Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-11-17
Correspondence.

to happiness Is smooth" If this be sound
logic, then mine must be hard road to trav-
el, because I know little or nothing of my
self. I was forcibly reminded of this yester-
day. Having put on my store clothes, I
started out to Swing around the circle" a
Ia Andy Johnson, and in the course of my
wanderings blundered, slam bang. upon. a
quilting party. After passing the usual CON-
pliments of the day. / received cordial in
vitation to remain and take tea with the fair
quilters. 1 cheerfully accepted the invita-
ton. supposing 1 could obtain few items,
out of which could make tale, and when
everything was lovely the conversation turn
ed upon the scribbling of your humble SER
want. Laying aside my usual modesty,
would say that four of the seven spoke Of
my letters in rather favorable terms; but
ought not to speak of this; it is of the re-
naming three intend to say something, be-
cause they are laboring under mistake in
regard to my writings. By the way, these
three are slightly tinctured with Copperhead-
ism. One of them. Mrs. Spotless Purity,
said: "I think that Old Fogy has really
s,andered the ladies of this vicinity" Now,
in all 'candor, heaven forbid that should
harbor in my breast thought to blemish
the fair fame of woman. If you are phi
losopher of the new school, read-lady. We
(Old Fogies of the old) cling to the plain,
unpretending term-woman. 1t is my good
fortune to have the acquaintance and friend
ship, I trust, of several noble women residing
in this vicinity. When it was fashionable
for the sex to show their contempt of the
Federal Government which had so long fos-
tered and protected them. these truly good
women I speak of stood nobly by their coun-
try. admire them for their noble traits OF
character, and feel proud of their friendship.
If portion of the sex behaves in manner
to bring upon themselves the frown of the
well-meaning portion of the community, I
trust that am not so simple as to believe
that such conduct on the part of the unwor-
thy, Injuries the fair fame of the good woman.
Nay, go further; it makes her virtues shine
the brighter. Now, if any reasonable person
will call this slander, I will go to jerks
Grove and collect together that stockade Of
dry pine boughs, renounce my faith in Rev.
elations, under which was reared by pious
mother, embrace the doctrine of Zoroaster,
mount my funeral pyre and appeal to those
whom have slandered to apply the torch f;
provided, one of their number can comply
with the law as expounded by the Great
Teacher, and recorded by the Evangelist, thus
" Ye without sin cast the first stone.'
The next to denounce me was Mrs. Prud-
cry. Here permit me to say that the fair
creatures did not know that they were talk
ing to the very man himself. She said -
Il do not like old Fogy; he shoots his
mouth off too often. Yet. when hear that
one of his letters is in the CHRONICLE. am
not content till have read it." If it be
shooting my mouth off to call things by their
right names, then 1 plead guilty, and to ;mi-
tate Oliver Twist, ''hold out my ladle and
humbly ask for more" Now, find myself in
the position of the razor strop man with Just
one more left Miss Secessia spoke as fol-
lows: II wonder what Old Fogy can write
about now! San Andreas is no longer a
"benlghted REGION" for it gave the Union
candidate for Supervisor three majority.-
Furthermore. believe that Old Fogy is a
negro equality man." In answer to her la
dyshlp's question, would say this: About
four miles west of San Andreas is village
called Greasertown, formerly one of the pre-
cincts of this township. Here the Union
majority has usually been about thirty. The
Supervisors. to comply with the Registry Act
were compelled to abolish one of the precincts
in this township; thereupon they did this
one of Greasertown; consequently her citi-
zens were compelled to go to San Andreas
and mingle their votes with Copperheads.
The result was three majority for the Union
candidate. Now, it strikes my simple facul-
ties that the credit of the redemption of S. A.
from the darkness Of Copperheadism to the
light of civilization and the Christian gospel
is not due to her own people, but it properly
belongs to the truly loyal citizens of the en-
ightened settlement of Greasertown. But
if the San Andreasians will insist upon TAX
ing the western half of this township to make
themselves appear loyal, must insist upon
their taking the eastern portion this includes
the unexplored jungle of Calaveritas. In
this case ye San Andreasians, fe upon your
loyalty
Concerning this negro equality, deny it,
because am not an equality man ,.anyhow.
Whenever am made to believe that one
horse Is as good as another, I can believe
that enc man is the peer of another, and not
before. l believe in the superiority of races.
Perhaps I could explain my meaning better
if allowed to indulge in a little horse talk
Let us compare two distinct types of the ge-
nus equus-the horse and the donkey.
trust that our intelligent farmers will say
that the former is the nobler animal. Nat
uralists put these animals in the same class.
order, tribe and genus. Thus far they keep
along together, but owing to some nobler in
stincts, the horse is considered the higher
type of the genus. In the face of all this,
I have seen poor old horse which was spav-
ined, foundered and badly gnawed by the
bolts, probably the knockers would be will
ing to give no more than dollar for him.
On the other hand have seen noble speci-
men of the donkey which I could not buy
for two thousand dollars, provided had the