Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-09-28
LUTTRELL IN TRINITY COTNTY.

this seem to be the case with the Sacra
mento Union at this time. We saw in
the Union the other day some hgh-sound-
ing language about the "high honor" "
energy" " and other notable qualities Of
some candidate for Congress which we
suppose was intended to apply TO Mr..
Luttrell. Now we propose to detail fact
or two illustrating how eXcellently well
Luttrell deserves such high enconiums
from the Union. Unlike the youth men
toned in Gray's celebrated eIegy, Mr..
Luttrel is not "to fortune and TO fame
unknown" Fortune smiles brightly upon
him and his star is gloriously ascendant,
for has not the Sacramento Union taken
his political advancement into its own es-
pecial charge? He is known TO fame from
having canvassed this part Of the State
in 1868 and 1869 for the Democracy, and
from delivering a fer speeches in the last
Legislature, his principal effort as every
reader of the Union well knows consisting
Of a series Of Union editorials on the rail
way question clumsily strung together.
We propose at this time to refer only
TO the arguments and style Of oratory Of
Mr.. Luttrell in this county in 1868 and
1869. As a Democratic orator, Luttrell
addressed himself principally to arousing
theprejudices ofpeople against the Repub-
lican party for the reason that that party
desired to elevate the "nigger" and the
"Chinaman to a political and socjal
equality with the whites. After rehash
ing the oft-told vulgar tale about the
fat nose " crooked shin " "wooly
head" and pungent odor of the "nigger,"
Mr.. Luttrell would pathetically ask his
hearers how they would like to see their
wives, sisters and daughters promenading
the streets with Cinnamon or waltzing in
a ballroom, as the speaker feicitously
expressed it, "with big, bury, black,
buck Niger" Assuming and realizing
that his audience was horror-struck ut the
very idea of such things coming to pass,
Mr.. Luttrell would proceed to demon
stfate that soch was the purpose and in
tent of the Republican party by referring
to and reading from the Sacramento
! Union, which he said advocated these
doctrines and was the exponent Of the
Republican party in this State. After
disposing Of the "nigger" and "Chinese"
questions in this style, the energetic and
! high-toned orator (see the last Unions)
would next devote himself to the task of
making our forcign-born citizens under
stand how friendly the speaker and the
Democratic party were to them, and how
unfriendy were the Republicans. This
is the way he did it
At Lewiston, in this county, after
charging that the Republican party held
all foreigners in contempt, Mr. Luttrell
went on to establish his proposition in
substantially the following language and
manner: Said he, Now, my fellow
citizens, just listen to what the Sacra-
mento Union says-the blackest Repub-
lcan sheet in the State ''--and pulling
out copy Of the Union read therefrom
an extract referring in very uncompli-
mentary terms to Irish and German SER
want girls. Now my Irish and Ger
man fellow citizens" said he, . how do
you like THAT? Here ii is, in the Sac
ramento Union, IL BLACK AND WHITE ~
And then waxing indiscreetly defiant,
Mr. Luttrell held the paper out at arms
length and imprudently asked, VIII
anybody deny it ?" Alas for Luttrell's 5
magnificent argument, among his listen
ers was an intelligent German fellow
citizen who was Il reader of the Union,
and who knew Mr.. Luttrell had made a
misstatement, and who dared then and
there to tell Mr.. Luttrell so. The truth
of the matter was this : a Boston cor
respondent Of the Union, speaking abont
the scarcity Of kitchen help said they
were compelled to depend upon Irish
servant girls and that they did not give
satisfaction. Mr.. Luttrell not only read
this to his audience ms being a direct ex-
preston Of opinion by the Union, but
misread it, making the language include
German servant girls rs well. When
Luttrell challenged denial, the German
citizen we have mentioned Immediately
got up and told him plainly that he lied,
that the Sacramento Union never said
any such thing. What next do you
suppose? Did Mr.. Luttrell, with the
Union in his hand, submit it to anybody
present that it might be shown on the
spot that he had not misreprescnted it
and misread it? Indeed, he did no such
thing-paid no attention to the Interrupt
ton but went on talking about some
thing else, self-convicted before that audi
ence as willful, contemplate liar. And
yet the Union forced this mans nomina-
ton upon the Democracy and now labors
for his election. Very well the higher
the Union lifts Luttrell the further he'll
have to fall.
We will give one more sample of Lut-
trell In speech at Weavervile he
went after the foreign born citizens by
stating that, in his opinion, " the foreign
born citizens were better than the native
born, BECAUSE" as he said, the native
citizens were so by accident of birth, but
the loreign-born by choice" That any
man, considered by any respectable num-
Der Of his fellow citizens to be fit can
didate for Congress, should seriously
advance and seriously argue such prop
osition, seems absolutely ridiculous. Yet
Luttrell did so and will not deny it. For