The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-17
The Campaign.

the Atlantic side OF the Rocky Mountains.
tbev are in the midst of all the exciting scenes
produced by the lively contest now going on in
our county for county and State Offices. The
battle has been fairly begun, and the leaders
are marshaing their forces, and urging them
on to the rescue: Some claiming the Union is
in danger others, that it is gone, and gone
forever some claiming we have good and
bene6cent Government, worth preserving and
maintaining others, that it has prove fail
ure. and must be remodeled to further exist :;
some claiming the great charter of our State
rights and personal liberties is a mere tempo
rary compact, made to be broken at any time,
by any erring sister Of the Union others,
that it is the palladium of our personal and
State rights, and the indissoluble bond of the
Union of these States, intended and declared
to be perpetual, aud that is is the rock upon
which q great national Government is based
and exists; some claiming that there is no CO.
ereive power in the Government, when assailed,
to put down rebellion and treason against its
existence; others, that no Government can
to maintain and defend its existence come the
attack from what quarter it may and some
of them even going so far as TO claim that the
measures taken TO maintain and defend the
Government, in the present crisis, are in viola
ton of the Constitution, that compact for which
then have no respect, and which they can bend
to their purposes of rebellion, with the bland
est sophistry that ever emanated from human
tongue. Is it a difficult task for a free, en-
lightened and patriotic people to choose be-
tween those leaders who hold these doctrines :?
Can they, with any degree Of consistent 10y
atty to their country, cast their sutfrages for
any man seeking official position, be it high
or low, whose first allegiance is not to his
whole and undivided Government? Citizens
of our county, it is for you to weigh and decide
these matters in this campaign, and no per-
sonal prediction should be allowed to come
between duty and principle. Men who recog-
nize and stand upon dsunion and Southern
Confederacy platforms are not worthy to have
a single vote of true Union man. They
talk Union to you, and electioneer with you
upon that false premise, assumed by them for
the time, only to throw it off and betray you
after you elevate them to official power and
position. In other, and the more emphatic
words of one of them, that's the 1ray IRE ptay
you and you haven't sense enough to see it"
Let the people see 10 this, now.
STATE SoyEREIGNNY.-At the present time,
when a certain class of men are arguing the
supremacy of State authority over national,
and thereby demoliSh the Government which
has, in many cases, been their lifelong sup,
port, the following, from the pen of James
Madison, the alleged draughter of the Consti-
tuition of the United States, should be consid.
cred superior authority to the scribblery OF
designing politicians
at Uhe Constitution was formed by the
States, that is, by the people in each of the
States, acting in their highest sovereign Ca
pacity; and formed consequently, by the
same authority which formed the State Con-
Stitutions. Being thus derived from the same
source as the Constitutions OF the States it
it has, within each State, the same authority
as the Constitution Of the State, and is as
much Constitution, in the strict sense of the
term, within its prescribed sphere, as the Con
slilutions of the States are within their re-
spectve spheres but with this obvious and
essential difference, that being compact
among the States in their highest sovereign
capacity, and constituting the people thereof
one people for certain purposes, it cannot be
altered or annnlled at the will Of the States
individually, as the Constitution OF State
may be at its individual will.
Nor is the Government of the United
States created by the Constitution, less a
government, in the strict sense of the term,
within the sphere of its powers, than the gov
ernments created 10y the constitutions of the
States are within their several spheres. 1t is,
like them organized into legislative, executive
and judiciary departments. 1t operates, like
them, directly on persons aud things. And,
like them it has at command a physical force
for executing the powers committed to it,
PROPERTY IN Butte We are indebted TO
Mr.. Stevenson, County Auditor, for the fol-
lowing statement of the amount of property
in Butte county, assessed for the fiscal year
A. d. 1861, together with the taxes assessed
thereon
Number of acres Of land, 3,0011 =.
Cash value OF real estate 81 ,693, $40
personal property. 2,ll7,749
Total valuation. ...... 81, ISL JIG
State tax for 1861, $50 56l 30, apportioned
in the different funds as follows:
State Fund go. ........... .S22,S66 II
General County Fund ....... l9.055 60
School Fund ........... 3,Sll IL
Road Fund 1905 50