Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-05-11
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
\ Copperhead Patriot.

The hero of the Oroyilic Record says while we
were writing down the rebellion in California
the editor of the Record was spending COM
petency FOR himself and family IN placing the
Michigan Eleventh Regiment in the field, gong
to Washington and Philadelphia at his own ex-
pense, consulting President Lincoln, Simeon
Cameron zen Mcclellan, more especially.
SDoeall Colonel Crossman of Philadelphia, and
Senator Chandler of Michigan" We knew that
the editor of the Record was squandering his
money in chasing back and forward between
California and Washington hunting commission,
which he failed to get, either because Of incom-
potency or because there were other applicants
who had more friends, we know not which. We
have never seen any evidence that he spent his
money :. in placing the Eleventh Michigan Regi-
ment in TIE field. If he did spend Ibis COM
potency it was paid out as venture in hopes
of receiving in return a commission. The editor
says that Gov. Blair of Michigan refused TO COM
mission him because he did not support Ere
Inon.s Missouri roclamation-mearing we sup
pose that he was in favor OF holding the negro
from running away from his master with one
hand while he fought rebels with the other.
Those were times when Mcclellan proposed to
fight the rebels - magnanimously the time
when some Generals believed that the Govern
ment could be worried out, and the war prove a
failure as declared by the Chicago platform
This the time when General Mcclellan I'm =
dertook to dictate TO President Lincoln and tell
him how the war should be prosecuted. There
was - fellow feeling" between Democrats in
the field, whether under General Lee or General
Mcclellan. West Point etiquette was powerful,
and Gen. Mcclellan acted as if it was too bad to
kill off good Democrats in Confederate gray, all
for the benefit of the 'niggers." If our friend
of the Butte Record had succeeded in securing
the object of his ambitions commission-and
during active service had received several - reb-
el tokens in leaden shape, he would, Ike hum
dreds of others who entered the service as
- Democrats" recovered from his compunctons
about an abolition war" Ii Col. Crossettc' .
had survived four or five years of active service
in the feld-had crossed swords with some of
his - Democratic brethren" he would never
haze returned to Oroylle to publish such a union
paper the Record to-day. Its columns would
not be filled with Coolie trash, written if not
published to SOW discord and disruption in the
Union ranks lie would never have given aid
and sympathy to the - Butte County Call" a
piece of political strategy concocted to place
this State in the hands of the rebels during the
war and which, if it had been successful
might have been the cause of civil war in Cali
fornia. During this time, the editors to whom
the Record refers in very and ungentle-
manly language, were not only ''writing down
the rebellion but were drilling two or three
nights each week priyates in the - Home
Guard, preparatory to any emergency If we
had had civil war, the first man to fall by our
bullets might have been the would-be Colonel of
the Eleventh Michigan
There is nc use in the editor of the Butte Rec
ord putting on military airs" As the Union
says, "the record Of the Record is recorded. -
Hary,pWe -lRQeat.