Year: 1859

| lV, an undylng hoslllty 10 inc acluc INall-
road. The free voters of California have
pronounced against it at the ballot box, and,
since "the voice of the people is the voice of
God" We not only aequiesce in their verdict
but applaud it. Our reasons for opposing
the Pacific Railroad are cogent and at hand.
1t will increase the wealth and Importance
of this State too rapidly, and thus encourage
an unworthy feeling Of pride in her citizens.
1t will develop her resources SO fast that we
shall become the envy of other countries,
and population will pour in upon us at such
a rate as greatly to discommode us. Besides,
we shall be bothered incessantly by the
transmission, directly through our limits, of
all sorts of articles of trade and commerce
from Asia and the distant islands of the ocean,
so much so that the thing would soon become
an intolerable nuisance. Furthermore, the
value of land would be greatly increased
and it costs enough now, without any treb.


ling or quadrupling OF its price And fur
thermore again. if foreign enemy should
ever invade our shores, the Pacific Railroad
would Immediately transport soldiers from
the Atlantic States to do our fighting, and
that would be robbing us of the glory of de-
Tending ourselves. and perhaps of getting
pretty we'll "chawed up" And lastly, the
same objection that opposed the San Francis
co and Mnrysville Railroad in Sutter and
Yolo counties would apply in the case of the
Pacific Railroad-the sparks from the loco
motive would set large quantities of grass on
fire and thus destroy all the feed for stock on
the Plains.


In the next place, We are opposed to the
Overland Mails and fully second the desire
of the Department at Washington to cut them
down or stop them altogether. What do we
want with overland mails in any event? OF
what use are they? True, we can get letters
from the Atlantic States by them much more
frequently, but what do we care for the At
lantic States We are on our own hook out
here in California, and eve don't care for
nobody and nobody don't care for us"-to use
the emphatic language of a Lecompton friend
of ours from Pike few days ago


In the third place, we are in favor of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company We want
to see that line properly encouraged 10y the
Government. 1t has received only few
paltry millions, SO far, from the public treas
TRY, and it is u shame that it has not been
better patronzed. 1t has never charged
'oGf a fnp 20 ba
than four times as much as they ought to
have paid. when it should have charged them
eight times as much, in order to have, as a
general thing, sized their piles and kept them
at home. 1t has never drowned more than
six or eight hundred passengers from Califor-
MIA, at one time in the ocean, when it might
have drowned a much larger number, if it
had seen fit, and thus ought to be praised
greatly for its magnanimity. Besides, it has
always been very kind to our fayorite U nited
States Senator VIM. NJ. Gwin, whom the peo
pie love, and like to see prosper,


In the fourth place, we are in favor of
Lime Point. We want to see the Govern
ment give half million of dollars for it. and
no doubt she will (By she we mean Mr..
Buchanan, the embodiment of the Govern
ment) OF course, the value Of the land, at
that point, for sheep raising purposes, has
greatly increased, since its purchase was first
talked Of by the Government. In all prob
ability we have united delegation in Con-
gress now, since Broderiek' S death, in favor
Of paying any price for it, and to suppose that
a Lecompton Administration, with so liberal
man as Mr. Buchanan ut its head, would
order the property to be appraised at its true
values and the owner to take such amount as the
appraisers thought he was entitled to, would
be extremely ridiculous. 1t would be saving
money to the Treasury, and great and pow
erful potentate like Mr. Buchanan seorns to
think of money, as long as it comes from the
pockets of the people. The people, good
souls at least in Calfornia-are satisfied,
and why, in the name of God, should he not
be2


Lastly, we are in favor of everything that
the Administration is. Right or wrong, we
are for the Administration. The Admins
tration was made to do our thinking. God
never designed that men should think for
themselves. but that they should pay WHITE
NECK TIES to do it for them at the rate Of
$4,000 a year.


If anybody can think of anything else,
detrimental to the interests of California, and
therefore of course endorsed by the people,
let them remind us Of it and we are in favor
Of it. We are determined to be on the strong
side, and we are prepared TO fight any man
in any manner, who will declare that the
wrong side is not the right one.


We may possibly think better of our pres.
ent resolution, but in this issue of our paper
we are determined to court the favor of the
majority of the intelligent voters of Califor-
MIA And we think we have struck the right
chord.


The MAIL CoNrRAcr.-Postmaste Weller
Of San Francisco, has received instructions
from Washington to deliver the mails of the
9th of this month, to the agents of Wander.
Oilt, in the event that Johnson's agents are
not ready to receive them. 1t appears that
while johnson entered into contract with