The Nevada journal., 1857-01-30
ANTI-vIaILANr EsrELL.

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ing chivalric war against the vigil
antes, stands that old political soldier
Gen. Estell.
The Gen. certainly has better cause
for hating the Vigilant Committee than
most men. In the first place, if the
state government should happen to be
overthrown, we don't know of any one
who would lose as much by it as he
would, for his occupation would Be gone
And then, if the committee should re-
vive again, and get to hanging suspi-
cious characters generally, he would be
about the sixteenth man that would
swing. All these facts he well knows,
and so this model law and order lover,
who was publicly denounced by Mr..
Benton as an assassin, exhibits more
holy horror at what he is pleased to call
the San Francisco mob, than any other
man in all California.
The adroitness which this man has
shown in getting his hand into the pub
lie treasury, and the tenacity with which
he holds on, are truly surprising. He
tugged at the public teat until the poor
creature went dry. and now he follows
her closely around in order to be first
on hand when the new mich comes
Prior to 1855, he was always good
democrat, and for years he hung around
the legislature, looking out for good
haul. In the winter of 1855. he got a
state prison bill passed, but John Big
Ter, owing to one of those "mysterious
invisible to human ken,
vetoed it. In the spring of the same
year, seeing that the Americans would
succeed in the coming campaign, he
a good X. N, and took up his quarters
at Sacramento. 1t was then that he
called into requisition all the resources
of his fertile genius. He button-holed
members at the corners of the streets,
he talked to them in the morning and
the evening at the Orleans he took
seat beside them while engaged in their
duties at the capitol; he pointed to the
enormous amount the state prison was
costing under the arrangement then ex-
isting; he showed how much it must
cost as long as the state continued to
manage it herself, and he finally con-
vinced nearly every body Americans,
democrats, embryo-republicans, and all
= that the state prison bill now on the
statute book was the best possible dis
position of the troublesome affair, al
though there is not man in the state
now who defends it. He got it through
the American assembly with only few
votes, and what is stranger
(fos it was politically opposed to him)
he got it through the democratic senate
by a large majority. But fearing that
the state wouldn't be able to pay, and
seeing that the republicans would de.
feat the Americans, he again joined the
democrats, was elected to the legisla-
ture, and is now their acknowledged
leader in the assembly, ready to con-
firm the splendid fortune which he has
financed out of the state.
If Plutarch were alive nowadays,
how it would delight him to run a par
allel between Estell and Broderick.-
The same untiring energy, the same
unfinching perseverance, the same fix
edness of purpose, the same unscrupu-
lousness as to means, and the same
power of intrigue, marks them BOTH
They commenced their careers in Cali
fornia together = the darkest period in
both their fortunes was in 1855 - and
they both succeeded at about the same
time. But their object in life has been
entirely different. Broderick's aspira-
tions have been lofty, Estell's have
been groveling. Broderick has striven
for high position, and name; Estell for
money = considering filthy lucre the
greatest good. Broderick may be call
ed the king-bird : Estell the tumble-6ug
of California democratic politicians.
There is no denying the fact that
Estell is man of marked ability. He
can talk with plausibility that would
do credit to the Devil; and can, with
that wise looking face of his, come near
er convincing honest simplicity that the
moon is made of green cheese than any
other man in the state. If he had made
the U. S. senate his goal, and given
some attention to his reputation for hon.
esty, in our humble opinion, he could