Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-28
THE SESATOR3TIIPS.

Our Convention i III session to-day. and
the members Of the Legislature who arc
nominated by tia, body will be elected
undoubtedly without opposition. If the
Constitution is adopted by the people,
,aud Of that we have not much doubt),
ono Of the most important duties which
will dcyolvc upon the St?tc Legislature.
will be the election of two Senators 10
represent the new State i'll the United
$ta,e> Senate. The States of the Pacific
are a sort of foreign country, an appanagc.
colonies. in the estimation of the States of
the East. They regard us as so many
parcels Of public property bought and
paid for. and something out OF which
profit ought 10 be made. The legislation
which is done in Congress concerning this
portion of the public domain" is done
for us by those who know rather less
about the country they are lcgi>lating for
than astronomers of the present day do
about the moon. The voice OF the dele
CATION from the Pacific States Is but feeble
a: the beS:. and in numerical strength
amounts to nothing. This fccblcncsS III
number, should, 50 FAR a. the same i pos
Siblc. be countcractcd by intellectual abili-
~. political Sasacity. experience and I'M
trim. energy. The representatives of this
side OF the continent have thus far, with
few exceptions, been but "poor sticks,
and if there is now man of first-claSS
talent in either house of Congress from
the Pacific States, We don't know him.
The peculiar isolated position which those
States have occupied. together with the
anomalous state of things natural, social
and political, existing here, have always
demanded tirSt-cla>S representation, and
those States have always possessed the
talent required. but by some means or
other, the smallest toadS in the puddle
have generally been sent to Congress.
Old Jo. Lane and John i. Weller were
two splendid specimens of the animated
creation 10 sit in the halls that once echoed
to the tread of Clay, Webster, Benton,
Wright, and other mighty men of the
past. The petty nobodicS that have sat
in the lower House as representatives OF
the intelligence, the political Slgacity, and
the cloquencc of the Pacific States, never
made name for themselves, and we will
nor name them.
1t Is time that this state of things came
to an end. This western coast has been
mis-rcprcScntcd. or rather non-rcprc-
Scntcd, long enough, and if this new State
i admitted. we hope that her first appear
ancc, in the persons of her Senators, will
be a creditablc one, and will mark new
era in the representation of the States OF
the Oecidcnt. We have here in this Ter
ritory rs bright intcllcctS, and as much
statcSmanlikc ability as can be found cast
of the Rocky Mountains. There is no
reason why men Of inferior calibrc should
be sent to Washington to represent this
people, their wants, and their sentiments.
When this State shall take her place
among the other States of the Federal
Union, we want men to represent her who
have brains to think and tongues to speak
in her behalf. \ man may be honest, he
may be deeply learned. he may be soundly
patriotic TO the hearts core, and yet be
totally unfit for United States Senator.
Those qualifications are Indispensable, but
they are not enough. There Is another
class Of talent that IS as indispensable as
all of these, and that Is practical political
sagacity, and the power TO express
clearly, distinctly and sl'quen'lE' the