The Shasta courier., 1866-02-17
The Situation.

organization, as we'll as those who would wait
for results before fully committing themselves
either way. All such had their schemes for
political advancement, and the question with
them was, which was most expedient but al
these Office grabbers united in the cry =
.We'll get even with the COURIER The
COURIER advocated principles they simply
wanted place; a marked difference and the
COURIER had disarranged their well laid
wires. Poor things All had now to be
done anew, and in new field.
The Union party was formed and proved to
be a majority party, embracing among Its
adherents every disinterested and true lover
of his country and after it had proven itself
the majority party others came in who at
first were doubters-too cautious IN com
hitting themselves to an organization that
had no prest ge but that of principle, virtue
and patriotism. When the prestige of ma
iority was added, then, we say, others fell
into the ranks the principles being gilded
with success. they who before were blind
latter day saints have been rewarded by the
suffrages of the party placing them in posi-
tions of honor and profit. The same caution
that prevented their early embracing the
tenets of the Union party has made them all
the more critical and prominent in fault
finding; for they were not Of the party, but
,riM it, for place. One we wot of, who occu-
pies prominent position at the expense of
the party, who cried aloud, when President
Lincoln gave notice that on January 1st,
1868, he would issue his Emancipation Pro-
clamation, that if it were done he, for one,
would join the Democratic party. Another,
mary meeting of the party, but sat on
bench near the polls, with his elbow resting
on his knee and a ticket prominently dis
played between his fingers, thereby endeav-
oring to make it appear that he was g on it, ("
These, combined with a few Copperheads
and some disreputabe persons not worth
mentioning, compose clique that by sly
wire pulling on the inside, and plausible
generalities on the outside, seek now to gov
ern the party and fatten upon the revenues
of the county. So much for clique in op
position to the best interests of the Union
party. though seemingly with it. They are
with it for its vctes but not for its high prin-
ciples.
Later, we advocated a system of reform in
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procure such legislation as would carry out
our views. Again we have been successful.
Our representatives in the Senate and As
sembly endorsed our views, and on our as
surance that the tax payers of the county
also endorsed them, Mr.. Chappell prepared
and introduced such bills as would, in his
opinion, produce the desired result. Those
bills we printed. They have passed the As
sembly and will undoubtedly pass the Senate
and become the law for our government,
saving thereby to the tax payers and to the
schools thousands now paid to officials
Strange to say this measure has found oppo-
nents and that, too, right where the forma
ton of the Union party found its principal
opposition, viz: in the clique above referred
to. To give names would not be an onerous
task, but for our present purpose we deem it
unnecessary.
This small combination of various small
and disreputable politicians-some of whom
were forced into the Union organization by
circumstances over which they had no control
have never forgiven us for advocating the
organization of the Union party. Then they
swore with uplifted hands they would be
even with us for spelling their well laid
schemes for advancement, and they have
ever since followed us with that cry, which at
last eliminated in compelling us to take the
county printing, at the last session of the
Beard of Supervisors, at a price below its
value To what little the clique gained in
that effort they are heartily welcome for,
thank God, no dollar thus taken from our
pocket goes into theirs, either directly or
indirectly, for their names are not heavy on
the tax list. Since we have conducted the
COURIER we have done the county printing
at the price allowed by the Board of Super
visors. Sometimes we have been well paid
at others not so we'll, and never extravagant
! w. SO long as we continue to conduct the
paper we intend to do the county work, to
do it well. and at such price as the Board
may allow and, rather than affiliate with
the clique that seeks to injure US, we will do
the work gratis,-yes, gratis, and then make
money iu our business. for the hearts of
large majority of the tax payers of the coun-
ty are with us and will sustain u.s.
Why it is that any official should cavil at
our course is beyond our comprehenson.-
Every one of them had our warmest sup
port, and at the last election were indebted
to our efforts in behalf of the party for the
suppression of threatened opposition
which, if it had eliminated would have cost
the present incumbents many a dollar to
defeat. Unasked, and without material aid
we fought it in its inception and were sue
cessful. All this we did for the benefit of
the party, and those on the Union ticket
reaped the reward, while we were actually
loser in financial point of view, because
if an opposition had been in the field much