The Nevada journal., 1860-08-03
Political Suicsdc.

Our State presents the spectacle of po-
I litical suicide. Her interests are plan and
! marked, and he is fool who does not see
where they lie and on what they depend
California is connected commercially and
socially, as we'll as by the genius Of her in
stitutions, with the progressive states of
1 the Union, of which she rs one. Her trade
| is with those states. Her intercourse with
them is great and growing, while with the
stationary states il is small and unimpert-
ant. Our hopes in the Union are centered
in the states Of the North. Politically our
sympathies shonld be with that portion of
the Unfcn. Why? Because it is there we
/ find the advocates and friends of the inter-
ests Of California. By the votes Of that
section we came into the Union, against
the will of the Representatives Of the other
section. Every hearty move for Pacific
Railroad has come from the Representatives
of the North in Congress. 1t is in the
| Free States where the doctrine is held that
the General Goyernm est has power to con-
struet internal improvements for national
purposes, and the elements opposed to the
so-ealled Democracy entertain this doctrine
as cardinal in their creed. 1t is from these
progressive states that votes, men and mon
ey are to come to build the great trans-con-
tinental railway, and for opposition to it we
arc to look as we have looked in the past
to the Democratic party in its southern
strong holds.
Yet the anomaly is presented of State,
which according to all parties is treated
with eontumely in the national councils in
the way of obtaining her rights throwing
herself in the arms of her enemies and
seoalng at her benefactors. We see the loco
foco party in power and gorging itself with
spoils. We see money squanderedas water
in every direction but ours. We ask for aid
to meet our necessities We are told there
Is no help within the scope of the eonstitu-
ton, or voted against on fimsy pretexts or
none atall, all the time hearing professions
of devotion to Pacific Railroad. We send
! Ccuhlois anu NcpiestuldtlhcS W SOuSIcSS;
wonderful to tell who are cheek by jowl
with the enemies of our State. W hat are
your Gwins, your Lathams, your Burches,
! your Scots in our national halls but sops
to foes2 In the face of manifold services
to our State, Latham, fippant upstart,
goes to Congress, and the first work he
Ionc ic to rood Sanatnr r1 fba m,
and consistent friend of California, BRAIN
less lecture on politics. The pedantie
sophomore criticzes the finished scholar
and statesman. The ass affects the lion.
Whatever may be Latham's political
views, or however much he may differ with
Mr. Seward, we submit he was never sent
10 Washington TO al;euate Ike cnly party
that has ever doEe an honest stroke for
the great interests of California. His poll
icy was cancellation, good feeling, harmony
In view of tie great and paramount ones
ton of a Pacific Railroad, he slave ques-
tion sinks into inslgnifcance. 1t matters
not in what broils the east may be engaged
we have greater interest to subserve
Our Senators and Representatives are
treacherous and unworthy ii they do not
overlook all trihes 70 subServe alone the
interests we have at heart. Do they ever
Never-they are the abject tools of our
enemies. They throw themselves into the
arms of our foes and give aid and comfort
10 malignant assassins of our rights. Who
so desirous among all the shallow-pates in
Congress as the Representatives in Con-
gress to cast opprobium upon the doctrines
of the North and their advocates Who
so forward in their d"nunciations And
with what magnanimity is coutumely met
Instead of melting ont to a state the meas
ure which is meted out to them, they stand
by US, friends in every trial. They might
justly claim from the action Of California
in sending sucn agents to Washington,
that she wants no railroad, no freedom, no
progression that sh. delights in semi-bar-
barrie isolation, and rejoices in being rep
resented in the most honorable parlimenta-
ry assemblage on the globe by venerable
scoundrels or pompous fools.
But they look through the darkness of
, the present and legislate for the future.
Seeing with a clear eye the irrevocable
destiny of California the progrcssivists of
the Union, in spite of clogs we offer, press
on steadfast in our cause, and God help
them, for we, for whom they labor with un-
firing zeal, are too blind to affiliate with
them for many weary day yet.
Az 0rISIoy.-H A. Higley, who gave us,
says the San Juan Press, call his return
, from the scene of his labors in running the
!. eastern boundary line between California and
Utah, states emphatically, that the Henness
t Pass route to tho Washoe silver region is far
superior TO any other over the Sierra Nevada
range of mountains. The Pacerville route, he
thinks, will not compare with it in point Of nat
ural advantages.
It may hoeerer, be superior with its improve
: ments, nerertheiesz.-Sac. Union.
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