The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1857-02-18
Ouinions OF the Eastern Press on California
Reconciliation.
fFrom the N. Y. HERALD

From the n. Y. Herald
California may make what amends she can,
and paw principal and interest at some future
dav: but she cannot wipe the stain from her
annals. She cannot obliterate from men IS MEN,
cries the damning fact that her people are SO
unfit to exercise the duty Of self-government
that they elect men who violate the laws, ana
who use the high and honorable name OF tne
State. by the authority of the people, for the
nurpose of swindling the public. These are
things which are remembered. For genera
ton at least, the Californians will lie under q
stigma and reproach. Men will be shy OF them,
and cool to them. Not that they have shown
themselves any more dishonest or less honora-
BILE than their neighbors, but because they have
given evidence of SO little sagacity, and so much
recklessness that one never can be certain that
their elected agents are not professional knaVes
From the N. Y. Tribune.l
We have only had the first flush of righteous
indignation before we can be sure that 1t Will
eliminate into an act of common public honesty,
we must know what the burglars, the ballot-box
suffers the assassins, and the professional
swindlers of California think Of the matter
That the State has many high-minded and
upright men. we do not doubt but that they
only systematically exert their legitimate infiu-
ence, is proved by the illegal and very ques-
tionable resources to which, in sheer despera-
ton, they are occasionally driven. If Califor-
MIA could be lynched into liquidation, all might
vet 90 we'll; but, unfortunately that summary
process can only be applied to the retail thieves
from the Courier and Enquirerl
California is an honest State, and it will dc
what every honest man would do, who, for q
valuable consideration, had given note which
had proved to be defective in some legal essen
| AZ. IN tho ORIGINAL IN.
tention and subsisting moral obligation of the
agreement. 1t has the ability; no one doubts
that. for no State is richer in natural resources
The debt is but trfe over three millions OF
dollars, and the annual interest upon this has
been met with little difficulty. Whatever be the
character of the floating population at the mines,
there can be no doubt of the honest disposition
of the merchants of San Francisco and the sub
stantial residents of the State upon whom the
taxation falls. They are not swndlers, nor will
they take the position Of swindlers before the
country.
[From the Boston Journal
On glancing at the New York stock market,
attention is Immediately fixed upon the recent
large decline in California bonds, by reason OF
the decision of the Supreme Court of the Golden
State. that these securities were unconstitution-
ally issued. With that decision we have moth
ing to do. 1t was righteous under the Califor-
MIA Constitution. But the people of California
must apply an immediate remedy to the crying
evil which that decision has made visible to the
world. California has had the benefit of the
money which has been lent her, say not above
81, 900, 900 at the outsde--a mere nothing to so
rich and producing community. She has had
the money and used it-nay she could not well
have done without good share of it; and it
cannot be that she will take advantage of law
to lose her honor. No, her people must vote
unanimously to legalizc her bonded debt, and
she will then stand higher than ever in the
worlds esteem. And we doubt not that she
will do this-that she will pay this debt of hon
or that she owes, cbeertully, and as soon as may
be. For while our systems and theories of leg
islation may differ, there are no two opinions as
to the honorableness of paying money that one
has borrowed, used or lost, whether inside or
outside of laws acquisitions.