Volcano weekly ledger. (Volcano, Amador County, Cal.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-02
For The LEDGER.
The County Seat.

majority OF the votes larry polled, snall
constitute the choice of the bona fide electors.
1t is equally true that the Representatives
are bound by the expressed will Of a majority
of their constituents
1t is also most turc as was earnestly and
strenuously asserted and insisted upon by
cold man eloquent that the sacred right of
petition, is the unalianable right of each
citizen of the United States, of the several
States, and of the counties and towns thereof
"a privilege guaranteed to our forefathers
by Magma Charta, and imported!by them into
this hemisphere when they immigrated to
our western frests Drawing and subdung the
savage tribes These remarks have been sug-
gested to us by the fierce opposition of the
town of Jackson and the windy defamation
of her champions and orators against the
present Legislature submitting to the vote Of
Amador county, the question of the removal
of the county seat and giving to q majority
of all the voters of the county, the right to
permanently locate the place of hol1.i.ng the
courts. Has jackson an estate of Inheritance
to the county seat? Would the Legislature be
lmpairlng her vested rights by authorizing
the people of tbs county to say whether the
seat OF justice should remain at Jackson or
be located elsewhere? The practice that a
majority Of all the votes given through the
ballot-box shall permanently locate the county
seats, is co-eyal with the government of this
State. 1t is traly democratic in theory and
practice, and / can conceive of no valid ar
gument, or objection to such course. Is
Jackson for all time to come to remain the
county seat because she obtained plurality
Of sirty-sir votes over Volcano2 Is it denied
that jackson was in minority of nine hun
bred and sixty-nine votes at the election in
July 1854, shown by the aggregate vote OF
Volcano, Suffer and lone City? Are the
people of Jackson afraid to have the county
seat question, fairly and impartially submit
ted to the arbitrament of the people of the
county? Has jackson misgiyings that when
she calls, " the spirits will not Gomez" If
majority of all the votes cazt shall he in favor
OF jackson, and that majority shall be given
by legally qualified voters, without bribery
and corruption, the people of the county
will yield their willing acquescence to the
freely and impartially unbiased fat of pop
ular majority The citizens Of this county
who have subscribed their signatures to the
Memorial to the Honorable the Senate and
Asssembly--all residents and qualified vo-
tiers, "a large majority of the qualified cleo
tors OF this County,-aS compared with the
vote cast at the last general election, assert
that majority of the voters and taxpayers
are opposed to the county seat remaining at
jackson This assertion they intend to
prove by the ballot box, should this present
legislature submit that question to a popu-
lar vote.
Jackson at the July election 1854 by leg
erdemain, mesmeric influence spirit rappng,
greaser rotes, or such like obtained sIxrY-sx
plurality, not majority gentle readers; and
by chopped logic and justification, the quib-
blers of Jackson seek to make you blind and
to convince you against your better judg-
ments, that this lWah y was an old fashion
ed majority of all the votes cast at that cleo
ton, and because you have the manly indie
pendence, to question the truth of their
sophism, hence their rage and gritting ofteeth.
These sauans of jackson, well know that
"a man convinced against his will,
win be of the same opinion still"
/ fearlessly maintain that jackson has
never received majority of the votes cast
for the county seat of Amador county, and
that the people have the right to ask at the
hands of the Senate and the Assembly,
special election in order to try that ques-
ton through the ballot box. And have
the confident, firm and abiding conviction,
that our prayer will be granted by this
Legislature, and that special election at an
early day will be ordered by the Lawmakers
of the State to finally settle this vexed local
question. Why should jackson not readily
consent to such reasonable proposition?
Because she thinks "a bird in the hand, is
worth two in the bush," although that bird
was caught by stratagem, or shared by in
trigue. When Jackson obtained this plu-