The Red Woods Laborers no participants in the Contra Costa Election Fraud.
RED WOOD, SAN ANTONIO, March 22, 1853.
EDITORS ALTA - Presuming your columns open for reply to unjust charges which appear in them, I take the liberty to offer you a few words on behalf of the Redwoods. In your paper of last Tuesday week, (I think that is the date,) your Benecia correspondent, treating of the contested election case in the Assembly from this county, states that the fraudulent votes polled at Oakland for Mr. Carpentier were mostly thrown by men from the Redwoods and further states that, from the testimony in that case, it appears that the Redwoods contain "the most precious set of scoundrels unhung in California," or words to that effect, and goes on at some length to vilify the good name of the quiet, industrious, and unobtrusive laborers in the mountain forests.
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