Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-03
CORRESPONDENCE.
NEVADA COUNTY. Nov Goth

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NEVADA COUNTY, Nov. 3Oth.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT: The waves of excite
ment that rolled through the columns of the
public journals of California some one and
two years ago in regard to emigration to this
State, to the establishment of emigrant soci.
cites, to the modes best to be adopted for the
accomplishment of that great migratorial
design, seems to have lulled into very 81.
lent calm. am inclined to believe that verv
little was accomplished by that mighty ex
citement, which had its foundation based
atone upon that selfish principle so universal
in the various cliques and personally utter
esed fraternities of this ten-year old star of
the American Union. At that time there
were few, if any, who were at all sound upon
the question they SO strongly advocated.
They wrote as if nothing had been told be-
fore of the great advantages, and great dis
advantages that awaited those who might-if
they were able to do so-emigrate to this
not so very distant-prosperous Pacific Ein-
pire. They wrote as if the disease of excite.
ment that had possessed them for the hour
would be universally contagious They wrote
as if fortune would attend none but those
who at any sacrifice, would seek home in
the land of their merely pretended adoption.
They wrote as if homes of plenty-old, and of
long standing, where fathers and mothers had
grown old and gray amid their sons and
daughters whose affectionate smiles were
lighting them to their graves, should be for
saken for the land in which only the golden
reward awaited them.
They wrote as if they possessed pratical
geographical knowledge of its sntire surface
Of its vast agricultural and mneralogical ad-
vantages over every other portion of the
globe. They wrote as if they, themselves,
had reaped fortunes by the reaping of the
fields, and fortunes from the sluice box from
having shovelel in the gravel and the soil
They wrote as ifthey were rich, happy. and
contented, and all their friends and that the
balance-some five hundred thousand, with
whom they were not personally acquainted
would be equally fortunate, provided they re-
manned in the country, to work, or steal, and
pay taxes upon property for which, hun
dred chances to one were against them, of
ever obtaining title. They wrote as if
hundred thousand men from the year '49 up
to 81 had not left the country with barely
enough to pay their way to their respective
homes, and with, in many cases, less than
they had brought with them
The above is not dark picture, it is very
truthful one, correctly taken but it is always
kept in the back room, and the public eye is
not permitted to get good view fit.
And l would be pleased to state further
that very dark pictures cannot be drawn of
California and the grounds for doing so are
becoming less and less as the Douglas Admin
istration approaches (The Pacific Railroad,
you know, &c) And furthermore, a nine
years citizenship in California has afforded
me an opportunity to form judgment eff her,
and of what has been going on in her limits,
as correct and reliable as that of many who
have said great deal more about it. But,
all this is not to the point; nor shall | have
arrived at the point fully to my own satisfac-
ton, until Il considerable quantity more of
ink and paper shall have been used. Why
that great mgrdtorial excitement was gotten
up will be explained. What the. writers
should have said during that excitement will
he explained. Who should come to this
country, and why they should come, and how
they should come will also be explained, pro-
vided, what has already been explained be
not cast indifferently into the basket under
the table. SuALLwRIrE.