Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-11
TO OUR CALIFORNIA UNION co
TEMPORARIES.

Union contemporaries. We disclsim all
pretsnse Of being wise than they /;
but we are confident the force of this
statement. will be by them appreciated :
that often times a comparatively disin-
terested person observes the true rule
adopted by an opposite party in another
State, when the absorbing solieitude of
Union citizens in that State prevents
their discovering the character and OBJ
ject of many measures in or ont Of party
lines. We do not desire to speak in a
patronizing manner-th that style and
tone we would avoid in fact and appear
ancs; for We have a thorough and COM
plste respect for the Union press Of Cali
fornia, and q correct knowledge Of and
contempt for the so-called "Gndependent
p~ress." Please then TO hear US, for the
common cause, and lend audience that
you may hear. SoPe Of the PREDATORY
words we shall give, you may not at FRS,
approve; but read on, and see if we dis
close q point.
You must recollect that only q year
or two ago the San Francisco Flag was
almost, if not quite alone, in California,
as an advocate Of what are known now
AS were then-ss extreme Radical
doctrines. That is so, as you all re-
member. We always believed that the
Fac was q sincere supporter OF those
doctrines. Do you recolleet how the
Flag was then derided and sneered at
BY the Union, Alta and Bullttin? You
cannot have forgotten it.
Now we are couvinced-and We do
mot understand how any sane observer
can deny it-that the Union party was
beaten at the last California election,
on account Of fastening upon it as a
party-in spite of its platform,-the
most extreme Radical views. How came
it to pass that those views were attached
to the Union organization sersd on to
the party, so that it was in Gain to dis
claim them? We lay the charge at the
door Of the " Independent press" who
suddenly, and with no apparent reason
for their conversion, turned from Con-
sentative Republieanism to Radicalism.
The whole campaign, according to our
belief, was agreeable to " conspiracy
in which the Independents" had a
part and the chief place. conspiracy
which will not have consumated all its
work until California shall have gone
Democratic in 1865. Tho plan was
TO hurrah for the most Radical doctrines,
take the lead in enthusiastically
Mccarthy in Radicalism, and so draw
as many of tn" interior press as possible
through the same color vat, and then,
while still protesting that the Union
party was essentially and ir~redeemably
Radical, make a direct assault upon the
head Of the Union State ticket. We
have not the slightest doubt but that
such was the plan. And we regset>to
say it has proved very successful. We
ask you to reflect upon this, and note
whether in the light of all the develop
ment, now made, in view of the history
of the papers referred to-the Union and
Bulletin in par.iculsr,-this does not APP
pear to be a correct exposure of a deep
laid conspiracy" against the Union
party on this coast?
When we say that the "Independent
press" did not accomplish the defeat of
Gorham, we mean that it did not do it
by what it protested to be its objec-
tious to him. But that press did large
" aid in his defeat, by its Radical fmPo-
sition, on the sentiment of the Union
party. We do not believe they tried,
actually, TO defeat Gorham at the nom
:. mating Convention; only saying enough
10 giveiace of consistencyto their charges
against him. And we believe that
they were originally in favor ofBidwell,
because they knew be was an old mug
gins, whom the people Of California
never would swallow, and who was on
the Radical record Us strong as Gorham.
We do not wish 10 detract from the
merits Of Stewart, and others from:.Ne-
vada, who aided to Radicalize the Union
party into a minorityi but the Saints,
one aud all, of what is known as the
Independent press, the Union, Bulletin
and Alta, did most effective service in
making the issue, in spite Of the Union
platform; and after their record Of Con-
servatism of two years ago and back!
How came it that those Saints were
struck down like Saul Of Tarsus, and
converted to the doctrines which McCar-
thy had preached for years, and been
spit upon by them for so doing At a
late hour it was undoubtedly agreed
that the Alto might draw on the
Union party's fund-so detract from the
Fa0's usefulness, so feather its nest for
the campaign, while it damaged the
cause by immediate and attending ad-
~vocacies Of Gorham's election and the
most ultra Thad. Stevens programme.
Stewart, Fitch and others from Nevada,
were wrung in on the programme, not
knowing Of the real scheme, but very
apt tools, respectively, for carrying the
war into Africa in a new sense, and eon-
tributing to slaughter u party.
Every other day during the canvass,
the Independents would have a Radical
article, impudeutly recited 10 the name
Of the Union organization the Union
and Bulletin next day exclaimiug "Gor-
ham is a very bad man." and the Alto
inquiring, in substance, how can you
carry out these principles" (Thad.'s
unless you choose Gorham?
or course, of course, of course, the
Union and Bulletin will now urge the