The Placer herald., 1860-06-23
GWin on the Defensive

Senator Gwin has at last seen proper to
notice the charge so persistently made
against him by his political foes for several
years past, to the effect that he is pledged
to support the Interests and plans of the Pa
cifc Mail Steamship Company, or that he
lss s"rrar'eI them, whsih,-- h""Gh. and
pledged or not, and coverty opposed all
schemes TO facilitate mail and pas enger
communication between this State and the
East Geo. Gordon, a v,lv able and indus
'rious, if somewhat officious, writer Of public
communications, addressed to him recently,
on behalf of a committee Of Caifornlans in
New York, a memorial on the subject of the
Overland route, urging the necessity of es-
tabIishing daily mails by the same. To this
document Senator Gwin replies in sensitive
haste, repelIing the implied suspicion OF his
irendliness to the Overland routes which be
dscerned in the memorial, and declaring
most emphaticaly his fixed preference for
those routes. He shows at length how he
has Iabored in the Postoffice committee to
mature some plan, upon which the friends
Of the various projects could unite, for hav
ING the entire mail between California and
the Atlantic States carried overland. His
original plans looked to the establishment
OF semi weekly mail by the Central route,
and such connections with it as would make
a mail start daiIy-Suudays excepted-from
some one of several Eastern ternini-such
as st. Joseph, St.Louis, Mem, his and New
Orleans. This plan he asserts is poteniy
opposed by |. G. Woods and Others, who de-
sire to break up the Butterfiell contract and
preserve their own connection at extrava-
CANT rates with a less convenient route
winch the bill Of the Post office committee
would destroy. He thinks the Butterfed
contract should bs maintained; but if it is
oroken he will earnestly urge daily mail
IRON st. Joseph to PlacerviIle, with daily
service from Sacramento to Portland. and
%mi'weekly service from Lake Superior to
oregon and Washington. lie closes with
me positive declaration that there never
Snall be letter conveyed under steam
sup contract to California, after the lst of
'u!y next if he can prevent it. There is no
evidence that Mr.. Gwn is insincere in his
procession OF devotion to the overland mails,
ana we hope to see certain journals abstain
nencetorth from that ceaseess ringing of
cn,a.rges against his motives in this matter,
wn'ch w, has not done one particle Of good.
w, we are tar from admiring him politically.
wi ne is California Senator, not the Sem
"'or M OF party, and we are sick Of that old
S' s.ory about his venal connection with the
steamship .";s Co. Such things should not be
nla p: about man without positive proof.
ne''erat'on of sianderons suspicious may be-
b. 3, prejudice, but they prove nothing. A
nlack aa Republican may be permitted, with
o Dut exciting accusations of having been
oought." to hope that Democratic Sena-
s sOr wni be quietly allowed to do all he can
o .us me State be represents, whose interests
"'e Tar above those Of party.
We copy the above from the Marysvile
.'npe1 OF the l4th inst. Coming as it does
IRON ], n Republican paper, politically opposed
g. g. " Twin, it is just and severe rebuke to the
n'S asScssfneato Union. and papers Of that ilk
s.. cue nave kept up the slanderous cry against
senator ~ Gwin that he WAS ia the employ of
!, ;'e rac'hc Steamship Company However
~. uas long since become stale and absurd,
s"",:s sua Is not believed even by those who are
'''s'h enough TO make the charge.