Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-12-21
Ine ssghante Press and the retiring Adj
nlipIxf

Tne ssgaiante Press and the retiring Adj
ministratiou.
1t Is hardly to be expected that the vigi.
lante p-ess should entertain any particular
love for the State govcrnment-either the
administration which their traitorous and
unholy organization has endeayored to dis.
grace, or the incoming one which the people
have chosen over their utmost efforts. 1t is
therefore perfectly natural that they shoudj
hurl their maledictons at the retiring adj
ministration; and it may be policy for them
at the same time to attempt to cable the
incoming one into liberation of their
reasonable doctrines. They thus show
their bravery in the past, and confidence in
the future
The Bulletin of the 18th has an article
OF this description. 1t would fain have its
readers believe that the retiring governor
is tbs most despicable and vile of men, who
will sink so low in obscurity on retiring
from the guberhatorial chair, that no chain
of follies, vices and infauies can reach him.
At the same time it ntmates thai Mr. We'll
Ter is eman Of more intellect, courage, in
diyiduality and character, and that his adj
ministration will be a reform one. This
looks very much like establishing charac-
ter for bravery by squirting the dead lion,
and securing personal safety by fawning up
on the living one interviewer in the arti-
Gle is the ''honor of the State" etc etc.
The Bulletin seems to forget that the
honor OF the State rests as we'll upon its
past history as Units future, and that in de-
termining the briliancy and success of any
particular administration, the obstacles en-
countered, and the circumstances by which
the period was surrounded, should enter
into the consideration of the historian. The
Executive which the unprincipled organ of
mobocracy would consign to everlasting in
fanny, il has heretofore labored, in connec-
ton with those who sustain its own misera-
bic existence, to entice from his allegiance
and destroy, although the accomplishment
of its bject would have rendered. the State
| administration nudity, and forever dis
graced the principles of free government -
Deserted by the party that placed him in
power, and to whom he looked for support
in administering the Affairs Of State Gov.
Johnson was obliged either to violate the
oaths he had subscribed, and render the
constitution he had solemnly sworn to sup
port subservent to the rabid organization
of the day, or incnr the anathemas of those
who had proven treacherous to him and to
the government of their adopted State. lie
was certainly a man Of integrity and firm
ness Of character to eventually even disre-
him from his dnty as an official. The De-
mocracy, knowing that the honor of the
State was involved, true to their principles
and the country, sustained his endeavors
to uphold the laws and the constitution.
Whatever faults may be found in the ad-
ministration of Gov. johnson, there are
some points which are entitled to credit
The vile and licentious mob organs who at.
tack his character as man, impelled there
to by his opposition to the committee ofvig-
Nance, should remember that the Executive
may possibly have regarded his Obligations
TO the government, as inviolable as the com
mittee regard their own extra. judicial and
blasphemous oaths.
The fact that the 'vilest of the mob press is
disposed to regard in a favorable manner
the Democratic administration elect, may
be an evidence of returning reason. Their
consciences doubtless compelled them to this
abandonment of their treason, and they
could not suffer Gov johnson to depart
from authority without giving him a. part
ing word.
EDITORIAL FIGHT Henry Shipley, Of
the State Journal. and Charles A. Sumner.