The Sierra citizen., 1854-07-15
Saturday. July A. 1854.
The Late Democratic Convention.

The Late Democratic Convention.
In last weeks paper, while speaking of
the division in the Democratic party, we
inadvertently denominated the two factions
the majority" and minority" from the
fact that the division occurred with regard
to the reception Of the majority and mi
nority reports. We have received note
from o friend belonging to the party,
which we called the minority. complaining
of injustice, and disclaiming any connec-
ton with the minority, although he voted
to receive the minority report. We re-
greet that an error so trifing and purely
accidental should have crept in, and as far
in our power we take pleasure in rectify-
ing the mistake.
At the time of writing the article, we
had not read the report Of the proceedings
of either party as afterwards published
Not wishing to make any report of the
Convention other than what might be
sent in for publication by the Secretaries,
we absented ourselves altogether until the
uproar in the Convention became so great
that outsiders began to collect, when we
taking advantage Of the privilege so dear
to every Yankee, went with the crowd to
see what was going on. When the d.
vision took place and one party left the
hall, there were so many outsiders present
that no one could tell who were delegates
and who were not. Nor did we know how
many there were in the Convention au-
thorized to vote; all we know of the mat
ter was, that when division was called
for we could not learn the result, and that
when one party left the Convention, one
side of the house was entirely vacated
Not feeling much interest in the matter
we wrote our own version of and thought
no more about it until our attention was
called to the fact that we had unwittingly
misrepresented facts. We learn since, that
we were in error, which we very sincerely
regret, as we little thought at the time
that so much Importance would be at
tached to the squib- but taken in connec-
ton with one of the reports, which we had
never read, it gave the idea that we had
taken sides and meant to decide the dis
pute which the parties could not decide
satisfactorily themselves.
We think Wings and Democrats must
ere this. have observed how studiously
we have avoided dabbling in politics
either as editors ola paper or as individu-
ais, and we trust they will give us credit
for more common sense than to interfere
in family quarrel to the great injury of
our everyday business. Nor do we pre-
tend to say no,r, who were the boilers
and who the true Democracy. We have
no right to say so; we have never been re-
quested to act as umpires, and neither
our interest nor inclination prompts us to
interfere. The columns Of the Citizen are
open to both parties for the discussion of
the matter, but we decline to volunteer
our services. We spoke Of the division
in the Convention after it had become a
matter Of public notoriety, as an item Of
news legitimately belonging to reporter;
right which cannot be denied us, and
since we have been requested in friendly
spirit to do justice to the parties whom we
may have injured, we have done so as far
as we can without doing injustice to the
other faction, and we hope our Demo.
cratic friends will not believe US capable
Of On act Of such manifest folly as to in.
terfere in matter which would only in.
volve US in difficulty.
WE learn from the Nevada Jossrnal