San Andreas independent., 1857-06-13
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE.
SAcRAMENro, May 7th, 1857.

have. aS. you are aware, long Deen known as an
"Ishmaelte' for warning against all the politi-
cal factions and their great and little leaders,
which have been lording it over and robbing
and polluting California ever since she became
State.
In 1850, 81 and 1852, labored hard, with
pen and tongue, spent much money in the cause,
and lost the remnant of handsome fortune by
neglecting private business and devotng my
self to correcting the many social and political
errors then saw were being engrafted in the
land. | boldly prophesied the noxious fruits
the country would, ere long, have to gather OF
the evil trees then planted-of the choked out
grain, and field of tares the bad seeds being
sown must in harvest time bring forth. But of
what avail? My warnings were unheeded, my
predictions set at naught. The fool multitude
must first burn themselves before they learn fire
is hot, and how to keep out of it.
1Trial alone of i'll and folly gives
Clear proof of the worlds vanities but little
Good comes of sermons prophecies and warnings
In time the fruit began to ripen, and bitter
indeed and most sickening and deathly was the
taste thereof. Despairing, at length, of achiev-
ing any reforms through regular and usual
methods, by reason of the unsettled, widely
scattered unhomogeneous, ignorant and viii
ated character of our population, | resolved to
give my aid in stirring up the discordant ele
of society, and hasten the revolutionary era and
crisis which saw must inevitably come, sooner
or later, and through means of which can the
deeply tainted moral and political atmosphere
of California can alone be purified now.
In accordance with my purpose, was in
duced to favor the ephemeral humbug Know
Nothing party in 1855, which died out at the
very period of life | gave it. Johnson, on ma
ture reflection, ! considered the very best, be-
cause most suitable man for them to nominate
for Governor. He has turned out precisely the
sort of an official hoped and expected, and
which told the fools who, mt the instigaton
of the keen knaves who had managed the Big
Ter administration, placed him before the peo-
pie, he would.
1t is we'll known | proclaimed at the time
that the Know Nothing dose was prescribed
and administered: so far | was concerned
simply Alternative medicine. The thing
has worked like charm. 1t has thrown the
patient precisely into the condition wished for
by me.
Governed by the same present convictions
and ulterior views for the best, likewise hail
ed with delight the revolutionary-or, to speak
authoritativcly, 'insurrectionary movements
in San Francisco last Summer, and the sympa-
thetic response it met with throughout the
State. did not become member of the or
ganization, nor yet sanction as right of them
selves various of its leaders acts yet indorsed
the proceedings whole, because of their
revolutionary tendency, and as exhibiting the
vindicatory spirit in society to right affairs
through the only mode now possible. For
time, this revolutionary wave has reccded but
only to gather new force, to tower higher, and
surge more fully and fercey over the land at
its next flood-tide. The last took off some
small trash and branches of the trees = the
next will uproot the bad growth itself, and
sweep away the biggest trunks and logs. |
pray for speedy return of this cleansing del
ugc.
And now, my old friend, of something per-
tanning to yourself and the aid you can render
our young State in righting matters.
At the opening of the session of the late Le-
gisature, | spoke to YOU in reference to being
run as an independent candidate for Governor
[ then thought the coming summer would, per-
haps, be a propitious time to commence the
work of regeneration. | now convinced,
however, the movement will be premature. AS
you rightly remarked in your denuncatorv
speech made in the house the day of its adj
journment, the hour for California has not yet
come. The day of retrbution. though is not
far distant. Yet until that period shall have
arrived, | wish to see none, for whom have
any regard, brought before the public for office.
For this reason, | hope and pray you will not
suffer your name to be used as candidate for
Governor.
Next year, such men you may be needed
it may then be time to act. For the present let
the old masters of the people saddle anew the
CALLED backs of their serfs, and spur them on
for another ride. 1t will be best for them in
the end since I perceive the animals are be-
coming rcstivc and a little unmanageablc, even
now, and will, doubtless, by the time another
ic md
only to throw these riders, but aim to break
their necks in the fall, or stamp them to death
for their unmercifulnesS and i'll usage
DO not enter the arena now. The present
legtimately- y-begotten. prematurely- born, half
made up, Sin-inoculated, as we'll as constitu-
tionally diseased State Government, is about
ending in dissolution, its short and nolorious
career. Let the filthy spawn die in the hands
of the quacks and empyricists who acted as
accouchcrs and stood god-fathers at its birth,
and have thus far attended so closely to it be-
cause of the goodly fees they were enabled to
hch from its once wealthy estate.
To change the figure-let the rotten struc-
ture fall while in the keeping of those who
reared it, and have till now occupied it. Your
efforts at a reform will be fruitless if begun at
this time. You may patch and prop up, but
this will do more harm than good let the edi-
fee tumble, as soon as possible, about the ears,
and crush the knaves who will be found in it,
Yourself stand from under. What can YOU do
as Governor, with another venal and imbecile
Legislature, which the next is bound to be-
Besides, the people are going to stop paying
taxes, so there will be no treasure to keen watch
over, even if you had the power to stop the
ssquandering of these hungry leeches and starv-
ing, bowling coyotes.
NO, sir; let the cauldron bubble, boil, SIM
mer and seethe-let the factions and their thiev-.
ing leaders war it out among themselves this
year, and from present appearances the tight
promises to be a most exciting and interesting
one 1t is their last set-to pray don't let any
decent man enter the ring, but let us all stand
outside and see the animals worry themselves
1t is dog eat dog: and hope by another year