The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15


Address of the new Governor is decided.
ly Wellerish. 1t is stamped with the
image and superscription throug hout OF
John b. Weller the veritable 1t is SC
common place and wanting in newness
or originality as to deny dispute about
its indolent parentage. True the great
JehOsaphat'- favorite expression-is
left out, but Jerusalem" is in and other
words by which the identity of the doc
ument could be determined without 9TH
er aids.
We will glance at the thing moment.
The Governor rather boastingly says no
one has less regard for popular clamor
than he. Now, it is barely possible this
may sincerely be spoken, but it occurs
to us that we have seen men more loud
ly called upon by popular clamor to
take the head of affairs than was Gov
ernor Weller last fall, who had modesty
and disregard of popular noise enough
to peremptorily decline 1t occurs to us
also those nameless individuals had
never spoken more rejoicingly of ''re-
firing to the shades of private life" than
had John B. Weller prior to his ready
acceptance of nomination before it
was rendered If the Governor is so
independent, bold and unhesitating in
braving public opinion as his language
would convey, he had a splendid oppor-
tunity to demonstrate it by less cow
ardly enunciation of his belief that
mining claims should be taxed. The
inference is there, but the Governor
dealt in general terms and softly with
the direct question. We are bound to
believe him, however, that popular
clamor had nothing to do with his use of
generalities in connection with this tick
lish subject!
"Itis far more important that should
be right than that should be praised" :"
Harry Clay's noble sentiment diluted
to suit lower mental organism.
"The supremacy of the laws must be
maintained at all hazards"
A passage from n's-"The
Union; it must and shall be preserved" "
and thrown in and emphasized to pro-
duce little of that popular clamor af-
fected to be despised.
"The practice of leaving the most
important bills to the last days of the
session is in my opinion, very bad one
and should be abandoned"
Buchanan, copied without credit-an1
so on to the end.
The Governor takes the Vigilance
Committee to do early in the address.
He intimates the whole force of :he
State will be called out to suppress an
insuTection Of that character. Happily
there is not the remotest idea that a
like emergency will happen as that
which called into existence the Commit
tee of Vigilance in San Francisco. The
Governor is therefore safe in induleing
in little turgidity. Should another
necessity arise he would find himself a
cipher before the will of the people as
his predecessor found to his sorrow.
The Governor in his vigilance remarks
copies after Bombastes daring the world
to displace his boots. To make such a
noise over an organization once too pow
erful to be braved, but having accom-
plished the purposes for which it came
together, now gone to decay, is to imi-
tate an ass braying over the dead body
of lion.
Another prominent point in the inau-
gural is the favoring of extending the
election laws to primary meetings of
party. No one who is acquainted with
John B Weller, the history of his de-
feat for the Senate by Broderick last
winter, and the stories industriously cir
culated at Washington and elsewhere
that the election of the son of Tamma-
ny was accomplished by an exercise of
the peculiar policy and practice of that
order, will be at loss to account for
this feature of the inaugural. 1t is to
announce officially what has been pro-
nOunced by individuals, that Broderick
has succeeded by Vaccinations but that
now good care will be taken that John
B. Weller be not euchred second time.
That part of the address was designed
for thirty States of this Union not on
the Pacific coast.
The Governor, not for the sake of the
popular clamor of the settlers, depre-
recates the passage of an act of Con-
gress designed to facilitate the settle
ment of land titles but which he SAYS,