The Shasta courier., 1868-11-21
lcoMMUNIC ICATED.l
A Fitting Rebuke.

1t is to be hoped that henceforth the
vaultlng ambition" of Mr.. Chancellor
Harrison, of Napa, will prompt him to seek
Its qualification in some other channel thanl
Congressional ASPIRATIONS However sma
the majority by which he was defeated each
time, the late election affords sufficient proof
that had any man but Chancellor Harrison
of equally good moral reputation and legal
Yolo Convention this year, he must certainly
have been elected The Electoral ticket has
majority in the Third Congressional Dis
trict, while Harrison is about 200 behind the
Silver Globe Man. Granting that no Con-
gressional candidate can be expected to run
up even with the Presidential head of a
ticket, especially where so strong man as
Grant leads the army of ballots, will any man
pretend to say that either Charles Westmore-
land, of Humboldt, or Seneca Ever, of Butte,
would have been defeated at the polls by a
man of Johnson's calibre and antecedents :?
| Preposterous. Harrison was defeated by the
Union party because he was not the choice of
the Union party at large because the Union
party will not submit to have Objectionable
candidates forced upon it; and lastly, be-
cause it will not lend its support to men who
seek to introduce Democratic low trickery as
party tactics.
1t is somewhat strange that the Sacra-
mento Union and Bee, two papers that were
unqualified in their condemnation of the
nomination of George G. Gorham, last year,
maintained dignifed silence on the subject
of Hartson's 5 nomination at the Yclo Conven-
ton and that very nomination was obtained
by the drtiest trickery on record. 1t was
not enough that Harrison should go into the
| Convention calculating his main strength on
/ the delegations from Sonoma, Colusa, Men
docino and Lake-not one of which gave him
| majority this year or last, making a total of
seventeen votes-but he must also circulate,
or cause to be circulated, document COM
menting on a letter from George C. Gorham
in which the Secretary of the Senate endors
ed Westmoreland as an honest, capable and
reliable aspirant for Congress. The circular
went on to say: - The writer of the Above.
George c. Gorham, will be remembered as
| the man who ran for Governor in 1861, and
whose nomination caused majority of over
| $4,000 10 be changed to "A minority of 5000. y
This was mean, petty and low, especially
when we consider that Mr.. Harrison acknowl-
! ged that but for the assistance of Gorham
he must have lost the nomination at Marys
Vile the year before. But to try and drag
down Westmoreland, by association, in the
estimation of the already disaffocted of the
Union party, for he never could in the esti-
nation of those who manfully bore the defeat
of last year. and attempt to slur one whose
record in the last Legislature was above re-
proach, was trick too low for Billy Muligan
or jim Casey to have attempted.
We trust that the people of Butte, Plumas,
Sierra, Lassen, Sutter, and Solano, who
supported Harrison in the Convention and at
the polls this year, will open their eyes to
this method of carrying Conventions by the
positive strength of counties that never have
given, and never will give Union majority,
and saying that they are solid for any man.
Colusa, Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino sol'd
for Harrison Seventeen votes representa-
ton equal to that of Shasta, Trinity, Hum
boldt. Plumas and Lassen, all of which gave
him majority at the polls, and would have
= l,;rf,ar ono IN anv m a m pOminateI bV
the popular choice. As to the way the dele
cations of Sierra and Plumas were split up
in the Convention, for fear of making enc
mics for one or the other aspirant it was
peurile while that of Butte was manipulated
| by General Bidwell in spirit of petty spite
against Westmoreand, because the latter
voted in the Legislature against removing
the county seat of Butte from the Union town
| of Orovile to the secesh town of Chico We
hope thatin future unpledged delegations may
be sent from all counties that do not cast
Union majorities, and that such delegations
may be left free to center upon the man most
agreeable to the counties that are carried bv
the loyal popular vote.
But time is full of retribution and Mr.
Westmoreland is most gloriously avenged by
the popular vote. And while he, pure and
unstained by the taint of dirty trickery, casts
the vote of free and redeemed California for
Grant in the Electoral College, let the defeat
ed and humiliated trickster, Harrison, retire
to his home to chew the ashes of the Dead
Sea fruit his own hands have planted. We
hope the lesson taught him will be a sautary
one, and that unless he, like the Bourbons of
France, ''learns nothing and forgets moth
ing" he will not attempt to ask another
nomination for Congress at the hands of the
Union party. The man who cannot beat
Silver Globe johnson, with all the infamy of
McGarrahanism, must be indeed weak sis
| ter in the church.
An UNCONDITIONAL UNION MAN.
Shasta, Nov. IA, 1868.
HORRIBLE AocIDENT.-The little son of ] !.