Butte record., 1854-06-03
SATURDAY, 1855: JUNE 3


pose Of self aggrandizement has been stayed.
and their prerogatives, as well as the
time -honored custom of the Democratic In
ion. maintained inviolate. The indignant
voice Of an outraged constituency Numbered
their renonstrance at the door of assembled
corruption, until the servile tools Of unholy
ambition were convinced that they were not
the entire State, and that a strict occounta-
bility awaited them for their abuse of the
brief authority with which they were clothed.
The voice of the Democracy of sovereign
State was not to be disregarded with impunity,
and law and order prevailed The gigantic
scheme Of fraud and corruption was defeated
But it was not done without an effort nor vet
free Of expense. The unholy aspirations of
unprincipled politicians has cost the taxpay-
ers of California during the past FIVE months,
near half million of dollars and came nigh
costing them their prerogatives of freemen
This deplo orable state Of affairs is the natural
consequence of the inattention of the people
to the politics of the day-of their inatteu-
tion to the primary meetings and conventions
Worthless and unprincipled asprants are
permitted to pack and control conventions,
and the legitimate result is an increase of
taxation and deprecated State credit
Should every taxpayer interest himself in the
offairs of State, and let his voice be heard in
the selection of our law -gvers, the decrease
l n his taxes would soon amply repay him for
the two or three days time spent in attending
primary meetings, and the voice of demo-
cratic people would prevail in the councils of
State. Demagogues would soon learn that
they could no longer control matters for their
andizement-speculate upon the ruined
credit Of the State-or maintain their bloated
existence by adding to the already heavy bur
den of tax payer. Every citizen Of California
knows that many members of the late legis
1ature utterly disregarded and scorned the
femonstrances of their constituents against
their corrupt and aggressive course-that
the credit Of the State has been injured. and
her paper reduced near ore third-and this
too when the people had every reason to be-
leve that measure would be taken, to cancel
debtedness-retrench the expenses of
goyernment-and lessen the burdens of tax
alton. These expectations were not unr5as-
enable, but might have been accomplished,
had those whom the people had placed in pow
er proved true to their constituents, and to
the State they were chosen to control aud pro-
tect But the just expectations Of the people,
were neglected in the squabble for spois
which has characterized and rendered the
session just closed bye-word and a reproach
Nothing towards relieving the State of her
Indebtedness and consequent taxation has been
done. but on the contrary the State has been
plunged deeper in debt, and the crownng act
and fitting finale Of this disgraceful legisa-
ture was the Governors veto of the Deficiency
Bill by which act the State repudiates her
indebtedness. What better could be expected
from those who made their own aggrandize-
ment the absorbing question of the session
1t now becomes the duty of the people to in
quire how this state of things may be rene
ded, and TO take necessary steps to retrieve
themselves. Their voice is potent, and will
be felt throughout the entire State if the
proper interest is manifested. VIII the policy
of those who sought to disfranchise the people,
nnd who have squandercd the peoples treas
ure and forced us to repudation, redeem the
State from the embarrassments into which
their wicked combination has drawn it? If
after satiating themselves upon the spoils of
office, they should feel disposed to advance the
interests of the State, experience has proven
their incapacity and complete unworthiness
They are still anxious for the people to again
repose confidence in them, and continue them
in power, notwithstanding they have publicly
expressed their contempt for the sovereign
rights of the people, and have endeayored to
declare by their official acts, that the people
were not competent to say who should govern
them. The people will soon be called upon to
say whether they will govern themselves, or
submit longer to the dictation of unprncipled
tricksters, who have declared in solemn
caucus that the people were not capable of
government-of saying who should rep
resent them in the United States Senate. The
people--those who are permanently settled in
California, and identified with her interests,
10 shake Of the lethargy which has thrown
the State in the hands Of political gamblers,
and asserting their just supremacy, restore
credit to the State, and place her in the posi-
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