Year: 1865

election. and there made O record that they,
with an air of Superiority, could point to,
and say, "none can question my loyalty !"
and who, with this boast on their lips. are
now found an element of discord in the Union
party? Why would they thus blot out the
glorious record made ?-while we, who sup
ported the noble Douglas; who disrupted our
party organization and adopted that of the
Union party, that we might more efficiently
serve our country in its need. as well as
sever ourselves from bad company, are now
found working within the lines of that party,
and for its great patriotic interests, which we
believe are too closely connected with the
interests of our Government to be lightly set
aside. We have no better starting point
than this, except, it may be. that the Doug.
las Democracy, though majority party in
the county, were i,st to sacrifice that name,
and were the first to propose Union party,
with bot one plank in its platform, and that
plank UsIoS. For about four years the
work of making that plank permanency
has being going on-has almost been com,
pleted, only requiring few finishing touches
and little polishing TO make it more beau
tiful, and it will remain forever, the wonder
and admiration of the world.


Shasta county, through the undivided
efforts of the Union party, has done much
towards the accomplishment of this great end
and has much to be proud of. Shall that
party, now that the great end in view at its
formation has been nearly attained. allow
itself to be broken to pieces because every
body in it cannot get the Office he Graves p
Is there in the party men so mercenary, so
reckless of its past glories. as to be willing to
sacrifice themselves and it for the paltry
chance Of getting an Office by disorganizing
it., and calling to their aid the few friend
they may take with them, and the Democratic
vote?


1t is sheer nonsense for men to offer them
selves as independent candidates, or become
members of some party under another name.
and expect to be believed when they say they
| are Union men. OF when they say they are
not bidding for Democratic votes. The man
may be sincere in so saying. but those more
familiar with the workings of parties will not
believe them-aud why? Simply because it
does not bear upon its face the logic of com
mon sense


| No man who will think for moment can
persuade himself, or anybody else, that as an
independent candidate for any office he car
be elected over the regular nominee of the
Union Convention for the same position.-
Then if he so offers himself, is it not a Iogi
cal conclusion that he is bidding for Demo
cratic votes ?-bidding for the votes of mer
who will support him, not because they love
him, not because they respect him, but be
cause in so doing they are adding fuel to tie
fame of disorganization.


! But suppose for Il moment that success
should perch upon the banner of the indie
pendent candidate, what would be his poiti
cal status then? Could he still claim to bt
a Union man, responsible to Union men fol
his acts Or would he not have to receive
into his arms his real friends, those whc
elected him? We take it that from that time
on he would find himself the associate q
Democrats; that they would advise ant
counsel with him, and six months would no
elapse before he would only be known as o
them.


1t is the first false step we would advis,
our friends against That step taken. ant
for brief time persisted in, can no more b,
retraced than the one false step that serd
poor, frail woman to a social perdition, from
which public opinion will not permit her t,
be reclaimed.


We are not writing in a spirit of dictatior
NOT with even the wish to adyise-but will
deep grief at what we see and hear in tn
midst of our political family, and SINGER
wish to stop the hand of the suicide.