Year: 1867

AAC 09OA 5 2u1zEI8.


God, in His inserutable wisdom, has per-


mitted the birth Of q species Of reptiles, II


the more dangerous from the fact that their


true nature is s-masked by the garb of human


ity, who ara SO mean, treacherous and base,
that even that powerful epispastic, self-in-


terest, is- scarcely sufficient to restrain them
from following the natural bent of their in


clinations. Born traitors and turn-coats,
nursed in hatred and malice. and educated


in the school of calumny and falsity, these
cuttle-ish of the human race are never so
happy as when engaged in blackening the
character and tarnishing the reputation of
those whom their hate and envy have marked
out ios destruction. Like ravenous vultures
hoserfng over the track of an army, these
vipers fasten themselves like leeches upon
the pelitical organization which in their
judgment is most certain to win, and en-
deavor by all the arts n their powen to gain
the confidence Of the people and procure
place and position for themselves and friends.
If unsuccessful n their attempts to rule,
their highest ambition is to ruin those who
have been named for the places which they
sought for themselves and their co-woxkers,
The Sacramento Union and San Francisco


Bulletin, papers which from the time the


Union party gained the ascendancy in this
State have been the loudest- -mouthed in theis
professions of loyalty to the Government
and devotion. to the principles of the organi-


zaeien which sustained it. simply because
they could not control the Sacramento Con-


vention and two or three of their pets were
defeated for a nomination, are advising and
urging Union men to desert their principles
and affiliate with Copperheads. These janus
faced hypocrites, for the purpose of gratifying
their own malice and hatred, are endeavoring
by disappearing, vilifying and slandering
some of the candidates presented for the
sufrages of the people by the Union Con-
vention, to disorganize, disrupt and defeat
the party. When their past history is re-
viewed, however, their present course appears
perfectly natural. At the commencement of:
the rebellion the Bulletin was the open and
avowed advocate of the right of secession
and favored the formation of al "Raci6c Re-
public" Finding, however,. that such
course was not popular with the masses, and
that Front Street was going to remain loyal,
at least in name. the Bulletin, which like the
Oakland ferry boat runs equally well either
end to, reversed its engine and has been
putting off milk-and-water Unionism up to
the present time. No one was deceived by
its professions. however. Everybody knew
that the blood-sucking vampires who con-
trolled it were actuated by self-interest alone,
and that the rudder which guided its course
was money. 1t really has no political in
fuence whatever. The result of the primary
election IN San Francisco determined that.
By its detection the Union party has been
relieved Of an incubus which was enough to
give any organization the nightmare. The
Cnions record is still more infamous. Dur.
ing the long period Of time the Democrats
were in power in this State, the En;os was
intensely Democratic. Upon the formation
Of the Repablisan party, it was most bitter
in its denanciations Of that organization and
heaped scorn and contempt upon those who
dared to declare their adhesion to its prin-
ciples. In 1860 the Democratic party was
divided into two factions of nearly equal
strength. The Union was for some time at
loss to determine which was the more
powerful, but finally offered its services to
the Breckinridge wing. provided certain
amount of money was raised. Fortunately
for that party it was unable to accede to the
Unions demands. and as the Union party
developed surprising strength at the succeed
ing election, the mercenaries who. had con-
troll of the sheet espoused the Union cause.
During the war 1t has howled and shrieked
at a fearful rate simply because it paid.
Whether the Union party has put in a bid
for the concern this year or not, we do not
know; but if it has the Democrats have
raised it, and 1t has been struck off to them.
We wish them joy in their acquisition. Its
efforts to disrupt the Union party will prove
perfectly abortive men are not influenced
by such mushroom politicians as conduct
the Union. 1t never won fight, has been
defeated at every point during the contest
which resulted in the nomination of the
strongest ticket ever presented for the suf-
fiages Of the people of California, and its
present position will kill whatever influence
it ever exerted. Its venality has passed into
a proverb. Union men will shua it as they