Butte record., 1854-08-19
CALHOUN BENHAMt

CALHOUN BENHAM.
This gentleman, one of the whig nominees
for Congress, has lately answered certain
questions propounded to the whig nominees,
by "a Whig,'' in doing which he exhibited a
very unstatesmanlike temper, and distinctly
showed that the interrogatories of some i'm
pudent whig had soiled his white kid gloves,
and otherwise materially disarranged his ex-
qusitship's toilet. He was in Tnolumue at
the time, addressing vast assemblies of Cen
tlemen and Miners and as soon as he had
finished his reply to the interrogatories, or
dered per express from San Francisco, twelve
dozen ruffied linen shirts, one hundred pairs
white kid gloves, and forty eight dozen bottles
Lubin's extract. The shirts removed the ruff
fies from his temper, the kids enclosed his
hard fist of whiggery, and Peacock-like. the
gentleman could spread himself again. The
perfumery answers double purpose--t con-
stantly reminds Mr. Calhou-no ,-Benham,
OF the important fact, that lie is the most
prominent man in the State, and the crowd
IL.
like the old lady in Pennsylvania, who used
to hang out piece of old cheese to cali her
hired help to dinner, MIR Calham Benhoun
uses 1t for the purpose of calling together the
meek and lowly followers of THAT same old
Coon Ii their olfactory organs are greeted
with generous compound of sweet smells,
they follow up the scent, and become convinced
that ''the same old COON after all, is ..dem
foine and agweable fellow
We mentioned last week, that the wbir
nominees owed their selection to the wire
working wings of San Francisco, and men
toned circumstance calculated to show that
such was the fact. In answering the inter
rogatories, Mr.. Benham shows that his inHa-
ence if he is elected, will be used for the bene-
fit of the political aspirants of San Francisco.
In proof Of this we submit the following cues
tion together with Mr. Benham's answer:
10th. Should a whig President be elected
in '56. will you so use your influence that
Northern men will receive the same favors at
your hands as southern men, or if northern
saen vote for you md elect you will they by
that send power to Congress to thwart their
wishes. oppose their claims, and defeat what
ever they may demand, and render it worse
for them, as far as the government patronage
is concerned, than if there were no whigs in
Congress from California
This question Mr.. Calhoun Benham classes
as ''impudent and unworthy of an answer.
10 the public, however, say 81 know no
south, no north, no east, no west, but only the
union"-that is the child of the constitution.
and as long as the integrity of the constitu
ton is preserved, the Union will be preserved;
and all men from all sections, enjoy their full
rights
That's the idea, Messrs Northern whies
Your nominees for Congress tell you that,
''when the constitution is preserved, :, you en-
joy your ''full rights and that it is s.impu.
dent to ask for more. What do you think of
it? gentlemen wings of the north! Can Won
swallow this CALHOUN benham. He stands
before you perfumed and buttered, with his
his ears pinned back, ready to be swallowed
lie may receive your support. but under the
circumstances We should suppose it would be
disastrously cool.