will be defeated to-day.
We believe the people have seen the sell
fshns.s and folly of removals, and will
declare against it.
We are not now writing for the purpose
of influencing votes. Tho election will
have passed before this article 10 read
by many Of the voters. The battle has
been fought, so far ns evidence and Ar
gument i. concerned, and the verdict Of
the jury only requires to be returned in
to court. They are spsculations mere
lv-but have broad and reliable foun
dation--and NAV furnish sn hours
amusement for the reader, q. they have
for us.
But in cas-. these considerations sho'd
not have due weight with tbs people,
and removal should be effected, and
the county be distracted and plunged
again in debt, and in order that the pso
pie might then know TO whom they were
indebted for the measure, We stated on
Know Nothing authority that it was
,.Know Nothing move" This has been
deqisl BY the lying X. n who controls
the North Californian Our authority
for calling it a Know-Nothing move, was
Sens.or McGee. That gentlemen ia
formed ia when we were in Sacramento
tand he hss informed others that Mr..
Dick told hin it was necessary to pass
the bill through the Senate and remove
the county seat from Bidweil, to enable
the Kpow-Nothins party to carry the
count, a, the next election" How it
i, to aid them in carrying the county,