The Shasta courier., 1867-07-13
Our Position.
The following. from the S. F. Spirit of the
Times, expresses our views:

Ahc ioiiO"iiS. run tie .. L. Spiiie VI Lux
Times, expresses our views:
On matters of public import we have our
own views and opinions, and in entertaining
and giving expression to them we consult
ourselves to the exclusion of any one else
When we become convinced we are right IN
conclusions arrived at. we stop just where
those conclusions point, and, as we have
nerve enough to contend for our side OF a
proposition, all the talk INDUCED in to Sc
cure from US an expression of opinion to the
contrary. is idle breath We have taken
our position in regard to the Regular Union
State Ticket, and we shall maintain it until
we see a disposition on the part of any one
of the nominees now upon it to give way to
the camor of its enemies. and then If SIN
Gle name is withdrawn from it, except by
reason of death, or from accident lncapacitat-
inc from performing the duties incumbent
upon the nominee, we shall oppose the ticket
to the bitterest end for if rule or ruin is to
be the game, we can take n hand in that
pastime as well as any one else. We care
not what others may do. we will not consent
to barter away our rights and privileges at
the beck of designing men, who have their
own Interior ends to accomplish in recon-
structing the State Ticket, and we will not
admit tor moment that the ticket in the
field for the suffrages of the Union voters Of
the State is not as good ticket as any here
tofore put in the field ty the Party. sim
gle name Withdrawn from the Regular Union
Ticket carries with it the destruction of the
entire structure, and any argument to. the
contrary is false, vicious, miseraby coward
ly and traitorously unjust, and we very
much mistake the Union press OF the State
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sacrlege. We have right to speak in this
matter; not only as lifelong, consistent
Union man, but one who, for the sake and
advancement of his party, sacrificed his
prospects for nomination on the State Tick
et and gave way to one whose strength was
strength added to the organization. We
offered up that sacrifice to party fealty and
devotion without a murmur, feeling we'll
assured it was our duty so 10 do; but we will
not submit without opposition TO the with
drawal of a sing lie name at present upon the
State Ticket, we care not what others may
do, and the nominee who SO befouls himself
as to accede to such proposition, will as
sumo the position of a-boler from his party
so low and degraded that all the plummet
lines of the world joined together would never
reach him in his sea of disgrace.
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squarely and openly placed before the peo
pie. There was no undue advantage taken
of any one; there was no restriction of &C
ton or speech there was noimpositon upon
the minority by the majority; there was no
double dealing or wrong practiced on any
one; but the two opposing candidates for
gubernatorial honor went before the Con
vention, and, as natural consequence, one
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not, and does not, require two nominees
from the same party, when 1t is only en-.
titled to one Governor. There were over
three hundred delegates in the Convention
which nominated the State Ticket. and each
nomination was made unanimous in turn
The delegates composing the Convention
represented the entire people of the State,
and it is fair to presume that they knew
something of the wishes of their constituents.
NJ, but the fact il, the head of the Union
Ticket is poor man. but with more exeeu
tive talent. inherent ability, pure patriotism
and infexibility of purpose, than is possess
ed by all his calumniators put together, and
because they cannot mould him to their own
wicked purposes, they intend to destroy him
if possible.
By and through the ticket nominated at
Sacramento, during last month. by the
State Convention Of the Union Party. the
organization must maintain its present
status, and in the rejection of any portion of
it. its downfall is certain. The friends of
any of the nominees removed from the tick
ct will oppose and vote against the entire
list, and with such opposition the result re-
quires no astrologer to foretell. Let every
nominee stand firm to his guns; listen to no
proposition or terms of capiulation let the
destructionists of the Union Party, on the
inside and the outside of the organization
have full sway among themselves. but when
they attempt to cut down the colors of the
Union Party. in the language of Gen. Dix,
politically, shoot them on the spot