The Shasta courier., 1863-08-29
Letter from French Gulch.

FRENCH GuLoH, Aug. &c, 1868.
Mr.. EDITOR Perhaps you may deem me rather
cumbersome in writing often, but as this may be
my last for while at least, would beg small
space in the columns of your patriotic paper. And,
by the bye, you must keep good look out for GER
tain good democrats in this county, for they are
"heavy" on the Sacramento Onion echoes" as
they style the COURIER and Northern Argus. Ey-
identity they feel the force of the grape canister
and an opca asional shell thrown from these two
loyal batteries. Were it nat that they believe il
free speech, and arc in glorious minority, they
would smash you into "pi.' But enough of this.
When Royal Il. Sprague was delivering his Cop
perhead harangue to his Confederate sympathiser
here, he closed by saying he hoped the time would
soon come when Shasta county would get rid of its
Black Republican rulers. His auditors were per-
picked to know what he meant and as 1 have not
learned that a Black Republican Red Republi-
can was ever elected to Office in Shasta county, l
am at loss to divine his meaning. But as people
often hear and strange sights while laboring
under the deirium tremens, Mr.. S. may be trcu-
bled, POLITICALLY with the same disease. He now
looks with an anxious eye to that seat on the Su-
preme Bench, nominee for which he has been on
both sides of the fence. Rest easy, Mr.. Sprague'
your loyal opponents, backed by some 10000 ma
oritv. will save you the trouble of going below
The road from Shasta to the Supreme Bench is
hard one for a Copperhead to travel. You ought
to have spelled your first name with an L, then
there would have been difficulty. But, alas, it
is now too late, and if you and your disloyal asso-
ciates really want Office you must go " down South
to Dixie" where your friends are in the majority.
As it regards Shasta county getting rid of its
Black Republican rulers, Mr.. S. might have meant
Copperhead rulers. If So his hopes will be realized
on the I'd prox., when the Union mojority will be
counted by hundreds. Then it will be that Mr..
Skillman, who ''didn't d-n for the foreign.
ers" will find his defeat sure. By-the-bye. he is
very loving with these foreigners now. Oh
how he loves them
The people are too well informed to yote for men
of such doubtful loyalty. snd now, Union men of
Shasta county, awake rouse We for the contest
Wednesday next. Say not you will be satisfied
with small majority We not only able to
cripple, but to crush sneaking. crawling, venomous
reptiles denominated Democratic Copperheads, who
are seeking, under the guise of Union, to fasten
its poisonous fangs around the throat of glori
GUS Republic.
Let us then, as intelligent freemen do our utmost
duty on election day, and the Tn majority viii
be tens of thousands Our brethren in the East are
impatient to hear from CD Wednesday next
They expect great things OF Us. Let US not disap-
point them. Let us show them that California is
loyal from the mountains to the ocean. Let us say
to Eastern brethren, Continue to the end
Know such word fail. The sound Of every
gun on the Potomac awakens echoes these ives
tern slopes, and every victory fos freedom is hailed
with shouts of gladness from the snowy heights of
the towering Sierras to where the of the Pa
cific kiss the sands of the vine-clad coast.
LOYAL.