The Placer herald., 1866-02-10
Trying to Undo the Mischief.

No acrobat ever turned a flip flap with
greater dexterty than A. A. Sargent has
turned, since the late Senatorial election
from Central Pacific Railroad champion to
a defender Of the rights of AN honest miner.
The most ingenious poliicaster in California
cannot serve Stanford, Crocker q Co, and
the real mining interest of our State at the
same time. The story of the youth who un,
dertook to take both forks of road, perse.
vering in his efforts at an impossible feat UNI
til he was literally split in twain, is here sug-
gested. Sargent did his work faithfully for
his political friends Stanford, Croker & Co.,
aiding to his full ability in entailing upon
the people of California one of the most
damnable public curses, in the shape of a
railroad franchise, ever known in any coun-
try. He succeeded in getting locomotive
named the "a. A. Sargent" We say. he
succeeded, etc; but perhaps he had nothing
to do with the hristening-Stanford & Co.
perhaps conducted the baptisma rites on
their own responsibility. The least they
could do, considering the fact that Sergeant
passed their bill for them, was to name a
second class locomotive in honor () of him.
1t was claimed that the railroad influence,
under the management of old political wre-
workers like Stanford, Redding & Co. could
either make Governors or United States Sen
ators. We have no doubt the friends of the
Pacific Swndle could have selected Sargent
for Lows positon-for Conness's-o could
have sent him as McDougal's successor in,
stead of Cole, the latter being greatly the
inferior of"California' favorite son" in point
of ability. But Aaron had outlived his USE
fulness; his rod had failed to swallow the
rods in the presence Of the magcians, (Low
Cole and oihers) as in case Of his namesake
of old. Corporations, like republics, are un,
grateful. From one end of our mineral re-
gion to the other, the voice of honest indig
nation goes up against the Central Pacific
Railroad monopoly. Something must be
done and done quickly. The tide has set in
against Stanford & Co.'S outrageous scheme,
and Sargent is with the tide. 1t is now po'
ltical death to even sympathse with the
railroadites, and Sargent in the vain attempt
to undo great mischief is foremost in the
breach 10 defense of his office bestowing
friends, our "honest miners" Like an AS
modeus he turns up when and where least
expected, and, through the aid of partisan
friends, is made President OF the Miners
Convention, thus coming in for bis "share,"
at least of buncombe. No Undiscovered mil
ner, fresh from the noisome bowels Of pipe
clay or blue gravel, or wearing powder
soiled face through which the courses of
honest perspiration can be traced, is more
clamorous for the rights of the miner than
Sargent now is. He wants no mineral land
sold-wants no taxing of the mines He is
even more anxious for the miners rights
than is the miner himself Perhaps the op.
portunity is not lost; that the Miners Con
ventien, recently assembled at Sacramento,
can bring influences to bear against the rail-
road monopoly, such as will secure at least a
portion of the rights of the miner, now jeop
ardized by schemers and bunglers. If Sar'
geant can undo even in part the mischief he
has done-no matter how selfish may be the
end-he may blot out a portion of his bad
record and make himself tolerably available
before another political convention Grass
Valley National.