San Andreas independent., 1857-07-25


aesperat remedies and self preservation is the
iiS' Id" oi nature MUSTANG.
society as It Is and as it Should Be.
MR. EDITOR The following extract clipped from the
SUNDAY Times of April 20t 1885, then edited bv James
p Cassy,-pnblshed just month previous to the nm.
fortunate difficulty with james King of VIM The recent
attempt of p T. Herbert to "throw the apple of dcord
into the ranks of the Democratic party, While Mr. Edward
McGowan buies the Democratic State Conventioa apply
ing that body the yles epithets known ausuage
the fact that both of these have been tried for
murder and under similar circumstances acquitted should
be remembered and taken into consideration before
tacing responsibility to party for their acts Out of
their mouths they condemned" Ia the following
picture every reader will recognize familiar face not
word or idea in but will apply in this Countyfrom
Murpys to Campo Seco, from OByrnes Ferry to Mokel
ilEast and West North and South, may be found
those who will feel the application; therefore hope you
will give it publication $50
1T is by no means pleasant task to be for
ever called on to expose corruptions, frauds and
villany of every stamp, yet this seems to be
the inevitable lot of the editors in California
Day after day furnishes some new material,
some fresh attempt of an inqutouS character,
endeavored to be enacted by designing and un-
ty OF the public press to expose and prevent
These explanations are imperative, and neces-
sary for sef-preservation, while they serve to
give the residents of other countries deplora-
BILE picture of the inaction or inoperatiyeness of
our laws the condition of society, and the state
of our morals. Even our own population be-
! come f;,miliarized and hardened to the constant
repetition of vilainy, and instead OF regarding
it with Indignation and shame, laugh at and
J A. IL,
land u Sir John Paul, or Mr.. Sadler, are
dragged from their high seats in the social syn
agogue; aud hurled from their proud positions,
and sent manacled to Van Dicmans land. The
operation of the law is dignlfed, certain and
satisfactory. Here popular indignation rises
/ beyond the boiling point foams and seethes i'll
fury for day two, and then settles down
into tranquil indifference for evermore. The
fraudulent banker, the land robber the unprin-
cipled politician, the corrupt official, the inmo-
I raj sensualist, the dishonest merchant, the gen.
teel assassin, so far from receiving the contempt
and objurgaton of society, are quite freely
and cordially received as those not tainted by
like crimes and vices provided they have been
successful in their careers. The great quality
that our countrymen seem most to admire, is
that of shretodness, and its possession compen-
safes for the want of other talent, learning,
wisdom, integrity, manliness, and the social
and moral virtues. Successful shrewdnesS con-
/ fers pecuniary prosperity on its possessor, and
this t1ourishing condition, assures first, that the
fortunate party is removed beyond the necessity
of others assistance and secondly that he is in
a position to aid when required. The !" al
mighty dollar" is the nucleus after all, around
which centre too many of our hopes and wishes;
the possession of money is the great SESAME
by which too many, wholly untitled in other
respects, contriye to govern society and over
rule the opinions of better men, Men known
to have been guilty OF crimes that in any other
country would have consigned them to the fate
of Sir John Paul, or even worse. are daily strut
ting through our streets, reeking with compound
villainies and yet claiming the highest position
in society. Men who would be elected with
every mark of loathing and scorn from the
company Of the honest and worthy elsewhere,
with all the brass and effrontery consequent on
mingled vice and ignorance, arrogate to them
selves positions of the highest distinction in
this country. Public opinion is dead even
the very name is fast disappearing from our
vocabulary successful scoundrelS command
patronage, honor, respect, attention and public
confidence unsuccessful gentlemen, though
perhaps endowed with talent, breeding, cour-
age and probity, are regarded with liberation.
and their presence suffered rather than courted
1t may be said, that there is really distinction,
and that in spite of appearances, the truly
worthy man is esteemed while the prosperous
scamp is secretly despiscd but if so, how gross
the injustice how intoerabe the tyrany; how
insupportable the reflection that whole COM
munity meanly toades to gilded rascality,
while it cruShes meritorious worth. How hu-
initiating the acknowledgement that we tamely
bow the knee to Baal condescend to worshin
the golden calf while all that honors and eno-
bles man, is crushed into the earth under the
heel of unholy avarice. Are not these humil
atlng truths Look around you and see how
many there are in our midst, whom YOU know
to be destitute of almost every virtue. but by
! successful shrewdness hold prominent positions
In society. Unlettered, ll-bred capable of en-
barking in any project, however netarious that
promises gain void of principle regardless of
law vile and gross by nature dissolute from
taste and vulgar associations corrupt in heart
and weak in head, yet these men command an
influence that would be sought in vain by the
Archangel, unless he brought wealth, or politi-
cal interest to back his pretension- time OF
reform must come new generation Is rapid
/ ly springing up around us, whose future IS TO
| be moulded by our views; the l1npresSlbe minds
! of our Youths are to be forever effected by the
/ causes now governing society," our young state
| is desperately in need of population, and thou-
! sands stand ready to accept our offers as soon
as they are certain that a sound public opinion
has been established; worth, talent and ntcgri-
| tv must be firmly seated on their proper thrones;
successful Williams, INSCRIPTIONS tricksters,
! corrupt politicians, ignorant and pretentious
parpenus, licentious dcbauchees and unprinci-
pied scoundrels of every grade must be tabocd;
their crimes make them moral pariahs, and
! corrupt to the very core must be that society
which makes patrons and ornaments of such
creatures. When the Augean stable shall have
been cleansed of its loathsome impurities, then
!, and not till then will California take her
| rightful stand amongst her sisters Of our great
Republic"