Year: 1867


--independent Papers cannot be Trusted. |


The Union now objects to being classed |
with the Examiner, but it certainly worked |
with the Examiner through the entire cam
paign. and was hand aud glove with the
Democracy throughout the entire State. Ii
it not their organ it certainly did more
for them than any avowed Democratic paper
could have done, and the managers of that
party seeing this fact refused to start cam
paign paper in the interior. We want no
better organ than the Sacramento Union,"
said they. and they were right. That jou
nal acting as an avowed onion paper. did
more for the Democracy than all the Demo.
cratic papers ia the State could have DONE
We believe, in fact, that the Sacramento
Union, more than any jeRrnal in the United
States, was Instrumental in bringing about
the recent Democratic victories in the North.
which commenced with the complete route Of
the Union party in California. Nor do we
believe it was forced to do this in order to
rebuke corruption, or that it was moved by
desire to further the best interests Of the
State. It's quarrel was, to a great extent,
personal one. We do not say that the Union
candidates were the best or most available
men in the party, or that they secured their
nominations or managed the campaign in the
best manner but we think 1t would be hard
to find to-day among their opponents one
honest, unprejndiced man, who believes half
the charges made against them by the Union.
| The mouthpieces of the Democracy have
stated since the election. that they do not
We do not hold any man is bound to vote for
candidate simply because he is the candi-
date of his party, and we again distinctly
assert that the interests of the State should
always be held superior to the interests of
| party but even supposing the Union to have
been convinced that Haight, Nichols, Watt
and Gewicks were more worthy of election
than Gorham, Parks, Howell and McCar-
thy. that will not excuse its efforts to defeat
the entire Union ticket. 1t did not in so
many words advocate this, but it pursued
the course of all others best calculated to
effect it, 1t told its readers that California
might 60 which ever way she pleased with
out producing the slightest effect at the East,
and that every man in California might turn
State Rights Democrat without influencing
the course Of national affairs Though its
columns teemed with the abuse of Union
candidates, as against the Democracy it had
very little to say and in that the blame was
so mild as to have the same effect as praise
Had it vigorously supported the Union cause,
it might have denounced the heads of the
ticket without so disastrous a result. But,
as it was, its course produced among a con-
siderable number Of Union men deadly
hostility to certain candidates, and general
apathy as to the rest. Thousands of Union
men were convinced that there was no prin-
ciple involved in the contest, and that they
might stay away from the polls, or vote the
whole Democratic ticket with impuni,y.-
The result we see.


Under the circumstances we must decline
to consider the Sacramento Union Union
Journal, and we trust that it will no longer
| put forward any pretensions to that character,
even if it is denied admission into the party
which it has aided to place in power. We
shall not refuse whatever support it may be
any of our candidates or any of our princi
| piles. But by claiming the character of a
Union paper it can do itself no good (for it
deludes very few, and it certainly does not
aid the party. Its support Of a high tariff,
the National Banks. etc.. is calculated to
hurt the party were it recognized as in full
sympathy with it; while it is certain that
had it boldly avowed itself Democratic
sheet at the beginning of the last campaign,
1T would havo greatly lessened its power to
do us mischief.


As for the assertion that the Union party


has hitherto derived its respectablitv and


success from the g independent press. end


must IN future rely upon it for victory, we


consider that as rather cool even for the


Union. 1T has been our impression that it


was the intrinsic merit of the national cause


and the heroic devotion of the people to il


which gave to the Union party respectabilitv


and success, and not the support of any news.


pare or newspapers. We may have been


mistaken in this. but Of one thing we are Ger


tain-that the Union party would be com
posed if idiots, if, after the lesson of the last
campaign, it were to rely for success upon
such papers as the Union The Democratic
party may rely upon the independent press
for victory in the future, for it is through
them it has secured it in the past but the
Union party, never. "A burnt child
breads the fire.


/ STRUMors or Scrofulous affections are the
curse, the blight, the potato rot of mankind.
They are vile and filthy as well as fatal
They arise from contamination and impurity
of the blood, aud are to be seen al around US
everywhere. One quarter of all we meet
are tainted with them, and one quarter If