Year: 1861

dent to the Offices on the Pacific coast have
but just entered upon the discharge of THEN
duties. The sentiment among unprejudic-
ed gentlemen is, these officials are to be
judged by the way they discharge their
responsible trusts, and common decency
demands they should have fair trial -
| But, Just sworn into Office, and barely COM
mencing the exercise of their powers, be-
call forth animadversion from the public
press, we find "mongrel, puppy, whelp and
hound and ours of low degree" of antago-
nstic political principles yelping and bark
| ing at their heels. 1t does seem that in
the eyes of some men all the talent and
honesty of the country had been gathered
into their own rotten old party, and all the
vices and meannesses into the opposition.
To pick up a late number of the Sacramen-
to Bee stranger might suppose its editor
one Of this class, so miserably does he ex-
hibit the spleen and prejudice of q mere
partizan against the federal officers just as
suming the reins of power in the State
Against not one of the California recipients
of Government Favor has a breath
of suspicion been breathed touching their
honorable character, abilities or fitness as
men to discharge the duties committed to
their hands. That they are unequivocally
in favor of maintaining the integrity OF
the Union, is not denied. They are, then,
by common consent possessed of the Jetfer-
sonan qualifications to fill with honor the
various positions to which they have been
promoted. What blemish can, then, be
found in them in advance of trial2 The
| tongue of detraction is ever busy. These
federal appointees are guilty of grievous
fault The Bee learns they did not turn
out as soldiers to defend the Capital at
Washington, when no enemy of conse-
quence was within hundreds of miles! The
standard of virtue set up by the Bee by
which an applicant is 20 be judged worthy
of public office, is, the power of endur-
ance to needlessly carry about musket all
day, sleep upon it at night, and rise re-
freshed in the morning from the hard
ground to again begin his useless round
Judged by such a standard the rough who
had never slept in a civilized bed in his life
and who had wasted his years in idle saun-
tering with o musket has the highest quail
fcations for the Pres idency of the United
States The Custom House, the Marshall
ships, the Naval Office, the Port Surveyor
ship, and other places of trust in the State
were in the hands of traitors; but what
matters that2 The Bee would have it far
better to suffer these enemies of the Gov
ernment to hold possession of all the pla-
ces of trust rather than their successors
should not give the finishing touch to their
qualifications by strutting en- miitdre for
nothing few weeks in Washington City
under pretense of defending the capital!-
1t is nonsense The editor of the Bee exhib-
its the spirit of party bigot. The posts of
duty for the federal officers were here. 1t
was desirable that they be ready to sup
plant their predecessors who sympathlzed


with treason. They repaired to their posts
as became them. They have undertaken
the labors assigned them. Thus far there
is no cause for complaint, and he is mali
licious and no friend of the Union who will
sneer at good Union men andpatriots with
out sufficient cause. We hope to see a
spirit of harmony in the ranks of all Union
men, but 80 long as captious, malignant
Intermediates live above ground it is hard
ly to be expected that justice or decency
will be prime virtues with all.