The weekly Butte record., 1867-10-05

and adherents were practically settled" Is de-
clared in the Democratic State platform, and all
good and true men should acquiesce III the settle
ment, and endegvor 70 restore friendly relations
between the two sections of the country He who
does rot Is knave or an IDIOT deserving of public
reprobarion or confinement for insanity.
Not satisfied with the humiliation of their coun-
ty committee. and the decapitation of their State
platform, these doughty heroes Of the defunct re-
bellion make mouths at the Holy Willy" Of the
California Democracy SIS follows:
sFITzGERALD.-This gentleman. by adopting the
first and second resolutions of the democratic State
platform. has made nInny OF himself. He makes
not a vote by IT,
For our industrious and honest pursuit of correct
journalism in keeping our re aders posted on trans
piring events, the Press devotes column to our
especial benefit. We do not reproduce the article
here for the reason that everybody in oroville has
heard the same argument and reasoning, if they
ever spent evening sitting on the dry-goods box
Of our streets daring the past spring, listening
to the parrot-like remarks and owlish wisdom of
one L. P. Hall-vulgarly known as Long Primer
Hail. The only new thing noticeable in the arti-
Gle is the assertion that if the editor of the Rec
ORD had lived during the American revolution. he
would have been tory OF the first water. The log
ic by which this assertion is sought to be sustained
is by placing the rebels in the position of the pat
riots of 70 and those who ''whaed bells bells out
OF the damn fools engaged in the rebellion in the
position occupied by the tories of the revolu-
tion. As We adhered to the National cause during
the rebellion it is, therefore urged that, would
have adhered to the British Government, and been
tory of the first water, had we lived during the
American revolution. There is logic and learning
for the masses The same reasoning would make
General Jackson patriot while he fighting the
British in the of 1872, and "a tory of the first
WATER while fighting the Florida Indians, who
were numbering women and children and lifting"
scalps in defence of their Southern Rights. The
same reasoning would make President Jackson in
his controversy with Calhoun, worse radical than
Thad Stevens. Furt her than this, the same parity
of reasoning makes the Democratic party 'a min
ny as the Press styles Fitzgerald, from the time
they compelled Calhoun to recede from notification
down to the time that the Butte County Press was
evoked into being to teach the party its princi-
nonsense before thrust upon an intelligent commu-
nifty.
If this JEFF. Davis roarer had lived during the
American revolution, we dare say he would have
been precisely what he now is-an ignorant and
bgoted mule-periodcally an insutferable nuis-
ance-and always political idiot. Kis section
al bigotry and intolerance as now displayed in the
of the defunct rebellion had he been fortu-
nate or unfortunate as to have been born north of
Mason and Dixon's line, would have made him a
nents whose radicalsm would have 'done brown
that of old John Brown-Pennsylvania would never
have given the country Thad Stevens-Sumner
would now be studying the classics on the 'Parthi-
an Rock" of Rome-Jef. Davis, Lee and Beaure-
gard would have been hung the moment they were
caught-and Abby Kelly would have arried
Hall instead of Folsom
Being somewhat familiar with the bombastic
proclamations of the fatulent and magnanimous
jeff. Davis and Lee and Beauregard, also those of
Emperor Norton |, we choose to ignore the person.
alities with which the Press favors There is
one other item, however correspondent in the
last eruption of this Chico Vesuvius asks-'who
by their devotion to the cause have have held its
broken fragments together, and cherished and kept
safe the seed for the proper season OF seecing ?"
Well really, We can't say who; those who imagine
that they can see seed that will unite the broken
fragments of any party, evidently intend to play
roots" on it LET her rip -