Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-09-19
ower Rich Guloh Correspondence.
RIcH GULcH, September 18th, 1868.

RICH GULcH, September 10Th, 1868.
EDITOR CHRONICLE II had lost my at
tendant sprite for two days. went in search
of him and found him in the midst of the
" "Chaparral Confederacy," arguing the ques-
ton. One of the &C. C's." was holding
forth, and thus he talked: Look here,
Puck, your running down the Democratic
party won't do; for you know very well
thai while the Democratic party was in pow
er, all was lovely and peaceable that the
Democrats whipped the Mexicans you won't
deny. and got this California besides. And
another thing, Mr. Puck, which is a big thing
with US, there was no tex on whisky then.
Now it costs us as much for liquor as it does
for bread. and we don't get half enough of
it at that. Those were the coed old times
of a white mans government but just as
soon as you blacks came into po per, under
Lincoln, you began a war on US, turned eve
rything upside down, and since the war end
ed you have been trying to get them right
again. You can't do it, You see. Now. what
you've got to do is to trust US. Mr.. Puck.
trust us, we'll fix everything" Here he took
a pull at the rubber juice and subsided.
Puck replied: 1T is always necessary,
when asked to repose confidence in person
or party, to inquire somewhat into their an
tecedents. Now I propose to show you, in
few words, MIR. c. c., that judging the
Democratic party by the past. it is unworthy
of trust in the future. assert that you are
an unreliable party. not true to your profess
sioEs. l will go no farther back than your
last President. Buchanan, (and the last he
will be for many years,) who. when accept
ing the nomination, said: Standing upon
+h,s MI (tha f-inn;,p,t, \ T
duty to take no plank from nor add one to
it, Now, one of those planks emphatically
declared it to be the right of the people of
the Territories to choose their own form of
government. How he kept his faith let the
bloody record of Kansas show. You were
entrusted with the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, and what did we gets The
Fugitive Slave Law, an outrage upon human
ity and civilization. The Supreme Court
you were trusted with, what came of it, The
bred Scott decision, which causes every
right-minded American to blush for his coun-
try. tell you, Mr.. c. c. that you may take
all the vices that degrade a nation, bray
them in a mortar. and they'll not eat so deep
into the moral feeling Of people as tainted
administration of the law. You were trust
ed with the army-it was scattered in drib-
lets all over the country, principally South.
You were trusted with the navy-it was sent
to the antipodes where it could be of no use
or benefit to the country. You were trusted
with the money box of the natlon-it was
found empty. The history of the Democrat
ic party for the last twenty 1--WE years has
been living lie, and now you ask us to trust
you again. We would just as soon trust
''cream within the whiskers of a cat" as trust
you" Seeing that Puck was getting too ex-
cited, waved my wand and silence reigned
supreme.
The Grant and Colfax Cub met on Mon
day last and made arrangements for public
speaking on Sunday evening, the Goth. when
Rienzi Hopkins and Hon. s. N. Parker will
address tina people of this locality on the is
sues of the day. With three rousing cheers
for Grant and Colfax. the Club adjourned.
Mining items in full next week. ARIEL.