San Andreas independent., 1857-07-18
The County Seat Regency"

a; toeos fro,,, the independence OF ma
ton - tho same principle in an Individual
W. oa,,;ra II in men, as forming one ofthe main
,,,,ars Of truly manly character, and without
,,h;cb. man debases himself to the position of
servility, and is worthless, except to obey the
behests of his masters. We admire that inde-
pendence which dares to form an opinion of
what is right to be done, then dares TO do It.
We wish to see every person in free commu-
nifty dare to be a freeman and assert his own
rights in spite of cliques, dynasties or oigar-
chies, which may try to rule over, and trample
him in the dust; and still patting him on the
shoulder, praise, fatter and call him clever
fellow.
We have always been inlbued with the idea
that Americans-whether to the manor born,
or hailing from foreign clme-who came to
enjoy our privileges with US, were freemen in
feeling, in thought and in action But judging
from the past we are almost led to believe that
a majority of the people of Calaveras have
humbly bowed the knee of submission, for all
time to come, to the influence of a certain few
and again has this clique decided who should
be our rulers, and who should fill our offices,
and again and again have the people submitted
with such obsequious humility, that a stranger
might look upon the matter as a duty which
he owed to obey the behests, and follow the
dictation of this political hierarchy of Moke-
umne Hill The golden-heeled aristocracy COM
prising this dynasty (secure in their strength,
confident in their supposed power-being of
the dominant party-and such men always be-
long to the dominant party, let it be what it
may), seated on their mighty Hill no doubt
imagine themselves on Alpine mountains, and
looking forth upon the vast territory of Calave-
ras, from the Mokelumne river, which flows at
their feet, to the Stanislaus, distance of thirty
miles; and from the foot hills in the West, to
the summit of the Sierra Nevada in the East
say to themselves, these are our vast domin-
ions, and the people are our most obedient
slaves, bound to do our WILL and obey our
commands. And if they dare prove refractory
we will send forth our serrile tools into every
precinct, and like Roman kcto1s armed with
the law" (or maD and more merciless than
Furies they shall lash them into the traces,
and teach them to perform their duty to their
masters.
We are notoriously clique-ridden people,
and it is time the voters of Calaveras should
arouse themselves to true sense of their degra-
dation, and shake off the power of this oligar-
chy hat hos rulad fhnn,
lentless and merciless as the tyrany of Nero
and which has been as pestilential in its effects
upon the well being and prosperity of the
people, as the rod which smote the "waters Of
the rivers of Egypt"
This mercless aristocracy of Mokelumne Hill
not content with retaining the county seat upon
the very borders of the county, to the great in
convenience of vast majority of the people,
and retaining it by means of corruption, fraud,
ballot-box stuffing and all the various schemes
known to political wire-workers, ask for still
more. and seek to obtain it by means best known
to themselves. How much longer do the people
of the southern portion of the county intend to
bear upon their necks the weight of this incu-
bus, which presses them down, CALLING as chains
of living brass, and vampre-lke, is aiming to
draw the last spark of vitality from their ex-
istence? Has not the time arrived for action
bold, determined action - when the people
should rise in their might, like the lion from
his lair and shake off the influence of this mass
of political corruption, which has proven to be
fostering sore in the body polite baneful
in its effects upon the community, as the seven
plaques of Egypt to the people of Pharaoh
But day of retribution is coming the time
is fast approaching, when the people will resolue
to act for themselves, and throw off the rule of
this dynasty, never more to bow the knee of
submission to its influence. And when the
public wave commences to advance, in vain
may cliques call out, "peace be still" and
shout to the advancing waves, " thus far shalt
thou come, and no further" :" for the popular
tide will continue to roll on till the powers that
be-" are compelled to succumb, and like "Baby-
lon the Great" or " the walls of Jericho" fall
to rise no more. And then will the seven seals
be opened, and expose sin, iniquity and corrup-
ton to the multitudes, and the seven trumpets
will sound forth seven blasts of Indignation in
dicative of public feeling; and finally the seven
vials of wrath will be poured upon the anointed
heads of this glorious oligarchy; and the people
in the exuberance of their joy, will shout
peace to all men, and glory to God on high
So mote it be-.
The Calaveras Chronicle complains that the
merchants of Mokelumne Hill permit the town o
Murphys to be successful rival in the Carson
Valley trade, although they are twenty miles
further from the Valley and twenty miles fnr-
ther from San Francisco, than Mokelumne Hill
IS. r. Bulletin.