Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-10-31
Lower Rich oulch correspondence.
LOWER RICH GuLcH, Oct. 9th. '68,

LOWER RICH GuLcH. Oct. 9th, '68.
EDITOR CHRoNlcLE:-Therei is great COM
motion in the Chaparral Confederacy; they
are demoralized to an extent that appeared
two months since to be almost impossible.
Then, elated. confident, full of boasting, they
walked the earth with head erect and semi
martial bearing, for the words of F. P. Blair
had inspired them with the hope of another
chance to attempt to break up the Govern
ment and reduce the negro to what they
are pleased to term his "normal sphere"
Puck has no rest, for the confederates are
satisfied only when they are discussing the
question-trying to find some grain of COM
fort by which they may continue to hope
against hope. This, their last meeting with
Puck before election was lively; twas plain
ly evident that some of them were almost
persuaded to vote the Republican ticket, but
still kept harping on the "nigger." Not
satisfied with the result of the war, which is
not to be wondered at, seeing they were
whipped out of their boots, horse, foot and
dragons, the old, venerable confederate
wished to know if it was not time the DEM
ocratic party again had control of the coun-
try, that the good old times as they were
before the war might return to bless US.
when no tax on whisky would be tolerated,
and the negro be again placed in the tender
keeping of their former masters, and the
Chinaman given the choice of returning to
gro. Besides, you Republicans know moth
ing about finance. Under Democratic rule
there was little or no debt; now frcm WASH
ington to the little county of Calaveras. the
people are groaning under a burden of in,
debtedness, national and local. enough to
appal the stoutest heart. Now why is this
Says Puck, the why and wherefore of
this matter is simply Democratic rule. will
commence at the county where you left off.
and work up. The debt of Calaveras county
commenced under the rule of the Democrats,
and finding the people so easily gulled, kept
piling on the agony till the present enor-
nous amount was reached, when nothing
else stared the taxpayers in the face but re-
pudiation or more rigid system of economy,
and to promote this economy, the supervis-
ors had to be anything but Democrats. Ever
since the formation of the county, its officers
had been, without exception, Democrats !;
but since the more healthy practice of elect
ing Republican supervisors has come into
vogue, the taxpayers. although still suffer-
ing from the enormous debt, pay their tax
es with more cheerfulness, knowing that
their hard earned money will be used in a
jud;cious and proper manner, while the very
thought of Democratic Board causes them
to shudder with alarm. For these reasons,
the election of Mr.. Prindle is assured beyond
peradventure. AS far as the Chinaman is
concerned, your party is double-fac Now
to the proof: Last year the head of your
party in this State, Gov. Haight, from every
stump affected to despise them, said they
we're naturally thieves; tl-ey were all that
was vile and contemplate, beneath the no.
tice, much less the touch of any decent Cau-
casian. Now look at Lis practice. A short
time after he had taken his seat in the Cub
ernatorial chair, along came the Chinese
Embassy, and then this Iaight. the hater
and despiser of the almond-eyed sons of the
Flowery Kingdom, presides at banquet
given in their honor, and eats and drinks at
Oh ~
thou art jewell but it may be that he
makes distinction between poor man and
a rich one, which is very nice thing for the
Democratic herd of State to do. In re-
spect to the question OF debt and taxation
Who is to be charged with their creation
l charge you and your rebel friends as the
noyins attendant belongings; and with this
comes the negro. l wish you to see these
matters in their true light. 1t never was the
intention of the Republican party to inter-
fere with the peculiar institution" in States
where it was part of the political system;
but slave owners were not content with this
security, because that its extention into ter
ritory which had been permitted to be free
from its curse up to that time, was hopeless.
They started out men, who if not criminals
and knaves, were certainly near akin to
fools, who by their oratory and apparent
sincerity, stirred up the people SO that their
judgment was obscured. and for time be-
came morally insane and possessed of a sort
of political monomania then they formed
armies and commenced the destructive and
disastrous war to inaugurate and establish
upon a permanent basis, a government
which should be no more or less than
slavery propaganda that the peculiar insti-
tuticn should be nourlshed and fostered, and
have room to expand. Now tell me this
Do you believe that more than one of every
five thousand who fought, bled and died on
the many sanguinary battle fields during the
war. owned one slave:"
An excited confederate exclaimed, by
Cd. No. 1 never thought of this before"
swell then," says Puck, "can you not
see that you had no part or lot in this mat
ter; that you were fighting for the interests
of few; that you. with all to lose and
nothing to gain. supported these men
through those terrible four years of blood
shed, misery and death, and which culmi-
mated in an act fit only for Borgia to COM
nit. These same men are now trying to ob
tain the ascendency they had before to keep
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