Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-15

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desp sing al the rules aud safeguards which
the experience Of aE-s has shown necessary
to promote a fair anl impartial trial, and
yet before which citizens are dragged, COM
demned AMI sent to punishment or eSccu-
ton We have seen the sworn oiiicers II
, law secuted ut ia the discha' &c Of their du
"; the authority at the Executive and Ju-
dietary d,rcg4ld,d aud tramrlel upon; tie
writ Of h95cbS c0Tpes rcsistv.. 1t tie point
OF the bayonet. the Constitution pro>tratcI,
aud all the checks and guarantees lllced
there to protect jAe people from their own
temporary errors and delUsons, swept away
and drowned in the b!aspAenouz cry Of
For Pop0ij, ror Dtt''
Finatjy,we have sten cpen war made upon
the State-her highest ju'Ic'ni o!Icer aud
conservator Of the peace assaulted ia the
streets Of the metropolis, seized. hurriei Ch,
and thrown, ironeI, into tao.r cells We
nave seen her armories se.zel and emptied
her arms and munitions Of war cnptured
upon the high seas--hcr troops surrounded.
overwhelmed, haudcuhed ana dragged away
I Ike telons to their dungeon,-au arscnel
erected in the heart OF San Francisco where,
hemned in with forti!ic .tious, artillery aud
five thousand bayGneis, this organization
stands in bold, insulting and lAcnacng de-
tance of the severe gn power.
Fellow countrymen Men Of California
To what can these things lead Look at
History Consult her pages, ancient or
modern. Lock at human nature. Are you
prepared to see the destinies OF this State,
your rights, your property, your liberties,
your lives transferred from the constituted
authorities to the protection OF an lrrt spon-
sible, invisible, secretly organizer, and all
powerful olgarehy, whose mandates are t.
be obeyei an decrecs carried oht come
what may' Are you prepared 10 sec all
the prime pies of Magma Charta and OF our
own Constitution, all the precious institu-
tons which have stood forth To tie criticisms
of the world since the meeting Of the Barons
at Runnymedc, more than six hundred
years ago, and are now acknop lodged as
The wisest, safest and best which the human
brain has vet ever coined tor the protection
Of human rights ARE you prepared, we
ask, to see all these traded for tue Fi>cret'0n
even of "Our best and purcst citZeus! or
to fold your arms and stand still, IN sub
missiye apathy while they are swept away
IN tornado of inscnsate ideas, reckless ana
deluled passions, wild fearful and chimcri-
cal chemes of social order? Are you pre-
pared to drift along until you fnd yourselves
in II land over which the stars and stripes
no longer wave: Look 10 it if you are not
for to tins complexion 1T Is coming fast
Revolutions, they tell us, never 60 back
wards. The Constitution lies already IN the
dust, "all marred by traitors" The Gov
eminent, though called into power by the
voices of American freemen, men in whom
only "A few mouths back even the distant
speck of danger1rom foreign influence reused
up spirit which swept this State from the
mountains to the sea, is parall zed and al
most supplanted Already We have an
'Imperium in Imperio.' IN the name of
God and your couutry,we earnestly, sole mn
ly, fervently implore you to awake and look
these things III the face, We speak to all
who love and cling to our peculiar Saxon
liberty, its rights and its privileges We
speak TO Democrats whose boast II has been
that they were tbs guardians Of the Con-
stitution. We speak to Wings whose ban
ners once glistened with the noble word
Conservatism. We call upon the men who
so lately embodied in their national platform
that cne of tn, great objects for which they
had united themselves under the name Of
"Americans,' was to bring this country back
to the pure and early days of the Republic,
by cultivating a "ha6u Of trererentiai Obedi
ence to the ia,cS, Whether Nationals STAIR
or .Nunicipai, until they pere either re-
peaied or deci0red unconstitutional by the
proper authorities" We appeal to the men
who have flown to this this land Of the free
from the Emerald lse--fr0m sunny and
gallant France-frOm the banks Of the
Rhine-who have sworn before Almighty
God that they would protect the Constitu
ton of these United States and of the State
OF Calitornia-who have pledged themselves
on the Holy Evangelists that when the stars
and stripes were unturled-whether against
foreign foes or domestic traitors they would
stand under it and by it. We cal upon
Catholics to come forth and meet the charge
that the institutions OF the land were in
danger from them We call upon all minis
ters of the Gospel to speak out that Chris
tianty which teaches that when men are
assembled to wreak sudden, ill-advised, vio-
lent and bloody vene eance, even upon the
guilty-no God is there-which teaches that
obedience to the sacredness and supremacy
of the law is obedience to one Of the plainest
and most imperitive prccepts of their Mas
ter. That the spirit of reform which must
blacken this green earth in its course, turn
b-otherly love into gall, and sow it's fire.
brands of private and national discord
among the people, wears not the livery of
Heaven" That the reform started by and
breathing around their meek and holy tea
cher was like charity, calm as a Sabbath's !
dawn. beginning at home. yet enclasping a
world in its embrace.