The Shasta courier., 1863-06-27
Card from John Murphy, Esq.

WEAVERVILLE, June Is. 1868.
EDITOR JoURNAL.-Dedr Sir: | notice in
the last issue of the National of this place. an
article headed lone Solitary Recruit" in
which the editor of that halfprinted sheet
SAYS that went down TO Douglas City last
Sunday evening to address the Union League
of that place, and to convert my fellow coun-
trymen from Ireland) to the cid revamped
and resurrected. secret and dark lantern
order" That : it was proclaimed, with ma
ny airs of anticipated triumph, that had but
to speak and the Irish would rally to the
standard of the Union League, like hyenas to
a banquet Of the dead. the Dait was
not to their liking. Mr.. Murphy s
speech brought to the Union League one SOL
itary, lonesome Irishman.o
Now, sir, l beg to tell this imported editor
that he has either wilfully or ignorantly mis-
represented the whole NATTER if wilfully,
shame! Mr.. Ridge; if ignorantly. >hame
You should have been correctly advised in
the premises before YOU wrote. Either horn
of the dilemma is an unenviable one. First,
| did not go to Douglas City to address a
Union League, but to address mass meeting
of loyal citizens. Secondly, l did not go to
convert my fellow countrymen from Ireland
nor to convert the editors fellow countrymen
from Cherokee. | went there by invitation,
to address meeting of all classes Of citizens,
held for the purpose of organizing Union
Club, which would assist in proving that it is
entirely useless for defeated minority to
appeal from the decision of the legally con-
stituted majority at the ballot box; that we
intend the majority, and not the disafeeted
minority rabble shall govern. Thirdly, Mr..
Ridge most egregiously misrepresents the
number of recruits as he facetiously terms
them) from my fellow countrymen, for in
stead of 81 one solitary, lonesome Irishman. !"
quite number subscribed their names to The
loyal list, including the elected President of
Mr.. Ridges Copperhead Democratic Club
Nv fellow countrymen at Douglas City re-
quire no speech from me or anybody else to
convert them to the standard of the Union
That standard means the Stars and Stripes :;
anything else means the Stars and Bars, and
as good citizens who swore to support and
defend the former, it is futile, it is idle for
the itinerant editor Of the National. to try to
gull them into the support of anything differ
ent. They all have as good natural sense,
and are, | trust, as capable of Judging for
themselves as the would be leader of the
National is of judging for them, and if he
thinks he can estrange that class Of citizens
from the Union. or from me, time will prove
him to be false prophet
l would say to Mr. Ridge that the Irish
citizens of Trinity county acknowledge no
chief. and that it is too late to sit behind the
screen and pull the strings to make them the
puppets to dance to the tune of disloyal mu
sic. The National says l succeeded in con-
verting one. but the record proves the cor
rect number. however disclaim being the
cause of their conversion. | maintain that
they always were loyal. but would suggest
for the benefit of Mr.. Ridge that he visit his
countrymen, and make speeches to them,
and if he meets with even the tardy progress
he gives me credit for, he may yet be able
to assume the reins to which | believe he
claims hereditary right.
now dismiss the subject-would not have
noticed it at all were it not that my : fellow
countrymen from ireland" and myself were
grossly misrepresented.
Very respectfully, JOHN MURPHY
Erastus Corning, of Albany, N. Y, the
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