The Nevada journal., 1858-02-26

down oil the frozen earth, with the VIM
ter wind for winding sheet, will be Wis
tied with indignant censure upon that
incompetent minister. Cold official forms
and the routine of the business may be
paraded to work oblivion, Just as the
sitting SHOWS may spread an icy pail
over the new-made graves in yonder
passes; but as the grass will grow rank
est from those platoon burial places with
the first upheaval of nature, so popular
Indignation. which is now terminating
silence, will soon burst the cerements in
which it has been laid, and find its ex.
preston in execrating the man that has
suffered an army to be sacrificed. He
cannot shun then that responsibility he
may not deafen his ear to the cry of the
widcw and the orphan; and if his soul
is ever touched with remorse, his cheek
will blanch as the ghosts of his murder
ed victims circle in long procession
around his midnight conch. I wish,
however, to invoke no vengeance. Let
public opinion deal out to him the strict
measure of justice, and let me proceed
to note other matters connected with
the management of military affairs. In
Florida, third of the disposable forces
of the Government have been latterly
employed, and that too in the face of
pressing demands for troops for Utah, in
hunting fugitive squaws through the
everglades and trying to capture a band
of Indians, SO few in number that each
soldier can call over their names from
memory. Notwithstanding all this, Billy
Bowlegs is still master of the occasion.
In Texas, too, a like system of concen-
tration is maintained, to give the benefit
of expenditure to favorites while a
Camanche alarm is spread abroad semi
annually to keep up the delusion. The
regular army is. without doubt. brave,
the officers well qualified for their com
mand, and the service they render all
that could be expected from such dispo-
sitions. The fault of this inconsequence,
unconnectedness, and resultless, though
expensive service, lies, as has always
been said, with the Secretary of War
himself. He refuses to avail himself of
those arms of service that would termi-
nate this Rip Van Wmkle state of hos
tilities i'll six months time, and goes on
from month to month adding millions to
the estimates foI troops that desert as
soon as enlisted, for the manufacture of
arms that are never to be used, and the
transportation of grain and forage a
thousand miles away, to the best grazing
l.
accept ten Thousand volunteers ready to
enter the service to-day, and calls upon
Congress for five new regiments, that
will require year to recruit. The Sc
cret, and the whole secret is, that the
latter will give more patronage to the
department than the former.
The department of State to which l
may next call your attention embraces
supervision of civil domestic administra-
ton, as well as the relations between
our Government and foreign powers.
First, review the successive blunders
that have marked every movement con-
nected with home affairs. In the Ter
ritorial policy that has prevailed, if it
were possible fjr the Presidential term
of Franklin Pierce to be rendered res
pectable, by comparison, that has been
done by his successor, Not only has
that primary requisite to all republican
government-the consent Of the gorerned
been totally ignored, but to such
paralytic condition has this fatal depart
ment reduced the civil service, that we
now witness the startling spectacle of its
entire dependence upon the military
arm for enforcement. Governors go
forth now to the Territories to which
they arc nominated as did the Pro-Con-
suls of the Roman Empire, surrounded
with all the pomp and circumstance of
war. Dragons are the tabulary
force-armed soldiers in uniform sur
round the election precincts-aid-de-
camps are bearers of dispatches between
Executive officers and the Department
of State. Nor is this all Vacillation
accompanies paralysis. The Governor
sent forth with such parade a six months
since, with full and written instructions,
no sooner attempts to carry them out in
good faith than lie falls decapitated by
the very power that appointed him. His
successor steps into his place and ven
lures to call together the representatives
ofthe people, in order that peace may be
preserved, when forthwith the lightni lg
flashes back from Washington his re-
moval likewise. A more thorough bred
partisan is dispatched to the scene, and
the whole country is now in expectancy
to know how far this latest favorite of
the Administration will succeed in en-
shaving free community of American
citizens. But | venture the prediction
that his failure will be even greater than
that of those who went before him. |
firmly believe there is not the power ON
earth that cap, in this day and genera
ton, and in this land consecrated to po-
litical independence, crush out the stub
born resistance of free American citi-
zens, and yoke npon their necks the
calling servitude of local government
that ley repudiate and scorn. The
paths and precedents of tyranny have
not been trodden so far as yet, in this
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