The Shasta courier., 1865-08-12
Gone Over to the Enemy.

The Red Bluff Independent. journal
which has heretofore exerted It's influence in
behalf of the country, has yielded to the die
taton of Conness, closed its - itching palm"
upon the price of its recreant treacherv, and
gone to the Copperheads, body and soul. 1t
seeks some miserable apology for so doing,
and pretends that the Union party has "ful.
filled its great mission and is now fighting
over .he spoils"
Were it not that we have before us the
the proof of its duplicity, We should in chari
ty conclude that ignorance, and not deliber-
ate faisehood was its offense when it made
the above statement. The country is not
saved Our foes have only changed 'front.'
The issues and victories of peace are of no
less Importance than those of war. VIII any
Union man dare to scout and deny the fact
that the Democratic party refuses to accept
the Judgment of this Nation againstsecession,
slavery and rebellion, and is prepared to
attempt the restoration of every power which
can threaten our liberties and existence p
While they are thus united to restore the old
order of things, the country is in danger.
and while in danger, every instinct of patri-
otism demands that the friends of the country
stand united for its preservation. Besides,
the Union party has no fight for spoils. The
very men in whose despicable service the
Independent has taken up the long spoon
and paddle, are the only ones who are fight.
ing for spoils, and who have taken up the
cry of factionists and tyrants-"W We will
rule or ruin
The Indepe dent concludes the deed and
covenant of =, sale, by saying that it will
continue to be of undoubted loyalty"
That is an empty, hollow assertion, worth no
more, as meaning no more, than the pro-
testations of the Copperheads that they are
"loyal men," If, as the Independent says,
the country is entirely safe, what occasion
will it have to display any extraordinary
acts of loyalty? Who ever heard of loyal
and disloyal papers before the dangers of the
rebellion arose? What will the Independent
advocate and what oppose, to give US proof
of its loyalty" that will not, at the same
time, refute the falsehood that the country is
out of danger? As we know its bad faith to
the party which alone is striving to place this
nation on foundations which cannot be
shaken, we class it where it belongs among
the enemies of the nation.
In saying that the Union party has accom-
plished its mission, the Independent doubt
less follows the written instructions of Low
Conness & Co.. who have directed their
minors and satellites here, and throughout
the State, to say that there is now no such
thing as Union party. They have antici-
pated the desire which they wished to crafty.
They proclaimed their determination to rule
that party or ruin it. To rule, they employ
ed the forestalling purse of corruption and
bribery filed from the salary fund of their
high Offices they exerted the force of patron,
age. and the tyranny of dictation, and. in
the very Capitol House of the State, sprung
a mine of ruffianism and riot, whose explo-
sion whelmed them in shame and disgrace
from which they can never escape. But
neither corruption, fear dictation, smooth
promises, or the services of rowdies and ruff
fans, could avail them for success in ruling,
and now they seem to cherish the fond de-
lusion that, because they are destroyed, the
Union party is ruined.-Flag.