The Placer herald., 1868-07-25
From the y lily National.
A SKETCH OF McFARLANDISM.

1T is better to give your sons over to the
gamblers. your money to the thief. your daugh-
ters to prostution, aud yourselves to the devil,
than to give the rule OF the country to the Dem
ocratic party"
So Judge Mcfarland of Nevada City is
reported to have intimated at "A political
meetiuo in this town on Saturday night last.
This. it will be rememhered was addressed
to members OF the Republican party, the
Judge himself being member OF the same
party. That the Judge did not mean to IN
clude gamblers, thieves, whoremongers or
the devil himself in the Democratic party is
plain. from the fact that if he die then ad
wise the members of his party to give their
sons over to that party and themselves to the
devil he devil viii have his own aud thus
the certain triumph of The Democratic party
in this connection, to ask the Judge ques-
lion or two. And first: Would you be
willing to give over your sons to thesgain
blers, if ly so doing you could keep the
Democratic party ont OF power. And sec
ondIv: Would you he willing to hand over
your viltuous daughters to prostitution, II
by so doing you could prevent the country
from being ruled by the Democratic party (!
And lest you should think it ilnpertinenl
in Democrat to ask such plain questions
growing out of your advice to your political
brethren, | would intimate that in SO doing
| simply follow the irjunctons Of the Good
Book and "Auswer a fool according TO his
folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.'
am Glad to be assured, Mr.. Editor that
there could not be found within the limits
of Grass Valley, a citizen of the party
Mcfarland claimed to represent on that oc-
casion. who could by any possibility sink
himself SO far beneath the dignity which be
cometh Judge or the instinct of a gentle.
man as to utter such foul l-mouthed Billings
oate When such characters make their
appearance here, it is fitting they should
come from Nevada City, as on the occasion
said 1.-The Judge gave us the best he had"
The quotation at the commencement OF this
communication, therefore, may be taken as
sample of "MvFarlaud's best"
AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
Grass Valley, June 25th, 1868.
During the late civil war when General
in the Federal army got whipped and re-
turned to Washington with q demoralized
army, like Pope Hooker, Burnsides, McDan
iel, Hunter, etc., they had to agree to
do dirty work for pennance, or be retired.
Well ell these Generals did do dirty work,
aud retained their positions by SO doing.
Probably the Judge feels like following the
example of these Use Generals.
| LETTER FROM Frank BLAIR.-The follow.
ing letter addressed by Frank Blair to Coli
opel Brodhead, appeared in the New York
papers of July ID.
There is but one way to restore the Gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare the Recon-
sruction Act null and void, compel the army
to undo its usurpatlons at the South, dlsperse
the carpet bag" State governments, allow
the white people to reorganize their own
governments, and elect Senators and Repre-
sentatives The House of Representatives
will contain majority of Democrats from
the North, and they will admit the Represen'
tatves elected by the white people of the
South and with the cooperation Of the
President, it will not be difficult TO compel
the Senate to submit once more to the obi.
cations of the Constitution. 1t will not be
able to withstand the public judgment if
distinctly invoked and clearly expressed on
this fundamental issue, and it is the sure way
to avoid all future strife, TO put this issue
plainly to the country; ] repeat, that is the
real and only question which we should all
low to control US.
Fifteen thousand men are employed iu the
construction Of the Pacific Railroad