The Shasta courier., 1868-08-08
Letter from George c. Gorham.

George c. Gorham. in letter to William
Bausman, Esq, Secretary of Central Coun.
ell, No. l, of the Order of Freedoms De.
Tenders, San Francisco, returns thanks for
the complimentary resolutions passed by that
body in relation to his election as Secretary
of the United States Senate, and, after stat,
ing that he will be in California to battle for
Grant and Colfas, says;
At the bidding of Pendleton, yalland;o-
ham aud leading southern rebel. thew have
nominated for the PresidencJ, Horatio Sew
mour, man whose name was. durinp the
war against rebellio.,. the SYNONYM for
treachery to the National cause a man who
exalted rebellion on the very anniversary of
the day of American Independence, and, by
proclaiming to the bad men under his lead
the I" the mob'' could invoke the law of
public necessity as a license for the enforce
ment of its own brutal will, as properly as
the constituted authorities for the preserva-
tion of the Republic from rebel assaults, did
incite " the mob" which eight days after
| ward committed atrocities in the city of New
York, the story of which must forever remain
a stigma upon the American name. In
their platform they declare the legitimate,
constitutional and legally recognized State
governments of the Southern States to be
usurpation, unconstitutional, null and void !;
and then, as if to give emphasis to this decla-
ration, and to render unmistakable their de-
| sire to carry it to its logical conclusion, they
have conferred upon Frank P. Blair, a rene,
gade republican, the bad distinction of the
nomination for the Vice Presidency as a re-
r rA f,ro nf xrhi iob
he had written and published a few days
before, in which he declared that it would be
the duty of Democratic President to dis
perse these State governments by military
force and unseat their Senators and Repre-
sentatves in Congress. To all this they have
added a rotten plank, which should be called
the Micawber system of finance, in which
they propose 10 pay the debt of the nation by
giving new notes Such are the results of
the deliberations of the great National coun
ell of the spurious Democracy, which was
controlled by the more malignant of the cop
perheads of the North and such unrepent-
ant Southern rebels as Wade Hampton and
N. b. Forrest, of Fort Pillow notoriety. The
people of California will never crafty them.
| know that the Democracy have made ex-
tensive calculations on carrying the electoral
votes of our State and that they have. based
these calculations on the reverse our PARTY
encountered last year. | know, too, that it
is their rolicy to SOW the seeds of dissention
and disahection in our ranks. This they did
with great effect during our last campaign,
through various agencies. They are profuse
in pretended sympathy with some member
of our party, who has, as they say, been
wronged. AT one time it is some aspirant
who has failed to secure coveted nomina-
ton at another, it is some person who,
having been nominated, failed to succeed in
the election. | am sure that none of our
friends will be deceived by any such trans,
parent trickery Of the enemy. If anv rem
nant of angry feelings engendered by past
contests within the party still fingers in any
minds, generous, united and enthusiastic
support of Grant will Danish them as mists
are dispelled by the sun. To that work let
US all address ourselves, dismissing all
thoughts of personal advancement, and all
remembrance of past disappointmcnts. In the
future of our party let us know no tests ex
cept fidelity to the cause in the Presidential
election of 1868. If we determine on that,
and Danish all petty animosities and factional
divisions of the past, the now exultant Dem
ocracy in California will return to the outer
darkness to which their afiliation with the
iODNhioh opboiShcu tHtHi thO WdIs
am full of faith in California. She will re-
turn to her allegiance to the cause of Justice
and Liberty. Chase and Blair take few old
republicans with them into the copperhead
camp, as johnson and Hancock take very
few loyalists of Democratic antecedcnts with
them. Let every man enter into the contest
with energy, will and faith. and we shall
gladden. the hearts of our Eastern brethren
with such majority as we used to give in
war times. The cause of progress is upborne
by an Omnipotent hand. We see the party
of reaction afflicted with madness, and their
blunders contributing to the certainty OF our
victory. Grant will be as decsively victo-
rious over Seymour as he was over that other
Democratic leader. Robert Z. Lee. The ma
tiona honor will thereby be maintained, and
the civil war threatened by the Democracy
be ayerted. Theu, with the national credit
mistaken, the currents of trade between all
portions of the country restored to their nat
ural flow, and the bitter party spirit of these
times allayed by the sense of security which
will follow the Inauguration of Grant, and
the consequent stability Of affairs, we shall
enter upon realization of that national tran
guilty and prosperity which is the desire of
every good citizen.