The Placer herald., 1856-03-01

Our Approaching Convention.

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At no time in the history of the State, or
perhaps Of the Union, has it ever been so ne
cessary for the good men and true of the
party, to scan well the characters and ante
cedents of those who are to represent them
in the State and National Conventions.
Last fall, for the first time since the organ
izaton of parties in this State, the Democ-
racy met with defeat, owing to the wide
spread contagion of new idea, or rather
an old idea in a new, dangerous, and
proscriptive though fascinating FORM Iniiu-
enced by a deuson, and tacinated by the cry
of reform and that other motto "Amerca
ruled by Americans" as meaningless in the
mouths of the so called reformcrs, as it is
ridiculous in application, many of the young
men Of the party were seduced into the
wigwams Of the midnight enemy.
The disatfection, too, of those who had
heretofore acted with the Democracy, and
who had received honors at their hands,
swelled the ranks Of the new party, in its
wild hunt for office and the spoil. Add to
this the notorious frauds committed in various
parts of the State, and the ruling out of
thousands of naturazed voters, entitled
under the constitution and laws, to the
RIGHT Of suffrage, and we have some of the
more prominent of the causes of the defeat of
the Democracy at the late election. 1t is
true, that the enemy, not alone of the Demo
cratic party, but Of the constitutions and the
liberal policy which lies at the foundation of
our republican institutions, has at present
possession ofthe State Government, Executive
Legislative and judicial; but it is no less
true that the people are already thoroughly
disguised with the working oft the proscriptive
order, and anxious at the coming election to
throw off as far as possible, the shackes with
which they are bound and administer that
wholesome rebuke so we'll merted.
But we should not forget that much
depends upon the action Of our Conventions,
both State and National, in the enunciation
Of those great principles which form the
foundation of the Democrats: faith, and are
expressive OF the free, liberal and progressive
spirit Of the age: III the harmony which
should characterize their deliberations, and
in the selection Of honest, upright and capa-
bic men.
With basis of over forty-fve thousand
Democratic voters who, at the late election
stood firm against every temptation, and
resisted to the last, as we'll the alurements
of the new tangled order as the denunciations
Of recreant demagogues; who remained true
to their principles and their faith, and
steadfast in devotion to party, with such a
band we have no fear as to the result of the
next campaign, and can safely pledge Cal
ifornia to the Democratic Presidential
Nominee by an overwhelming majority, if
we are true to ourselves, and by no act or
deed compromise the proud position we now
occupy. Look to it, then, Democrats, that
proper men are selected in the several coun-
ties who will properly represent you in the
State Convention. Men who have been
true to themselves and the party, who have
remained firm through good and i'll report
Select no time servers, who in days of pros
perity are boisterous in the support of Dem
ocratic principles, but who VIXEN times change
and clouds thicken prove rccreant to their
faith. Such men we can well spare, for
they serve us better in the ranks of the
enemy than in places Of trust among us.
1t is neither the policy of Democracy, nor
the dictates of honesty to purchase supporters
by office or honor, or to buy over friends
who have once abandoned the party for the
sake of spois. s. +. Sun.