Year: 1861




Hen c. J.. Scott imagr.ea tha, hc is goin.
to do big things inauglrating grand P4ci-
fc Republic So he writes a letter to Judge
Lindley, Chairman Of the Breckiaridge
State Central Committee, similar to The Won
derful cactus letter Of Hon John c. Burch
to R. Street, on the same subject. 1t is re-
freahing to think Of there being such mighty
projectors Of Government around and about.
Their Weldon is afforded 10 poor, benightel
constituents, without money and without
price They charge US nothing for the en-
hshtenmeut which ls poured out upon va, as
freely as the beamy fountains OF the sun


We DO NO. know whether Hon C. Lind
ley, County Judge in and for Yuba county.
endorses this extraordinary document or not,
but the tact, that he has caused it to be pub
hshed, would indicate as much. Perhaps, he
expects to see Scott President Of the new
concern, and himself Secretary Of State. We
argued through the last campaign that. all
the acts of the BrecLinridge party indicated
that that they were at heart in favor of a
breaking up Of this Government. and We see
nothing in such conduct as that which we
are now considering, calculated to change
our opinion. When we see men, in the first
place. deliberately boiling the organization
OF their party, and supporting boiling
nominee for the Presidency, with the fall
and perfect knowledge that the result will he
the election of a Republican President and
when we see them following up this conduct
with arguments fayoring the secession OF
certain states on account Of this very crisis
which they themselves produced and when
We furthermore see them preparing the way,
or cndeavoring to prepare the way, for the
organization of Independent government
on this coast, in case that those with whom
they sympathize succeed in breaking up the
Union, it is most natural to come to the con
elusion, that such was the original object and
design which they had in view, when they
began their career of Reorganization.


They have a right, as we have said before


the right that all men have to DO as they
please and take the conaequenees-the right
TO advocate a. dissolution Of the Union and
the establishment of a Pacific Republic, or
any other kind OF government, and risk
their necks in the business. But, will the
people Of this coast sustain them in it?-
win they follow in the lead of such intel
| lects? Are these the men, whose vast intee-
rity and whose towering talents are the
guarantees Of success in any new scheme Of
government? Are they the men to frame a
wiser and better government than that which
Madison and Washington and their great
compeers established? Hardly we think.


Theappeals which are being made to the
people of this coast. in behalf of secession
and in behalf Of a Pacific Republic, should
be closely scrutinized. They are told by Mr.
Scott that the Union is already gone. Let
them not believe a word Of any such assor-
ton The Union is not gone. A few States
may undertake to leave, and they may pos
siOly succeed in leaving, but the great bulk
Of the States v i'll remain. The Constitution
Of the country will yet be vital, and the
every day system of the government continue
in its separations. The only principal differ
enco will be that certain States will have no
Senators or Representatives in Congress
| Very well those States which do have Sena,
tors ana Representatives will not be affected
by the circumstance. Their connection with
the Union is as complete as before, and the
State of California is 10 more to be disturbed
by the secession Of South Carolina, than the
earth is to be shaken from her orbit by the
lighting Of fly upon the surface The
Union is perfect, for all the States that re-
main in it. If one goes, the others still owe
their allegiance. And the fact that one State
has forgotten her obligations to the Union, in
uowise justifes rebellion in tho Others. To
advocate a Pacific Republic is to advocate
revolution and rebellion, aed we believe
that the people Of this State are for nothing
| of the kind