Butte record., 1856-04-05
The Removal Question.

lation of ''Boon's Burial Ground" We
propose to nutice some Of the assertions
put forth in tie Californian, evidently
while their various authors were under
the influence of fearful spasms.
Every person will admit the necessity
Of main ,horoughfore in the shape of
a wagon road through Butte to Plumas
County, and is there a sensible man in
the county " ho does not know that the
most direct and feas be route for a road
from the Valley to Plumas county, is
on the route through Bidwell. Men
who know anything about the geography
of the country, and of the distance
from one point to another, know this
fact and they know also, that there Is
better natural wagon road through
Wyandotte to Bidwell, than the wealth
Of the county can build up The river
from Oroville to the junction. This
route is the only one by which loaded
teams have ever reached the American
Valley from the lower country. The
wagon road through Sierra county can
never be extended to the American Val
ley, and if Butte is true to her own in
terests, and devotes her energies to the
shortest and most practicable route, the
travel and commerce of the upper coun-
try will pass through our county. The
idea of abandoning this route, and bull
ding the road up the river, is species
Of spite work, conceived BY petty spir-
it and kept in agitation by single wri
ter, for mercenary purposes. The pro-
/ ject as advocted in the Ca ifornian is
unworthy the consideration Of the people
Of the county. 1t is a position to alb
surd for the Editor himself to assume,
and he has lett for another; but will
some day see the folly of prostituting
his editorial columns to the uses of men
who have vengeance to wreak, and are
devoid Of character and truthfulness.
The same write:, in an article headed
"Cev House and a mining claim, y
says that Bidwell was declared the
county seat 'thron h monied influence
Those who were in Batte county at the
time the removal WAS effected, know
the fal>ity of this assertion They also
know the facts in the case. They know
that the county was without a building
in which to hold courts or to transact
business that the county was forty
thousand dollars in debt, and that it
would have cost the county ten or fifteen
thousand dollars to erect a Court House
at Hamilton. They know, too, that the
present buildings were erected without
cost to the county, and that instead Of
plunging farther in debt, the county has
gradually wiped out all evidence Of her
indebtedness. The writer in the Oro-
vile paper may not have known these
facts, for he was not then a resident OF
the State. and we would suggest that the
gentleman should either show disposi-
ton to regard facts, or cease to dictate
to the people of the county.
The qualified electors Of the county
must beware how they oppose the wishes
Of those who favor a removal to Oro-
VILE, for it seems there is yet another
way to punish those who my vote upon
this question as shall seem to themselves
proper and right From the following
fearful threat it will be seen that those
precincts opposing Oroville, are to be
crushed out of existence, by the i'm
mease power Of Oroyille, its o~gan anc
its various grinders
"Oroville will poll some seven or eight hun
dred votes, and is destined to WELD power
full influence over the affairs of the county
and we suggest to those places which desire a
DIVISION or have some local ambition to serve
( that it will not be wise policy to thwart Il.
in obtaining what they all admit is our jus.
right, and we ask, woul! it not be better Il
have olu good will than the promises Of an
efete and unscrupulOus clique"
Here we have threat of vengeance
and bid for votes in the same breath
Oroville is to annihilate such places a
vote against her, and prostitute hersel
to the uses of those who assist her il
obtaining her demands, and the Ophil
I Organ and its grinders, are her cappers
How qualified elector Of Butte county
.tcan To- k at the human foot, composed
of one hundred and fory-f,ur bones, any
quantity of cartilage, a gill and half o
lubricating oil, and tn thousand Other
arguments for fist class kicking" anC
not believe it to be his duty to mike the
1aNthor of the above contemplate bid fol
his birthright, ''smelI leather" is one o
the eecehtrieities of the human mind thai
-ra canrnt f,thom