San Andreas independent., 1858-08-28
LETTER FROM SACRAMENTO.
COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE"
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SACRAMENTO, August 23d, 1858.
Signs of the Times are indeed shadowed forth
most portentiously. The great democratic
party has been weighed in the Just balance
Great aches from little toe-corns grow
That powerful organization which few short
years ago carried triumphantly the popular
opinion and voice, throughout the Union, is
falling to pieces.
Kansas, that, at first. insignificant and unn-
teresting question outside the great principle
involved, and little interfering with our imme-
diate concerns in California, has assumed by
the potency of fact and instance, to be the
great fncrum upon which the balancor9 OF
the existence of the great democratic party is
working. Those advocates of kingly and oil
garchical prerogative, at Washington, falsely
calling themselves democrats, and wilfully
misinterpreting that great principle of human
government and the voice of the United States,
| in attempting to force an unimportant political
number of the people to their views by the
basest means and ends-ballot- stuffing.
intimidation, coercion and breach of faith and
agreement,-little imagined in their guilty SUI
plneness, of the rights of their fellow-citizens.
that in so short time would the beacon of
intelligence blaze forth to arouse by its watch
hres the whole Union-even into the far-off
State of California; and that the states, HYDRA
ike would raise their heads to hiss it on the
aushors-such social monstrosity and danger
Gus dogmas
The idea of forcing upon Kansas Constitu-
ton In spite of herself, disagreeable to her,
with the alternative of the denial of any at
all, IS under the circumstances as simple
act of the democratic party, enough to dis
/ gust all lovers of freedom, and every man of
4 right-thinking mind. with the whole concern.
as at present constituted. Everywhere in this
vicinity has this principle, one of the questions
attached to the present democratic question
been discussed, condemned and spurned even
by the most intense democrats, who have
mind liberal enough and independence enough
to scorn being led by the nose because of their
democracy. They see that true democracy,
and that as represented by Mr. Buchanan and
party in quite another and different thing.
In Sacramento the anti-Lecompton play or
pure and untarnished principle of democracy.
has been raised to be greeted with applause by
all right-thinking and self-tiinkiiir men of
Democratic views, simply because it is the De.
mocracy representing the dogmas of Popular
Sorereignty-the Democracy that treats all
men equal and free untainted by crime and
having a voice in their own veal, whether
they number one or two, or as many thousands
There are men on the anti-Lecompton or
Popular Sovereignty ticket-as on every po-
litical ticket some names are liable to obiec-
tion-that probably are not entirely unexcep-
tionable. 1t may be taken for granted that
those are all true Democrats, however, and
opposed to tyranny over the people, whatso-
ever their number may be, great or small,
maintaining that every citizen of the United
States has right to a free, fair, unbiased, un-
trammeled voiee in the formation of the laws
and government that he is to live under
This issue rs all the purer, because it continues
in office aliens appointed by Mr.. Buchanan.
1t is notorious that the scionites of the
Calhoun principles have placed men in office,
| in San Francisco, from the German popula-
ton, to catch the votes and suffrages of that
honest and worthy class of citizens, Uide Herr
Julius Shulz, but who will most assuredly be
kicked out rs soon as decently convenient
Immediately after election; but this is the
usual trick. | have conversed with several
Germans, and they do not understand this
question by some hocus pocus-unknown to
the uninitiated, Influence has been ut work
to fill their minds with illogical conclusions
and manifest falsehoods upon the great Kansas
question and its bearing upon the community
Illustration of present circumstances points
to the fifteeth century in England when
kingly prerogative and bigotry trampled upon
the peoples native rights,-when political
principles were forced upon the dissenting
population by specialties contrary to their
convictions and desires We point also to
causes leading to our own independence
The present crisis although not universally
perceived or acknowledged, is of equal mag
ntude involving equally important results.
Freedom of thought will again assert its su-
premacy over equivocation, broken faith and
high h-handed wrong to the people.
Besides, Mr.. Editor, is it not high time, at
home, that the people of California should
elect to represent them to the Legislature un-
der new what il is in vain to look for under
this rotten ancient regme-men who take an
intelligent and comprehensive rather than a
selfish and personally aggrandizing view of
the condition of our country.
Is it not notorious that whilst the officers
of the people have been enjoying rich sim
ecures they have rendered beyond a too-oft
neglected duty, only kept up by cupidty, no
real service of benefit to the future prosperity
of California-no-noto one
Is it not notorious that the mass of this
people is nearly at the starting-point in the
midst of riches,--that not one step has been
made towards benfcent policy to California
Kansas eliminating point, with view to re-
tain our wealth in our midst. We export fifty
million, yearly, abroad--and for what? Boots,
shoes, glass, clothing, shovels, iron manufac-
lures, silk manufactures, and cotton manufac-
tures,--and every other thing, almost within
the catalogue of social and political economy
without one single practical fostering thought
having been conceived or carried out by our
rulers to encourage or direct their develope-
ment in California, and with view to keep
this immense sum at home. We are worse
than the Irish landlords, of Ireland, some
twenty years ago, who impoverished their
country by similar line of conduct they drew
their rents abroad, and lived abroad, until no
money was left in that country, and this
you know the result.
Let the Anti-Lecompton men inscribe these
words on their banner, and let the people
know it; and then in California, on the day of
election, farewell to dogmas that would have
forced Kansas, and adieu to the corrupt party,
whence they emanated. Let these be the
words Freedom Of Suffrage; Judgment; Equal
LdUs; The Vmdication of Order, by the Just
Punishment of Criminals; The Discouragement
and Destruction Of 4Monopolies A6le Men and
Honesty IN Office; The Development Of Fresh
Resources, and the direct establishment Of Home
Production for Home Consumption Il Pro-
fecfipe Tariff on our O,ru Mann fIcfur,s. for ,rho