Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-18
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BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.-Regarding the
statements published in eastern journals
in respect to the State of Nevada, the
Chronicle editorally says:
1t ID not very clear how any State once
admitted to the Union can be abolished
by any power short of the votes OF its
" people, who can always commit
political hari-kari. At the close of
the war, when Congress undertook the
business of reconstruction, the question
was extensively discussed. There were
many northerners who would have liked TO
abolish the State of North Carolina, but
the soundest minds among constitutional
lawyers were clear that it was not within
the power OF the Federal Congress to de-
prive a State of its autonomy or expel it
from the Union. There is no provision
in the constitut ton for the peaceable seces-
sion of a State, SO there is none for its ex-
pulsion.
The people Of Nevada are less disposed
to listen to such talk from San Francisco
than from the East. They naturally think
Of what California, and especially the
metropolis of that State, owe to Nevada.
Speculation from San Francisco as to how
this State shall go about it to commit hari
kari cannot be received very grsciously by
Nevadans, certainly not when the same is
advanced in a fippant, mocking way. But
to consider the proposition of throwing off
statehood, there is no known method Of
doing it. To vest this power in Con.
gress would make ID easy to do
in the case of any State, what it was pro-
posed to do with South Carolina; and New
York might then as legitimately be
abolished in her State government as our
much decried Silver State. As to a States
taking steps to give up its form Of govern
ment voluntarily, the thing has never been
thought of in the United States. Each
territory upon becoming a State has kept
on growing, and there has never been
occasion to discuss such q proposition as is
now presented by the San Francisco
Chronicle and sometimes referred to as a
possible question among the people Of Ne
vada. The idea is novel and strange. The
emergency, II it exists, has in no manner
been contemplated or provided against.
What may be done towards such an end
would have to be done, in some way or
other, we presume, through an amend
ment to our State Constitution. To de-
termine to what extent the relative
functions Of the State and the Federal
Government would be affected by the un-
stating of a State by itself, will be very
apt to drive the inquiring political como
mist or constitutional lawyer into terra
incognita. But we a%pprehend that no
such question as whether Nevada shall cease
to be a State or not, will ever come up
for formal discussion. The Silver State is
not prosperous now, but she has seen
days when she was as helpful and as
important to the Union as sl New England
put together. She is able, with proper
economy and judicious management. to
retain her Statehood respectfully now even
in these times Of adversely. Her POSSIBLE
titles are immense. She may, within q
twelve-month, show as great mineral
wealth as when the Comstock was pouring
out its mountains of rich quartz. This,
too, while she has assumed a place Of com-
mercial importance as q producer of vast
numbers Of the finest horses and the best
beef cattle to be had in the United States.
Let the New York Herald and the San
Francisco Chronicle, and all such other
newspapers as seek to make a sensation
OF Nevada, because she is conspicuous for
her ill-luck, at present, just possess their
souls in peace for a while.