Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-06-30
NUMBER %.


Governor Brownlow and George D. Prentice
are at present engaged in throwing mud at each
other and as both are adopts in the business
the outside public are furnished with unlimited
amusement Two uglier combatapts could hard
" be found, witness Brownlow on Prentice:
George D. Prentice the embodiment of all
that is mercenary, incorporate and corrupt
George D. Prentice ! the butt-cut OF Original
Sin. the upper-crust of all nastiness-a misera-
BILE old broken hack, stepped to the nose and chm
in personal and political protiigacy, lost to all
sense of honor and shame, and blind to all the
obligations of patriotism y
To which Prentice replies in column artice'
from which we select the following gems
@ Brownlow never had mind enough to keep
his body from rotting, consequently he has al
WAYS been a mass of putrefacuon he has never
had sufficient common sense to last HIM over
nipht. so that he wakes up miserable fool
every morning.
All the little atom of sense he ever had-if he
ever had an atom-has gone to the grave before
him-but not much before him, it Is 10 be hoped,
for manknds sake. He has no right TO De SUN
haunting the glimpses of the moon. lie IS
loathsome fstula on the body polite lie IS
NANCY old dog-a disgrace to his own heas-
He is a foul bubble floating on the surface oil
cesspoo.
He breeds lies as Satans wives or concublnes
breed mps or as flies breed maggots. II ne
didn't fill the atmosphere around him with lies
he couldn't breathe it he would die like rat
| in an exhausted receiver. Lies are his meat,
his drink, his lodging, his transportation, bis
whisky his snuff and his tobacco.
! He has been a pest, an itch, leprosy, a yell
| low plague in every community. lie mas dlst'l-
ed venom, like q human bohun upas. His tongue
has ever been set fire of hell, his heart be-
ing the hell to kindle the wagging member
Berzebub's tail is forever coiled like a snake
around the old miscreants neck.
The poor old wretch must feel terrible re-
morse He must feel as if his ribs were red-hot
gridirons broiling his entrails. If every malig-
nant and accursed lie be has told were coal of
fire upon his body he would writhe and twist
under taller mountain of flame than ever the
old Titans did, His heart is as black as ten
thousand devils He sees behind him only the
mounds the graves of buried victims, and
before-ony the Dead Sea of Despair. Heaven,
earth and even hell abhor hm-though the lat
ter will some how manage to gulp him down
His very face looks like that of a dead man, who,
mistnking n boys footing horn for Gabrlel
trumpet, has got up for Judgment before his
time His evil passions have killed out every
semblance of human nature in his features, if
there such semblance there
THE OREGox MISUNDERSTANDING to the late
election in Oregon, the Auburn Stars and Stripes
ventures the following good advice for the BEN
eft of the Union party in California :-'' Less
than two years ago Oregon gave Lincoln
majority of Ala large one considering the
small number of votes polled Encouraged by
the immigration of few hundred bnshWhackers
from tile border rufiian States, and by the trea-
son of Andrew johnson, the Boothtes boosted
shat they would overcome this majority. There
was hardly n possibility that they could do it,
but they succeeded in frightening the Union
leaders in Oregon into the belief that they
might and so won half the battle. The Union
party went into the light with such an acknowl-
edgment of fear and weakness, that 1t is Won
der how the organization was kept together
through the campaign. As Bootblte cotem-
porary exultngly exclaims, they dared not
make the issue " upon the question which en-
crossed all men minds-the question whether
this Government should remain in the hands of
the free and loyal men who had preserved it, or
be surrendered to its enemies, to be at last
overthrow and trampled in the dust. They
dared not make the issue-although it was
made in spite of them, and could not be avoided
by all the tergiversation, non-committallsm and
debilitated, milk and water conservatism which
they managed to crowd into their q platform. p"
Having unsound platform, they committed
the further folly of selecting an unsound, or at
least a doubtful standard-bearer ; for the Booth
ties claim the Congressman-elect, Mallory, as to
all practical interests and purposes and of them
selves. The leaders and organs of the party
fell to driveling about preserving the harmony
of the party" and 90 avoiding dissensions con-
corning reconstruction" as if there could really
be two loyal sides to the question whether the
Union Congress or the unrepentant rebels should
dictate the terms upon which the States lately
in rebellion should be restored to their former
places in the Union-whether the policy of the
country should be directed by its friends and
defenders or by its enemies and traitors. Going
into the fight with such timid shutting, time
serving platform, with doubt and hesitation To-
scribed upon their banner and apprehension IN
words and looks. the wondefis not that their
triumph was so meager, but that they succeed
/ ed at ALL
| Throughout all the loyal States the Cnlon
party is strong enough to win if 1t VIII onlS pro-
claim its principles boldly and adhere 10 theih
firmly. There is not Federal patronage enough
at the disposal of the Executive TO DO IL an.
serious harm. if Union men will only dare 70 meel
the issues which have been forced upon tnen y,
tho ner6dv of the President. But "nene'e,
thew become frightened by Boothite ciahol anu
seek to eyade the great Responsiveness wn !S
LA mon the loyal and true men OF the
az at this critical juncture, their timldity
.u,,fniIv affects the party. The lesson to be
inarnad from the Oregon election Is, that, non
~..n,;ttaIism and Sinking of issues will invaria-
~ lose instead of gain votes. We trust the
49, marty of California will never be betrayed
80 the folly of seeking to avoid inevitable
! ;ssnes for harmony's sake.