Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13
Ouestions for Politicians,

The people of California would be
pleased to have their servants answer
some very pertinent questions in relation
to very important issues which now at
tract public attention. Are Governor
Low and the remainder Of the fast poll
ticians at Sacramento in favor of taxing
the people of the States which never were
in rebellion, some thirteen dollars O head
over two hundred and fifty millions Of
dollars annually-for the support Of freed
men? II they are not in favor Of this
proposition, why did they abuse the Pres
ident for vetoing the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill Do Governor Low and the rest Of
the politicians above referred, to believe
President johnson to be untrustworthy !
II they do, why do they abuse him for re-
fusing to accept the power to fill the Ma
ton with his myrmidons in the shape Of
the seven thousand officers he might have
appointed had the Bureau bill become a
lawi II President Johnson is the
bad man that Governor Low, and
the Sacramento Union would have us
believe, why were they so anxious to force
upon him the patronage and responsible
ties which the Bureau bill conferred II
President Johnson is half as bad as the
Radicals would have US believe he lie,
what are we to think Of them for wishing to
confer upon him the power to fill the Ma
ton with his nppointees, and rule it with
his armies, as they are trying to do by
their outrageous Freedmen's Bureau bill?
Do Governor Low and the fast politicians
of Sacramento wish that the United States
shall pay the debt contracted by the So
called Southern Contederacy: If they do
not. why do they oppose the Presidents
policy of restoration, and why do they
contend that the Southern States had
legally seeded, and are now occupying
the position of conquered provincess AS
we have before demonstrated, the logical
consequence Of the doctrines upheld and
advocated by them will be the legal liza
bility OF the United States for the pay
ment Of at least that portion of the rebel
debt held in Europe. If those pretended
Union men who have abused the Presi-
dent for his veto and his general
policy of restoration, are not in favor Of
heaping enormous and needless additional
taxes upon the people of the United
States, and are not in favor OF assuming
the payment Of the Rebel debt, sensible
people would like to know what they are
in favor Of. And If they do really BE-
lieve President Johnson to be the treach-
erous and unreliable man they assert him
to be, sensible people would like to know
why they were so anxious TO confer upon
him the unrestricted powers provided for
in the FIeedmen's Bureau Bill Perhaps
Governor Low. Senator Cole, the Sacra-
mcnto Union, or some Of those Senators
and Assemblymen who have been FORE
most among, or warm aiders and abettors
OF, the enemies Of the President, will con.
descend to enlighten the public upon the
points to which we have referred. The
chances are that our State politicians, to
whom reference is herein made, did not
know what they were about when they
commenced bowling against the President.
They commenced an indiscriminate and
i~nsensa,e barking. They will now prob
ably follow the example Of some Of those
in Congress, and endcavor to craw6sh out
Of the very unpleasant position into which
they have thrust themselves.-S. F. Cali.