San Andreas independent., 1858-03-13

remarks, we saw some of these men look
blank, and set uneasily in their seats, and
evidently wishing they had not partici-
pated in the play of ssfollow your leader
upon the question. Such man-such
a Legislator, is worth thousand men
who have no minds of their own, and dare
not express an opinion different from what
they are told by their self-constituted
leaders All honor to him-Calaveras
has at least one man in the Legislature
who is Democrat, and is right upon the
great issue of popular soyereignty-a doc
trine of the most important bearing to
the miners, especially, of California. 1t
is needless for us to state, perhaps, that
Mr.. Stratton had nothing to say in reply
to Mr.. O'Brien He was wise; full as
wise as the boy we read of, who was eau
toned by his father to say nothing, lest
people should find him out
| The ASSEMBLY OF CALIFORNIA REPuDIATEs
THE DOCTRINE OF POPULAR SovEREIGNTY.-The
Butte Record (Democratic) publishes the fol-
lowing formidable political indictment against
the Assembly. The counts in the indictment
appear to have been framed more with strength
than courtesy The Record never minces mat
| tiers:
BY reference to the g Sacramento news"
! it will be seen that the Assembly have adopted
the resolutions instructing our Senators, and
requesting our Representatives in Congress,
! to vote for the admission of Kansas under the
r Il, tl -ladf
before them, over the certificate of Gen. Den
yer, that the people of Kansas had repudiated
that instrument by an overwhelming majority,
they instruct our representatives at the Fede-
raj Capitol to force it upon them. And what
is still worse, but one man could be found IN
the Assembly Committee, to say that he had
seen or read the Constitution they were in
structing our Federal Representatives to sup
port. Such a vote is unworthy the represen-
tves of free and intelligent people, and we
hold up these forty-nine members of the As
sembly of California to the contempt and repro
baton of every honest man who believes in
the capacity of the American people for self
government
We charge the Assembly of the State of
California, with a reputation of the vital
principles of our free Institutions, pronounc-
ed so by Mr.. Buchanan himself.
We charge them with slavish and unholy
abandonment of the Democratic doctrine, and
on the authority of General Cass, with having
grossly violated the inalenable rights of
man."
We charge the Assembly with voting to
sustain what they knew to be an unmitigated
falsehood in assuming that the people of Kan
sas had formed Constitution for themselves,
as the Assembly resolutions assert, when they
knew that the people of Kansas had repudiated
that Constitution by two-thirds vote.
We charge the Assembly with a violation of
Democratic pledges, made from every stump
throughout the Union, that the doctrine of
popular sovereignty should be upheld and the
entire Constitution submitted to the people for
their approval.
We charge the Assembly with violation of
the principles upon which the campaign of
1856, WAS fought, and indorsed by the people
of the Union in the triumph of the Democratic
party-principles well understood by an intel
ligent people, then and now.
We charge the Assembly with exercising
their own right of suffrage to deprive a por-
ton of the Union of the exercise of that Just
right guaranteed to them by a common Con-
stitution.
We charge the Assembly with solemn
violation of the right of the majority of the
people of a State to make their own laws un-
der which they are to live, and to which they
are required to render obedience
We charge the Assembly with a violation of
the Democratic National and State Platforms
thus treacherously and basely compelling
the Democracy to become party of oppres-
sion amid tyranny, instead of recognizing the
capacity Of the people for self government
We charge the Assembly with violation
of the Constitution of the United States, which
they have solemny sworn to support, because
the fundamental law they would force upon
the people of Kansas, have been legally and
peacefully rejected by the sovereign power, is
g anti-republican' in its character.
We charge the Assembly with grossly in
sulting, the intelligence of the people they
were chosen to represent, outraging the clear
est principles of free government, and dis
gracing government " consecrated by the
blood of our fathers and hallowed by the affec-
tions of their sons"
This unprincipled FACTION of the Assembly
will no more meet the appreciation of the De-
mocratc sentiment of California. than if it
had cmanated from the Sacramento chain
gang. The people of California may well look
to their own liberties. when the representa-
tives thus fippantly discard the principles of
right, reason and common justice. We would
inform these unprincipled tricksters and trait
OrS 10 their party Ialtn ana OollgatlOnS that
Notwithstanding they may vote away the in
alienable rights of sovereign people, and
pack Democratic Conventions to indorse their
treason and usurpation there is place where
even a California Assemblyman can but le
gally balance the vote of an honest man-and
that is at the -box-"the bulwark of
American freedom" The wisdom of our As
sembly may follow the dictates of treason, and
repudate the ballot in Kansas, but they will
be repudated by the ballots of California"
New RELIGIOUS PAPER-We are indebted to
the nnhlishnrs Messrs Marks Thomas & Co,