The Nevada Democrat., 1862-08-30
Card OIL. CALDWELL.

Ed. DEMoCRAT.-My attentions has been
called to ehc card of JAS. K. ByrneJ q would-6e
County Judge.
Mr.. Byrnefs reply to the charges made against
him of having boted the Union Democratic
ticket last year, both State and County when
taken all together arR@ants to no more nor less
than confession of guilty of the charge.
He says the statement made that he CByrne)
bolted the Union Democratic State ticket last
year is fslsehoo&.
The assertion that he (Byrne) did not sup
port the Union Democratic ticket is also false.
The charge made by me was that he (Byrne)
bolted the Union DeMocratic State and Oo0nty
ticket last year.
Mr.. Jas. X. ByTne told J. A. Turner and
many others that he was going to vote for Mr..
Mcconnell for Governor.
We will take ii in SAID charge, that he
(Byrne) has in bis card denied the charge
made; but Immediately thereafter he confesses
that he did bolt the county ticket.
| have no do8bt that had the Hon. Sohn
Conness caught him as did on the day of the
election Of last year, peddling out to voters OF
the Union Democratic party in Grass Valley
spurious and altered tickets, Mr.. Byrne would
have also confessed that he bolted the Unicn
Dem. State ticket last year. When L sHW as
| did see the gentleman, Jas. X. Byrne, hand
ing out to voters the tickets printed for the
Union DeInOCIdJlC parry WIN oCiaeShSS "hu
erasures and substitutes to suit his spleen or
envy; said to him, ,"Jimmy, is that the way you
bolt the ticket" He looked around and saw he
was caught, for did NOS speak till l saw him
hand one of the tickets 80 mutlated to a voter,
and then he confessed he was b0lsing. lie at
tempts to assign reason why he bolted the
County ticket, viz: That he believed nae totally
incompetent and untitled for the position (Dis-
trict Judge)
What does Mr.. Byrne's opinion amount to,
or what were the grounds of his belief atoTe-
said.
He has never met me in any case in court
though have been practicing law in Nevada
county since the month o! June, 1854.
Mr.. Byrne is the only gentleman claiming to
be lawyer; and residing in Nevada county,
that have not met at the Bar, or in the trial
of cause. We did not read law together; nor
that know of under the same preceptOr.
1t is only hearsay that l know he ever read
law at all.
l shall then not attempt to Jadge of Mr..
Byrne's legal ability, except from the lights Of
surrounding circumstances.
Mr.. Byrne may be a modern SOlan; but if he
is so far as my information he extends he has
kept that light (if he had it) under bushel.
The Soan we read about did not acquire his
legal reputation in the shadows of other men.
1t may be modesty I'm Mr.. Byrne he having
remained so long in the shade Of others: but we
believe he never has even assumed to practice
law in his own name.
If Mr.. Byrnc ever does manage to get one
side of a case in which may he employed on
the other; Ga case not likely to happen for do
not anticipate his senior partner viii trust him
with the trial of a CASEY we then may have
better opportunity of judging of each others
ability.
Now will Jell the people of Nevada county
why Mr.. Byrne; Dbble; and others opposed me
last year.
There was an attempt last year to raerge the
Union Democratic party in the secession party
in this county, by means Of the two County
Central Committees; or as politicians called 1t
the uniting Of the two wings of the Democratic
party.
was the Chairman of the Union Democrat
ic Central Committee; aud would not consent
to the merging of the Union Democratic party
in secession.
Mr.. ByrRe was there also member of the
County Central Committee; and after the call
had been made for the Central Committee to
meet preparatory to calling Convention last
year, | had a conversation with Mr.. Byrne in
Grass Valley; and he JAS. X. Byrne then and
there declared to me that he was in favor of a
fusion as he called it with the Breckenridge
Democratic party. told him l would never
sonable organization.
Mr. Dibbe had before that time in the State
Central Committee made his political record.
Let that speak for ITSELF
This was why | was so bitterly opposedin the
canvass last year by Mr.. Byrne, Dibble and
others who were sympathising with the seces-
sion party.
do not think am the first person to call in
question the loyalty of Mr.. Byrne.
have heard his loyalty to the Government
frequently called in question.
BY their acts we know them. BY Mr.. Byrne's
acts the People of Nevada County know him.
There is scarcely Secessionist in Nevada
county bat will claim to be a better Union man
than any one else.
But they have been weighed in the balance
and found wanting.
We will wait for verdict of the People of
Nevada county, for l shall take no further no
tice of Mr.. Byrne. j. l. CALDWELL.
A TRAIN of wagons, with 10000 pounds of
-four and 5000 pounds of butter, arrived at
Carson City on the 10th inst, from Salt Lake.
Los ANGELES grapes are selling in San
Francisco, at wholesale, at eight cents per
pound.
CT. Boris, a we'll known Secessionst, has,