The Nevada journal., 1858-07-02
FalSehOOd and Flummery.

FalsehOOd and Flummery.
There was time when the elemental
machinery that moved the American
government commanded the respect of
intelligent foreigners among us. The
time has arrived when Americans them
selves turn with loathing and disgust
from contemplating the same. We can
not overlook the patent fact that parties
and even the government itselfhas fallen
into the hands of political tricksters and
demagogues. Principles are no longer
anything, and men are only esteemed
for their capacity for duplicity, and for
the distribution of spoils.
There were men in the gang who
voted for the resolutions passed at the
Democratic meeting on Saturday night
last, who ought to know the first reso-
luton carries lie upon its face. They
ought to know their action on that oc-
casion in endorsing an arrant falsehood
brings them into contempt with sober,
thinking and rational minds, and more
than all, throws shade of suspicion
upon the capacity of man for good self
government. No country can be gov
erned long on false principles. and no
enduring fame can rise out of wrong
and injustice. A wise American will
see this-a true patriot will act upon it.
Take the frst-half of the following
resolution and examine it:
RESOLVED, That the Kansas contro-
versy is now obsolete-that the doctrine
of non-interference and popular sover-
eighty is again triumphant, and that in
the approaching primary elections, con-
ventions and party movements, we will
meet ALL Democrats upon terms of
friendship and equality.
Who does not know that the Kansas
controversy is not obsolete Is it neg
lected or gone out of use?-that is the
meaning of the term. On the contrary
an Administration paper cannot be taken
up that neglects the question for one
moment. tits the great question before
the country and will be for years to
come. 1t is true the question was ban
ished in one sense from the late Con-
gress But it is bound to come up again
before the next. Kansas we are assured
will reject the land bribe. She will
again petition in spite of the English
ordinance, for admission into the Union.
She has the right to ask such admission
She has a strong body of friends in Con-
gress and will have more. Her petition
will be presented and her advocates
will open the question once more, as
certain as the world revolves on its
axis. Opponents will arise if return
ing sense of shame does not prevent, ard
the Kansas controversy will agitate the
Union more thoroughly than ever. OBJ
solete, indeed Not till Kansas is ad-
mitted into the Union with a Constitu-
ton such as her people shall make, will
agitation cease, and the demagogues of
Saturday night last ought to have sense
enough to know it.
Who does not know that "the doc
trine of non-interference and popular
sovereignty is not again triumphant in
the passage of the English contrivance
but is essentially repudiated? ? What
is popular sovereignty and what is nom
interference? Have the people of Kan
sas been respected in rights supposed to
have been granted to them in the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill F.? 1t cannot be pre-
tended. Has not Congress thwarted
their wishes in this respect unequitocal-
ly expressed and what is this but in
reference of the most pa1pable charac-
ter?
The resolution contains base and in
famous falsehoods The records of the
Democratic party, past and present, bear
unequivocal testimony to the fact, and
the future will more than confirm it.
Martin Kosta, the Hunga rian ref