The Placer herald., 1865-12-23
From the San Francisco Examiner.
F. F. L. vs.. F. F.V.

+. r. Low is Governor of the S ate of Cal
ifornia. How be became so. it boots not
now to inq 'ire. Some are born great: some
achieve greatness, some have it thrust upon
them and others purchase it. By which
mode Low got his, each can determine for
himself. Low, we know, is Governor. and
as such has written message. AS he no
doubt thinks this his last message-for Lows
money bags are not yet exhausted, and he
thinks 10y the aid Of them to climb vet high,
er-he has "spread himself" on his frs, ef.
fort. The document touches on MANY
themes, d'ffusey and haudlinIy. lie settles
the affairs OF The nation, and shows his vul,
gar spleen by atta' king, as Executive of one.
another sovereign State Of The Union. This
is something unheaId of, except among those
low creatures who are educated up" to the
standard of that political and religious intoI
erance which prevails in tho schools whence
Low graduated. Contrasting The effects of
education ond ignorance, he says:
"Crossng to this side of the Atlantic we
are told that one Of the earlier Governors of
virginia, in reply to questions as to the con.
d'''on OF his colony, said: thank God
there are no free schools or printing presses
here, and hope there will he none for a
hundred years" About the time this re-
mark was made, the first steps were being
taken to establish in the neghboring colony
Ct Massachusetts the college at Cambridge
already endowed by the liberal minded and
far seeing Harvard. How instructive is the
field OF reflection here opened as the mird
follows for two centuries the development If
these great States, stated upon foundations
so similar, yet developed 10y principles so
ant; gonistic. Vrginia's motto has been: the
ignorance of The many promotes the we'll
being of the few; while Massachusetts, from
her infancy has proclaimed to the world the
great truth tina, knowledge is power. The
teachings inculcaed ty the experience of
these two c"mmonweaths-the relative
progress in Christ anity and civil za,ion-in
the sciences and in the arts their average
wealth and intellectual advancement, unfold
to our newer States no higher truth than
that the public welfare is induced in no 9TH
er way SO thoroughly as 10y juJicious invest
men;s in common schools"
Had such an exhibition of falsehood and
malice have emanated from some hired serb
bier in heated political contest, it might
have attracted no attention. But when de
lihera,ely uttered 10y a Governor of a sover,
eign Siale-in the better and PALMER days
# HE Union, the highest and most exalted
Office known to our federal sys,em-ii rises
to The dignity OF notice. "Virgina's motto
has teen-the ignorance of the many pro
notes the vel! being Of the few" Where
haS In nj, tuip po1 I,t i,,f II H.,
drawn it from the turbid fountain Of false.
hood that wells from his avn contracted
SOUL or has some clerical pedagogue from
his beloved Massachusetts, reeki"g aud fes-
'ering with Ligotry and intolerance, stuffed
him for the OCCASION? Low scarcely origiua.
ted SO bright II conceil himself.
The remark attributed to an early Cover
nor Of that renowned old Commonwealth, is
said to have been uttered, near two hundred
years ago. Governor Bsrkely, who is refer
red to, and at the same time is made to say:
We have forty eight parishes, and our pin
listers are we'll paid, aud toy my consent
should he better, il they would pray oftener
and preach less" That distinguished old
English functionary no doubt had in mind
'he scenes then being enacted in Massachus
etIs under the enlightened and educated
preaching and teaching If her Puritan civil
Izers. Let US SEE what history they were
making for her at the time "lhs first steps
were being taken to establish the college A,
Cambridge" One of her own writer's thus
tnirruis those times:
1.-The lurl,ans who left England and set
tied at Plymouth, and founded New England
protested to have fled from persecution, and
sought a place to worship God according to
The dictates and rights of conscience, and to
christanize the Indian. They were not sell,
tied before they robbed the Indians, ensIavcd
their women and children, sold lhem into
foreign bondage. and visited The most inhu.
man and seIf-deg' aiding crueIties upon all
classes with whom they came in contact
lhey pIundered the towns Of the natives
They employed aud paid assassins. Bribes
were paid for the assassination of Chiefs
They burnt hundreds Of the natives alive.-
They roasted at the stake women and chill
dren, and burnt them in heaps. Their
ablesl and tavorite divines declared that the
burning of four hundred Indians at once,
mostly women and children, seemed a sweet
SAVIOR to God, while they admitted that it
was awful to see their blood running and
quencIing the violence Of .he burning wood,
and smell the stencil. Mather himself boast
ed that they had tha. day sent four bun.
dred souls 10 hell"
"lhey turned upon the Quakers. They
impos, d heavy fines for hearing them speak.
They passed laws against all other sects.--
They logged inhumany women and chill
dren. They put them in prison and whipped
them daily. They cut of their ears. They
bored their tongues with redlhot irons.-
They hung pen. women and children as
witches. apd continued it for fifty years.
The colonies Of New England were threat
ened with absolute determination ty their
fAnslicsm. They exiled Balsists and Cath
ocs. They drove women and helpless chill
dren, under severest penalties, to seek pro-