Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-18
Plnnna Arrns

" o"V huuuTeu eyes are Dent
with loving and devoted focus upon its mas
ter, J. L. N. Lewis. 1t is thus the slavish.
toadying tool Of unprincipIed and scheming
ambition, its master has exacted an ac-
acknowledgement of its fawuing degradation
ana the Plumas organ of those who would
plumber the public with their thieving acts
OF special legislation, appears under an ap
propriate cognomen ".4rgus"-a baptismal
arpeliation usually applied by benevolent
masters to their faithful servants of the ca.
nine species.
Here, Argus, here! The inscription on
your collar reads-"passed into the hands
of fMessrs. james IL McNabh JohnC Lewis.
and W. d Sawyer" All this may be 70,
but why wa' it necessary for Judge Lewis
to postpone the Butte County Court, until
ne could visit your county and place his col
iar OF brass on your necks' Did not Judge
Lewis purchase the office upon the following
conditions Did not N Lewis pay Mr..
McElwain 5000 in cash? Did net J. L n.
Lewis give Mr.. McEiwain a draft ON Nc.
Williams g. Tymeson fer $30e 90 more :
Did not J. L N. Lewis give Mr.. McElwain
his note Of hsad for $1,000! Did he not
sign as surety another note of $1,000. Was
the office not morgaged for the remaining
S2,oOO OF the purchase money! And yet
You coolly announce that the office has
"passed into the hands of .Nessrs. James ii
McNabb. Jno e, Lewis and W. D. Sawyer"
Was it necessary for Judge Lewis to ad-
journ his Court, make pilgrimage to Plu
mas. aud ierform such financial transac.
tions, in order to give expression to the
"uLanim0us sentiment of Plumas." claimed
to be in his farvor? How is he to be re- i'm.
bursed for his outlay aud travelling expenses
Ia establishing organs all over the district
Certainly not f:Um his salary as District
Judge, should lac be elected
We Usk the citizen of this judicial district
to remember The S5000o bridge bill, the
$40 900 road bill, and other measures Of
selt-aggrandizemcnt originated by Ju lgc
Lewis aud his holde ot hungry retaiuers,
agaiast the public revenue, in connection
with the ttf.rts he is now making 10 secure a
position, and then reflect whether Lewis is
running ia obedience to public sentiment, or
whether he has neglect ed his duty as au Of
fi:er, AMI is using his means to manufacture
public sentiment
The poor poll-parrots in his employ caa
only give utterance to the words and phrases
they have been taught, or casually pickel
up These unprincipled and seli.h schem
els were prostrated with dismay at the
failure of their efforts to pack conventions
and cowpel the Democratic party to endorse
their schemes of pab ic plunder, and aid
them ia future operations Lusting for Of
fee, and the political power and prestige the
possession OF office imparts, they tremble at
the threatened departure of the sccptre
they now hold. Worsted ia argument and
driven from their defences by the revelation
of PLAIN and accepted truths, they falsely
assume democratic fealty they have not,
aud ilace the name OF their unprincipled,
scheming and boitiug candidate, in .he
ticket, as if he were the regular democratic
nominee, aud pretend to fJretell their en-
dorsement by The people Incapable of ut
tering one word OF just reproach against the
dem cratic nominee. they complain that they
were not permitted to pack the convention,
with friends Of every political hue, their
ca scGemers against the tax paying public.
they resort t. this gross and tagrant viola
ton of Democratic usages and Gust ms,
TO suppress and blight the thick co uing con.
victions of the public, that those now Ell.
gagged in the desperate attempt 10 corrupt
the fountain Of justice 10y the elevation of
the Chief OF their punde ring schemes to the
bench of this idic;al disu let, ave the most
unreliable and abandone clique OF wire.
worke that ever disgraced the pablo in-
terest by constructing themselves its hypo-
critical advocates.
Let Argns continac to play the Aaiellte
to its more magnificent and patron dog star.
yet little while. Let the faithful A, rus
show that its candidate went to packing"
in 81. and "re>umed the practice of the
law in '53'-but say nothing about his