Mountain Democrat., 1857-10-24
From the Fan Francisco Giohs.
IYT. Kirk 0Hd the Wagon Road.

hrr, Kirk Snd the Wagon Road.
N,roa OF fnE GLoar:-f regret to scc
n your issue Of the 10th what must and
Jo believe n most unj',t and unwarranta.
Gin attack upon a sond Democrat md all
honorable and honest man aud public ser
ront I refer IN the communication Of
USierra" against Mr.. Kirk. II Is not nv
nurpose, IN the absence Of facts TO say
trhat Mr.. K. has or has not done. This
viii undertake to say, however, from my
knowledge Of the man, that he has per-
formed no act not strictly consistent with
the work imposed upon him bv the Int.
rior Department, and the Instructions c1n-
mating thcrcfron. There exists, in rcf.-
renee to the various passes into our State
through the Sierra Nevada, the same spirit
Of lOcaL fanstici$m, If | may usc the term,
that has bcCn manifested by the Black
Repllbican presses in this and other
States, on a more extended scale, towards
the location Of the Mail Line on the South
crn route. The one proceeds from local
interests, and the other from paitizan con-
eidcratonS. The BcckwourHI, Noble,
Truckcc, Carson. Big Tree, Tcion, and
vocatcs who are willing and ready to swear
that their iavorite possesses suncriOr adj
yantaGes over any other. Those who
differ with them, in many instances, are
not even treated with common deccncy.
Thus our Senator's in Congress have been
denounced for alleged preferences, which
/! is charged have proceeded from selfish
considerations. "Sicrra" is no doubt one
Of these partizan advocates of a particular
route, who diStortS and magnilicS every
net bearing upon his favoritc, which hap
pens not to tally with his contracted ideas.
lie sees mares nest in the manner in
which Kirk got to Honey Lake Valley
The great sin was in Kinks going the
route he preferred, instead Of that" Sierra"
preferred. lie complains that Kirk COM
menccd at the beginning Of his work and
went to the end, instead Of commencing
al the end and ending at the beginning.
IL Objects that he surveyed the road bc.
fore hc undertook to make it. inst .ad e
making it btforc he surveyed it. lie in
dnlgcs in great many other frivolous Oh
iectons, all ending in the charge that he
has been influenced entirely by Interested
motives But the most absurd ard lidicu-
Ions Of all Of his vagarieS is the climax-
the murder Of fifty immigrants is justly
laid to the charge Of Mr. Kirk Or,
wicked and bloody man! Had you com.
merccd nj the end and ended at the be.
ginning, contrary to the instructions e
the Interior Department. these fifty ou'd
not have fallen victims to the Indians!-
Such is the rr,futabIe syllogism Of this
mot profound logician. Ii beats the BIO vi
and thunder article Of the Back Repub,i-
can organ in this city some days since, in
which Mr.. Buchanan is held morally, re.
i.iouSly. officially and politically rc>pon.
Sibc for the recent wholesale massacre Of
iumisrants by the Indians, at the South.
ELI rim Of the Great Basin. One would
almost infer by the ear marks that they
have common paternity.
But, tir. it is not INV purpos" now 70
defend Mr. Xix desire simply tia: he
s.lall have Justice done him. see that
hr has returned to his home in Plac r'i'c,
aud the UemOcrdt promises, iii Us next
issue II "rivc full account Of the cxE'c
dtlorr. Until ther. I hope that ii :Sirr
rA" has any more "hntti,d wrath" 1" ty-
pend, you will require him 10 do 50
through the Evening SttCr," who's" vo.
cation il is to vi ify Democrats and honest
men upon vague, indefinite and uI>uL-
,tantiai grounds. NV word for it. hih
haA done his duty. know the mar, anG
can say that no consideration would
swcrve him from that. a FRIEND.