Butte record., 1854-02-11
The Benecia Caucus.

the Demoratlc party, nave held caucus
at Benicia, and in solemn conclave have
resolved to bring on the election of SEN
ator during the present session of the
legislature, and have called upon the
democratic papers throughout the State,
to endorse their actions and abide their
decision.
From this cup of fraud, corruption
and tyranny, even thus solemnly presen-
ted, the honest democratic mind turns in
disgust and loathing,--in surprise at the
boldness with which the customs and
time-honored usages of the party are in
vaded, and with melancholy at the tho'ts
of personal ambition which thus seeks to
desecrate and trail in the dust the proud
escutcheon of democracy. We will have
none Of it The kind offers of personal
aggrandizenent to teach us democracy
through the aid Of its paid advocates, is
rejected with the scorn due from untram-
eled freemen to officious tyranny. Even
if this corrupt political faction had sue
ceeded in purchasing the entire legisla
ture, we should yet have failed to rec
ognize the Legitimacy of their doctrines,
for we "have sworn upon the altar of God
eternal hostility to every form of tyranny
over the mind of man"
We have stigmatized the doctrine of
this caucus as tyrrannical and oppressive,
because it takes question away from the
people inwhich they are Immediately and
vitally inter ested, and as far as the ex-
preston of their will is concerned, re-
duces them to the level of Russian serf-
dom.
We have also stigmatized it as unprin
cipled and corrupt, because enough has
already transpired to convince the un-
prejudiced mind that they have made use
of coercive and extraneous measures to
divert the opinion of its members, and of
the people, from its legitimate and nat
ural channel, and have sought to build
up a fictitious public sentiment to ad-
vance the aims Of personal and sectional
ambition and aggrandizment. Such de-
mocracy, Or whatever other name it may
appear under, we reject, as being sub
versive of the purity and success, and at
war the genius, Of our institutions.
We suppose this San Francisco clique
will proceed to read out of the Democratic
party such papers as do not endorse this
bargain and sale manoeuvre. A nod
from King David, a splurge from the
scribe who Yields feather from the
pinions of the old gray goose, and off
flies the democratic head Of the noun
tain editor who dare assert his independ-
ence, and insist that the people shall
have a voice in question of SO much
importance to them, and condemn the
rank corruption which thus desecrates
the name of democracy. The party that
once knew them shall know them no
more. "Phancy our pheelinks.
But it will not stop with the condem
nation of the mountain press Every
democrat must endorse the action of this
caucus, or he will be showed from the
democratic platform Already are the
democrats opposing this unwonted mea-
sure, denounced by opposition papers as
consorting with wings, &c. What do
you think of that, ye mountain democ-
racy' After giving San Francisco all
the U. S. Senators so far in our history
as State, they must have it for another
six years, or forsooth there is no democ-
racy beyond the suburbs of the "eternal
city" So long as we concede all the
offices to San Francisco, and do the la
Dor ourselves, there is nothing equal to
the glorious democracy of California
but when the interior of the State claim
the right of representation on the floor of
the U. s. Senate, they are democrats no
more 4he momnnt thav attamnt N