The weekly Placer herald., 1853-11-26
Yours, respectfully,
JE BOAN JENKINS.
From the ines & ! anscript
The Address Oe thn State Central
COrrl1nit ttep.

The lateness Of the hour at which we re.
ceived through the hnnds Of several gentle
men of the State Central Committee on Sun
day night. pr0of from the Public Ledger, in
this city Of the Address published yesterday
nreclu1ed our accompanying the same with
my comments In referring to the subject
now. we shall attempt to be brief in what we
have to say, and at the same time uuequiyo-
cal as to our meaning.
After n careful perusal of the address there
seems to be two leading textures characteriz
ing its purpose: first to denounce boters, &C
tive and passive and scconlly, to place prom.
inent|y before the democracy Of the state.
the magnitude and importance Of the lrhors
alledged to have been peri med in the state
canvass by its authors Now rs we consider
ether purpose totally insufficient the one
through policy and the other through toste--
TO have assembled the committee and to have
ELECTED this public demonstration, we must
he permitted in the outset to regret the course
that has been pursued by them
And first as to bolters. We have ms little sym.
pathy with such, ns any whose names are ap
pended to the address can possibly have Our
political faith teaches us. under all md any
circumstances, to support the nominees q the
party. We regard tbs e an Incident o. par
ty organization, and necessary to its Urc7cr
walton AMI security SO long rs we regard
the great Democratic party. in its political
aims rs the reflex and embodiment of true
republican liberty and the progressive spirit
Of the age. shall We recognise as binding np-
on US its expressed will We can saw in this
respect what all of the committee, who are so
severe upon bolters perhaps cannot say. that
in our whole political career, embracing all
the time since our ma jority, we have not only
been cordial but active supporters Of the
democratic party On no occasion through
good or through evil report in this State or
elsewhere, have we ever known in this respect
variabeness or shadow Of turning" We
say then that we have no svmpathay "ith
boilers, and can therefore express an impair
tial opinion upon the policy of the committees
address And here let US say that so far MS
their structures apply to individuals who op-
posed us Mt the late election, we shall neither
enter into their justification or defence We
gave our opinion in relation to their conduct
during the late canvass, fully freely nd fear
lessly. What we then thought the public al
ready know As to others who nre referred
to. we leave them TO tnke care Of themselves
We will not he honestly accused then Of
sympathy for seceders or holters, when
express the opinion, that the address Of the
committee go far MS it relates to them, is rash,
heady and Incorporate ca culaed to do no
good, but on the contrary to disseminate
much Of evil It is not that dignifed, calm
and dispassonate appeal to the good sense Of
rational men, that we had n right to exrec'
from gentlemen occupying their responsible
positions. We can well conceive that if re
venge is recognized MS the chief motive of nc
ton, the spirit Of the address woul1 he con
sstent and well conceived; but that thoso
who are contendng for ele ated aims and
lofty ccomplshments-the triumph of prin
ciple an the success Of n policy cOnso
nance with the wants and wishes Of the pe0
pie should be governed by higher motives Of
action, was an expectation both reasonable
and Just To harmonize the PARTY should he
the aim Of every good democrat 1t was up
on this principle that the late National Dew
ocratic triumph was achieved, and with this
aim those who assembled Mt Baltimore in
1852. in behalf of the democracy of the mi
on, constructed platform without reference
to pre- existing local divis ons, but purely Ma
tonal and Democratic in tone. They did NOT
attempt to ostracise any wing or faction
they did not seek to drive by superiority Of
numbers, into the ranks Of the enemy. all
who had operated in former elections Diverse
~. On the contrary seceders and holters
were invited TO come forward-to bury with
the dead past, by gone nquencies-and to
place themselves again within the circle of
that political fraternity, to whces policy is 90