The daily Butte record., 1858-05-13
Dem Dora tie State Conyentien.

mlttee met at Saeramentoy on Monday,
the 10th instant, and issued call tor
a State Convention to assemble at the
city Of Sacramento on the 4th day Of
August next. The call will be found
in another column, and is the note Of
preparation for the Democracy to as
Semblc in their primary capacity, give
expression to their sentiments, and ap.
point delegates to carry out their views
and represent them in the County and
State Conventions. II is wrong for
the masses-the yoters-to neglect
these primary meetings. They should
attend them in every precinct in the
State meet together in consultation
encourage free Interchange Of opin-
ion and a neighborly feeling in commu.
nity-determine upon the wants and
necessities of their immediate sections,
and choose frm and reliable 4 men to
give expression and force TO their scnti-
ments. By pursuing such a course,
conventions will command the respect
and esteem OF community, and choose
men TO represent them in whose fidelity
and capability, honesty and firmncss
all may with safety rely. TO neglect
this duty, is to entrust public affairs to
the lean, lank, and hungry Cassius- like
politicians, who have so long disgraccd
the State with their misrule, and bur-
thened the laboring and producing
classes with u taxation for which no
real necessity exists. They have not
the public welfare at heart. They
care nothing for the brr,hcns of commu-
nifty so long as they can thrust them
selves into places Of honor and cmolu-
ment, or use the influence of official
position to secure their own individual
prosperity by the imposition of special
taxes upon the property aud heads of
cur citizens, ia addition to those al
ready borne for the support of gov
ernment too extensively controlled by
men who follow politics for their pro-
fession.
The Democratic party is not com
mittod to tho support Of the horde Of
contemplate, disgraceful and plundcr-
ing bummcrs, who have fockcd to Cal.
ifornia, as disgusting vultures flock to
the plains to prey upon the beasts of
burden that have fallen by the waysdc.
AS the vulture attacks the living ami
NAL whose scars may be exposed to its
keen scent and ravenous beak, and
toars the'wound untilits prey is secured,
so do the political vultures, who curse
our State with their pest,ierous and
contaminatipg presence, scent out and
tug at the weak places Of government,
paying as little heed to the appeals Of
honorable and just men, as they yul-
tare pays to tho upturned eye of its
agonized aud dying victim, until the
public welfare has fallen under their
control, and the public burdened and
cursed with their ghoul-like rule. They
have attached themselves to the Demo-
cratic party, as they would to any party
possessing the prestige of success, for
principles have no weight or cSnsidcra-
ton in determining the political course
of these political hooters.
Would that we possessed tho power
and cloqaencc to stir the souls Of our
laboring, producing and tax-paying citi-
zens, until they aroused in their might,
to govern and control evonts. instead
Of following the course marked out by
impudcnt pretenders, who would pros
tituto the government for their own
aggrandizement, aud burtben the pco.
pie with huge debt and oppressive
taxation for years, without acquiring
as much as a shingle to cov& their
rascally heads. Then would politicians
find their proper level, aud the people
in fact govern themselves. st'1 "
Parties are necessary to concentrated
action, without which no system of gov
ernment can succeed. The Demo
Nrn lin martin - aha .a.a.. e a. 4. 4.