Year: 1859

people OF Sutter county voted against taking
$4,000 stock in the Marysville and San
Francisco Railroad viz: inability to meet
| the increased tares that inevitably woutd fol-
toO the success of the Railroad proposition.
And then you add other reasons that led to
the defeat of the enterprise, viz: =" the an
crease Of the price of land and The danger q
The locomotive setting the hay and grass on
fire, and ihus starving the stock" &c.


| Now, my dear sir, allow me to correct the
gross error into which both the Standard and !
yourself have fallen on this subject True it
is, that the Standard and yourself may put
on a gloss of that kind to deceive those who
know no better; but you cannot deceive us,
who live in Sutter county, the banner county
of Leeomptonsm.


To enighten your understanding, there
FORE on this subject, we will have you to
know that we fully understand the principles
of the party to which we belong, and we
are determined to carry them out. We
know, sir. that our Democratic principles
emaaGte from oar rulers Who govern ats; and is
it not patent, as Democratic principle, that
internal improvements are always the enemy
of the laboring class, and dangerous to the
liberty and prosperity of any countryP Why,
sir, the Railroad bill that was so eagerly
sought for in Congress, to connect the At
lantic and the Pacific States, would have
passed into law and become Z" fixed fact
upon us ere now, had it not been for the eff
forts of Lecompton Democracy, who, in due
time came to the rescue, and saved the coun-
try from that dangerous thoroughfare and
monster monopoly


1t is clear to the mind of every Intelligent
Administration Democrat that railroad from
the Pacific to the Atlantic would afford facil-
tiles in time of war to any foreign enemy to
land and transport hundreds and thousands
of soldiers, with all their missiles of destruc-
ton, into the midst Of the populous interior,
destroying the innocent and unprotected
women and children of the country And
is it not equally certain that the Marysville
and San Francisco Railroad is expected to
connect with that road, thereby endangering
the lives and liberty of the citizens of Sutter?


But this is not the only objection that is
urged by US against the Road. 1t is well
known, from all experience, that railroads
supersede the use of wagons, stages, boats,
horses, mules oxen, &c, and thereby drive
from employment hundreds and thousands of
honest laboring men," that now derive their
support from such occupations as teaming,
staging, boating, &c, and who would scatter
large amount of money throughout the
country, fer hay, barley, and eating, consum-
ing at least a week within the distance that
a locomotive would traverse in five or six
hours. Such ruinous course of policy will
never be sanctioned and voted for by the in
telligent people of Sutter county. Hence,
the Standard is very much mistaken in saying
fear of additional taxes is the cause. We
are not at all oppressed with taxes, and know
that the dividends we would receive from
the fifty thousand dollars stock from time TO
time, would far exceed the amount we would
ever have to pay in, at least for ten or fifteen
years to come. And we also know that it
would greatly reduce our taxes indeed, the
revonue from the Road, assessed for taxes
would of itself reduce our taxes about one
half


But, sir, all this can be no ihducement to
US LecoDlpton Democrats to go for the Rail-
road, who are from principle, opposed to
internal Improvements by the Government,
whether State or Natonal and surely, the
State Government has given away to this
Railroad Company vast amount of the best
land it owned, thereby sacrificing Democratic
principles, and enriching heartless monop-
oily, for whom We have sympathy what
ever. On that subject, our interests and prin.
eiples were fully represented in the canvass
for joint Senator, one year ago, by the
Hon. VIM II. Parks, who fully convinced the
people of Sutter that the Road would be ru-
inous to their best interests, but that ''free
bridge" would be much to their advantage,
which we all believe and he passed that
law, and is now experimenting the County
Supervisors and engineers in its erection, for
which services we intend to promote him to
the U. S. Senate as soon as our party sue
ceeds in shooting Broderick.


Democratic principles, we say, are vested
in our Democratic rulers, who have ever
taught us to believe that they are the only
friends to the poor man, by opposing monop-
olies of every kind, and by convincing us,
from demonstrations as clear as light, that
railroads, and every other labor-saving in
vention, drives people from employment ,
and ruins the whole country.


To conclude this reply, allow me to assure
you, and the Standard also that we are not
afraid of fire or taxes, neither, that it will
injure us in the purchase of our lands, for
nearly all the Railroad will run through the
twenty-five leagues rejected, and is now
mainly claimed all by settlers, and they will,
get it for 81 25 per acre, and no doubt but
the price of it will be enhanced much to the
settlers advantage. But sir, | repeat it, we
go against this Road from principle. The
principles of our party forbid it and we
will vote, as you will find at the next Presi-
dential election, for that candidate who will,
like the head and front of our party now,
unite all their efforts to defeat the Pacific and
Atlantic Railroad subscription


BoNUM LEcoMProN.


TnE VieEsburg Whig, of August 18th,
learns that on the Wednesday previous,
Franklin Smith TnJoror1on4 - M.