Butte record., 1854-12-02
COMMUNICATIONS.
SENATOR GWIN.

fornia, Mr. Gwin has another cause for popu-
larity among the people of the mountains,
for they see that he is bitterly opposed by the
politicians of San Francisco. In that gath
ering of corr upton, speculation and shame
less bribery, there is no favor to be bestowed
upon an honest man, and the statesman who
darcs hold up his arm in defence of the inter-
ests of the whole state, need expect no other
reward than curses, from the scheming horde
who have so long announced, by word and
action, that to San Francisco must be shown
all that favor which our honest senator be-
lieves to belong to the entire state. Every
effort on the part of these men to injure Mr..
Gwin, will result in his favor. The people of
the mountains hold the balance of power, and
it will be given for the man, who without
dread of consequences, has always dared to
proclaim himself their friend"
Upon reading the above IN the Grass Tal-
ley Telegraph, it was sometime before we
could determine in our own mind, whether to
set it down as specimen of exquisite irony.
or eonsummate impotence But remember
ing .hat the brilliant luminary of the 7. &
T., the mouth piece of Mr. Gwin, the South
ern Railroad and the Pacific Mail S. S. Co..
lately made u trip from = that gathering of
corruption,. speculation and shameless bribe-
ry,'' to the pure and invigorating regions of
the Telegraph, and having impaired, no
doubt, to the Telegraph few of his own
radiant coruscations, we finally concluded
the above to be the natural effect of that visit
and of the lesson then taught.
The paragraph was evidently written by q
proselyte, and the writer felt that he must
say something more than any other had dared
to say. to convince his employers of his sim
cerity and zeal in his new faith The T. & T
would have blushed at such an article in its
own columns, and even the Statesman, estab
lished under Gwin patronage, for the express
object of electing Mr. Gwin, copies the article
without one word of comment. 1t is too bare
faced even for that paper to endorse.
In our own opinion it would be difficult to
select man who had fewer causes of popu-
larity with the north than the object of the
Te'egroph's laulaien. In fact, if we should
look around for the most heartless, coldblood-
ed, selfish, political demagogue in the state
we would unhesitatingly select the two candi
daets for senators from ss that gathering of
corruption, speculation and shameless bribe-
ry' and tLen with q toss of the copper pick
the winning man and whether it came Brod-
stand unmatched. The north looks upon the
election Of Messrs Gwin or Broderick, much
in the same light the young lad did upon the
roads of which the traveller was enquiring.
g They are both so bad, that whichever one
yor take, before You get half through you
will wish you had taken the other'' So far
political conduct, we can discover nothing to
give him one cause of popularity at the north
without speaking another. 1t is said, how
ever, that when on a visit to Marysvilie
lately, he did inquire if there was not such
a place as Nobles Pass near there, and
whether it would not pay to put on a line of
steamboats, to run there; showing that his
sole object in coming SO far into the interior,
was to learn from his own observation, the
wants and wishes of the north This may be
one cause Of his popularity with the people of
the north, although we should ascribe another
cause for his popularity with the Telegraph.
Having discovered what may be one cause,
the Telegraph says, then he has another
cause of popularity 's that he is bitterly op
Here is an enlightenment indeed! and when
he is called Immediately ssour honest sena-
tori we feel entirely ov~.come with the new
and strange ideas so suddenly thrust upon u.s.
Honest and popular Popular with the agri-
cultural portion of the north, because he
dared to pander to the passion of the settler
and ask them to join him in crusade against
the landholders; because he dared unblush-
ingly to ask Congress by a bill supplemental
to the act passed May Sd, 1851, to rob few
of his constituents, for the purpose of increas-
ing his popularity with larger number
Popular with the miners of the north, be-
cause he advocated the sale of the mines, be-
| cause, in his own language, he could see no
other practicable way of disposing of them !;
aud honest because when he found that both
| OF the above propositions were unpopular, he
turned right round and denied, so far as he
dared, that he ever advocated such doctrines.
Popular with the north, because, for his own
interest and the interest of the {. scheming
horde by whom the Telegraph says he is
bitterly opposed, he forgets there is place
north of San Francisco, which has any claims
for portion of the large amount appropri-
ated by Congress for the survey and exam
ination of railroad route across the conti-
nent. Popular with thenorth, because he was
the means of swindling fr5m the miners of the
north, thousands upon thousands of dollars,
through the medium of the Assay Office of
San Francisco. Still more popular with the
north, because he is deeply interested in the
Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co., and the reputed
father of the combination which raised the
price of passage to the most exhorbitant
rates; and honest and faithful, because he
forgets upon the floor of the Senate that he is
the representative of the State, and acts as
attorney for the Pacific NJ. S S Co. Popular
with the north, because be opposed the pass
age of the Mint Bill, BY the introduction of
amendments which would have destroyed it
and honest, because after having failed-1o
defeat it, he claimed the credit of its passage.
Popular with the north, because he possesses
the most egregious vanity of any living man
and honest because he tries to palm Of upon