San Andreas independent., 1858-07-10
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SATURDAY. JULY 10, 1853.
Inferiority in the Lead.

Besides being nation of politicians,
we are chasers after leaders in whom are
embodied the coarsest inferioritv. The
direction which our parties now take is
prescribed by men who never entertain
an honest or patriotic thought, who, ac-
eordlng to the proper rule of intellectual
measurement, are not above the second
grade lii capacity Of mind and acquire
ment. 1nferiority, agitation and unlim-
tied political malpractice bias every pub
lie transaction. Washington is party
rat-nest, gopher-hole; the memorials of
the past are dcfled, the depositaries of
pure and dignifed appearances are gone,
the representatives of profound and mean
ing sentiment are away, the Capitol is
the vast sweat-house of factious loaferism
the rising fumes are as penetrative as
the taint of human decomposition. The
stewing throng gather at the seat of gov
ernment to stir the people with vicious
PRONUNCIATION, to vancouver for additional
promotion, to mark routes for despicable
tricks, to devise ways and means for ex-
tension of rights to lead with noise and
fallacious doctrine; impudent brawlers
thrust their captious talk into every meas
ure of candid and wise policy; Presiden-
tlal candidates traduce the actual Chief
Magistrate, and teach the art of yilest
slander; they squat on their true level
and aspire to the places of those whom
they envy and insult they sprawl in the
dirt and below better men to their assist
ance; they disturb every good position
assumed by their party and hurry to fill
the apertures with their own carcases.-
And drawn under the command of these
degenerate successors of Senatorial and
Representative noblemen, are the insects
OF the press, who disseminate an inces-
SAINT buzz of laudation and every descrip-
tlon of whatever is sufficiently abomina-
BILE to produce notoriety for their cap
talns- The country catches every sylla-
BILE, reads and sees it all and the people
%, the people .-concentrate their fine
mixture of superiority and make servile
response to inflated and boisterous inferi-
ority. Our sayings are truths; we pre-
sent them with sorrow Were we a hater
of our country, we could not hate its
demagogues, its bandit gangs who control
its parties, who are ambitious without
honorable motive, partizans without prin-
ciples, guides without eyesight, public
men without lofty aim and refined genius.
Inferiority leads also in the State SOW
ereignties; few drag whole populations
into excitements and involve the ADLER
men of every community in belittling
controversies. Look at this common
wealth, at its journalism, at its foremost
citizens. See them fostering a base idol
atry-bowing, cringing, crawling before
their political mud gods; see them on the
edge Of foul pits, passing down their ado
ration to mental and moral inferiority;
see them adulating individuals as the
frontispieces of principle, who have not,
during numerous years of political prom
inence, performed one statesmanly act or
given one evidence of greatness. The
two United States Senators are yearly
stuck up to make the Democracy double
headed party; they are the hitching posts,
the mounting blocks; and the saddled
and bridled factions gallop their unclean
steeds before the public all the time,
hooting indecentlyas they run. Stop and
examine this astonishing weakness, this
general debility, this degrading infatua-
tion, this hanging of garlands on the
horns of cattle. Where are the thought
full, that they do not scrutinize = the
proud, that they do not feel humiliation?
Stop, enlightened adherents of basis-mea-
sures to dominant and honorable party
stop, advocates of principles which have
upheld patriots and sages; stop, chief
actors of communities and see for whom
you are acting, and who you are advising
the electors to follow and to worship
You have founded your own hopes of pre-
ferment on rottenness and littleness, and
En- the endeayor to act the admirable citi-
zen, you reveal the confusing, the super
fetal and the detestable partizan. Can
you always follow your interiors ? Can
you always permit the State to be judged
by damaged pieces of political goods,
bought and sold at auction and spread out
at Washington as samples of California /
Statesman-cloth !? Are you not satisfied /
that superior men are put away by your
own illiberal and unjust action? Are
you not aware that State interests and 1
the character and condition of our people /
are Inexperienced abroad, in eonse-
quence of our miserable representation in
Congress? Are you not yet certain that
nothing can be so injurious to our insti-
tutions and derogatory to the good in cit
zenship as the elevation of men to the
first Offices, who have made that attain
ment the sole purpose of life, and bro't
to their aid no better influences than all
the vices of party Sierra Citizen.
GooD HUMoR.-Keep in good humor
1t Is not great calamities that embitter