The Shasta courier., 1861-03-02
Not Honorable.

Not Honorable.
1t is fact, not to be disputed, that the oppo-
nents of General Denver, in the Senatorial fight,
have not treated him fairly. n
During the canvass last year these same OPP
ponents 1--WE do not mean Messrs. McDougal,
Nugent and Randolph, but many of their sup
porters J boasted of the fact that Gen. Denver
man previously high in the councils of the Ad-
ministration, and warmly attached to, and
hearty sustainer of the Administration n,-would
no longer follow the lead Of Mr.. Buchanan, who,
to punish Douglas, was endeavoring to destroy
and defeat the Democratic party by securing
the election of Republican to the Presidency
thus disrupting the Union which he had SOL
emnly sworn before his countrymen and the
world, and in the face of high Heaven, to main
tain at all hazards in every constitutional man
ner. Then no eulogy was too extravagant to
bestow upon him patriot capable of forget
ting friendship and interest when his country
and party demanded that sacrifice. Then, it was
boasted, a blast upon his bugle was worth
thousand men. Then his letter sustaining the
Democratic Convention was used and quoted as
a mastery exposition of the plain duty of every
Democrat. In short, while the fight was pro-
crossing, while it was still in doubt which wing
of the Democracy ~oted prove TO be in thesas-
tendency in the Assembly, Gen. Denver was
Democrats who now oppose him, and entitled
to the same rights as other Democrats-to
equality in the race for preferment.
After the assembling of the Legislature, how
ever, his position was entirely reversed in the
eyes of his opponents. They no longer admit
ted that he good Democrat They denied
that he was entitled to an equal chance with
others in the race for Senator. Although his
friends in both Houses numbered more than
those of any other aspirant, yet he was looked
upon as wrongfully before caucus of Douglas
Democrats-as having "wrung in" where he had
no right to be. Men in the Assembly, who were
his avowed friends before and after their nomi-
nation, all at once discovered that he was doubt
ful-that he was not to be trusted And why?
Because among the Douglas aspirants, he was
the first choice of some Breckenridge members
The same men who sought the aid OF Republi-
can votes to accomplish certain aims, denoun-
ced his Democracy, because certain Breckin-
ridge Democrats preferred him to any other of
the Douglas aspirants And almost every in
dependent paper in the State, with Republican
proclivities, caught up the cry. And almost
every Sacramento newspaper correspondent re-
peated it day after day
This, we say, was waging against Denver an
unfair warfaie. 1t is not strange that his friends
have exhibited restiveness under such treatment
We ask any Democrat what would be his feel
ings if, upon going into County Convention
as supporter of some friend for the Sheriffalty,
he was met by the friends of other candidates
with the howl " Your man is a doubtful Demo-
crat we can't admit him on this political race
course on a perfect equality with nags? ?"
What, we repeat, would you think of such treat
ment? Would you think it fair? Why, the
lowest horse jockey on the veriest swindling
race-ceurse in America, would pronounce such
treatment the very lowest species of jockeyism.
Nevertheless, we cannot acquit some of the
friends of Gen. Denver of all blame. They in
ficted upon his prospects what we fear may
prove an irreparable injury, by Withdrawing, in
a manner violatve of the usages of the party,
from the caucuses of the party. They played
over again the foolish game of the Anti-Le-
compton boilers in 1858 and 80, who, by their
boiling from the party, rendered themselves
helpless in 1860 to aid their great leader at the
very and only time he asked for their assistance.
We do not impugn the motives of the actors in
either instance reverted to. They were doubt
less honest and patriotic. And it certainly lily
becomes men, who bolted the regular organiza-
ton OF the party for two years in succession, to
denounce the Democracy of men who, to some
extent, are initiating their example.