The weekly ledger., 1857-08-15


character and department as gentleman are
above reproach cannot be denied. That he
possesses the necessary ability and qualifica-
tions. and that he has the industry to apply
them, are facts well known to those with
whom he is acquainted. Robert Stewart has
long been practical, hard-working miner =
is now-and were we to hunt the county over
we could not find a man who would more ca
pably, more faithfully, or more zealously rep
resent the mining interest He is plain,
blunt man, possessed of strong common sense
and large fund Of experience. He will not
make 'gasy" Representative, but he will
make a working, useful member. His cleo
ton we regard as certainty; for we feel that
the humbug cry against him cannot avail
Edward Stanly, the HuInbug Republican
and the Humbug Settler.
The Republicans nominated Edward Stan
ley as an availability candidate They
kicked aside such men as f. p. Tracy, and
put forward a gentleman from the South, be-
cause they thought he would be less obnox-
ious on the question of niggerism" than any
other of their party, and at the same time
Civ e satisfaction o all adherants to the Re-
publican cause. He being profeSsed Teu-
Commandment man, too, it was thought he
would rally strong Moral reform in
huence
Now, what is the result? Why, in let
ter, he repudiates the Republican Platform,
and would vote for the admission of Slave
State into the Unionl But, what next?-
Nothing less than an indication that he would
favor negro suffrage farther than the
Republicans 70 themScvesl Availability eau
dldates are proverba for their consistency"
and Edward Stanley is a fair specimen The
Republicans distrust him, and conservative
men look upon him with mingled feelings of
mirth, contempt and loathing.
But again; Mr.. Stanley was Ten Com
mandment Moral Reform man and Settler
How does he bear himself out on these
tacksY Why. one of the Ten-C Command
ments, in substance is this: "Thou shalt
not covet thy neighbors lands" &c; and yet
this same Edward Stanley, as is fully prored
By the record, buys large interests in noto-
riously doubtful, (not to say positirely fraud
ulent) Mexican land grants, and is to pay for
them in legal services by driring off the Sci
tiers from the remaining portions Of the grants
and of course at the same time from the por-
tons he acquires himself. Oh, what Ten
Commandment man! oh, what Settlerl oh,
what Moral Reformer? And one of these
grants, comprising only eight leagues, it is
designed to float about" so as to comprise
all the rich valies from Sutter Creek in Am
ador county, to Columbia in Tuolumne coun-
ty. (See State Journal, Aug 1lth, for
copies of deeds, &c.
Read the correspondence on the first page
of this weeks Ledger, and see wha. induce
ments the Settlers Of Amador and Calaveras
have to vote for Stanley. We will not re-
feet upon their intelligence by arguing the
matter further Facts from the record have
exhibited Mr. Staply as a veritable humbug
and unmitigated pretender.
Take him all in all, and we shall not look
upon Mr.. Stanley's like again. Survey "Old
Tar River from its source to its mouth, and
we venture that just such an other specimen
Of the genus homo cannot be found. " Boil
ed down" till there was nothing left of him at
home he comes to California and everything
that is obnoxious to the people sticks to him
like the conglomerated mass in an old wagon
hub. Away with him-he is a superlative
humbug, and as such, dcrerves only passing
notice.
AMADoR ASSESSMENT RoLL--Our efficient
County Assessor, Henry A. Eichelberger in
forms us that the assessment has been com
peted. 1t has also undergone the super