San Andreas independent., 1858-07-31


ceeds 90, 600. And such is the boasted
settlement of this great question, as is
claimed by the friends of the Admins
tration.
We claim, fellow citizens, that this
question is not disposed of or settled; it
has already asitated and convulsed the
nation for a long time, and will continue
to do SO until the principle of popular
sovereignty is triumphant and the people
free and untrammeled, may express,
through the ballot box, their will, and
through it reject or adopt the Constitu-
ton. You cannot fail to perceive that
the provisions of the English Bill, COM
mented upon above, are in the nature of
6riJc to the people of Kansas, and that
since the Lecompton Constitution cannot
be forced upon them, palliatiyes are of
fered with it to induce them to accept it
with all its enormities.
And now fellow Democrats, in conclu-
sion we will say, that this controversy with
the Administration portion of the Democ-
racy of Calaveras was not solicited by the
Popular Sovereignty Democrats of the
county. On the contrary, it was urged
that the Cincinnati Platform was sufi-
ciently broad for all Democrats, and that
no Issue should be made In this election,
on the course pursued by the Admins
tration on the lecompton Constitution.
But this proposition met with no favor
with the leading spirits of he Murphy $
Convention, whose motto from the ategln-
ming was, and now is, "yulc or RUIN,
and their prcfessed love and zeal for the
Administration would not permit them to
allow old and long tried Democrats to re-
main any longer in the Democratic party,
without full and uneGuivocal indorse-
ment of the Administration on the Le-
compton Constitution; and the most ac-
tive Delegates to enforce this prescription,
were men but recently united with the
party, and who, for years past, have been
the bitter and uncompromising opponents
Of the great Democratic party. To this
prescription we could not, nor will not,
submit We claim to be freemen, and
will exercise freedom Of thought, freedom
of speech and action, on all questions, and
particularly on this great political question
of self-government and State Sovereignty,
Notwithstanding federal holders and
offce-seekers, and the cringing sycophants
of power, may bark at our heels for this
open defence of our political opinions.
We 90 for a full and cordial support of
all party measures when based on Demo-
cratic truths; but when men in their
blind fealty toan Administration, abandon
those great Democratic principles enun-
ciated in the Kansas Nebraska act, and
engrafted into the Cincinnati Platform
upon which James Buchanan was elected,
then it is time for all Democrats who be-
lieve that "truth is mighty and will pre-
vail, - to battle vigorously for the great
principle of Popular Sovereignty.
This is not then, VIC repeat again, a
question of men. 1t is not who shall be
the leaders of the Democratic party, as the
Administration followers would have you
believe; but it is principle on the one
side, and erpcdicncy, Executive power
and patronage on the other;-that is the
true and only issue in fact, and let nc
Popular Sovereignty Democrat be de-
ceived by any other. The hired minions
of power will struggle to create false issues,
for thereby "they have their reward. y
But be not deceived, for aye know not
what manner of men they are" With
all such professed Democrats We desire to
have no affiliation, and will have none
and we now call on the Popular Sover-
eighty Democrats in the "Banner county
of the mountains" who believe that the
people of a State or Territory, in their
sovereign capacity, should be allowed to
settle all questions in their own way, to
enlist in this contest. Send up good and
true men to represent you in your County
Convention at Angels on the 10th of
August. Let every precinct be fully rep
resented, and with good men nominated
for office, we have no fears of the result.
WM L. DUDLEY, I
WM. HIGBY, lCommittee
I. c. FREEBORNE,
July 24th, 1858. iy Silt