In order that a proper side-light be flashed upon him; that his choice
methods of dealing with men and accomplishing his purposes may pass in
review; that some Californians and many national legislators may be
informed of that which they never knew, or reminded of that which they
may have forgotten; that the record of his accidental and forced
confession in open Court of an appalling use of money in defending
stolen millions and grasping after more shall be revived; that his low
estimate of the honor and integrity of public men, and his essential
contempt for the masses, may be contrasted with his high appreciation of
the debauching power of money; that the enslavement by himself and his
associates of the naturally great State of California and her indignant
people may be once more proclaimed with bitter protest and earnest
appeal to all the citizens of our sister States throughout our vast
commonwealth; and to the end that no such palpable embodiment of
political infamy may continue to stalk without rebuke through all the
open ways and sacred recesses of popular power crystallized at
Washington - I propose to revive the recollection of - and to briefly
comment on - the whilom notorious Huntington-Colton Letters which became
public property as part of the records of the Superior Court of Sonoma
County in this State.



Huntington-Colton Letters.



Of an apparent nearly 600, only about 200 are in evidence. It is to be
regretted that more did not come to light. If the public could only be
privileged to read what he wrote to Leland Stanford, and to Charles