The Shasta courier., 1855-12-08
From the Buli Gulch Digger.


We have read with some care and attention
the address put forth by the late Know Nothing
State Convention, ''to the American people Of
the State of California We fully appreciate
4 the answer OF a young Know Nothing of San
Francisco who replied upon being charged as
the author OF said address, that he was mot the
originator of the leading features of that remark
able document The whole paper abounds in
paradoxes, falsities and an unmitigated pollti
cal selfshness, unparalleled by any similar doc.
ument from any State or party
The address starts at two forty pace on
the grandlloquent track--listen:
BROTHERS :-Californa has been the best tax.
ed and the worst governed country of which
| there is any record. In vain have the onerous
| exactons of government been paid without
stint. In vain have thus far all the sources of
| peaceful reformation been exhausted. Long suf-
fering has not propiiated our rulers, nor has
| indig gnant remonstrance been able to inspire
terror Evil has followed evil-calamity has
been heaped upon calamity, until the young
State which yesterday filled the world with her
renown, to-day lies bankrupt, criine-ridden and
abject
Well, now, there is beautiful picture for
you, of one of the sovereign States of this great
Republican contederacy,-a State, too which,
yesterday filled the world with her renown!"
What perfect Neros her Governors and Legisla-
tors nave been "Long suffering could not pro-
pitiate, nor indignant remonstrance inspire ter
ror" in their base, cowardly, faithless, tyranni-
cal hearts! We suggest that the authors of this
horrible state of affairs, who have aided and
abetted crimes, bankruptcies, and other felon-
les in general, be brought to condign punish.
ment by this new, pure and immaculate party,
who are to lift us from the depths of our
present mseries and degradation to position
which will again 'fll the world with our re-
nown." We tremble with fear at the thought
of the stern justice about to be meeted out to
the dying administration of this State then, too,
come the rewards to be conferred upon the vr-
| tuous, patriotic, disinterested, unspotted, un-
brIbeable, unaspiring sons of midnight patriot
ism-honors totally unexpected, and only to be
accepted at great sacrifice of personal feeling,
and through the very quintessence of unalloyed
devotedness to love of Country.
AS we read on, the magniloquent pace on the
road 10 ruin becomes tremendous Hear:
"Intemperance and corruption banquet in cor
ruption in high places in the land, and bold and
bloody crime stalks unchecked in our midst
There, Californians, you are about at the end
of your rope-nearly "done for.'' Very little
short of the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah can
possibly atone for your wckedness! Repent
ance and faith in this new party alone can save
you: How grateful you should be to those who
are about to resurrect you from such an alarm
ing abyss of Bankruptcy, Drunkenness, Crime
and Infamy
Being slightly blown. the pace slackens to
half reasoning canter, and brings slap up the
"Nigger question: Here, probably little
weaker from the great effort on the start, the
address runs somewhat wide of the truth; it
| says:
"Here at the very line of contact between the
free and slave States, there is comparatively lit
tie feeling on the subject of their different do
mestic institutions, and would be none at all
were they let alone; but exactly in proportion
as we recede from the line, where, the
question Of principle, we wonld see dead
ly border warfare, do we End the antagonism
growing stronger and stronger, aud Instead of
Pennsy lvania finding fault with her neighbor,
Massachusetts and Mississippi at logger
heads"
Evidently the person or committee who draft
ed the address never lived on the Border or
speak theoretically. Certainly they have me-
elected to read the papers for the last twelve
months, or they might have stumbled
casiona notice of mobs, arsons lynchinss, and
murders, on the very borders Of all of the States
mentioned as lying pacific and quiet beside her
free neighbor. If the scenes lately enacted in
Kansas, on the borders of Missouri, between the
pro and anti slavery factions, show but ''com-
paratively little feeling on the subject of their
different domestic institutional we can only
add; God help the poor "Borderers'' when their
feelings are properly warmed upon the subject
This slavery question is decidedly an amman
ageable plank in the Know Nothing platforms.
The champion Know Nothing State, Massachu-
sets. declares the anti-savery plank to be one
Of the most prominent features Of Know-noth-
insism whilst other platforms, manufactured
in States not quite so far down East have une-
guivocally given us TO understand that the "ne-
gro question" is to be ignored by the party in
TITO. One thing is sure, it is the mine which
will inevitably be sprung. and is certain to
prove their destruction great National par
y. Concluded nert meek.
CALIFORNIA ALMANAC.
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