, 1867-08-30
callfornla PolI,Ics.

NANuNAH~o
with politics, and teeming with denunciations.
As compared with California, the recent excite
ment in our own Territory was decidedly tame.
As indicating the extent of the excitement that
now convulses the Golden State, we give place
to an extract from speech by George c. Cor
ham, the republican candidate for Governor.
The Sacramento Union and s. p. Bulletin, both
Union papers, are Eealously opposing the cleo
tion of Gorham, aud hence it is that he pays
them his respects in the following style:
The Sacramento Union dosent like me inner
rimeht and applause]l and rather like the Sac
ramento Union, because they make it rather q
readable paper now, and it will be more inter,
estng in the future than it has been in the pastl
l want you to consider that after had branded
as criminally false, in my published address of
June 18th, all Of the scurrilous charges which
George K. Fitch, (editor of the BulLetin) and
James Anthony (ofth Union) had hurled at me
for the purpose of preventing my nomination
for the Office of Governor, when had denoun-
ced them as basely and maliciously false, and
they had reiterated them without proof for two
months /, fearing that some honest Union man
might perhaps think them true, felt it my duty
to the cause represent to strip the mask from
these mscreants. did it. Applause. And
propose to continue doing it to the end. Re-
newed applause No wicked and abandoned
old men, who make it a business to pluck the
young and inexperienced at cards, robbing them
! by dishonest dealing of their own money, and
then driving them to the tills of their employers
that they may get moreno such men shall put
a stone in my shoe when I am running race
for the Union party. Tremendous applause. |
Nor shall any hang dog Copperhead whose coun-
tenance wonld convict him of an instructive inS
clination to falsehood, in any court of justice 10
the land [applause]i convicted libeller, who
published in your midst for six months, a news
paper advocating the dismemberment of the Gov
ernment, and denying its right to save its own
life when assailed by traitors, such cur
l"Good, good give it to them," shall phaze
the Union party a whit so long as | am here to
brand as false the things that are said against
me, because do represent the party, | am very
sorry to be compelled to assail the ears of citi-
zens of Sau Francisco with language so plain as
this concerning one of their own citizens. ICries
of "They deserve it, )" 'Justly too"1 But say
that 10 defense of the Union party am compell-
ed to protest against the course of paper whose
influence must not be denied or underrated and
am called upon, while bearing the standard of
the Union party, to attack the credbility of all
those witnesses who came forward to prove that
aeCopperhead is better than Union man against
whom they refuse to make any specifications
[Applause.] do not expect the support of any
man in this city whose estimate of the integrity,
truthfulness and honesty of the E0eRiRg Bulletin
is so high that he will adopt its statements cons
corning me. | may, however, state my judges
ment on the proposition that the Egening Bulletin
and Sacramento Daily Union have not power
enough over the minds of men iu this State to
induce them to betray the Union party, and hand
the State over to the Copperhead Democracy.
| lGreat applause. They invited this contest
with me and when | found all the leaders oil
the Union party-when found Governor Low,
and Senator Conness, and the Hon. A. A Sal
gent, and Hon. Frank NJ. Pixley Tcheers for Pix
ley], and the Hon. John Bidwell Tcheers for
| Bidwell] whose home visited on Saturday last
all beseeching the Union people of the State
to sustain the Union organization and when ]
found the entire party press-two scores of news
papers, legitimate organs of loyal public opin-
| ion-in the State sustaining the ticket aud
found these two blacklegs in Sacramento Zap.
plause and merrimentl and Tho kly livsrsd
! secessionist in San Francisco renewed applause
and laughterl with their two democratic mills
running, concluded that would be a coward
If | didnt assail all the enemies of the Union
party. Applause.1 And while God gives me
breath and life-and am glad to tell you thai
am healthy and strong daughter II will wage
war against all comers who fight noble or
ganization, whether they come from those who
enlisted under the banner of George B. McCIel
Ian, in 1864, or whether they be new recruits
who, feeling their power, and imagining that
they can dictate political policy to the State
assume the attitude of footpads, and stop every
honest man who attempts to start on the high,
way to distinction and honor. 1Great and pro.
lonRed applause. Fellow-citizens, have sale
enough: [Cries of go on" $50 on, ;" from al
parts of the house. We have a party strong
and athletic; moved by honorable purposes
full of manhood and pluck and it is not to bt
destroyed either by the Copperhead Democracy
or by its new recruits of the so-called "inde'
pendent press"
The election comes of on Wednesday next
September 4tb, and owing to the disafecton il
the Union ranks, it is thought more THAI proba
and probably one or two other candidates on The
State ticket.