The Empire County argus., 1854-04-08
Coloma. Saturday, april ., 1854.
THE UNlIOLY ALLIANCE.

the banner of the allies NIarysville and Sacra
ramento are the trophies Of the coalitionists.
For more than year past has dsafGcton been
undermining the Democratic party--wcakcning its
outposts-tamperng with It's sentinels-subsidsing
its leaders and causing dstrust to peryade its ranks
So general had this state Of things become prior to
the last general election, that the stoutest heart
palptated arfully at the prospect of defeat which
stared us ominously i'll the face. And although the
designs of the traitors frustrated for the time
they had gathered force and strength from the pc
culiar circumstances which surrounded the party
and being in position to cause injury in our ranks
they have renewed the contest with fierce and
unmitigatcd hatred, which portends coming evil.
To establish our point--to fix upon the coalition
the determination to divide the Democratic party,
and to throw the State into the hands Of the Wings,
it is only necessary to refer to the uthessness with
which the leaders Of this faction have paralised
Democratic action by striking down one of the an
cent and revered landmarks Of the party.
No one acquainted with the political history of
this State can for moment believe that the leaders
of the faction that refused to 90 into Legislative
caucus, actuatcd by pure motives and consci
entious scruplcs-that party usage would be outra
ged by the act Or, that the Constitution Of the
State or the United States would be violated if the
election of U. s. Senator should take place this
winter. Not The prime conspirators men of
too much political knowledge, and too shrevd tao
ticlans to be guilty Of believing the doctrine they
sent forth, in order to screen themselves from the
just and mcritcd ccnsure their treachery to them
selves, to Truth and Democracy demands
The masses Of the Democratic party in this coun-
try-thosc who do the political drudgery without
seeking Office rs reward for their scryices-werc
reared in a country where strict adherence to party
usage and party ties were cardinal principles Of
their faih-a part and parcel Of their christian
tencts: and he who wilfully violated or set at
naught its clearly defined principles and duties
looked upon disturbcr of the harmony Of the
party and unworthy the fellowship of Democrats.
This the only consistent the party could
pursue, to keep itself free from contaminating and
disturbing influence and maintain its ascendancy
The vitality Of its organization, the success of its
principles, and the development of our national
greatness and prosperity, is mainly owing to the
strict adherence to party ties principles ar usages
CT the people.
In California it is i'll most Of the older States
the masses Of the people are Democratic. They
try to preserve, uncorrupted the principles of the
party, and to push forward our young yet mighty
State, in her career to greatness In all the vciss-
tudes of party-when darkness oyerspread the po-
litical horizon, with breakers ahead and shoals
around US, the masses never fatercd in their devo-
ton to principle 10 usage and precedent. The people
are always safe, reliable and true. Whenever there
is detection IN the party, it originates with
the laborinS classes. In them conspiracy finds no
soil on which to grow, no place for a lodgment on
which to rear its hideous form, and shake its CORY
locks. The masses are too honorable, hgh-minded
and democratic, to engage in crusade against
right precedent, usage, and Democracy.
The incidents of the campaign last fall clearly
prove that the people reliably Democratic
in them there is no treachery, no falering. Those
things are left to the demagogue to the ambitious,
to the unprncipcd to those who seek Office for the
sake of plumber and endcayor to control and direct
the action of the party through the position they
occupy.
Look at the present struggle Are the people
outraged, and their sense of Democracy violated
by the action Of the Democratic majority of the
Legislature on the Senatorial question Far from
it. They approve and sustain that action. In it
they recognize the clearly defined principles of the
party, its usages and prccedents. But we are told
that the people arc opposed to the action of the
majority Of the Democratic Members Of the Lcgs-
laturc. Last year we were told that the people
were opposed to John Bigler--that an avalanche of
public Indignation would be hurled upon him on
election day that would sink him to eternal infamy
and make his namo q stencil in the nosrils of all
honest men Did the masses falter then? The
official records show that the people were true to
themselves their principles and the Democratic
party. AS they were then, so they are now Dis
affection has made but slight inroads into their
ranks, and the wrong committed will soon be wiped
out, by the empowering influence of pure Demo-
cratic action.
The leaders of the disaff6ction last fall are the
prime movers and advisers in the fierce onslaught
on the democracy at the present time. They are
mostly ambitious, intriguing unprincipled, selfish
men, who despse the laboring classes, and omit no
opportunity to degrade them. The past legislation
OF the State proves this. The attempt, by this same
unhoiy clique, to fasten the Cooley system upon our
state to bring the free laborng men Of the country
into competition with servile labor--to bind dowr
and cripple the energies of our mining population
by cndeayOrinp to mass thcir common, ;nLor;to,o,