The daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-187?, 1858-06-11
The Future Of California.


coast, has occasioned some speculation
as to its probable effect upon Califor
mia. There seems at the present time,
to be but little doubt Of the fact that,
gold exists, in greater or less quantities,
in the section Of country drained by
Frazer and Thompson rivers, and each
steamer leaving San Francisco goes
crowded with hardy adventurers for the
new FL Dorado. This has had the ef-
feet to induce many to believe that
it will have an adverse influence upon
California. The contrary, however,
will be the result, if California is true
to her own interests, and follows the
policy dictated by wisdom and pru-
dence.
The emigration from hence to Frazer
river will not necessarily retard the adj
vancement and prosperity of California
than the emigration hithcr from the
old States exerted n balcful influence
upon them. IL is true that California
suddenly attained to giant strength, but
not at the expense Of other States fur
nisbing her population , they have also
advanced, less swiftly, perhaps, but
with sturdy, vigorous and healthy
strides tina! permit no retrogado move
ment. So, too, will California advance,
if a wise policy be pursued, even
though John Bull should erect an en-
pire upon the Pacific rivalling her in
wealth and magnifccncc. 1t will give n
new impulse to the whole Pacific coast,
and we cannot remain wholly inseusible
to its influence, should We be disposed
to pursue policy calculated to pro
duco the untoward result
TO reap the full benefit of the prom
isng future that is now no longer dim
ly discernible merely, and to be-
come the center of the business that
is crowding to tho western portion
Of the continent, and to which our geo.
graphical position entities us, it is nee
essary that we should place ourselves
in condition to command the benefits
resulting from the new order Of things.
While there was no rival to our wealth
and Establishments, and scarcely a fixed
and steady purpose in the minds of n
majority of our population, public af-
fairs have been too willingly surrender
ed to worthless and unpriucipled poll
.ticians whose main object was to obtain
n livelihood from apublic too neglected.
of general interests. 1t is necessary
that their ruinous services should be
dispensed with. 1t is time that Cali
fornia should to regard the brawling
horde of Lecom1ton quacks who have
crowded themselves into our Leg:sla-
ture and other official positions, but to
bctray our true interests, and involve
the State in sectional brawls with which
she has no concern, and from which a
patriotic and Just adherence to Demo-
cratic principles would have excluded
her, and gained friends for the great
national railway, without which the
sccptro of the Pacific coast must soon
be wrcsted from California. Those
with whom the corrupt political trick
sters Of California have foully linked
her fortunes, care nothing for her only as
they find her willing to furnish sectional
tools for their selfish purposes 1t is
time the incubus was thrown of. and n
policy adopted by the State that would
insure respect abroad and prosperity at
home. We must no longer neglect our
own affairs to fight the sectional negro
battles of other States. The retorma-
ton must begin at home.
The venal and corrupt Gwin from
his elevated position in the Senate of
the United States, has cast fatal shad-
ow over the State whose interests it
should have been his pride to guard
with jealous eye. He has become
rich upon beggarly salary, and Cali
fornia with giant energies and sinews of
gold is the base tributary of a soulless
and crushing monopoly.
He has labored with "industry,"
say the lying organs that his bounty
feeds, to forward national railroad
across the continent, and has succeeded
in inducing two administrations to ex-
press preference for route upon our
extreme southern border. Ii is known
that a survey has been ordered for a