Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-10
Sold, and Infamous.


Another outrage has been suffered. The Mic
sragua steamships have been sold to the Pacific
Nail monopoly, and the people of this State have
been sold, too, by Garrison and his miserable
cO-beggars of public sympathy and companions
in unexampled turpitude. Had theirs been
fair and manly opposition, for the avowed pur-
pose of gain, alone, the transaction had had moth
ing Of the faithlessness and baseness which now
provokes honorable competition to spit in the
faces of the huekstering knaves, who, in acknow-
lodged weakness, grovelled about the shoes of
the people for sympathy and encouragement to
strengthen them against powerful and naughty
rival, while they went out on the highway of the
seas, the champions of the people. Our language
is rich in words of execration, but there is none
curseful enough to express the indignation and
disgust which the people feel for this company Of
liars who have broken their faith in the infancy
OF their promises.
One can excuse the frozen snake which stiDgs
the bosom in which it is warmed to venomous-
ness-treachery belongs to it's reptile nature !;
we can make plea for the dog who, in extremity
Of famine, eats his master, forgetting former ca
resses and sheltering care ; we can pardon the
beggar who, crawling with lice and consuming
with huugar, betrsys bis trust and steals from the
goods be is set to watch. There is even, forgive
ness for the starving wretch who with unbaIlow-
lowed appetite eats and drinks the sacrament
while the worshippers are at prayer But there
is no brand Of infamy base enough in sgnifcancy
TO burn deep on the fronts of men who under
pretence OF executing great public good, enlist
the sympathies, evoke the blessings, and raise
the expectations of the people, only to betray
them in the fullness Of their faith, to the rapac-
Gus enemy which before consumed them. There
is no damnation in the charters of devils too un-
merciful and enduring for the scOundrel who tri-
fes with the hopes and expectations of the poor.
Hundreds, separated from their families and
pursued year after year by unmerciful disaster,
took new courage and boarded their seanty earn
ings in the hope that these wde-mouthed philan-
tbropists and crushers Of monopoly would enable
them to bring their destitute wives and children
to their new homes, or, at least, to return and
meet them in the old The unemployed in the
East began to look westward with golden visions;
and the whole people, East and West, invoked
bencdictions on the slayers of the Cerberus who
guarded the straits which the rich only might
pass. All their golden visions vanished and
sitting round the damp cold walls Of eastern pov-
erty, or in the hermit house among Sierra SHOWS,
the same bitter curse Of execration is uttered for
the self-abased and unprovoked liars who led
them out in a pleasant dream, to wake in the
dank sleeping places of hopeless want, or in the
lonesome hopelessness Of exile.
Let each untruthful traffcker of faith be eleva-
ted to prominence for unrestrained maedicton
let none of them set foot on the shores to which
they have been traitorous and disgraceful let
them be made to feel how ignominous is the ban
quet on the price of honor and good faith and if
one of them be found among our people whom
his venality has made to distrust all human fidel-
ity, may they cleanse themselves of his presence
by disgracng blows.