The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-14
For the state Resister.l
THE BEST GOVERNMENT THE
WORLD EVER SAW.

the ears OF the American peOpie
have been saluted by the continued
reiteration of these significant words.
The science of government has en-
gagged the earnest attention of the
best minds of all ages of the world,
and has been regarded as a problem
of the most difficult solution. The
Patriarchal, the Tribal, and the Re
gal with its various notifications,
have been fully tested and found de-
fective. 1t is now asserted 10y our
people that, in all the long centuries
of the dead past. tire Government OF
the United states is the best the world
ever saw.
This declaration is so grand in its
scope, so benefcient in itspromises,
that the prudent mind hesitates to
accept it as true. Let Is examine it:
What Is the Government of the
United States? Howdid it originate?
What werethe objects of its creation?
Who created it? What is the funda-
mental difference between it and the
governments to Which it is claimed
to be superior? these questions are
pertinent, and must be correctly
answered in order to a just and true
comprehension of a governmental
proposition, involving, not only the
well-beinS OF the people of this con-
tinent, but of all humanity.
elf-government. The right of self
government innate, The right of the
people to create their own govern
ment, prescribe their own laws and
execute them themselves These
were strange and heretical utterances
when the people of the thirteen
British colonies in North America
began to whisper them, a century
ago. But they felt them to be true.
They were so remote from the home
government, and the means of com
munication so tardv and uncertain,
that they we're compelled to think
and act for themselves. Their sur
roundings were SO unique that they
could only be wisely comprehended
by those locally connected with them,
and could not be safely left to the
management of strangers. They
were often forced to make war, fight
battles and expel savage invaders
without consulting their King, find
ing authority In their natural rights.
They thinking, patriotic, bold,
cultivated men. It is in no sense
strange that such men, SO situated,
should be prompted to examine the
claim of Divine right asserted by
Kings. The assumption was against
reason and incompatible with their
personal experience. The King had
neither the mOtire, the riU, nor the
ability to ~protecttheir prosperity and
happiness, that theythemselves had.
Events ripened until they came to
regard the doctrine of the divine
right of Kings Is a wicked assump
ton ; and to treat it as a sorto of com
pick apparatus. cunningly devised
to collect tribute. The thirteen col
onies, with solemn dignity, avowed
the doctrine of the right of self-gov-
eminent, which, at the conclusion of
a long and heroic contest, was con-
ceded to them by Great Britain.
They became thirteen separate, SOW
ereign States, performed all acts and
exercised all prerogatives belonging
to sovereigns. Preceding their es-
adjustment of the Government of
the United States, they had agreed
toill-defined articles of Reconsideration,
having reference chiefly to the war
with England and the exigencies
growing out oft. The necessity for
a legal adjustment of the rights of
Virginia and Maryland in the navi-
gable waters held in common by
them, called into existence a COM
mission, by their appointment, for