Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-10
NEVADA A UNION STATE.

state are snmclently complete to establish
the fact that Nevada is enrolled among
the loyal States of the Union, and that
the confidence reposed in US by the Gen.
eral Government in admitting US into the
great sisterhood was not misplaced. That
intelligence has flashed across the wires
and the hearts Of patriots throughout all
the land are filed with gladness. The
States of the Pacific have declared their
fealty to the Federal Union, by majorities
that administer bitter rebuke to the trail
tors who have been plotting and planning
for Pacific Republic-another name for
present secession and final alliance with
the Confederacy. That traitors dream is
over and forever vanished into thin air,
after the overwhelming vote Of Tuesday
in California, Oregon and Nevada. Salts
fed with having done our duty as State
toward the union Of States, let US congrat-
ulate ourselves upon the more direct and
immediate result of Tuesdays vote upon
our own local prosperity. That vote i'm
pressed upon Nevada the seal of loyalty.
She has a Constitution superior to any
other in the Union, Constitution that
atfrmatively declares that "the paramount
allegiance of every citizen is due to the
Federal Government, in the exercise of all
its constitutional powers, as the same have
been or may be defined by the Supreme
Court OF the United States; and no power
exists in the people of this or any other
State of the Federal Union to dissolve
their connection Herewith, or perform any
act tending to impair, subvert or resist
the supreme authority of the Government
of the United States. The Constitution
Of the United States confers full power on
the Federal Government to maintain and
perpetuate its existence, and whensoever
any portion of the States. or people there
of, attempt to secede from the Federal
Union, or forcibly resist the execution Of
its laws, the Federal Government may,
by warrant of the Constitution, employ
armed force in compelling obedience to It's
authority"
In adopting that Constitution the peo-
pie of Nevada set firmly the heel of con-
domination upon the foul heresies OF
States Rights" and the doctrine of the
Right of Secession" By the vote OF
Tuesday We have chosen an Executive.
a Legislature and a Judiciary who will
pass and enforce laws making that Const:.
tuition operative. By so doing We have
declared to the world that on the soil OF
Nevada treason has no home, in its laws
no refuge, and in the hearts of its people
no sympathy. Whose expects to enjoy
the privileges and immunities Of CITIZEN
ship in this. the last born State of the
Federal Union, must denean himself as a
true and loyal citizen of that Union; andif
treason rankle in his heart he must keep
it behind the prison-bars of his teeth.
With such Constitution, such laws and
such men to execute them, Nevada will
offer no inducements for di,loyal immi.
grafton. Had it been otherwise, had the |
new State fallen into the hands Of the
friends and sympathizers of JEFF Davis,
her soil would have been as a city of re-
fuse for the banditti, and the Canaan OF |
every political refugee of the whole Pacific |
Coast, and next summer the wide plains |
that separate US from the East would |
have swarmed with an immigration such
as has never been seen, and which under
existing circumstances never will be seen.
We should. twelve-months hence have
had population, among whom the life
of loyal citizen would not only have
been uncomfortable but absolutely unsafe.
Property here would have been held BY
an uncertainty of tenure that would no,
only have deferred the influx of capital,
but would have driven from among Us
that already here. Aside from the dan
ger consequent upon the anarchy which
would have reigned under q rebel Safe
Government, and the rebel rabble which
would have overrun the State, there
would have been another blow struck at
the general prosperity and individual en-
terprise that few had taken into serious
The question of the Gen.
arsl Government seizing upon the mines
Of this Territory as its own property and
ejecting the present occupants has long
been seriously agi,ated by a powerful
party in the East. Had this State cast its
vote against the United States and in
favor OF JEFF. Davis, is there anything
more certain than that the Government
would have instantly adopted that policy:
It certainly would have done so-and
that most naturally and properly. To
have had these rich mines under the con-
troll of Legislation favorable to the rebellion,
would have been piece Of folly such as
we have not detected the present Admin
in as yet. That such seizure
of the mines would be the ruin Of the
Territory and would depopulate 1t in
six months, is proposition too plain for
argument. Such a calamity has been
averted by the glorious expression given
by our people on Tuesday at the ballot
box. Under such an administration Of
our State Government as we are now as. |
sured of, there is character Of stability |
given to property, business and monied
interests such as has never before existed |
in Silverland. Our Legislature will soon |
convene and we shall have a system of
wholesome laws which, giving sense Of
security to capital, will insure the influx |
of foreign funds ample for the develop |
ment of the vast resources of our State,
and business Of every nature will receive
a healthy impetus such as never would |
have been known under different order |
of political affairs. 1t is, therefore, Just |
matter of congratulation viewed not only