The weekly Placer herald., 1854-05-20

over their cups, that "the Editor" should
be made tell who had got those tickets
printed. Immediately they wended their
way to the Odd Fellows Hall. and "the
rnanded of him, "the author" Of the
tickets
We informed them that it was rule
in all well regulated printing offices to
keep its own secrets, and that we should
not lay open our business to them or any
one else. This is the answer we gave
them. And if any Whig had approached
us as indelcately, to learn from Us who
had got the Wing tickets printed, with
the name of Mr.. Astin upon them, we
should have given him the same ans wer,
and he would have left us, as wise as
when he came, as the ''self-constituted"
did. The next day one of them came to
us and says:-"Mr. Mitchell, | done
wrong last night, tried to pry into your
business, am sorry for it, ask your
PARDON" at the same time extending his
hand, which we took and told him, we
had no feeling upon the matter, for we
believed he and those with him had not
viewed our position as a Printer and me-
chanc in its proper light This was salts
factory-he frequently enjoyed our hospi-
t tality afterwards, and asserted while in
this community that our position in the
matter was correct and honorable.
And another of these individuals at the
last regular Democratic Convention, held
in Auburn, on the SOth July, 1858, to
nominate candidates, endorsed us as
sound Democrat.
And in this connection, we would state
for the benefit ofthe ignorant Inder man,
that we have never been in the confidence
of the whig party of this county. neither
do we expect to be. They know US as all
opponent of their political principles and
rec ogniZe US as such.
They know that we have warred against
them and will continue to do so in an
honorable manner, and we war too against
those who, under the guise of Democracy,
make the party organization subservient
to their own inordnate ambition.
When you assert that 'the Editor of
the Herald offered to sell himself to the
Democracy of this county for fifteen hun
dred dollars or less" you He-under an
agregious mistake. We never made an
offer to receive dollar from the Demo-
cratic party-the only offers made came
from members of the party, and not from
US. Certain Democrats needed a paper
in this county very much for the last cam
paign. They got committee appointed
at the Convention to wait upon US and
learn what we would dispose Of our office
for. We informed them what we would
take, but they did not feel able to give the
amount. They then wished to know how
much we would take to make the Herald
a Democratic paper-we stated that we
could not do so, owing to our situation.
We were still in debt TO most of the
persons who had assisted us in starting
the Herald, some of whom were wings,
and that we felt under obligations not to
take part in politics Edtorially until those
debts were liquidated. The committee
returned to the convention and made their
report, and suggested that persons should
be appointed to raise money to pay off
the individuals who had first assisted in
starting the Herald. And such persons
were accordingly appointed. If they had
raised the amount they wished not cent
of it would have remained in our hands,
for it would have gone to liquidate the
debts of the office, and merely left US
free to publish Democratic paper which
we did do as soon as we paid off the
claims against us.
This charge, of Broderick's man of the
Democrat, comes with poor grace, when
it is notoriously known that he was button
holeing, for weeks previous to starting
his paper, every official between Auburn
and San Francisco, that he could get his
hands on, for a few dollars to assist him
in bringing his bantling into existence.
The Democratic party have literally
and manfuIly supported US, with the ex-
ception of few "galvanized" Broderick
men about the town Of Auburn, and their
satellites; who are presumptous enough
to indulge in the ludicorous thought that
their wishes is superior to every principle,
and there can be no Democracy without
they are elected to some office, and if this
is not done the party is ruined. Noble
men! How your crocodile tears must
flow at the thought! that the people have
already prepared your political tomb, and
w r;tton thoroon D1oI for want of votoS