The weekly Placer herald., 1854-06-17
Iowa Hill Correspondence.
Iowa HILL, June l3, 1854
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF PLA
GER COUNTY.

GER COUNTY.
FeiI0u Citizens: time is near at hand
and fast approximating, when you will again
he called upon to select men to represent you
and it is high time you were looking about
YOU and making selections In making your
selections, as good honest and tried demo-
Gratis. you should endeavor to procure men
who have shown themselves honest and true,
men too, who would not bend the plant
hinges of the knee that thrift might follow
fawning" You will then surely never select
any man who was during the past legislature
identified with the Broderick faction-a fac
ton too odious among the whole democracy
of the country to be known save in infamy-a
faction upon whose heads have been heaped
the btterest excavations of the democratic
party. Men who have stood by the 'onstitu.
ton, and battled in defence of the rights of
the people in by gone days almost unani
mously have censured the course pursued by
the Bro lerck members of the past legislature
whose acts are still fresh in the minds of the
people-an outraged people-and free and
Independent people, who, in their sovereign
capicity will show those factonsts that they
will he hearl \ undering voice from be
hind the throne will convince them of pow
er greater than the throne tself-the people.
At no time since the formation of our beau
tful system of republicanism have the rights
of the people been less regarded than during
the past session of the legislature. Al no
time since the days Of the immortal Jefferson
the apostle of democracy have the SER
wants of the people before attempted to be
come the masters. Now. ask, will the peo-
pie longer brook such insolence? win they
longer sustain men who have openly violated
the will of the people; men who refuse the
.instru ctions of their constituents, and place
at defiance their highest and most sacred
principles! Men, who will squander the pub
lie money. and by useless legislation, cause
the State Treasury to bleed at every pore,
merely to crafty one man? Tell it not in
Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon."
Then miners and citizens wake up. and like
men determined to be heard, like men de
termined that your wills be obeyed. and that
your servants shall not be your masters, ut
one fell stroke show these mighty men of
Gath that you will be revenged. That the
high prerogatives they assumed, meets with
but little favor at your hands. Should you
sustain those of the Broderck faction you at
once give them the power to act regardes of
your instructions, and as we hold most sacred
the right of instruction, we cannot think that
any rood Democrat will be found aiding in
such unhholy warfare. Many of the Brnde-
rick faction are now busily engaged in differ
ent portions of the county endeavoring by
secret accented words, to gull the hard fsted
yeomanry into their support-and who are
they? Let me, as an h0nest miner and one
who has watched every political move made
upon the chess board from 1850 up to the
present time, beg leave to inform you They
are, in short. those who have met with favors
from the high Sheriff of your county as depu-
ties, and those who have been promised Office
by the new-f;.nged self styled Democratic
Central Committee, committee wholly un-
authorized to act. committee whose origin
and existence dates back only to the time
when Mr. Frederick was endeavoring with
dollars to pave his way to the United States
Senate Subsidized presses have sprang up
. throughout the land to endeavor to aid him
on his way by false issues false lights and
every dishonest means, that the Vaccinations
Of man is heir to- The mighty dollar has
been instrumental iu changing the principles
of men Notwithstanding they have seen the
error of the ways. No doubt many of them
would Hee the wrath to come but they fear
their master and dread being exposed AS
to corruption, am satisfied that the people
kaoU a portion Of the last leg lature ,cere
corrupt.-and as to bribery, we have some
gimmering lights on that subject enough to
make us think 1T least, that where there is
% 80 much smoke there must be some fire."
TO those members 4" no have so boldly and
fearlessly stood by the Constitution, and on
the side of the people am willing to trust
the aff'rs of the country, and believe it a
duty we owe them as faithful guardians of
the peoples rights. rs faithful exponents of
Democratic principles to again reward them
They stood fast in time of danger and by
their nited strength saved the constitution
from being trampled under foot saved it
from that stigma, which trust may never be
its unhappy fate while one spark of good old
Jetfersonian Dem cracy courses the veins Of
the Democratic party Of California.
IIINIT1S