Butte record., 1854-05-06
SATURDAY, :: :::::::: MAY 6.
nc Future Of pemooraor in California

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choice of creeds and parties The people of
California especially are accustomed to indulge
in such musings-that the people were sover-
eign, and that their will was as expressed
through the ballot-box, and by instructions
TO their Representatives, was the government
of the country. Such has been our view of
the term Democracy. The true signihcation
and definition of the word is-goyernment by
the people strict adherence to the mean
ing and intent of the term has enabled the
democratic party to triumphantly sustain
their principles, for the American people are
essentially and unchangably democratic -
When the democratic leaders and Represeta-
tives have obeyed the will of the people, they
have been sustained-and when they have
dsregarded it, the people have shown their
democracy, by disregarding them, and rcfu
sing to sustain them in places they have mis-
represented. It is the devotion of the demo-
cratic party to the will of the people, and
the interest of the masses that has rendered
nearly all the States of the Union, under the
control of the democracy.
The sentiment and voice Of the people Of
California are democratic, and will remain
so--but they will not sustain those selfstyled
democratic leaders, whose aims and objects
are official stations, and who, TO obtain them,
would disr egard the popular will and boldly
assert that democratic people are not to be
trusted to express their preference for those
who are to serve them in a responsible official
capacity The past perience of the various
states shows that the popular will has inya-
riably denounced and overthrown such doc
trine, and it is not believed that California will
prove an exception, and sustain those who
are afraid to submit their claims to the bal
lot box. The present action Of the Broderick
faction, who assert the people are not compe
tent to say who shall represent them in the L.
S. Senate-that the matter belongs entirely
to the legislature-and that their representa-
tives are justifable in not obeying the in
structions of their constituencies as new to
democracy as some of the recent tactics of
their faction is to parliamentary usage, and
it is not to expected that such doctrines will
meet the approval Of an intelligent and demo-
cratic people. The intelligent voters Of Cali
MIA, unlike many Of their representatives,
will not surrender their boasted freedom to
the nominal head of political clique. 1t is
hunting sycophants and not the hard-fsted
miners or the industrious husbandmen who
sell their birthright for a prospective mess of
pottage. They will not become the plant
tools of a faction, and submit to the dictation
of those VINO would disfranchise them The
herculean efforts of clques, outnumbering
the Broderick faction four or FIVE times, have
heretofore proved insufficient to maintain the
democratic party in the ascendancy when
their triumuh would be to proclaim the cor
rectness of such sentiments. They will not
endorse those who by their declarations and
acts have reduced the people to ''hewers of
wood and drawers Of water
The present legislature when it assembled
was supposed to be largely democratic, but
subsequent events have shown to the contrary
have shown many who were elected as dem
Gratis, and who asked and obtained the con-
hdence and sutfrages of their constituents
by promising faithful adherence to demo
cratic usages and principles, to be unprinci-
pied politicians, who disregard the wishes of
their constituents, and lend their influence to
further schemes of a faction whose advance
ment DISTINGUISHES the people. Notwith-
standing the contempt which the Broderick
faction have exhibited for the rights of the
people, they still have the hardihood to assert
that their course is democratic, and will un-
doubtedly call upon the people to reduce
themselves to nonenity and sanction the as
sumption of unlimited power by their repre-
sentatives.
We have expressed the belief upon any and
every occasion, that the democratic party
cannot succeed at the next election should
they endorse the actions of the Broderick fac
lion. There has feeling gone abroad in the
community-it has penetrated the fatherest
valleys, against the course pursued by that
faction, and it will be impossible for The
party to succeed, unless they free them
selves from its influence. We do not think it
policyto harmonic that faction by concessions,
as such course must inevitably jeopardze
the success of the ticket True democracy
has no fellowship with such factions, and does
not overlook the lack of intelligence, honesty
and faithfulness to the rights and interests of
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