The Placer herald., 1856-06-07
Public Meeting at Yankee jim S.

At meeting Of the citizens Of Yankee
J:ms held on sunday. the 18th inst, for The
purpose Of expressing the public sentiment in
relation to the recent events in san Francisco,
Col. McClrRE was called to to the Chair,
and explained the object of the meeting as
follows:
FtUow cHj=eo@-1li, meeting has been
called for the purpose Of atiordjn@ to the
cjtil,nS of Yankee JIM, and vicinity an op
portuuitv Of endorsing tive late action OF the
Vigilance Committee and people OF san Fran
CISCO in condcmning and executing James +.
Casey, the assassin of James King OF Nm.,
and also OF contributing to the King Tcsi-
mouial" fund. which is 10 be expended in
erecting a suitable monument to the memory
OF James King OF Wm., and in the support
inc and educaion Of Iii, family and children.
| And gentleman il seems to me that there Is
no portion OF the people Of this State, that
can with more propricty, assemble for such
purposes or take more pride in doing SO
t|lau ourselves. Intheiust Indignation which
LA. manifested itself in every portion of the
state consequent upon the late tragical events
/ which have transpired at san Francisco, we
see the people Of the State and especially the
press, occupying the ground on which the
citizens OF the Divide stood alone one year
AGO last December, when one OF our citizens
was cut down in cold blood, at Iowa HILL by
one-Johnson, who was then and there
| tried and cXecctcd to atone for his crime, by
an indignant popuIace. Johnson was Of that
class of persons of which James T. Casey
was fit representative.
In February, 1865, ! returned to this State
! from visit to my home, and in San Francisco
soon after my arrival, met my son. While
at Wilson's Exchange, in that city, we were
brutality attacked by gang Of gamblers and
! shoulder strikers. was seized by as many as
could oct hold of me and compelled to see my
son dreadfnlly beaten without being able to
afford him any assistance. And for what WAS
this done! Simply because my son happened
to be on the ground atthe time of the hanging
OF Johnson mere spectator. At that time
the press everywhere condemned the eXecu-
! ton Of johnson, and all who bad anything
to do with it, and also justified the attack OF
the gamblers upon my son, and as | then be-
lieved and now believe because our editors
dared not express in their journals anything
in opposition to that class Of men, aud were
fully under their control. But happily al
last, iu James King of Nm, we found an able
honest and Independent champion of tbs
right, and all good men and true supported
hitn, but in the midst Of his laboFs and ttium
phs he was shot down in cold blood. Ant
NOW the press everywhere, with some few ex
ceptiou, are loud in their Communications 0
the Vigilance Committee and severe in thci
danunciations Of all such men as Casey allC
Cora This is right and we rejoice at it
Bot sc cannot but feel, at the san,e time
that we have in this the best evidence tha
the press has tol}o,csd rather than led the
way, they are endeayorng to foot upoa tn
popular tide which has SO suddenl y risen Q
and which they have done so much to keel
; down and destroy heretofore.
But gentlemen the great object OF thi
moetirc II to carry ont the plan Of the Wig