The weekly Butte record., 1862-07-19
Breckinudge.

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Breckinridge passed through that city in the
latter part of June, and crossed the Mississippi
in small boat, on bis way to Texas, or Next
co. As his party in California have maintain
ed their numbers as well as any rebel State. il
is not improbable that be may find his way
here. In that case, he win probably supersede
Crittendeu. as Chairman of their State Com
mittee, until they can run him for Governor
or elect him to the United States Senate
Crittenden's failure TO issue an address, as be
was appointed to DO, has created great dissat-
| isfactiou in the ranks of the Breckenridge par
ty Of California, and their chief organ, the
Marysyille Express, talks about silly snipes
who are afraid to oppose the Administration
The experience of their leader, Breckenridge,
in opposing the Administration, peculiarly
qualities him to Ell the place now occupied by
Crittenden. He has shown his readiness to
grapple the Administration bull by the horns,
if be does occasionally receive horn too much
himself.
The following address was prepared by
Breckenridge to be delivered on his arrival
here. This advance copy was undoubtedly
intended for the Marysvile Express, and was
not to be published until Breckenridge had
burst like a meteor into the State, to cheer
and gladden. the desponding hearts of bis we'll
nigh fainting party. The direction on the en-
velope, however was TO the " Butte RECORD, -
and the mistake would seem TO show that the
great rebel chief of the Mcconnell party.
reads and admires, if be cannot approve, the
/ RECORD,
Fellow traitors of California I congratu-
late you upon your last years work. Consider
ing that you had no opportunity TO steal the
Government Mint aud Custom House, and
arms and Notifications, your resolutions in IA
vor of recognizing our glorious Southern Con-
federacy was big thing" Our secession
from the snipish " and contemplate -
National Democratic Convention at Charles
/ ton, was the Inauguration of wonders in the
grand larceny line We have reduced stealing
to one of the fine arts. We have made PERU
ry one of the learned professions" We have
elevated the repudiation of honest debts TO the
bankruptcy one of our peculiar institutions. :"
We have inaugurated new code of morals
/ We have partially restored society to that
good old primitive condition when one could
take purses and slit wizzens without compro-
missing his good name We have brought a
new miennial dispensation where every man
can help himself TO his neighbor's goods
where every man has a lien upon his neigh
bor's wife-where every man can lie and steal
and perjure himself, with none to molest or
make him afraid.
We found the country in a state of the most
scottish peace. We found the people in a state
of the most alarming conentmeut. We found
degree of prosperity existing, the most dis
gusting and degrading. We found the world
buried, as it were, in the pursuits of its peace
full ends. We found the masses indulging in
the most grovelng heresies in respect to the
Government-obeying its laws, submitting to
its burdens, and remaining content under its
sway. We found them infatuated with ven
GRAFTON for the founders of the repubc-stark
mad over an old fogy called Washington, and
idiotically cleaving to the delusion that Jefer-
sen was a statesman and Patrick Henry an
orator. We found life safe, property secure,
the Ten Commandments quoted by men pre-
I
truth prevalently spoken, and lock picking and
pocket picking at discount.
/ But as the French say Nos duonS change
tout celia. We have inaugurated a new dis
pensation. We have created a new moral
heaven and new moral earth. We have in
verted the social pyramid. We have put back
the dial hand of Time two centuries We have
discovered the pilferer's Paradise.
Nay more We have awakened the coun-
try from its long trance of peace We have
let loose the tiends Of Discord. We have set
thirty millions of people to cutting each others
throats. We have trampled the flag of our
Fathers in the dust We have emancipated
ourselves from the trammels of law and order.
We have taught the folly of being bound by
oathS and obligations We have reinstated
the regime of brute force. We have brought
tribulation to the North and ruin to the South.
Fellow Traitors! so much for the Past the
Future, am free TO confess, looks rather ne
bulOus. We have met the enemy and-we
are theirs The Phistines are upon US. The
' Vandal hordes - of the Government are in
our very midst-and what is worse, insist upon
staying. They refuse to obey our summons to
depart-they refuse to be frightened at our
magnificent threats-they have the audacitv
to laugh at our procamations. Moreover, we
have been stricken with new disease-I had
it myself, and have sought the genial cline of
California with the hope of recovering my
health-it is Powderphoba The moment
the victim is attacked be turns pale, gets weak
in the knee joints, becomes intrm in the region
of the diaphragm and is seized with an ire
sistibe desire to turn tail. This malady pre-
vailed to a frightful extent in our camp at
Roanoke, at Mill Spring, at Fort Henry, at
Fort Doneson, at Corinth.
Fellow Traitors our worthy President,
Jefferson Davis. has concluded to postpone his
promised visit to Washington for the present
Rest assured, however, that the cause of the
Southern Confederacy is progressing. Every
move is a strategic one, tending TO the over
throw of constitutional and popular govern
ment. The war against the declared policy of
the government and against Mcclellan, the
Commander Chief of its armies, by our Re
publican allies, has induced President Davis
to give old Abe another years lease of the
" big hotel across the Potomac. Cheerily,
my lads,
a.