Year: 1863




of stbe intended pirate schooner J. ". Chap


msa. with the developments made in connec-


ton with it. should put our authorities upon


their guard and cause them to adopt measures


Of selfdefense. From our isolated situation, il


behooves US to treasure up every means Of


State power, and 10 strengthen our ports and


barbor defeuses. Among our most reliable


means Of safety Is that Of olr strong and hardy


men. But here, in this strong arm Of our re-
lance. We are permitting ourselves to be weak
ened, day by day, by hundreds Of our bravest
and best men being enrolled and trained to do
service and fill places for distant and foreign
State, that, bnt few months since, announced
to the nation her readiness to swarm the roads
to the Capital with her thousands, if the Exc
cutive would only issue his emancipation proc
lamation. Behold. the long desired decree has
been sent forth, aud the pitiful echo to its
broad proclaim reaches our Pacific coast, ask
ing US, in our critical position. TO send her our
best and bravest men, while she fails to fill her
quota under the light draft of the Federal
Government. Our Governor has noticed the
fact recently, bat has taken no steps to prevent
this draft from our shores. We bave none too
many for the necessary defense Of our State
and frontiers, and it is next TO criminal for our
authorities not TO take all the necessary steps
to prevent foreign enlistments in our State
To be sure, we are in the midst of great re-
bellion, and many Of our most reliable military
men desire to take part in the grand national
drama but the present state Of the war does
not require drain from our coast. Every one
of these men taken from US only makes US an
easier prey to our enemies, either external or
internal. From the present aspect of affairs,
there is more than possibility of foreign trou,
BILE. The action Of the French, in taking mil
lions of Confederate bonds, and the solemn
silence of her minister of foreign affairs when
he received, from Minister Dayton, Stewards
communication, declaring any and all interven-
ton on the part of France in the present in
ternicine war, bode no good intentions on the
part of the leaders of that people. We may
reasonably expect trouble from that quarter
The Poland Russia imbroglio will not hinder
or deter the French from our coast, for they
have now, in Mexico, footing for future base
of operations on this coast, and an army that
could give US no little trouble to hold our state
with all our available men well armed Then,
we protest against allowing our men to be en-
listed here to fill the ranks of foreign State
with their passages paid by that State. We
are weakening ourselves where there is no real
To say that these men would go
on their own account we do not think is
maintainable proposition.


While we do not place so much concern up
on the Chapman affair alone, it, among other
things points US to take warning for the safety
of our own homes


As for the secessionists in the State, We
have no fears from them. They are but few,
and they would have no chance among US,
even if well armed ; and from the many rumors
and accounts, in the Republican papers, of so
many of them going to Dixie with commits
sions in their pockets, We are inclined to think
the leaders are pretty much all gone and taken
most of the rank and file with them There
are but very few about here, except in the
Emancipation Republican ranks there we
know of several who say let the cotton States
go, with their negroes"