The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

ELEvArED.-Our old partner, John Con-
ness, received the nomination for United
States Senator from the Abolition caucus
on Monday night, and on Tuesday, IN
Joint convention, was electcd-the Aboli-
tionists to a man voting for him, the
Democrats for Senator Shurtlitf. Our &C.
centric friend Sanderson, whose recent
conversion to Republicanism and still
more recent remuneration Of it, both sur
prised and amused his former political
associates, who have but little charity for
the frailty of an ambitious but verdant
politician, had the honor and pleasure OF
SSkcfng John in nomination in joint con-
; veition. Fitch gracefully and magnanl'
mously yielded the distinguished privilege
to his aspiring colleague.
John is lucky if he isn't reliable. Near
" eleven years ago he and the senior OF
the DEMOCRAT started the first Democratic
paper published in Fl Dorado county
At that time John was Chivalrv Dem
ocrat" from the top of his head to the sole
OF his boots, and hated, intensely, or pro-
fessed to, everything that smacked of AH-
olitionism. 1t was both popular and pro-
fitablc then to denounce the AbOltioni>tS,
as it is now to denounce the Democratic
party, and then as now John cast his io'
with the popular and profitable side
This is all evidence of Johns shrewdnesS
il it isn't of his fidelity to principle. Like
many others, since then, John has wan
dered after strange gods and wo"dHiped at
unholy shrines, because he found it pro-
Gtable to do so. In this he but followed
the example Of some other successful and
selfish poli,icians, Of Indifferent capacity
and reputation.
John is a professional politician, has an
insatiate thirst for office, and has pursued
it, not always successfully, with Step
as steady as time and an appetite IS keen
as ueHtu. OO'Iu PuSSSSHSNi w OIL N''A'''N'''
degree, subtletv, energy and gift Of speech
Of a peculiar order, which captiv1&S the
timid and imposes upon the unrelNaSA's
He is temperate, industrious and pcIScvc-
ring, and in point of ability is superior to
either of his late formidable competitors
though this is a questionable compiimcrt
He has happy faculty Of detecting The
weak points Of his opponents, and con-
cealing his own. Some RrFuLl,an> irc.
tend TO be indignant at his election they
have no reason to be- The party which
elected Lincoln to the Presidency cannot
consistently complain of the election Of
ordinary men to subordinate positions
Conness is infinitely better qualified -
discharge the duties Of Senator than Lin
coin those Of President.
The following vas the vote in joint con-
vention:
FoI CoNxEss-sena'or. Anderson, Dirdseyc,
Booth. Burneil. CaVi- ChAmhs rlaln, Clark, Crane,
I hhblngnhHl, O1thtlf hartman, u tarNFN, lt1IhA-
way. Highly, Higgins, ku;f, M,'I,.uG-A, v
S4bb, Nixon. out"n. PA.h~co. Paris. IetAIl.,
Porter. Of Contra Costa, Porter, cf santa tt..',
Powers, SANton, shannon, Van Dyke, WA..-.
Waiting: A.scm. lmen Adams. Adkison. An.t..
Banks, barclay. Bir>;ow. Barton, Bccsou, Ban.
chard Burr. Butter, Castro, ha-rr!!. r.Irk. Ct
hus, Crawford, De,:t, DerL.-:or, /, tce. D.rv,
Dudi-y. of So!an". bur""U.h"- pHr''. f-tr.. -
lev. f.;ch, Gugulson. H,TUrc;. II, HA-;.at.. G4s
well. II III. Howell, Jolu.ou, hos, hrt..t. Lax,
Martin, Moore. Meyers, Orr, !. J. Owr!, ! W.
Owen. Palmer, Paiten, rersaneite, Esaield, r.
der, Robinson, Rue, Sana,Fson. Sttgr!t. >-p:;,
Sears, simpson, Smith, o: Bate, Smith. l! >tI:a,
sutton, SWlh, Torrance, Warwick. Wheaton,
Whipple, Wilcox. WI!IAns, WrlgAt, Of Cynira
Costa, Wright. Gf Del Nurte, MIR. Speaker-9>.
FoR >nURTLIFF-Scratnrs Baker, B,gar;, Hs'-
den, Lewis. Quint, Vineyard: AssemLi! i!meu Al
len, Andrews, Dudley, Of iAcer, Freeman, lTW.I,
Kewen, Nc Donald, Narney. WAtsnu--l5.
For +, HUGE- Senator shurtAH-i.