The Shasta courier., 1867-07-20
Impartial and Unprejudiced Advice.

Every Union paper and every Union man
in Oregon, as we'll as Nevada and Washing
ton, are urging the dissatisfied Union men of
California to cease their winnings, conquer
their prejudices and vote the Regular Union
State ticket. The following article from the
jacksonville (Oregon) Sentinel should be
read and digested by every man who still
feels dissatisfied
We have heard of people being foolish
enough to cut off their nose to spite their
faces, but never saw it more exemplifed
than in the present political canvass in Cali.
fornia. Men who have worked manfully in
the Republican cause for years; who breast
ed the tide of public sentiment, when Re-
publicanism was term of reproach and
scofhng, now fold their hands and pacidly
look with apparent indifference on the de-
moralization of the Union party, because
some of its nominees are not quite accepta.
Bile. Of this number, is our neighbor of the
Yreka Journal, whose only excuse is, that it
is necessary to teach political tricksters
very severe lesson. A poor excuse is said
to be better than none, and this is poor
enough. Because two or three of the nomi.
nees of Union State Convention are dis.
tasteful to the managers of paper whose
own personal record is not any too pure,
and to sheet that deserted to the enemy
just when its services were needed, as did
the Bulletin, is no reason, whatever, that
the Union party should be purified by its
utter destruction. What are the Sacramento
Union and the Evening Bulletin? Are they
the Bohemoths of the press before whose
dictum sixty thousand of the great Union
party must bow? How much public senti.
ment do they represent? Probably that of
ten or dozen individuals in whose interest
they are published, whose immense capital
enables them to command an overwhelming
circulation and control a great share of pub
lie opinion. If any think that capital, en-
ployed in journalism, is neglectful of its own
interests, or that these influential journals
have no axes to grind, they must be very
blind.
On the other hand, nearly all of the Union
press, representing the sentiment of probably
two or three hundred of the workers in the
party, are perfectly satisfied that the ticket
presented is no worse than that which would
have been imposed ON them by the defeated
wire pullers, and very sensibly accept it,
They are largely in the majority, and their
opinions, individually, are entitled to as
much respect as those of any other members
of the party. We do not justify political
trickery, but have failed to hear of any party
our friend of the Journal if the abandonment
of the control of the State to the Democracy
is not rather too high price to pay for the
publication of our party. Let US learn
something from our opponents. Let US bear
in mind that whatever their differences may
be in Conventions, that after ticket is made
up, each individual member supports it man
fully, and that their unanimty is the only
secret of their success. California Unionsts
have but one alternative--Gorham or Dem
ocratic rule. In the one they have rising
representative of Young America, whose
brilliant talent and independence would do
honor to the Gubernatorial chair of any State
in this great Union whose voice and purse
was ever on the side of Freedom. In the
other. ravenous and unsparing raid on the
public Treasury, corruption, misrule, and
return of all imperious insolence of Democra-
cy, more sour, and yet more bitter from long
defeat. Stay away from the polls, Friend
Journal, give Democracy half vote by
scratching your ticket, and if you feel its
heel upon your neck, squirm not We may
be considered impertinent and meddlesome,
but we cannot help it. The interests of the
Union party are not cireumscribed by State
lines. When our friends rejoice, and when
defeated, especially by their own folly, we
will have cause for mourning