San Andreas independent., 1857-08-08
LETTER FROM MUSTANG"

brethren dwell together in harmony we ex- I
claim, as we turn from gazing on outside polit-
lcaI strife, to the peace and good will which |
relgns in our own county of Calaveras. To YOU
and me, who have no political bias. being mere
ly lockers on in Venice such a spectacle is
peculiarly gratifying, and we are led in a SIM
pie spirit of philanthropy to inquire why, in
this respect, we are so much in advance of the
rest of the world !? Nor do we seek in vain for
an answer It is all owing to that band of de-
voted men - who in a burst of patriotism,
alaving aside all business and excuses went
and "panned OUT the purest chispas of hu-
manity in the county-who, by slight turn of
the wrist known only to the initiated lassoed
and drove into the corral all the virtue and wis
dom of Calaveras, where they now exhibit them
to the public admiration (?) Let us look over
the fence and see the lions and the lambs lying
down together with slight sprinkling of foxes
not worth mentioning, and who, instead of vast
ing their strength jumping at the rich fruit over
head, are waiting with exemplary patience un-
til it shall be cut down for them at tie ap-
preaching election.
Whilst the insiders OF the corral present the
appearance of a pleasant little family the out
siders, few COWS and woody horses with an
immense number of foxes, appear to have very
little in common, and are only unanimous in
dsparaging the grapes, and the insiders gener
ally. Then whilst the insiders have sleek and
oily appearance, such as good cheer and con-
tentmentimpart; outside, the woody horses look
as if they had passed their lives amidst the per-
petual SHOWS of the Rocky mountains the cows
appear to be rapidly attaining fossil state; of
the foxes, many have lost their tails in some po-
itical trap some are tinctured with thousand
sms; some have singed appearance, as if they
had thrown themselves into the scorching heat
of some transient popular excitement; others
look mildewed, rs if they had been hid away
for years in secret caves, and all are astonished
that their former friends inside have forgotten
that they were ever acquainted. Outside, too,
is our friend Smytthe who was one of the many
called to- but not one of the few chosen at the
little panning out party above mentioned, he
having been weighed and found wanting is
forked out as it were, or as he says himself, re-
jected for being unable to give satisfactory
answer to the question, Did your grandfather
ever aid in embroidering a banner for Young
Mems Wing Association But as Smytthe is
already hoarse from crying sour grapes"
suspect " there is q touch of malice in it,
Happy Calayeras happy California whilst
in other less favored States the citizens are
bothered by being called from the plough, the
workshop or the counting house, to take the
reins of government, here we have men who
save us all that trouble ;-choice spirits, who,
with constitutional aversion to work, sacri-
feed themselves on the altar of their country
put their shoulders to the wheel of our State
wagon and made it labor of love by keeping
it going down hill ever since it started. 1t was
band of those philanthropists who, establish
ing themselves in one of our principal cities, so
simpli6ed our system of government by the in
PRODUCTION of a curious piece of mechanism.
self-acting bollot-box that the labor of exer-
cising the elective franchise was entirely dis
pensed with. The most fertile imagination can
not conceive to how much greater simplicity
it might have been carried, had not number
of old fogies-opposed to innovations, and be-
leving that the works of Messrs. Colt Derringer
and Bowie were not the standard authorities
for sustaining arguments or silenclng political
opponents, exled or otherwise-disposed of the
inventors.
ffafc H. A.
world has always thus treated men who let
their ideas get two or three thousand years
in advance of the age they lived in. There is a
remarkable instance of this in an old work now
out of print, at least do not remember seeing
an edition of it in California It is the case of
one Mr. Cain, who had an affair."" which, had
it taken place in these days, and he had had
few ounces in his purse, he might have had the
legal talent of the State to prove to the world,
that instead of being the aggressor be was a
highly injured and much calumniated indi-
vidual.
Happy California where we are at loss
which to admire the most in our officials, the
graceful abandon with which they throw the
cares of State to the dogs, or the sublimey i'm
pudent effrontery with which they are eternally
shouldering themselves into the treasury
Where each succeeding Legislature is compar-
atively judged with its predecessors, not by the
greater good it has accomplished, but by the
greater evil it has left undone
But the election is approaching, and the great
question to be discussed throws everything else
in the shade. And this important question,
what is it? Some difference of opinion regard
ing our State affairs? Nothing of the sort, @!
verdant inquirer Our local government is the
g ne plus ultra of domestic wisdom and econ
omy works like clock, on the high pressure
locomotive principle, and won't bear handling.
The nuestinn 8. Shall there be niooers in Kansas