Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-06-14
Fpnthe National Intelligencer.
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, &C.,
INICALTFORNLA.
Being in POSSESSION Of number Of the Alto
CALIFORNIA, date lhe 22d March, we make there
from the follow g extracts;
Proposed Provisional Govern
ment.S

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The undersi kped, delegates elect to Con.
VeI,Flon proposedto be held for the formation Of
provisional Experiment. for California, respect
luiiy submit to their iellow-citzens the following
statement, as explanatory of the causes which
nave Hitherto desged the assembling of the Con-
yenton, and, nlieir Judgment, would render
T'n, iuf'Ier p9s4onement highly expedent and
n Y mist matiDg in favor Of Provisional
uoselbtaent wa&held in the Puebla de SAM ose,
oi the 1l,lthDecknber, l848. The meeting rec
o,ii. ~ llat e Convention should assemble
On t'ls second M0Hday Of January, l849. The
second ll1 meeting Us held at San Francisco, on
tue Efst .Dseag Br, 1913, and, in view of the
p'pssillss ae 0f some immediate organiza
Sloh y ige q!Haes Monday, the 5th of March,
~ NY asasof the Convention to meet. -
Ita ql y was deliberately consider
~ W we bAa iucisco meeting, and it was be-
leVea 'lat efficiently late date had been fixed
upon. p tBeSe News, the people of Sonoma,
oacranqdCy, Gulloma and several other pla-
ces, conclted, add elected their candidates &C
cofdinglyf buttie people of Monterey, equally
lHPresSeqSlh LIE importance Of speedy action,
yet consAefed tn day proposed entirely too ear
~ ana fOI reasoFs very fully presented by their
Corresponding Obmmitte, recommended the LIST
Oh Maya1 the earliest practicable day for the
meetlnl OF the Convention.
lheIOoHesponbing Committee of San Fran
cisco, persuaded that sufficient time would mol
De afforded to hs. people of the southern portion
OIL ing country hhod meetings and select dele
gateSahd nave hem in attendance, and DESTROYS
10 secure c0rdla cooperation in the great mea-
sure proposed, agreed to the change of the day
OF fleellhg, and published card to that effect
IN tie pubic noyspapers but this concurrent
recommendation fsM onterey and San Francisco
was not concnret in by any other districts that
nave Deen neaFd rom. Thus, some of the dis
trcts adhered to he first named day, and others
prepared to attqnl on the list of May, while, in
consequence Of he recent inclement weather
and difficulty Of Ater-communicaton the prcpo-
slhon OF holdln! a Convention had scarcely
reached the southrn portion Of California, and
precudes the Psibility Of delegates from that
quarter being IN ttendance The undersigned
have met at this lace, and, after much delibcra.
ton, have cone the unanimous opinion that
until every ponlq Of California shall have fail
and equal Opportunity of being represented II
General Convection it would be inexpedient
to attempt to cant INTO effect the measures pro-
posed and, in lew of all the circumstances
they deem il mo- advisable and respectful tC
those who have bnored them with their conf
dence. and intruad. them with such high duties
to resign the poer delegated to tham, and t.
recommend hat, The event of the Congress o
the United Stetehasing failed to pass bill es
tabllsiing Terorial Government for Calior.
MA, new elctionshould be held in the sevcra
districts. for deleies to meet in Convention a
Monterey, On thest Monday Of August next
Monterey nam', the place of assembling
the Convention, spoang at this time, in the eS
timaton of the uderslgned, the most accessible
point to the prea.'I portion of California, and
BESIDES afford;n be 'ltost suitable public build
ffffts nJ5s5 5as ~ Ne accommodatIons. being
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chives Of the ectry are deposited '''0- 81
The day nowoposed for the assembling Of
the Conyentioba undersigned are persuaded
is the most appnriate, since by that time the
subject will be fly discussed, much importan
information will obtained touching the resour
ces, and mineralealth, and agricultural advan
tages Of the comy, and the people having re-
turned from the iccr, not only will every Dor.
ton Of Callforni be certainly represented, bu
almost every citsn will have an opportunity o.
expressing his whes at the ballot box, and par.
ucipate in that important movement. And
even more thanlis, considering the unprece.
dcn'ed increase the population of California
pouring in fromTerv ocean point, as well as by
every avenue ofland communication, the num-
Der Of inhabitan will be such as to require the
Immediate formfon Of State Constitution, and
entitle us to nat to be admitted into that u
mon Of soVereg States which we trust will ev-
er be distinct,s the pillows, but one MS the
wave" and, asing to this probable event, the
undersigned VOID further recommend that the
delegates electI to the proposed convention in
August, shoultoe vested with full powers to
frame State Constitution, to be submitted to
the people Of Clifornia.
w. M. Sterart, }
Myron Noon, San Francisco.