San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

States have accomplished in quarter of a
century. trust that the fund which has been
provided may never be diverted from its con-
stitutional channel, and that wisdom NAV di-
rect all our actions in the administration of Il
The appropriations made at the recent ses-
sion OF Congress will, if properly expended no
Tar towards giving US good wagon roads across
the Rocky Mountains, by means of which we
might anticipate large immigration this year
!. J. were not for the difficulties in which the
reueral Government has become involved
win the Mormons and Indians. The estab-
iishment, too, of an overland mail route. will
De OF lncaicuable benefit to us.
Inc financial hurricane which has recently
swept over the older States. with such fearful
violence, would drive thousands of strong. ac-
i've and energetic men to our shores, if they
could reach us by an overland route, or by
| sea, at reasonable expense. The multitude
OF hard working men in the Eastern cities,
VINO nave been recently thrown out of employ
ment, and who are now crying in the agony
OF their souls for 'bread, !" could find ample and
prontable employment in our inexhaustable
mines, or comfortable homes in our health-giv-
ing and ever verdant valleys. The victims of a
viiialnous paper money system could here find
In our mountains, banks which never issue an
] lrredeemable currency. and seldom, if ever, fail
to remunerate the industrious laborer. But
the Mormons and Indians on the one hand,
and heartless monopoly, having no sympa-
thy with our people, on the other, may diminish
this emigration, so essential in developing the
resources of the State
Our people are certainly entitled to protec-
tion whilst travelling through American terri
: uhola of
the Federal Government should be invoked.
Whenever government habitually fails to
give protection to its people, it must cease to
command their confidence or respect. Hun
dreds of emigrants the past year, who had
abandoned their homes, and whilst vending
their way over American soil to our shores,
were inhumanly butchered. That govern
ment which claims to extend its protection
over its people, (whether native naturalized or
unnaturalized) in every part of the world, and
is ready TO resort to arms in order to secure it.,
will, we hope, see that such bloody scenes are
not re-enacted upon our great highways and
in our own territory
In my humble opinion, the establishment of
multitude of small military posts between
our frontier and the Atlantic States, will never
answer the purpose. They are so weak as to
provoke assaults from the Indians, and not
strong enough to pursue and chastise thcm.-
The marching of full regiment, properly ap-
pointed, to and from the Pacific coast, through
our own territory, every year, would strike
more terror amongst the Indians, inspire more
confidence amongst the settlers and emigrants
and make the highways more secure. than all
the small military posts which could be estab-
lished upon these routes.
Besides, troops sent from the Atlantic for
this coast, instead of being enfeebled and en-
ervated, as is the case now, by a voyage of
5000 miles, over rough seas and an inhospi-
table climate, would be found efficient soldiers,
and ready for active service at once, in the
field, should the exgency demand it. The
march and the camp duty would transfer raw
recruits into a disciplined corpse.
make these remarks with great difrdence,
because | know but little of military affairs,
and have no personal knowledge of the differ
ent overland routes which pass through the
Indian settlements.
But after all, the Federal Government will
never be able to give Americans residing on
the Pacific coast, that protection to which they
are justly entitled until railroad connection
is given TO us with our brethren on the other
side of the continent; and / am gbad to see
that our excellent President, whose ability and
patriotism are acknowledged by the whole
country, has recommended this subject to the
especial consideration of Congress- A war
with any respectable maratime power, would
cut US off efectually from our sister States,
and leave our trade our commerce, orr mate
rial wealth. if not our lives, at the mercy of
the public enemy. The surveys which have
been made during the past four years, have
fully demonstrated its practcability; and its
necessity for military and political purposes,
is no longer questioned.
1t is quite probable that the events of the
present year will show that economy would
have been consulted by commencing pioneer
or preliminary railroad for the transportation
of troops, munitions of war, &C., through our
own territories long since. This would be
followed, rs soon as the commerce of the
country demanded it, by first class railroad,
over which the traffic between Europe and
Asia and America could pass, and thus give
California the place to which her natural po-
sition entities her.
Civilizations the arts and sciences have for
ages been making their way from the East to
the West. In the meanwhile, the East has
sunk into semi-barbarism, and, in the provi-
dence of God, the West is destined to send civ
ilzation and Christianity, with all their count
less blessings, back to the East. California,
situated on the extreme verge of the western
hemisphere, through her trade and her COM
mercial enterprise will contribute l;u gely to-
wards re-establishing in the East that religion
which was originally taught in Jerusalem, but
which has for centuries past found its chief
power and most salutary influence in this
hemisphere. What glorious destiny awaits
us, if we are only true to ourselves, and prop
erly use the means at our command
Although geographically separated from our
sister States by uninhabted mountains ana
boistrous seas, we feel none the less interest
in maintaining that Union which has made
the name of an American honored and respect
ed in every portion of the civilized world, and
to us at home degree of freedom and
unparalleled in the history of man.
Under that Constitution which spoke the Fed
eral Government into existence, we have built
up mighty empire which now attracts the
and admiration of the world. 1t is
the bounden duty Of every American to bright
en- and strengthen and extend that Union, and
transmit it unimpaired to posterity. Differ
ent laws and different customs prevail in the
respective States and the only way to secure
the peace and tranquility of the Republic is
for each to abstain from intermeddling with
the affairs of its neighbor. The fraternal feel
ing which ought to exist amongst members of
thp Same family rao,iroc ,ora than this We