The Shasta courier., 1860-10-27
Functus Omcio,

Let the Presidential election result either in
hVor ofDouglas, Bell or Lincoln (for under no
circumstances, now within the range of possibil-
lty, can it result in the success of Brecknridge)
there will be this one result that will prove sat-
istactory to all pecuniarily disinterested citi-
zens, to wit; that vast anti-Douglas and anti
Democratic Office holding cloud of Witnesses u
who are bearing false testimony against the
true Democracy from base and sordid motives,
will speedily be Jfunctus o5icio-out of Office.
Of course we allude to those unprincipled
men who have been induced to abandon their
political principles and oppose what they be-
lieye to be the regular Democratic organization.
through fear of official decapitation We doubt
not that many thousands of Federal Office hold
ers are high minded, honorable men, and are
conscientiously supporting Breckenridge 1t is
not of such that we are speaking, but of the
other "many thousands" who for years past,
and up to the split at Charleston, and even for
weeks thereafter, and until they were ordered
by their superiors, on pain of official death, to
change their tune and fiddle against the regular
nominees, have been ardent and loud-mouthed
friends of Douglas We know some of them to
be Douglas men to-day, sympathizing earnestly
with him in his triangular fight with Black Re-
publicanism and that other and most unnatural
enemy, the Breckinridge organization. And
yet, rather than lose their offices for a period
of six or eight months, they have the baseness
to cringe the pregnant hinges of the knee
where thrift may follow fawning," and, with the
hearts of cravens and tongues of hypocrites, sing
paens of praise to the '' old public functionary'
and Breckenridge, his "man Friday" and then
after eating dirt" togorging, howl forth curse!
upon the head of the very man whose name
they have heretofore sworn by, and whose DO
litical teachings they have for years been fol
lowing with the same sort of confidence tina
old line Wings" formerly followed in the leat
OF the gallant Harry Of the West"
These men are bound to be kicked overheard
and we rejoice at it, Not that we have anv
thing to say against men holding office, on tina
| score alone. We think office holders have tn,
same rights that all other citizens possess. w,
think man is fool who will not accept an Of
fee that he believes himself qualified to fill i
| 1t will benefit him and his. We have nothing il
the world to say against honest men in Office
we simply denounce those hirelings, "corrup
in office" who, like Judas, have sold their grea
leader for SO many pieces of silver-who hurral
for Breckenridge and damn Douglas for pay
who dof and don their political vestments will
the same facility that belle does her oper,
cloak-who, being in favor of Douglas, We
through love of Federal pap, join with his enc
mics in reviing him-who, in short, like tn,
sons ofJacob, politically speaking, sell their OWL
flesh and blood into the hands of the Ishmaelte
the Black Republican merchant and manu-.
featuring princes or " Midianite merchant-men'
of this day-and then with vestments dpped'ir
innocent blood of their own shedding, attemp
to cheat the Democracy into the belief that the,
had no hand in the foul deed
Such are the ofiice-h holders that we despise
Such are the Office holders whom-when they
set themselves up as judges, to pronounce what
is and what is not Democratic doctrine, and who
are and who are not entitled to be called good
Democrats-we reject with loathing; whose
Touching we contemn and spit upon-because
we think they are actuated by sordid motives
and believe, if Mr.. Buchanan, their master, had
bid them support Douglas they would to-day
be just as earnest and fierce in denouncing
Breckenridge and his followers as boilers, trail
tors, renegades, disorganizers, &C., as they are
in hurting those denunciatory bullets upon the
heads of Douglas and the great mass of the Ma
tional Democracy now marshalled under his
leadership. They are fighting, like the Hes
siaEs in the Revolution, for money, and not for
love of principle. They have each
-" become
tyran's stpendary."
They fight for ga consideration" that con-
sideration being filthy lucre. That sort of of
flee holders we reject as political teachers, and
despise as Judges in Democratic Israel.
u MRS. WINSLOW, an experienced
Nurse and Female Physician has a Soothing