The Placer herald., 1857-06-13

tnem now, nut as the suD]ect OF your inquiries Is
off nature not merely personal to myself, con.
slider an answer due to my friends and to the con-
hdence they have reposed in me. In addition to
your request have been importuned by others,
personally and by letters, to correct the charge
that l seek to establish an anti administration
party in this State. They regard it as an act Of
justice to themselves that should make my de-
nial public Having been triumphantly elected
to the Senate for six years, it cannot now he
said that l am actuated by an interested or sell
ilsh motive in allowing myself to be drawn into
the columns. OF newspaper reply, then, en-
phaticaly, that did not return to this State to
make war upon the administration of President
Buchanan, neither do intend to oppose it in
Washington or elsewhere, nor have ever declar-
ed any such intention. The assertions mentioned
by you as being circulated in this regard are ma
iciously false, and their authors whether high or
low. know them to be false when they utter
them,
Many of the men now engaged in prOpagating
these sanders are the same who, at the last elec-
tion, conspiring with Known othings Republi-
cans, and lawless organization then existing in
San Francisco, defeated twenty Democratic
candidates for the Legislature in counties where
my openly avowed friends had been regularly
nominated, and elected Republicans and Know
Nothlngs in their stead. | enumerate them
San Francisco, IL members, Santa Clara, 2;
Sacramento, 3; fuba, 3; Sierra, 1;-Total. 20.
This gave the Republicans their entire strength
in the Legislature The Democratic majorities
for President in the counties mentioned, at the
same election. prove that my friends were defeat
ed by treachery.
Your letter refers to a rumor which you say is
still in circulation relative to the late election of
United States Senators, and which, you add, is
generally discredited by my friends So far as
my own election is concerned, | declare it to
have been effected by the free choice of my friends
in the Legislature, without bargain contract, ali:
nat on oru n0prSt nd M
l was chosen over a combined opposition, of
which Mr. Gwn was the head and front. After
my election, he sought my aid to secure his own.
He stated that he was about to become the vic
tim OF the treachery of those who had been placed
in power through his aid and exertions, and that
without my assistance he would be sacrificed. Re-
garding him the acknowledged leader Of the other
wing ofthe party, believed his election would heal
dlssensions and effect q reunion. lie had been my
foe, but for the sake Of the party, l was willing
to forego my personal resentments With this
object in view. gave him my support, and he
was elected. But between Mr.. Gwn and myself
there was no condition whatever in regard to the
distribution of patronage. l learned subsequent
ly, however, that he had agreed with others to
take no part in the Recommendation of a single
federal officer and the card he published to the
people of the State, after his election, led me to
suppose that his resolve was unalterable in this
regard l refer to the closing remarks of Mr..
Gwin's address, which are as follows;
"From patronage then and the curse it entails
l shall gladly in future turn, and my sole labor
and ambition from henceforth shall be to deserve
we'll of the State, and to Justify the choice Of the
Legislature in honpring me second time as
representative of its interests. | have hnted
above at aid other than that received from those
whom had regarded as friends. refer to the
timely assistance accorded to me by Mr.. Broder
ick and his friends. Although at one time rival
and recognizing in him fierce but manly
opponent do not hesitate to acknowledge in
this public manner his forgetfs lness of all grounds
OF dsscnsion and hostility. in what we conceived
to be step necessary to alay the strfes and
discords which have distracted the party and the
State. TO him, and to the attachments of his
friends to him. conceive in great degree my
election is due and | feel bound to him and
them in con mon efforts to unite and heal, where
the result heretofore has been to break down and
Destroy
In view of these facts l am loath to believe
that your information is correct in respect to his
claiming that he controlled the recent Federal
appointments in this State or that in the face Of
his published declarations he or his friends would
boast that he had violated his public pledges.
Surely the combination at Washington of the late
and present membcrs of the lower House of Con
gress from this State, Of the Senator whose term
had expired, oi the three Presidential Electors
and throng Of active supporters, well practised
in the trade of soliciting Offices, all against me,
would seem to be enough, without the personal
interference of my colleague. In the absence of
positive evidence must therefore, regard the re-
port of which you speak mistake.
Referring to The cOntined calumnes which |
have long permitted to pass in silence, and which
! shall not review | take this occasion to say
that was member OF the State Senate dur
ing the first three sessions of the Legislature,
leaving it in 1852, as | supposed with some
reputation. In the latter year | was one of the
two prominent candidates for the United States
Senate and although the canvass was hotly con-
tested my opponents at that time never thought
to mpugn my conduct as n legislator or as a
citizen, From my defeat for the Senate in 1852
up to the time of my election in January last,
took an active part in the conventions of the
party-shared its labors and contributed to its
triumphs. In return l was persistently assal-
ed by the inventive malice of those who did not
hesitate to subsidze portion of the press for the
purpose by Illicit distractions from the public
treasury. Some of those presses still survive,
and still continue their abuse, but their daily
falsehoods have never drawn me into public de-
nialn or shall at this late period dignity them by
special notice.
! have been charged with controlling Conven-
tions and procuring nominations by trickery.
But challenge my enemies to produce a man,
within the length and breadth of the State, whom
ever deceived or to whom l ever fAlsiied my
word. l bring that challenge down to the pres
ent hour and make it embrace my whole political
course.
1t has been alleged that l seek to create
disaffecton in the party because my friends have
failed to secure offices through my means My
friends are not the spolsmen of the State. Office
holders and offce-hunters have never been among
my supporters During the last Administration,
not friend of mine held office under the Govern
ment. Yet they always remained true to the
party and reliable in every emergency. OF these
were the men who, in the State Convention of
Mor nrh olyy hv Cod oral
retaners, instructed their delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention TO cast the vote of this State
for James Buchanan.
I am not here to distract the party nor to con-
troll its nominations. Among those regarded as
the names of several reliable Democrats, who
are friends of mine. But l shall not seek to
forestall the action of the Convention as others