The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-30

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May last, with an armed party, violently enter the
Office of the LIST acalde Of the district of San Fran
CISCO and there forcibly take and carry away the
public records said district from the legal custody
and keeping of said LIST acalde No.o, therefore, all
good citizens are called upon to assist in restoring
said records to their lawful keeper and in sustain
ing the legally constituted authorities of the land
The general then goes to argue that the justice
of the peace is regularly subordinate to the alcalde
and says that the acade being the regular agent of
the law must be sustained Notwithstanding feelings
of dislike for the individual holding the Office. AT
the same time he, as Executive, will always be
ready TO employ legal means to correct incompe-
tency or INSTRUMENTATION.
AcrIoN OF THE PEopLE.--A mass meeting was
held at San Francisco on June 18th, VIM. M Stew
art presiding. Hon T. Butler King made a
speech, as did several other gentlemen The fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted
! Resolved, That the Congress of the United States
having failed pass any law for the government of
this country, the people of California have the un-
doubted right to organize a government for their
| own protection
Resotped, That the people of California are called
upon by an imperative sense Of duty, to assemble
in their sovereign capacity and elect delegates to
| convention to form constitution for State Gov
eminent, that the great and growing interests of
California may be represented in the next Congress
of the United States and that the people of this
country may have the necessary protection of law
RssoiUed That we earnestly invite our fellow cit
liens at large to unite with in our efforts to es-
tabsh government in accordance with the Con-
sttuton of our beloved country, and that COM
mittee of FIVE persons be appointed by the president
of this meeting to correspond with the other dis
trcts and fix early day for the election of dele
gates and the meeting of the convention, and also
to determine the number of delegates which should
| be elected from this district.
Of this meeting the Alta California remarks that
it was enthusiastic and united. The same paper
hopes that other districts will follow the example,
and that the campaign thus proptousy began will
not be suffered to flag till the Representatives and
Senators Of California take their seats in the United
States Congress. A meeting was held at San Jose
on the 7th June, Kimball H. Dimmock presiding,
TO consider Gen. Rileys proclamation: The Span
ish pant of the meeting unanimously sustained the
general. The following resolutions were adopted
| by the Americans:
Whereas, We, the resident citizens of California,
believe ourselves to have been treated by the Con-
| gress of the United States in manner unworthy
of the services which we have rendered TO the ma
ton, by their negectng to provide for terrific
rial government, and by their interfering in the
question of slavery; which question we, the people
of California, presume ourselves to be the most
competent to settle, it will most affect us for good
| or evil;
lind ,chereas, II is indispensable to the welI-being
of society, and especially the greatly growing popu-
aton of California, that the administration Of JUS
tice should be in accordance with the established
usages of Lations, and established upon just and
] known principles; therefore bel
ResoLucd, That we give our unanimous approval
to the proclamation Of Governor Riley; and that we
believe ourselves called upon to elect the dele
gates recommended by his excellency, with the
avowed object of forming State constitution, to
be presented TO the Congress of the United States
for admission into the Union.
| RESOLVED, That we now call upon all of our fel-
low-ctizens of Upper California to unite with u.s.
and that manifest at the ballot-box, at the time
| appointed, our desire to carry out the views re-
| commended in said proclamation, as we believe
them to be the views of the great majority of the
people of California.
| POPULAR MANIFEsro.--Messrs Peter H. Bur-
nett, William d. Howard, Myron Norton, E. G.
Buffum, and Edward Gilbert committee appoint
ed by the San Francisco meeting, publish card to
the public, dated June 10, denying the right of Gen.
eral Riley to regulate the assembling of the con-
vention, but for convenience sake recommending
the adoption of the day for the election and the
meeting of the convention named by him.
The committee recommend their fellow-citzens
of the district of San Francisco TO elect five dele
gates TO the convention and cannot but express the
opinion that their ellow-citizens Of the great
mining districts of Sacramento and San Joaquin
have not had any thing like justice done them by
the apportionment of General Riley-that they are
justly entitled to greater proportion of delegates
to the convention than the number mentioned in
General Rileys proclamation; and the committee,
nft III
to have equal rights, in proportion to numbers,
with the people Of other districts, recommend them
10 elect such increased number of delegates as thew
in tneir judgment shall think just and right
There seems every reason to believe that the
government in California will be properly conduct
ed until wel-digested code shall be prepared
Gov. DANA OF MANE.--It will be remembered
that this officer, in his inaugural message some
months since, adopted the opinion that Congress
had nothing to do with the existence of slavery
and that it did not the people of the free
States. The legislature passed series OF resolu-
tons instructing their members in Congress TO lose
no opportunity of pressing the Proviso into any
form Of Government to be provided for the new
territories, and directing the Governor to sign and
transmit them to the governors Of the several States
OF this Union.
We learn from the Portland Inquirer, that on the
18th a message was received from the Governor,
in which he refuses to sign the resolutions. He
says that he would have been willing to transmit
the resolutions to "the Governors of the several
States Of the Unon," If they had been presented to
him in the ordinary manner; but as they had been
sent TO him by the Senate for his approval and sig
nature, the message from that body was evidently
intended to request him to subscribe to opinions
dramatically opposed TO those he had officially
expressed -
The message ordered to be printed
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