The Nevada journal., 1857-08-07
American State observation-disclosures
Judge Ralston.

terrain views at variance with the ma
jority, we alone are to defend them
not the party.
1t is a source of regret with us that
the platform of the American party,
lately assembled in convention at Sac
ramento, is not such as we can wholly
indorse. We also regret that we can
not consistently and conscientiously
support all be nominees of that conven-
ton. But when the party steps aside,
discarding all law and justice, to adopt
an ism which is foreign to American
principles as we understand them, we do
not feel bound to follow it outside of it's
legitimate sphere. We conceive that
the late American convention in inter-
polating settler plank in the platform
of the party, violated, if not the princi-
Piles of the American organization, at
least principle vital to any civilized
government; and in selecting candid
ate for that particular plank, they have
forfeited the suffrages of every honora-
ble man for that candidate. In word
we cannot support Judge Ralston for
the Supreme Bench, or sanction Settler
ism in the shape it is presented to the
people of this State. 1t is known among
fair men as but another name for rapac-
ity. For party ends much ado is made
over the Settlers, and all parties seem
10 vie with each other in their efforts to
obtain the Settler vote. The Settlers
themselves are memorable in their de-
mands. They insist upon knowing be-
forehand what the decision of a Judge
will be if elevated to the bench For
the first time in the history of the Re-
public, sound Judgment, extensive learn
ing, and acknowledged integrity are ig-
nored in selecting candidate for the
highest tribunal in the State, and a
promised decision upon certain ques-
ton made the test of qualification. The
Settlers refuse to vote for any man,
even judge, who is not of them and
for them. It is time this tyranny which
oversteps deeeney now, and which
threatens to override the constitution
and laws if not checked, should be met
boldly and openly, and for one, we meet
it; and we hereby announce that no ju-
aicial candidate who subscribes to the
doctrine which is frequently enunciated
in our legislative halls by the avowed
friends of Settlers, and which has been
engrafted upon our statutes by the same
influence, can ever receive Our support.
AS we look upon them, the principles
of large number of the protested Set
tiers of the State are those of the fill
buster applied at home among our,
selves. 1t is the doctrine Of agrarian
robbers. The Settlers entertain a con-
tempt for vested rights protected in the
constitution of every civilized State,
solemnly stipulated for and insured in
the treaty exchanged at Queretaro and
acknowledged in the bosoms of honora-
BILE men the world over. There is a ler
non scripta which the conscience recog-
nizes in dealing with our fellow men,
that is at war with the Settlerism of Cal
ifornia. What is Settlerism =? A swarm
of hungry Pixies make a descent upon a
rancho, on which the owner was born
and his father before him, eat up every
green thing, like the locusts of Egypt,
cut down the timber and crop the land
for years. In the meantime the owner
is awaiting the tardy action of courts to
confirm his title. He fees lawyers, pays
the taxes on his claim, the use of which
he is deprived of by the freebooters up
on it, and before judgment of confirma-
ton is rendered he is made poor. Now
the Squatters take advantage of the
poverty they have created and demand
pay for the depredations they were
warned not to make. They have sold
the crops from another's land for years
and in many instances have exhausted
the soil and made themselves rich
When at last the land owners rights are
recognized by the courts, they are found
estopped by Squattcr influence in the
Legislature. An act is found on our
statute books virtually giving to the
Squatters the power to compel the land
holder to either pay their own prices for
their so-called improvements, or take
what they shall dictate for his land.
A great parade is made about those
who have gone upon lands of another
in good faith supposing them to be
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