San Andreas independent., 1858-08-28
LETTER FROM vALLEcITo.
EALErclre, August 26th, 1858.


Np. Eaaer For year and half have
been constant reader of your valuable pa
per, and scarcely ever read word about this
Camp, while several other neighboring camp:
furnish an abundance of correspondence and
considerable editorial attention. We make nc
! pretensions, blowing, gassing, or any thing O
the sort, but the business of our camp viii
compare with any of our neghbors who have
written and said so much about their particu-
lar localities giving those at distance reason
to suppose that they were the sgreat am, -
leaving us mere cyphcr. have lived in this
camp about fye years, and daring that time
there has not been single failure; on the
other hand, number of our merchants have
made their piles, closed their business, made
an honorable withdrawal, and returned to their
loved ones at home.
have never seen more favorable oppor-
tunity for investment, since came to Califor-
MIA, than at present offers in Valecito. The
Calaveras Water Companys Ditch is compet-
cd, and water will be furnished to the miners
next Monday. am told they will be able to
furnish an abundance of water the year round.
This Ditch was commenced about the first of
May, and considering the short time it took to
bnild 1t, too much praise cannot be given our
old friend, Capt. Hanford, who personally
| superlntcnded the work, making the survey,
&C. | believe Capt. H. is President of the
Company. 1t is fact much to my surprise,
/ that the important work has been completed,
and water almost at our doors, and not q
/ single word about it has found its way into
the country newspapers. A new Ditch COM
pleted at this season of the year, full of water,
is but seldom heard of in California and calls
for universal admonition and gladness from all
who live near to it and expect to be benefited
by it. For one, feel proud that the Ditch is
completed, and that am still a citizen of VAL
lecito
The Company are preparing Barbacue,
free to ALL to come off next Saturday, when
we expect to have good time generally. In
the evening of the same day, the Douglas can
dldates give us little stump speaking, which
will close the programme.
| Next Thursday the Methodists have a Camp
Meeting about one mile from town, near the
Spring Garden ranch
My old friend, Major Jesse Thompson. ad-
dressed the people of this place, at noon, (this
day y to very respectable number, consider
ing the short notice given; and from the ap-
pearance of the crowd, should judge he will
| get handsome vote next Wednesday. He
abstain from that which has so much impair
ed his constitution. He is now strictly tenn
perate man and resolves to remain such the
balance of his life. With this assurance on
his part, and the confidence I have of his
ability, am willing to cast my vote for him.
to represent US in the Assembly. He is Just
the man we want, and just the man re will
vote fer. Yours, &c. B.
POPULAR SovEREIGNTY.-Over all the tenn
| pest OF factions, and through all the confusion
OF partisans, a sagacious eye can trace the pro-
gress of the principle of Popular Sovereignty
as she future and only plan for harmonizinp
aR the questions of slavery, as they arise in
Territories and in States. Gradually it is
coming to be accepted as the common plat
form OF all national menl Even those who
still hesitate TO- support iv cannot deny that
it has been vigorously defended and explained
and will be as vigorously insisted upon. They
see that, rather than yield it up, rather than
compromise it, some of the leading Democrat
ic statesmen of the nation have not hesitated
to make issue with an Administration, in the
flush and fullness of its patronage and power
In the last Congress the Republicans and the
Americans supported it in body and in one
shape or another all the Democrats did The
exactions of the Lecomptonites deemed it thu
highest policy to say that they are strongly
attached and fully committed to it. The Ad.
miniStration, through its organs, proclaimed
its special regard for it; and the President
while making Lecompton test, took care to
say that hereafter the people of every Ter
rItory should be protected in that of which
the people OF Kansas have been so persistently
| deprived. This acclaim of devotion to Popu-
lar Sovereignty means much. 1t is the pledge
OF the nation, and of every considerable politi-
cal organization in the nation, in support OF
the principle of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, and the guarantees of the Federal Con-
! sttution. And woe betide the leader or the
/ party that attempts to evade this pledge by
| going behind it
! 1t is true that here and there objections are
urged against the doctrine of Popular Sove-
reignty. An extreme Southern man insists
that his slaves can be carried into and kept
i'll Territory in defiance of Constitution and
laws; and an extreme Abolitionist demands
to know how the people can be clothed with
full power to regulate their domestic institu-
tions in their own way with the Dred Scott
decision securing to shareholders the right to
carry their property" into any Territory
(and, according to the Washington Union,
into any State) in defiance of the local law
But these objections fall into nothing before
the fact, that as Popular Sovereignty is not
intended to deprive the South of any of its
rights, neither is it intended to be made the
cloak of politicians who think to overthrow
the will of the majority the highest achieve
ment of political science. If the people of
Territory want slavery, they will have and
ought to have it but if minority choose to
hold slaves, in defiance of the public wish, as
expressed at the polls, the Dred Scot decision
will be of little practical consequence Every
effort to colonize slavery in Kansas failed, and
failed, too, without the infringement of the
right of single Shareholder, backed as the
minority were by the whole power of the Gov
ernment the army inclusive. Where slavery
is profitable, it will find its way; and where it
is not, Dred Scott will scarcely be called in
to perpetuate it. There are regions where do
mestic slavery will find its way where it will
flourish and compensate those interested in it.
There are other regions where it cannot be
maintained, and where it never will CO. The
laws of Nature will thus come in aid of sound
political economy, and we shall cease to wran-
gle about that which, left to ITSELF and to those
directly concerned in it, will be forever re-
moved from the halls of Congress fand the
arena of national politics.
The party which, in 1860, abandons the
doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, will die the
death of the wicked. Whether it is ATTEMPTED