Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-09-08
The Presidential Tour.

North, in the vain hope of convincing North
ern unionists of the patriotism and purity
OF the intentions of the Administration
They have visited the cities of Philadelphia
and New York, besides number of minor
cities and towns on the route taken by the
funeral procession of the lamented Lincoln,
at each place ventilating their views on re-
construction, and denouncing Congress-
They travel in Lincoln's funeral car; and
the crowds which gathered to view the re-
mains of the martyred President on their last
earthly journey, can again assemble and wit
ness our living President, Lincoln's acci-
dental and unworthy successor, standing in
his boots, vituperative, where Lincoln's body
lay. To ensure full attendance of the people
at the various stopping places along the
route. the President and Seward have had
the cunning to impress Grant and Farragut
into the travelling party. The people have
turned out to see the Presidential troupe and
have shouted and cheered in their usual
style. 1t does the American people good to
shout and cheer and make noise generally,
and they do it on the slightest provocation.
They like to see distinguished strangers. and
TO shaP e hands with them. They did the
same for the Japanese and tie Prince of
Wales that they are now doing for Johnson
and his troupe; and as well might the En-
glish Prince and the Japanese Embassador
have taken the popular demonstr ations, on
their visits to this country, to be an endorse
ment by our people of their particular kinds
of monarchy as for the President to attempt
to construe the shouts for Grant and Farra-
gutinto an approval of his presidential policy.
The ostensible object of Johnson's trip is to
visit Chicago. and assist in laying the corner
stone of the Douglas Monument; the real
object is to help the Copperhead Congress
sional ticket in the fall election. The only
hope for Johnson is in the election of a Cop
perhead Congress, and that hope is fading
rapidly. From each Copperhead candidate
the cry has come up to the White House,
Help me, Cassius, or sink !' and Johnson,
with his established pluck, has essayed to
give them what help he can. But he will
find the North altogether different politi-
cal arena from any he has been accustomed
to. He will have to address people who
read and think for themselves, and do not
take for gospel all that is told them by stump
speakers. The OLD tricks which told in the
mountains Of Tennessee before the war, will
not tell there any longer, and Johnson should
know better than to attempt to palm them
of on the Union men of the North. The
Presidents magnanimity in offering to leave
the Constitution and the Union in the hands
of the people. will hardly be fully apprecia-
ted; for the people have been in the habit of
expecting their presidents to do thus. And
when he dcclaims that "the voice of the peo-
pie is the voice of Cod he but repeats what
every school boy can learn in the back part
of his spelling book, and what the people
regard as truism, when applied to matters
of government. But when he takes the voice
of his Philadelphia Copper-J johnson Conven-
tion for the voice of the people, he is guilty
of self-delusion which is really amusing. AS
far as this State is concerned, we do not
know what voice God had in choosing the
delegates to that convention, but we know
that the voice of the people was not heard.
nor were their wishes considered at all in the
matter. and any attempt on the part of the
delegates from this State to speak the voice
of the people of California, would be as bold
faced an imposition as for John Tahoe and
Sam Purdy to pretend to carry the State in
their pockets. and to pledge it for Johnson.
The voice of the people is still to be heard
from in the elections, and will roll up to
Washington in thunder tones which will as
tonish the president and his traitorous ad-
visers, when the returns, from State after
State, come in, each endorsing Congress and
repudiating MY policy" perhaps we shall
again soon hear from Johnson, and his lau-
dations of the people. Should he succeed,
by the clamor and tumult of his trip to Chi
cago, in effacing from the minds of the peo-
pie the horrors of the late massacre of New
Orleans. and in drowning the wall of despair
which rises every day from the prosecuted
Unionists of the South. he will have accom-
plished trick of political legerdemain un-
paralleled in American politics.
The ELEcTIoN.--We ere unable to give
the total number of votes cast at each pre-
cinct at the election held in the Second Dis
trict, for Supervisor, on Wednesday last, but
give the majorities. As these figures foot up,
Mr.. Cole, the Union candidate, is defeated
by six votes. The official canvass. however,
may change the result. If Mr.. Cole is beat
en-, it is entirely owing to the inactivity and
neglect of the Union men of the Second Dis
trict. Had sufficient interest been taken in
the matter to have drawn out the full strength
of the party, Mr.. Cole would have been elect
ed by at least so majority. The Union party
of this county will yet have cause to regret
that they allowed this election to go by de-
fault. The following are the majorities:
Cole. Coulter
Jenny Lind. ......-... 20
FL Dorado. ........... Sc
San Andreas. ....... 3
Cataverltas .......... Al
West Point. IS
Total majorities.... 81 81
County Court Proceedings.
SEPTEMBER TERM. 1866.