The Placer herald., 1858-06-05
The Bogus Democrat of the Placer Press.
F4* LETTER II.
MINERS RAv1Nr, June Sd, 1858.


as a writer on poitics-and in which YOU
seem to take exceptions to some of the ideas
suggested in my communication in response
to the sweeping charges you preferred to the
Democracy Of Placer and the State gene
rally:
Now, Mr.. "Democrat" you call me "Fred"
Phred, indeed! You might as we'll call me
Jesus Maria, as Fred-it would sound about
as musical to my surname. Whoever Erred"
is, can assure you he is not t-Bogus."
and as the editor Of the Press suggests that
I live in "New Castle must be Yankee and
had the early advantages Of a guessing school,
I think you have not "hit the nail precisely
on its head" you had better try again. Poor
Fred, pity him. Seems he has to father
my Democratic thunder-be called "black-
guard" and told that his clothes are seedy
and ant as good as a genteman's. By the
way, what an astute and 'keensavvey" chap
that editor of the Press must be, to trace my
,geneology to Yankee land, and my locality
to that thriving and stirring place known as
New Castle. IT'S no more my dwelling
place" than it is that of the editor of the
Press; am not half as much Of Yankee
as he is, for ''York Yankee" is quite percep-
tible in all that editorially appears in the
Press-especialy his peculiar monomania on
the Kansas question. Smith, guess again.
Mr.. "Democrat," what an humble person
YOU must be- to condescend to notice my
first article. 1t seems that you did "let down
materially in your own estimation" when you
stopped to reply to Anti-Bogus There is
such thing as sham dignity, and upon second
thought perhaps you will find yourself self
convicted. If that gentleman of your &C
ouaintancc had not been kicked quite so
hard by the long cared animal you speak of,
causing him perhaps to faint or weaken from
the blow, he might possibly have also stopped
to notice his assailant.
You say you are mo politician" Then
why do you enter the political arena even
to play the part of bufoon, and make as
sertions and suggestions Of great import, to-
wit: "that the people are tired Of Demo
cratic rule, that the Democratic party are
bogus, tha, majority Of the people of Pa
rer and of the State desire a CHANGE and
that they would endorse "People's Ticket"
something uncxceptionable," &c Being
''sso po1itician" and only 'plain miner how
do you prove these things? A plain miner
who attends to his own business-whch, to
lis credit, be it said, is among the most use
ful and honorable in Caitorna-does not
dabble in the filthy pool of politics s"-does
not make unfounded assertions which. ac-
corcling to the result of the last State elec-
tion, places our country in a false position;
the ''plan miner has other more honorable
and doubtless more lucrative businesses than
getting up new politNral parties, such as you,
Mr. "Democrat." are suggesting, under the
hue and CRY Of "stop t!ief'
You say you are. and alwaTe i'avc been a
Democrat. Perhaps so. The editor of the
Placer Press in lS4S, if am correctly in
formed. was Van Buren, Flee.soIer, next a
Wing, mex, Know Nothing, next an Ame
ricau, and non Gall within ten years.) lie says
he is Democrat-one OF the true blue kind,
in fact Judging from his eternal homilies Oh
niggersm, free-soiIisn, free labor Topeka,
Ipcompton, &c, one would he led to suppose,
that he thought himself the only true Demo
era. in Placer county. Perhaps, Mr.. emo
~rxt. sou are one Of the same stripe, piece
of the Same cloth-a "man steaIl"g the live
ry of Gieavcn to serve the devil in | cont
liEe to see a man who says 'he is and al
ways has been Democrat" turn traitor to
his party on such shallow grounds as are
mentioned in your dcnunciatory letters
Your position forcbly reminds me of the
anecdote Of the skunk and the woodchuck-
which will relate AS an off set to yours about
A,;he gentleman and the long cared animal,
but take this, my dear sir, in good part, and
do not attribute it to poor FIed, (there's that
queer name again. a@d call him black
guard.
Once upon time, in the extreme South
where, perhaps, Billy Bowlegs rustlcated
upon beautiful summers day afternoon, as
the sun was quietly gliding down the western
horizon, lonely traveller might have been
seen (aheam, James,) vending his way to his
domicil, which was beautifully located in the
crotch of an everglade. lie was 'plain"
and unsophstcated son of the forest, "whose
linea descent was from poor but respectable
parents" He was of the genus woodchuck
Upon entering the threshold of his domlcll,
he encountered a stranger, an intruder, aye,
a Soqus woodchuck who had come to steal
to rob, to commit piracy, to befoul the castle;
he was of the genus skunk. Ah-exclaimed
the woodchuck- are you? Means
mered the skunk-Tm a woodchuck! Well,
perhaps you are-but d-n me if you smell
like woodchuck! So git up and git.
"My little note seems to be bomb thrown
in the camp of my old friends, and they cry
out Black Republican all around me-" How
natural then, Mr.. Democrat, was it for me to
characterize you as did-aud forthwith you
have called Fred b!ackguard-when your
"old friends" who have known you so well,
have done the same thing. Are your "old
friends" all blackguards? Wonder whether
you treat them as "the gentleman did who
was kicked by certain long-eared animal?"
Singular, isn't it, that your "old friends
and me should judge you alike, to-wit:-