The Shasta courier., 1865-07-29
nave we an Issue.

Under the above caption the Red Bluff
Independent says:
The question is now asked what is the
issue or aim which keeps the Union party
topetter? For our part we are at loss to
see ANYTHING more than the spoils of office.
We have but one opinion of a paper that
thus questions and answers, and that is not
very aattering. Nor is it strange that,
where such paper has been the only one
to lead. and teach Union sentments-the
only one to keep up the party organization
and drill, many persons should act just as
they haze in Tehama county
Boilers there felt there was none to cen.
sure except by word Gf mouth, and to over.
come thar, they had press to justify and
preach that the Union party was virtually
dissolved there being no issne but the 'spoils
Of Office
Shame. where is thy blush: Can the In
dependent man blush? Is there enough Of
blood in him to mantle his cheek to suih !.
eient tinge to call it one? Milk and water
the milk skinned and the water muddy
would make better set Of brains than are in
the head Of tho man who wrote the extract
we have made, and as for the Unionism-
the patriotic sentiment that is necessary
ingredient in the makeup Of a true Union
man-- that writer is as devoid Of it as 4 Cop
perhead.
The Examiner, successor to Beriah Browns
treason mill, was the first to discover that
there was no political issue before the people.
Fifty enough. the Nevada Gazette, Quincy
Union and Red Bluff Independent made the
same discovery while after, each-a strange
coincidence Immediately after the defeat of
the faction they had headed in aspiring to
the offices in their respective localities. 1t
does not require the assistance OF an exert
to arrive at what's the matter" All those
Solons now agree that there is no issue to
bind the Union party together. and they
assert it, too. with & cool impudence which
is convincing to an observer that their prac-
tice in duplcity has been long; that there
was no principle other than that of self
interest TO restrain them from being No. |
Connerheads. The editors who can write
that There are no issues to bind the Union
party together" are strangers to the senti-
ment of Unionism and the feeling Of patriot
ism.
Is there no Union party necessary to sus-
tain the Government in recognizing the
Southern States, on the basis of free labor,
with loyal Governments elected in each of
them? And is il not necessary that the
Government be sustai ned in its collection of
revenues, and the ust and proper arrange
ment of its immense debt, so that it may be
placed in process of liquidation in such
manner as to stife the slander, already be
ing whispered of, reputation Is there no
Union party necessary to sustain the Govern
ment in dealing out even handed justice to the
traitors who have sought to destroy it
But why go on to enumerate issues that do
bind together all that is sound of the old
organization? The rotten and unsound
limbs Of the strong oak can well be spared.
Their fall does not weaken its strength, but
renders it more powerful to resist the whirl-
wind.
To such rotten compopents of the Union
perry we say, go; the party is purified and
strengthened in your leaving. but claim no
longer to be Union men having the interests
of YOUR country at heart. but stand out boldly
in your selfshness ; avow to your admlring
friends that you are for self g first, last an1
all the time" Without the avowal the YER
diet viii be the same.