The Nevada journal., 1859-02-04
The HOLDEN RRsoLurloNs.-These


head came up again on Tuesday. on
which occasion their illustrious author
vaporized mortal long time over them.
To read the effnsion and profusion of
sublimatcd nonsense evolved by Mr..
Holden would be better than any com.
edy Of errors but for its excruciating
tenuity. There is something to chal-
lenge admiration in the well sustained
position of man in the wrong. but the
author of these Broderick resolutions
has the double merit Of being stupidity
in error without the brains for defence.
But we have not the time, nor the
stomach to devote to this candidate for
party honors in his own estimation, but
for the kicks and cuffs of sensible men.
During the course of the debate we find
the clay bank nag from Grass Valley
got a little frisky and attempted to show
himself. 1t is all right and character.
istic. Politically, he is addicted to CIV
ing partial exhibitions Of himself and
might be expected on good occasion to
show those points which shall be name
less though giving name to himself.
Mr.. Lansing, after having boxed all
points of the political compass, finds
himself exactly opposite to whore he
was when he started. Everything by
turns and nothing long" is the brief sum.
mary ofhis political character. Hun
ker, Anti Chiralry, Broke:ick, North
Star flor proofs of which we can furnish
afidavits), Know Nothing. Broderick.
and lastly Buchanan locofoco-are his
ante cedcnts. What he turns out to be
next will be something olse, if the past
offels any criterion for the future.
Mr. Lansing expresses a great regard
for Democratic usage. Why did not
his affections warm for Chase who was
nominated for the Senate by tho whole
convention of the Democracy of the
county assembled in convention. Mr..
Lansing was one of the members of
that convention, was present when the
vote was passed making the nomination
of Chase unanimous, and by his pres
ence acknowledged the convention to
be regular Democratic convention
He processes now to be a stickler for
Democratic usage. What is that usage?
To abide by the decision of the major
ity of the Democratic delegates. A
contest arose in the Democratic county
convention in 1857 as to the proper
manner of selecting delegates tothe state
convention. Mr.. Lansing contended
on that occasion that the essential prin-
ciple of the Nebraska bill was the right
of the people Of lccGlitics to decide for
themselves in matters of the kind in con
troversy, that the people of county or
state should not interfere with the i'm
mediate interests of the people in their
respective districts, that the duty of
every good Democrat was to abide by
the decision of the Democratic body lie
was in. Yet when Chase was nomina-
ted by the entire Democratic county
convention last summer, body com
posed of near hundred delegates, and
after the nomination had been made
unanimous. Mr.. Lansing became the
candidate in opposition to Chase though
he had but forty in the convention fa-
vorable to his nomination. He accepted
the nomination in the teeth of his asser-
tions of attachment to Democratic usage,
and was penetrated on the occasion
with lively sense of the honor done
him.
But this is not the only instance of
the duplicity of the man.. In 1855 after
having labored as energetically as his
constitutional lassitude would permit, to
build up the Know Nothings, of whom
he was one of the very first in this coun-
ty, he drew out of the organization al
leging as the reason that he wished to
withdraw from political excitements and
to devote himself to his profession. At
the same time he took occasion to ex-
press his unalterabe attachment and
devotion to the principles Of the order
he was about to leave, and his determin-
alton to uphold and defend them. DIFF
fercnt impressions seem to have been
left on the minds of Democrats with
whom he was on intimate terms, and 10!
in few days this very consistent Dem
ocrst and gentleman was heard of berat-
ing the Know Nothings and their prin-
ciples in the obscure little mining camp
of Washington.
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