The Daily Union

California and the Administration.

This youngest sister of the republic has been treated by the present administration very much as if her hardy and intelligent pioneer-population were not able to take care of the interests of the federal government there, but as if, like a tribe of unlettered savages, it was necessary that their "Great Father," the President, should import all the federal officers from other States to look after its interests there! The people of California are as wide awake to their own interests and as intelligent as the people of any other State in this Union; and for hardy enterprise, faithfulness to the constitution, and true patriotism, they cannot be excelled; and the policy pursued by the present administration is seen through and appreciated by that people, and will react with a power little dreamed of now. The following extract from a letter from one of the most intelligent whigs in the city of San Francisco, dated December 28, 1851, to a friend in this city, exhibits very plainly the feeling that is rising there on this subject:

"As to your President, I don't just know about him yet. I am a whig, and intend to remain one, if they will let me. But if the next whig administration behaves as the present one has done towards California, no matter where I am, I am of some other party: mind that."

"There was never a country on earth before where so much talent had been congregated in comparison to the number of inhabitants; and yet, forsooth, the administration can do no better than to import to us a parcel of old, broken down hacks of politicians, who for twenty years had been hangers-on upon the party for their own convenience—I say they could do no better than fill our offices here with such men! Why, I heard one of the last imported attempt a speech at a public dinner recently that caused men to hold down their heads; and the office of United States district attorney here was given to a boy who had no standing here as a lawyer, and no knowledge of the law."

We, who have come knowledge of the manner in which California has been colonized with broken-down whig politicians, do not wonder that there are whigs there who dare to speak out upon the subject; and we hope they will not only speak, but act, in placing in power an administration which will regard the citizens of California as at least competent to take care of the interests of the federal government which may be intrusted to them. We trust that that "next whig administration" of which the writer speaks will never have an existence; and we do not hesitate to say to that far-off people that if they intend to have their personal and political rights secured to them they must depend upon the democracy of the Union to do it. Under the next democratic administration, California will obtain her rights, and we do not doubt that she will lend the aid of her young, nervous, and powerful arm to place that administration in power.