Year: 1863

radical change in it would only serve to lock up
our gold in the bowels of the earth, which would
be a short-sighted policy indeed. 1t is fortunate
that, on the one hand the General Government
adheres stea dfastly to its established course, and
on the other hand that our California miners
are ready to show at all times a proper under
standing of the fact that they are upon the lands
of the United States.


The geological survey of the State, which is
in the hands of a gentleman of high National
reputation, is an important branch of the public
service The publication of the results of his
labors will give to the world correct knowledge
of our mineral resources, which can be impaired
in no other manner so likely to carry conviction.
The cost of the survey, and of the publication
hereafter of its reports, is as nothing compared
with the advantages to be derived by the State.
| hope the State Geologst, and those whom he
has selected to aid him, will receive that encour-
agement and material aid to which their capaci-
ty and zeal and the magnitude and character of
their labors entitle them and without which their
useful work would have to be abandoned
| congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon
the renewal you have recently made at. the bal
lot box of your pledge to stand firmly by the
National cause. [Applause.] Twenty thousand
majority for Representatives in Congress, known
to be the ardent friends of Liberty and Union,
must finally destroy all hopes that foreign or do
mestic foes of the United States may ever have
entertained of receiving aid and sympathy from
the Pacific Coast. Renewed applause. Our
position this great question has now been
four times announced by ballot since the COM
mencement of the Southern rebellion, and four
times has the popular will here emphatically de-
cared against any other peace than that which
will follow upon the submission of the rebels to
the nation rghtful authority Applause. To
the States now loyal is California indebted for
all that Congress ever did for her advaacement-
from the Act of Admission in 1850, upon which
the now insurgent chiefs threatened secession,
down to the Pacific Railroad Act Of 1862, which
those bad men had lost the right to longer op-
pose in Congress, and this, too, Notwithstanding
the persistency with which, up to 1861, she
cung to her unnatural alliance with the Cotton
State politicians. [Appause.] If our brethren
in the North and West were so ready to respond
to our calls then, when we seemed cold and dis
tant, can hardly fail to be heard now, when
we send to the councils of the nation men who
are earnest co-laborers with them in the greatest
cause ever contended for in the field or in the
forum.


The admission of Nevada into the Union
State, at the present session of Congress, is |
presume, a forcgone conclusion. She will be
the third State formed on this side of the conti-
nent within fourteen years, and, like her older
neghbors, California and Oregon, has already
shown that she will be jealous of her reputation
for fidelity to the nation. [Applause.] Let us





safeguards as prudence may dictate be placed
around this happy condition of things, to pre-
vent the possibility of the current of civilized
progress being stayed or turned back by dis
franchised refugees from the rebellious regions.
Applause.


The war for the suppression of the rebellion is
making steady progress toward the accomplish
ment Of that, its only end. During its contin-
uance discussions naturally enough arise con-
cerning the political effect of the rebellion upon
the Governmental organizations which existed
at its commencement in the rebel communities.
No combinations of men or circumstances can
prevent the proper and safe solution of the great
problems involved in this terrible conflict. The
events now transpring seem, indeed, too mighty
! to be absolutely controlled by mere human agcn-
cies. The laws of change and of progress
doing their appointed work among this people,
who, amid much material prosperity, suffered
domineering clemens to so gain strength fin
ally to set at defiance all previous restraints
appealing to the arbitrament of the sword when
it could no longer control the ballot box. The
| great body of the Union men of the country are
! agreed upon TINS main proposition that the
rebel State authorities have no legitimacy or le-
gal existence that no loyal citizen of the United
! States can yield them willing obedience and
/ that our Government can never, without humil-
iation and disgrace, recognize any one of their
acts Other and loyal State Governments must
succeed them "a our arms prevail Our whole
! duty now is by all possible means to strengthen
/ our armies which are contending with the rebel
lion. By what agencies and through what modes
local Governments, republican in form, are to
be rc-established in those States by the loyal in
habitants, old and new, is not vital question
now, and cannot be until they have to be battle
| fields That the rebels will neither consent nor
be permitted to participate in the erection of the
new Union State Governments is certain. That
the loyal men who do erect those Governments
Will do their work well, and make it worthy of
the age, seems to me equally certain. APP
plause. With the triumph of our arms must
come the destruction of the order of things by
which resort to them compelled This is
the logic of events, and not a mere question of
parchments. Let us all continue to agree with
regard to these ends, and no means will ever be
adopted by those we have intrustcd with power
which do not have them in view.


With full determination to devote whatever
OF capacity and energy may possess to the pro-
motion of the best interests Of the State and ma
ton, and invoking the assistance of Almighty
God to guide me Alright | am now prepared to
enter upon my official duties. Loud and con-
tinucd applause.