The Empire County argus., 1855-11-17
For the Empire County Argus.
Mr.. ARGUS: :


Mr.. ARGUS:
The adjective man of the Mountain Democrat
seems to find it very difficult, whenever he resorts
to the goose quill to conceal the disproportionate
length of those awkward appendages, which, while
they truthfully and unerringly develope his genus
so much mar his otherwise beautiful physical pro-
portions. l would advise him 20 abandon the field
of argument, and seek sphere of usefulness to
man, more in accordance with the benevolent in
an adaptation to something.
Now we will see what gave pretense for his ha-
rangue Of last week.
Mr. Palmer, of San Francisco, happened to visit
Washington and the President saw fit to receive
him kindly. The Union following bad habit of
the press of our country, eulogises Mr.. Palmer
The penny whistle known as the Mountain Demo-
crat-a little instrument owned by ex-oficals of
Ell Dorado--and which has been for two years past
playing Gwin's march, (out of ofice) grows angry
forthwith, Or becomes the mouthpiece of some
dingy political loafer who pipes through it, and a
voley of scurrlous abuse is poured out upon Mr..
Palmer, directly, and upon the friends (and they
are many of that gentleman indirectly The old
warfare is renewed. The system of attack the
same: the feud-making ours take the scent, and
are marshaled ready for the sound of their mas
ter's bugle. Your correspondent demurs, and at
tempts to account for the milk in the cocoa nut"
You introduce him Unnecessarily as democrat,
and the adjective man sets up in answer, howl
about Democracy &C., without ever replying to
an allegation made
The handsome editor writes this time--you can
track him as you could an Indian with deformed
feet, in the mud. He says that your correspond
ent is "stipendary' of j. c. Palmer; that he is
"a wolf in sleeps clothng;" that he is an "Wa-
muigated liar.n In all this barring the adjectves,
he says what he knows nothing about, and conse-
quently was very liable to say what was false,
which he has done. Neither J. C. Palmer nor the
California Rchelieu, the Democrats former master,
can buy your correspondent. They are not able.
Your correspondent is not Knownothing never
has been, never will be- and has chosen your col
umns merely to give publicity to what he has cho-
sen to write and in that said nothing about "dem-
ocrats," or the party" but what was rendered
necessary by the fanfaronade of that brave hand
full of bones, the Mountain Dimocrat editor Since
he abjures the defeated and absent Doctor we will
not say Gwinism again. 1t is scarcely necessary
to expose the bald hypocrisy of the man, when he
says " that he and his friends threw aside their
prejudice, and fought gallantly for Biger and the
ticket" The cool impudence of the assertion
could have no other place of emanation than the
Democrat Office Does the fellow forget that he
utterly refused to hoist the ticket and allowed, un-
til within few days of the election, the whole
Kn press Of the State to continually point to him
as refusing to endorse the nominees of the State
Convention? 1t has been charged over and over
again, that Gwin and Denver gave the word of
command when the State ticket was hoisted by
him, and their own ends were attained--which
charge has not been denied. That Mr. Gelwicks
endeavored to get the use of Hunters name to
give chance of success to the miserable ticket
they had made, only proved how much they want
ed to elect all the. rest of the ticket.
There is much that he introduces into his last
weeks harangue, that have no disposition to take
issue with but if he is for Crabb, and thinks he
can stuff such material down the throats of the
Democracy of Ell Dorado, his real troubles have
not begun until now.
Now l have done with the Democrat for the
present, and will for ave. if he keeps his temper,
or transfers himself as | have before suggested
to some more useful sphere.
| ANTIGWIN