The Shasta courier., 1861-09-14
The Election and its Results.

| Sufficient is known to render il certain
that Stamford is Governor and that the entire
State ticket of the party headed by him is
elected. We submit. They were warred
against in every breach and stronghold, and
as we think, it was conclusively shown that
that party, nor any segment thereof was enti,
tied to be entrusted with power, nererthe-
less, having procured it, we bow, as it is the
duty of every citizen, to the fairly expressed
will of the majority. We bate no jot or tit
tie of perfect adherence to the views which,
in the minds of unprejudiced, should have
eventuated in the election of John Conness,
for we deemed him, and yet believed him to
be the only man on any ticket fitted to take
charge of the Executive Department of our
State government. Mr.. Stanford comes to
the executive Office with no prestige, save
that he is an honorable man. He brings in
himself no weight or point to an administra-
ton. Qying to the care of his Democratic
predec1eo Mr.. Downey, he finds the inter
ests of the State in perfect keeping. If he
does not leave them SO, it viii be owing to
hsence Of = kno~'edse,ef tho wants.of
the state, 50 frequently urged upon him and
against him, or the influence of bad advisers,
which we most fear. Should he follow the
example of Mr.. Lincoln and surround HIM
self With those whose fealty to his party is
established alone by his practical adherance
to the most exceedingly Republican dogmas
of that most exceedingly dogmatic party, in
plain words, the Abolitionists, who constitute
no contemplate lin point of numbers) por-
ton of the Republican organization, and
judges of the fitness of tho men of his ap-
pointment by the same very equivocal stan
dard, we are safe in the prediction that his
administration will be failure, disgraceful
to himself and fatal to the interests of the
State. We would, if we had the power,
make the administration of Mr.. Stanford,
and further, and more emphatically that of
Abraham Lincoln, comprehend the fact that
neither the government of this State or the
Federal Government is yet abolitionized.-
The election of Stanford was bad enough,
that of many who came in with him disas-
trous in the extreme. The people of this
State have not yet learned of the fitness in
essential particulars of Mr.. Ashley or Mr..
Pixley. Of themselves, neither of these gen.
tlemen could have been elected to any Office
whatever, by the people; they have, how
ever, been swept into place for which they
are known to be untitled, by the sheer force
of the current that elected Stanford. Let
not that gentleman further jeopardise the in
terests of the State by ungracious action in
his appointments, looking in the same direc-
ton and more particularly in reference TO
the selection of the Secretary of State. As
well appoint man convicted of crime, as
appoint notorious Abolitionist, or rice versa.
This much for that branch of this not alto
getner pleasant q Tho Republics r sgs
ty carries with it the fast ripening seeds Of
its own destruction. 1t represents no prin-
ciple, save of the boldest distractions or the
most virulent abolitionism, and its assumed
love for the poor, low, oppressed and down.
trodden negro, is but bastard expression
of their predominant and controlling hate for
the people of the Southern portion of this
yConfederacy.
We have our defeat; we bear it as freemen
should. The day is at hand, and the hour
is near when they, the Republican people,
will be curious alone to the pathologist and
statistician, the one to estimate and examine
the cause and cnre of national insanities, and
the other to weigh, if possible, the effects of
dogmas upon peoples.