The Shasta courier., 1870-12-17

The SHASTA "CoURIER."-W have
had no quarrel with this paper We have
not desired to have any controversy with
it. On the contrary, we believe that we
had reason TO remembe its editor pleasantly
for the kindly manner in which be receiv-
ed us when we visited his office and we
would much rather remember him or any
one so than otherwise But he has wiped
out that recollection by ar act Of finustice
In the Courier of November Goth, we
find brief article upon Trinity County
Printing" Its apparent object is to mis-
lead the pee PIE Of OR neichboring county
with regard to the proceedings Of the last
meeting of our Board of Supervisors. 1t
says, for instance, that the 'Democratic
Board of Supervisors" of this county "to-
tally ignored" our proposals "to perform
the county printing at any price" etc
There are three distinct misrepresentation
contained ID the few words we have quoted
First, there Is no remocratic Board of Sh
pervisors il this county. If the Courier
had said that majority of the Board were
elected as Democrats, it would have been
correct; but when it says that the Board
is Democratic now, it is wrong No man
is y. Democrat who holds himself ready to
sell out to the highest bidder III voting on
matters affecting tht county fevenue, as
well as the emG'15fatic party Second,
the Bjetd did not totally isn''re the pro-
posal Wd made; On the contrary, it was
discussed at ereatcr icugth than any other
matter that caEie before the Hoald, and a
number 81 the most highly respected citi-
zens of the county advocated it one of the
three Supervisors favored it; aud it was
rejected only because of an arrangement
hade beforehand. Third, We made no
proposals to do the county printing at
any prices" and the Courier must have
known this, for we have already, given a
faithful ard bare statement Of the facts
in relation to the matter. We made a
proposal to do the printing at certain fig
ure; and we explicitly stated that We only
did Il is because (and we hold ourselves
ready to prove all that we say in this article)
the managers of another paper had all
nounced determination to do it for moth
ing, rather than let us get it. We believe
in county printing and all othef printing
bein. fairly paid for; had the BoarG been
elected as Republicans, we would have made
no bid for the printing; had not other par
ties threatened to do the work for nothing,
We would have asked for it at Our eular
rate; had we failed to receive it through
any honorable combinations. we would not
hav had word of objection to offer
Trinity Press
As our contemporary has accused us of
having cottinitted All act of injustice, aud
as having deliberately misrepresented facts
in regard to a matter in which he was in
terested, we give his corrections of our
mistakes at length, and assure him that we
had no intention of doing him injustice,
and that any mistatemeht of facts hereto
fore written by us shodld be set down to
inadvertaice or misappfshension of the
truth. We wrote the Objectionable squiD
without copy of the Press before us
and may have got things little mixed
But We are quite certain that the Press
announced the week previous to the meet
ing of the Board that h would be Dem.
ocratic body, aud We took its word for it
without further testimony. If the Press
took its former statement back III its next
issue we failed to notice the CORRECTION
As the printing of Trinity is ulatter Of no
interest to US or to the people Of this county.
our contemporary must certainly see that
we could have no motive or object in mis-
representing the matter. And as to the
opinion we expressed in relation to the
county patronage legitimately belonging to
the old established paper, provided the
charges were reasonable, We must be ex.