The Shasta courier., 1863-10-17
To Union Voters.

more bold rally to hurl back the cepperhead
faction in this patriotic State, ard forever
sound the death knell of Secessionisrn and
vallandighamism, whose followers are united
under the stolen name of Democracy.
The vital issues which SO thoroughly arous-
ed the people in the late election, and bid
them rally to the standard of their country,
remain the same to-day as then. The same
party leaders on the copperhead ticket are
now marshaling their forces for the Judicial
election; and if by chance they should be
successful in electing a portion of the judi
ciary of the State, they will claim success,
and point to those of their candidates whom
they may elect as gain to their party, and
afford them a nucleus around which to rally
for the great Presidential contest of 1864.
The cohesive power of the g Butte Cali"
has failed to unite the two wings" with
that harmony of purpose they hoped, and
thus We find that those who supported the
copperhead ticket at the late election are
now divided as to the policy of their party,
some still adhering to the no more men
and no more money" doctrine, and others
claiming to be War Democrats, for the time
renouncing the platform of their party,
for the purpose of deceiving Union men into
their support for Judicial Offices. The over
whelming vote in favor of the war policy of
the Administration has convinced these lead
ers that there is no hope for their candidates
for Justices of the Supreme Court, and now
their whole attention is turned to the secur-
ing as many Of the District Judges of their
own faith and principles as possible; and for
this purpose they are using their subtle and
deceitful powers to gain the votes of Union
candidates for judicial honors may repudiate
their platform, or the oft expressed principles
of their leaders, they are working with all
the zeal in their power for the success of
these same candidates. And why? Because
they have been nominated by the party op-
posed to the Government. and in opposition
to meu known to be Internationally for main
tanning the Union and National integrity; and
therefore they feel sure that if anyof their
nominees are elected, they will, in their de-
cisons on the Conscription Act, Legal Ten
der Act, Confscation Act, and the Act sus-
pending the writ of habeas corpus, endeavor
to carry out the principles of the party that
nominated and supported them. Is it not
reasonable to believe that they would do SO
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on the copperhead ticket for judicial Offices,
from the highest to the lowest, were active
workers and supporters of their party and its
principles, openly proclaimed to be in oppo-
sition to all the measures of the Adminisira-
tion for the suppression of the rebellion; and
not one of them ever announced any other
faith until after the late election, when they
saw t! at the great mass of the people w-re
in favor of standing by and aiding The Fed
eral GcvernElent in its measures for crushing
out treason from our land. 1t was then made
evident to their disappointed leaders that a
change of tactics must be adopted and soon
we hear of their candidates privately telling
Union men that they are war Democrats
| that they are in favor Of all the measures Of
the Administration except the Emancipation
Proclamation, thereby seeking to obtain suf
ficient support from the Union party to en-
sure their election, and. "Uriah IIeep' like
wind themselves into the favorable opinion
of some Union men to obtain their votes, only
to betray the confidence reposed in them by
their unwary victims. Such are their tactic,
such their only hope in the coming elec
ton.
Let Union men beware of the snake. lik,
friendship of these oily y.tongued gentry. Th,
election to be held on Wednesday next is o
as much Importance to the future peace ant
welfare of this State as was the last, and i
is as important that Union men should b.
vigilant and unccasing in their efforts t.
elect unconditional Union men to all the .ju
dicial Offices throughout the State, as it wa
to elect Union Governor and other Stat
officers, for much of the latter's efficiency il
maintaining peace and obedience to the law
and the Constitution depends on the goot
faith of our Judges, who will be invested
with power to pass upon all laws passed by
our Legislature, os well as to determine th,
constitutionality of those already on the st.
tute books Unless we have a Judiciary wht
will support the action of our State and Gen
eral Governments, confusion will soon aris'
upon vital questions of government, which
will in all probability create internal broils
and eventually lead to anarchy. where ther
should be harmon. and prosperity.
Every voter should remember that tn,
nominees of each party for judicial Offices
were selected as the representatives. of th'
principles of their party. and they are eacf
in honor and dnty bound, if elected, to carry
out the principles advocated by their respect
i've parties, and most undoubtedly they vii
do SO on every material question. 1t there
fore remains with majority Of the voters tt
determine, by their votes, whether they
will have men in high judicial position:
in this State, who deny the right of the Gen
eral Government to defend itself against tht
efforts of the traitors who have rebelled
against it; or whether they will have mer
who have. by every word and act, sincs thu
rebellion began. stood by the Administrator
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