Butte record., 1856-07-19


/ ana thrown, ironed, into their cells we
have seen her armories seized and emptied
her arms and munitions of war CAPTURED
upon the high seas-her troops surrounded
overwhelmed, handcuffed and dragged ava V
ike felons to their Gungeons-an arsenel
erected IN the heart of San Francisco where.
hemmed IN with fortifcati0ns, artillery and
hve thousand bayonets, this organization
stands IN bold. insulting and menacng de-
rance Of the sovereign power
Fellow countrymen! Men of California !
10 what can these things lead Look at
history Consult her pages, ancient or
modern. Look 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 ire spon-
sio'e, invisible, secretly crganizea- and all
powerful oligarchy, whose mandates are to
be obeyed and DEGREES carried out come
what may Are you prepared to see all
the principles OF Magma Charta and of our
own constitution, all the precious institu-
tlons winch have stood forth to the criticisms
oi the world since the meeting of the Barons
at hunnymede, more than six hundred
years ago, and are now acknou ledged as
.
brain has yet ever coined for the protection
OF human rights are you prepared, we
ask, to see all these traded for the discretion
even OF "our best and purest citizens?"-or
to fold your arms and stand still, in sub
missive apathy, while they are swept away
III tornado of insensate ideas, reckless and
deluded passions. wild, fearful and chimeri
cal chemes of social order' Are YOU pre-
pared to drift along until you find yourselves
in a land over which the stars and stripes
no longer wave? Look to it if you are not
for to this complexion it is coming fast.
Revolutions, they tell us, never 90 back
wards. The Constitution lies already in the
dust, call marred by traitors" The Gov
ernment, though called into power by the
voices of American freemen, men in whom
only few months back even the distant
speck OF danger from foreign influence reused
up spirit which swept this State from the
mountains to the sea, is paralyzed and al
most supplanted. Already we have an
Emporium in Imperio." in the name of
God and your country,we earnestly, solemn
ly, fervently implore you to awake and look
these things IN 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 it 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 the 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 "habit 0frererentiai obedi-
ence to the {aBS, Uhefher National, Strte
or .uunicipai. until they toere either re-
pedled or declared unconstitutional bu the
proper authorities" We appeal to the men
who have flown to this this land of the free
from the Emerald Isle-from 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 California-who have pledged themselves
on the Holy Evangelists that when the stars
and stripes were unfurled-whether against
foreign foes or domestic trators-they would
stand under it and by it. We call 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
tlanlty which teaches that when men are
assembled to wreak sudden, i'll advised, vio-
lent and bloody veng 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 precepts 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 its 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.
Let US not deceive ourselves. We all love
California. We wish to restore peace, pros
perity, good order, dignity, security and
happiness to her, and shall we seek all these
in a revolutionary spirit, in anarchy, in
that which is the death knell to both moral
and political order. California is full of life
and vigor. She possesses all the elements
of perfect social and political organization.
She has citizens educated, enlightened, ro-
spected-already accustomed to manage the
business of their country, or prepared to
undertake it. Her soil is covered with
young, industrious, enterprising and intel
ligent population. There are thousands of
loyal and manly hearts here in which the
flames of patriotism burns bright and pure
as a vestal fire, and which, like the Roman
Senate, when Hannibal was marching upon
the capital, are ready to swear that they
will never despair of the Republic Shall
we, then, with all her capacity and power
for good, give her up to the passions of the
wicked, the extravagancies of The mad, the
weaknesses Of the good, to revolution and
civil war? Shall such be her fate Shall
such be the closing scene in her short but
brilliant and glorious career, bedmmed
with a few dark stains, like spots upon the
sum- Are you willing that she should be
the first star erased from that flag which
now floats in every breeze, and is honored
in every land. The spirits of those whose
memories have hallowed and blessed day
that is new near at hand, speak from out
their proud graves and answer for you, NO!
'.If you have nature in you. bear it not"
Awake then, from you fatal dream of Sc
curity We want no violence, no fraternal
strife, no bloodshed. We are willing to "let
the dead Past bury its dead" But we i'm
plore you, " in sorrow, not in anger to
rise up in the strength Of united action
aginst this disorgonizing heresy-purify the
state from tnis behluS Of Anarchy anu De
cord-burn it out in the hot blaze Of an
honest and universal Indignation. Assem-
BILE in your hamlets, your camps and villa
ges, and let the voice of Reason and Patri-
otism, boldly. plainly, in tones that cannot
be mistaken. say to this monster that is fast
winding its coils around US, " Hold,
enough
@ We owe an apology to several of our
adrertisinc natrons for the non n-annearance