Year: 1866

| TIE Sacramento Union Is decidedly singing and


pungenf in defence of its Dutch Flat ladder of a
railroad. Il is in tight place, and finds Il much
more convenient to write about politics than about
Legitimate business and common sense. Any de-
fence might proer of the gigantic swindle II Is
disposed 10 favor is easily overturned By truth
and memorable facts, that it can find but little to
say in defence of the humbug railroad the Central
Pacific Company erecting. 1t is easier for ii to
wander in the beaten paths of politics, and walow
in its flthiest pools, than to convince the people
that the C. P. R. r. Company, are studying the in
terests Of the State and Nation in the construction
Of their road. Besides patriotism, like charity.
covers multitude of sins, and treason is crime.
while swindling is patriotic science. Every bar


room demagogue, while ''coumpounding for the
sins he's inclined to, by damning those he has no
mind to- indicates the course of the Sacramento
Union Next to restoration OF the Union in
importance stands tie construction of Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Upon the first proposition, it
is radical, thorough and sweeping. Upon the 9th
er, it would cheat the Union with worthless road
for some fancied advantage to its particular locality.
The philosophy of the Union appears to consider
those who steal the government purse as having
taken nothing but trash 1t resembles the road
agent who finding traveller by the roadside in
bruised and weak condition, calls loudly for help to
set him on his pegs, while going rapidly through
his pockets for whatever land warrants and money
his rst assailants may have left. But however re-
luctant the Union may be to defend the imposition
of the Dutch Fiat railroad builders. its masters are
spurring it on to the defence of their outrageous


swindles and to back them, without wandering too
glaringly into the field of fiction and fraud, calls
for much ingenuity the part of the virtuous old
prostitute. Under these circumstances it skirmish
es in favor of the Central Pacific Railroad swind-
lers with wonderful dexterity, as witnesseth its
remark upon our item of last week conc cerning
the capture of Bees in Hamilton:


Judging from the tone of the RECORD lately, on
the subject of railroads, it would seem that the
bees had been singing It's editor.


Now, the Union will please understand that we
have no faith in railroad that is covered with
June SHOWS, when routes upon which there are no
SHOWS in January are available. The route of the
Central Pacific Company is yet buried in snow;
that of the Feather river is not obstructed at any
season of the year. Feather river completely sew
the Sierra Nevada mountains from their east
to their western base-from the Truckee mead
ows in Nevada to the valley of the Sacramento in
Caforuia-offering cheap ard practicable route
for railroad. above high water mark and below
the snow line. Neither have we any faith in the
honesty and integrity. patriotism common de-
cency of men who, commencing such work upon
snow capped route, unwilling to desst when
their folly and tasehool is manifest to the world;
but who must carry their swindle still farther and
have their national charter so amended that they
draw their subsidies without making contn-
uous DAD, thus making the Dutch Flat Wagon road
over the mountains. which is servicable only during
the summer, portion of this great national high
way. We are not opposed to railroads, and more
especially railroad across the continent, connect
ing California with the Atlantic States. We want
to see railroads extending everywhere, sprea ding
advancement and prosperity all over the American
continent. But do object to the squandering of
and the people. on a route which can be of prac
teal service when the road shall be completed
Adhering to such purpose, and deceiying the na-
tiouai legislature into extension of time for the
completion Of the first two hundred miles of the
road, when the mountains can be passed by the
Feather river route in six months time. stamp its
projectors and adherents as knayes and public
swindlers deserving the peniteutary: or as fools
and madmen whose appropriate place is in some
humane asylum fer the nsa e.