The hydraulic press., 1860-10-06
poLITIcAL ADyENrURERs.

| The Pacific coast has had its full share of this
class of men. They have come amongst US in
swarms, to enjoy the fat Offices of our people
from Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina,
Ohio, Illinois, New York, Texas-in fact, most
of the Eastern States have furnished more than
would be reckoned liberal quota. Some few
have been gratifed in their ambition. Others
failed, after repeated strenuous efforts, and re-
turned to their homes where, it is sincerely to
be hoped, they may find it profitable to remain
until they are sent for. The State will endeavor
to get along without them.
What have any of these adyenturers done for
California, after obtaining place and power? If
we refer to the National record, nothing that
could not have been better done in their absence.
If to our State history, find defective laws, an
impaired public credit, an enormous debt, and
bankrupted Treasury. Having NO permanent
interests in common with the people, they labor
first for their own advancement, and next for
that of their political friends for the country,
Their zeal in the pursuit of Office, is only
excelled by the shallowness of their brains. En-
tire families are affected by the mania. Fathers,
children, uncles, brothers-in-law, all join in the
scramble. The bantling and the veteran, the
upstart and the titled pretender, present their
claims, and urge them before the people, On
occasions of great pith and moment, they are
found thrusting themselves forward, to the dis
gust of abler and better men. In the use of po-
litical machinery for managing primary elections
or packing conventions, they have no superiors.
full of AuA,
with their admirers for learning; impudence for
ingenuity; pretension for merit. On this capital
they trade, and become great men-in their own
estimation. Nothing daunted by defeat in one
locality, we soon hear of their turning up in an
other. They are leeches, vampires, parasites
deficient in the self-producing principle, but
clinging to, and deriving their nourishment from
others. Rebuke cannot abash them, nor change
the current of their vaulting ambition. Every
where, on all occasions, in season and out of
season, they conspicuous in the front rank of
political movements. They are as essentially
paupers on the public crib, as the mendicant is
upon the bounty of the village poor-house. Pap
their ravenous stnmachs must have, and the ladle
of the Treasury is the medium through which
tiiey receive IL. LOO pIouu 10 WORK themselves,
they yet appeal to the working classes to sustain
them. Too indolent to study, their hobby is the
current twattle about party, party principles and
undying devotion to the cause! Thus they fire.
quently succeed against men of true worth; and
by this senseless style of argument, are enabled
to flourish, and to perpetuate their power.
1t were vain to attempt shaking these political
freebootcrs off. Tolerance has given them cour-
age, and indulgence erected them into an insti-
tuition. We should therefore use the desperate
philosophy of the fox, whose body was covered
with blood-bloated flies, and endure the present
infiction rather than drive the adventurers away
to have their place supplied by hungrier swarm.
Some of them are harmless from repletion, and
some from lack of mental ability to encompass
those gigantic projects of phlebotomy against
the public Treasury which their rapacious designs
may have included.