Amador weekly ledger., 1858-05-15
state Convention.

vention is to be held in Sacramento on the 4th
day of August next. The State Committee
also recommend that County Conventions, to
elect delegates to the State Convention, be
held on the 2Oth day of July. County Com
mittees, however, will of course exercise their
own Judgment and call their conventions at
suitable times. In order that delegates may
reach Sacramento from distant parts of the
State, on the 4th day of August il will of
course be necessary to elect them at an early
day but in counties that are only days
travel from the capital, there is no need of
shot haste.D The State Central Committee
certainly did not desire that delegates should
be subjected to log-roling influences and
therefore the Committe could have had no de-
sire to dictate the time at which Amador, for
instance. "a county adjoining Sacramento }
should elect her delegates on that particular
day. One County Convention Ito nominate
delegates to the State Convention and candi-
dates for county Offices is all that will be
required in this county. As to the time of
calling the County Convention, we presume
the County Committee will be governed, first,
by the necessity of having delegates at the
State Convention at the time designated in
the call and, secondly, by the circumstances
which shall seem to best determine local as
well as general organization
1t is highly gratifying to know that the
meeting of the State Central Committee was,
emphaticaly, an harmonious one. The vote
that the Committee should not nominate, and
that Convention should be called was unan-
imous This is what we contended for; Com.
mittees have executive powers, not Legislative;
the masses Of the Democracy, the rank and
6le-not cliques or ommittees-nomnate
candidate.
Republican journals, (aud California is full
of them, are aboring to create division in
the Democratic party upon the question of
admitting or refusing to admit Kansas under
the Lecompton constitution These Repub-
lican journals are aided and abettedb by very
few Democratic newspapers-som Of them
with Republican tendencies and some of them
with fire-eating proclivities-yet we are sat
isfed that the good sense of the sovereign
Democratic people will ignore all such willy
efforts Of the enemy.
The difference between Mr.. Douglass and
Mr.. Buchanan is unfortunate; yet, construe
il and magnify it rs the enemies Of Democ-
racy may, it is not great. 1t comes nearer
being question between two men than any
thing else, and Democracy is not governed by
men. Democracy is principle which has
an undying existence. We are among those
who believe that Democratic union will be
maintained. We find such journals as the
San Francisco Herald and the Sacramento
Mercury, condemning any division upon the
socalled Buchanan-Douglass question; and
we are therefore the more confident that the
conservative position which zoe have taken
from the beginning, ani humbly advocated is
the correct one
/ AS to the county OF Amador, we feel safe
in pledging to the Democracy of the State
that she will remain true to the good old
Democratic colors. Agitators will not be
able to disturb us, and the "fshy," (of whom
we shall keep close watch, will fail
OF their purpose. Put Amador down
''squarely Democratic"
WREsrLISG.-This old fashioned aud manly
exercise was enjoyed by quite number of
our young men, on the 9th instant, at Coop
er's mill
The first bout was at side hold between
John Wright. weight l65 lbs,) and Hugh
Moon, weight, 1862 lbs, and was a very
even match. The stakes were about $50 a
side The result was declared in favor of
Wright, he having thrown Moon twice out
Of three rounds
The second match was also side hold be-
tween Martin Steckler, weight, LAG lbs
and John Allen, weight. l60 lbs In this,
Steckler threw his man three times consecu-
lively.
4 The third was between Steckler and Moon,
in which Sieckler threw Moon twice running