The Sierra citizen., 1860-02-18

Reply to :. Justice.,,
!" the Mountain .Messenger, of FED. 1lth, 1860.
suppose you thought you would imuortalize your
sell oy dabblng In that which Won did not understand
wien you set ont to break lance with me.
Ine inPnoence assurance and Ignorance with which
yoa %sce your attack, so ridiculous that have
nov ssart to Be severe with you. and after setting
information % St1ss wisS slss little q your own
medicine In conlnsio Isha do with you a. uncle Toby
ad Win tee ny, for believe there is room enough in
the word Tor you and me too
1ouE ,gqseous" argument is the only one OF weight
your entire ABORTION but being suited to your mental
sa must confess Jon it well and It being so
olec'y 10 point on the division question: the logical
.nerefrom, will undoubtedly insure the crea
numoe servant Live Oak" foolish enough to say
TO tne people, on the stump last fall that be could
expte@ opinion ID the matter, until he had his cer
lie as Representative OF Sierra county
10 ms pocket" Nov you know better than that. and
very that You should correct that Tor the
esssole conclusion from your quotation , that the
u.'"on q Sierra necessary now do my dear s!r IN
.ns Csse make one effort to tell the truth. and shame
the Devil and you viii get your reward, for the new
sensation Of will be very refreshing to
lou say tnat the communication Of "Live Oak had
great proxty now don't feel the point to that thrust
~. ru may oe tnat what was running in your head was
the iasner OF the idea for your communication is
half columns long.
You as well the editor Of the Messenger (who put
nead 70 your communication the outside of the pa
per- ana tail to It on the inside appear to be de-
mented on this Alturas question you get excited, for
get common courtesy, and abusive language, and
apply opprobrous epithets to those who differ with you
made In Live Oaks" Communication against the Hon.
Mr. Johnson, when in truth and in fact, made.
lie was respectfully addressed, and nothing more, no
charges nave bsenMade against him, and none in
Mr. johnson, last year in the Assembly, voted for the
Aturas bllI-that he was known among the people to
be in favor of division that those facts known at
the time ne was nominated by the Democratic conven-
ton that those being his personal views the Democracy
indorsed them and his actions when they nominated him.
The point endeavored to make was, that Mr. johnson
nominated ID Democratic convention unanimously,
that not one word was said in convention by him his
friends about Auras, before his unanimous nomination,
and that he was elected Democrat, and was bound
to look to the interests of the whole county, and he
furnished with statistics to show that Aluras could not
be formed out OF Sierra county, and do justice to the
great mass of his constituents You appear to think
that because Mr. J0hnsons views known,
ing Alturas therefore the Democratic convention must
have adopted them and nominated him Alturas
man and for member OF Assembly to create Alturas
and that the Democracy elected him for that purpose
You say that Mr. johnson in his speech of acceptance
said to the convention, that if he elected he would
every in his power to create the county ol
Alturas" Now Mr. johnson did not say SO, and l am
constrained to believe that you know he did not
Your argument is that because mans private views
local question known that therefore the con-
vention that nominates him. ndorses his views; my ar
gument and opinion we're that when convention nom
mates man for Office, the man becomes the representa-
tive of the views of the convention The hobby of AL
uras men, and your hobby and the idea you intend to
convey, and which you all endeavorng to make the
members of the Legislature believe, is that Alturas
in kho1 1ock
purpose your communication published in an Elk
ira and expressed to Sacramento. Alturas not
issue before the convention the people Of Serra and
you know it was not. No attempt made to make il
but directly the reverse and to insure the success
the entire Democratic ticket Mr. johnson included and
for fear the people would beat him for his Alturas pre-
deections, it agreed, Il quote your own words o.
admission in your communication, Mr.. Justice.) tha
Alturas should not be made issue in the SOUTH pro
vided the people in the north would not do it, they
would ignore it altogether and try and elect the Demo
cratic ticket entire.',
Now. sir, you muse have the edfroutery Of the Devil
himself that turas an issue in the last cleo
ton, or tS6t Mr.. johnson elected that ISSUE fol
it expressly ignored. The Democracy stood by Mr.
johnson aud elected him on the understanding that AL
tras not the ssue and he became thereby the Rep
resenave of the whole county, and not of particular
local question There might have been fears of good
faith the part of both the north and south, but the
mass of the Democracy stood by the ticket and the
agreement, although election night showed that the
north threw off Mr.. Johnson's colleague, Mr. Halliday
from the SOUTH by than 800 votes and the south
in some localities threw off Mr. johnson, but you the
last person that should cry "bad faith" when il is i'm
possible to tell who set the first example, ,,sser-
1t may be that yoa are q man possessed Of more
knowledge than your fellows about the Alturas bi but
if You posted and do know the proposed boundaries
Of Alturas the Devil must have got into the types when
they make you say that there is portion of the
posed new county that is more than twelve miles from
central point in said county, and by travelled road al
that" Your proposition !. clear mud as to where
the town of Jamison City and does extend the boundary
of the proposed county to the Utah line may the Lord
have mercy your soul, for perpetrang that msera
bIe subterfuge. Why do you dodge the question!
said the people in portions of the proposed new
county would have to travel far, and over as bad
snow region to get to your proposed county seat the
people in northern Sierra do to get to Downieye
and told the TRUTH and you know it sir for the Atura
bill makes the town Of La Porte the county seat and The
surrounding towns have said amen and yet, sir yor
know it is thirty miles from La Porte to Jamison City
and more than fifty to the State line, with mines ani
ranches the whole distances the main portion of which
you propose to 6lblster away from Pumas. and make
the people therein travel and along ridge
the winter, to your county seat It s true that that
their business and yours; am only speaking of th,
consistency Of the thing such amazing "justice il
dazzling TO contemplate you certainly cannot blame
me for being attracted BY it, The truth s sir and yor
cannot deny it, that the Alturas bill forces the terri
tory you flibuster away from Plumas, evils mucl
worse than you complain of suffering in old Sierra, tina
you ashamed the location of your county
seat, and took your famous central point an
comodating thing that could be slid anywhere.
One Of out&pssagrsphs ~is :. retSeshing one &
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