Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-18
THE BOTANY BAY OF cALIFoR-

OF the Constitutional Convention.
THE BOTANY BAY OF cALFoR-
MIA.
The Stockton Independent has a good
article on the subject of the rebel exodus
from California to Mexico, and the embar-
60 laid thereon By the late order of Gen.
Mcdowell. It says:
Since it has been known in California
that Gwin has the management of affairs
in Northern Mexico for his master Napo-
leon, there has been a marvellous stir
among the sore head rebels of this State.
Hundreds of them who have not been
known to have a dollar. or to earn q pen
ny in the last two years, have all at once
found the means to emigrate to Mexico,
while hundreds of others in the same loaf
ing category are gathering up their faded
carpet bags and preparing to follow.
Whence Genes the money to impel this
caravan Of genteel pauperism: 1t costs
but little comparatively to go from San
Francisco to Guaymas or Mazatlan, but
even that little is beyond the means Of the
emigrants. The inquiry suggests that
Napoleon himself has probably determined
to colonize his new acquisitions with the
seedy and disconnected secessionlsts Of the
Mnited States, trusting in them as more
reliable enemies of the United States than
any class of Frenchmen who would be
likely to leave France for that purpose.
do you desire any guarantees about
religion :" asked the Sphinx of the old
Lime Pointer. "Oh! anything your
Majesty pleases," was OWNS reply, and
so the two Atheists were quits on that
score. as perfectly understanding each
other as the ex-marshal of Mississippi does
the goddess crew of slavery propasandists
with whom he expects to settle Northern
Mexico. Moreover, as matter of econ
omy it will be the best way to people that
country. 1t costs less to send rebel
from San Francisco to Mazatlan by steam,
than an emigrant from France by steerage
passage in sailing vessel. They
would arrive armed-at least armed with
sharp fangs and full of venom against the
United States +; and they would very soon
attract thousands more from Texas and
other Southern States. They would be,
too, the natural enemies Of the native
Mexicans, and as such more reliable OPP
pressors of liberal government and uniyer-
sal freedom than the emigrant classes OF
France or Germany. That they were born
Democrats and Republicans is no argu-
ment against their willing acquiescence IN
monarchical institutions and ideas. Your
genuine Calhounist,is well educated in all
such ideas has been clamoring for aris-
tocracy and monarchy, 10! these many
years is bitter hater Of the Fourth OF
July, and would soon learn to lick the
hand of royalty with as much reverence as
the devotee of the church kisses the toe OF
His Holiness, the Pope. We
rather regret that this order was issued.
John Randolph once said, to irritate his
enemy Henry Clay, Kentucky is the
Botany Bay-the Botany Bay, sir, of Viz
GINA" There have been people so ma
icious as to say that century before the
utterance of Mr.. Randolph's ill-natured
remark, Virginia was sort of Botany Bay
for England; and why should not CAL
nornia have her Botany Bay !: and where
could she find one more convenient than
in the dominions Of the Old Lime Point
yiceroy: Why not let them gos They
are useless and quite superhuous here.
They produce nothing and according to
the unanswerable maxim of Confuc'us,
"he who does nothing must be a public
burthen-must be fed and clothed by those
who do something" Why, then, trouble
California longer with the maintenance Of
this effste, genteel- INDECENT aristocracy,
when France proposes TO adopt them as
her own: We say let them go.
Inasmuch as Nevada is, in the main,
populated by CalifOrnians, and was, dur
ing the days of her Territorial existence.
the land of refuge for the chiyalry expa-
triated by the abolition " legislation Of
California and whereas the laws of this
State are now of character in.olerable to
the descendants of the Huguenots, Neva-
da is entitled to her fair proportion Of the
Mexican Empire, whereon to "a Botanic "
the prosecuted, petered-out progeny Of the
Cavaliers.