Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-27
The Unpr1ncipled TrielSsters,

Inc reckless, uDprlncipled and insane
public plunderers, who, having failed in
their efforts to purchase the bench Of this
Judicial district for their unscrupulous chief
as officers commissions are purchased in
the English army, are now resorting to
chicanery, deception and fraud to accomplish
the foul usurpation they have in view
With depraved treachery to everything
bordering upon the spirit of Democracy,
these special bill operators-these jobbers
and specuaiors in the public revenue-place
the name of their unprincipled and plum
derng chief in the democratic ticket as the
regular nominee of the party, with the hope
and expectation of deceiving the Democracy
into his support. Their lying posters, con-
tanning the name of Jos n. Lewis as the
regular Democratic nominee for District
Judge, food the country. The Democracy
have not nominated this thieving bill opera
tor JOS. E N. Lewis, to sit in judgment up
on the rights of men. The unpurchasable
men who composed the Democratic COnven-
tions, knowing his many acts of aggression,
and his special legislative attempts to make
the tax paying public contribute to his pri-
vate interests, and knowing the plunderng
charges he had proffered against the county
for office rent while occupying county build
ings, and for land to which he had no title,
remembering too, that his grasping and
avaricious nature, had led him to appro-
pirate land belonging to others, and that
his august person was Indignantly hustled
from the premises by tho owner, major
Graham)-and remembering that his fence
still surrounds "Chinatown," land that
has been occupied by Cinnamon for six or
seven years-remembering these thieving,
plundering and unprncipled acts, the hon.
est laborers and tax payers composing that
convention, passed his prayers and entreat
les by as the idle wind, and scorned his
proffered gold. accumulated by speculations
in the public revenue. The Democracy pre-
sented no such man for judicial honors. 1t
was left for those whose interests are to be
advanced by such unprincipled operations
Let the people be not deceived, by their
base trickery.
To aid in practicng this deception upon
the people, Lewis has stocked the district
with presses purchased by himself, and pre-
sided over by men of easy political virtue,
and who are destitute of truth, morality
and common honesty. In the face of the
public acts OF Judge Lewis-wth the full
knowledge of his land grabbing operations
in Orovile, and his illegal and oppressive
suits against our citizens-ejectng them
from their possessions and appropriating
their improvements, until compelled TO re
lease his illegal grasp by the Supreme
Court-with the full knowledge of his in
iquitous and unprincipled career, his organs
proclaim to the public that Lewis is a moral
mana man of choicest intellect and high
toned character-of great experience and
perfect honesty-an able lawyer and un-
compromising opposer of fraudulent land
claims-a man of purity, whose political
course was wonderful in its consistency "a
man who like Brutus, is absolutely glitter
ing with honor and sparkling with brightest
lustre. Such is the character given Lewis
by his corrupt and venal press, while his
every act hurls back the foul deception and
proclaims the intended fraud He has pros
ecuted every fraudulent land suit in the
county, in which he could obtain an inter-
est, and even endeavored to flch the pubic
plaza from the county by granting parties
permission to build upon it. When such
men as Lewis men who annually enter our
Legislative halls with plundering bills-as
pire to be clothed with judicial honors, it is
appropriate that they should descend to the
damp, vaults of the dungeon, for reptiles
base enough to preside over his purchased
organs, practice their base deception upon
an unsuspecting and generous public, that
the tide of venalty and corruption may
food the land, and usurp the judiciary.
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