The Nevada journal., 1858-08-13

~ OuT AIieut 0cucIdf Aiich, VI VIC
Marysville Meas, is true patriot every
inch Of him. He labors tteadfastly for
the good of the State, and could ma
jority of the people be brought to his
way of thinking we would have differ
eut state of things, and much more to our
liking. The General strenuously ad-
vocates the formation of California
party, and his object would be commen-
dable if practicable. We have had our
say on that point. At any rate the
General is honest and patriotic IN his
designs and efforts. But our friend
wise and far-seeing as we know him to
be. sometimes falls into vagary like
the rest of his fellow riders ofthe tripod.
Now. it seems to us, the General fell
into one of these when he pitched in for
the nomination of Zack Montgomery for
Congress. Yet even here the General
and it is proverbially the case with him
always-cxhibits virtues in making a
blunder, creditable to his heart. Zack
Montgomery is his friend. He can't
forget that, for it would outrage his
generous nature not to stick to him like
a brother. The General is too liberal
in politics to make any account of the
principles of friend. whose interests he
must advance or do violence to his own
feelings.
Politics. evidently, is too cold an avo-
cation, and calling for more policy and
calculation, than the soul of General
Allen can admit of, without some violent
struggle with himself
Zack Montgomery, talented as he
may be, we shall contend, is not fit to
represent California in Congress. Why2
1t must be patent that no man who af-
filiates in politics with that body of men
who oppose the building of Pacific
Railroad can have the weight of straw
in bringing about the construction of the
great work, but the weight of stone to
sink it forever. The supporters of the
President persistently and systematical-
ly vote against every railroad project
They come from States that war in solid
phalanx against internal improvements
and deny the constitutional power of
Congress to construct them. There is
40 truth more plain than that, if a Rail
Road is ever built across the continent it
will be done with the votes of California
in Congress allied with the votess sof pro-
gressive, not stationary or retrogressive
States. The votes the capital, the ma
terials and the labor are to be looked for
in that quarter and no where else, and
it is silly to expect favors of SO great i'm
portance to us from one section while a
political sympathy or alliance is main
tanned with another. 1t is not in the ma
ture ofpolitics ofthe present day. The
history of national legislation for the last
twenty years is proof enough of the po-
si.ion we assume. Californians who
vote for a representative in Congress
who is of certain stripe. are not mindful
of their true interests, and the editor who
either from friendship or li')erality. pa
triot though he be, aids to c.evatc a rep
resentative of this class, serves the devil
in the livery of Heaven. Our friend,
General Allen-we hate to accuse him
ofit-by his character and amenity of
manners, is assisting most efectually
though unconsciously in throwing OBJ
stacles in the way Of the mighty thun-
derer that should now be bucking the
buffalo bull off the track in the Businesses
of the Rocky mountains.
II Our District Judge played leap