Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-25

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| ton heretofore, constituent parts OF people
who are free, prosperous and happy, beyond any
nation on the globe, of which history has made
any record, could deliberately pull down TINS
noble structure, is to me dream-somethlng
cannot realize. 1t tcannot be, and will not. 1t IS
Il rue there is great deal of sectonasm in the
United States; 1t is true sectional party by
plurality vote has obtained the power. 1t Is
| true they threaten TO carry out that power by
the sword and bayonet. But it is equally true
that there is great and conservative Democra-
cy who will stay themin their mad career. Ap-
plause1 The Democracy of California and of
the United States are for the enforcement Of
the law. They are bound to see that the Gov
ernment OF the United States is respected,
but beyond that they do not go. More
More than that: If the Republicans seek to carry
out and enforce their irrepressible conflict"
and their sectional views in regard to certain
portion of this Union, then the Democracy are
at war with them. [Applause.l We think the
war noto is for the Constitution, for the laws,
and for the rights of the States. Beyond that
we do not 60. But to that extent the Democ-
racy do CO. and to that extent the Democracy
will shed every drop of blood, and spend every
dollar of treasure. [Great applause This Gov
ernment must be maintained, and it will be.
do not think that Providence, which guided our
fathers in the Revolution, has so far forsaken
us that now, in the day OF our prosperity lie
will permit the minds of men to be 80 warped,
as to allow them to overthrow the Institutions un
der which we have enjoyed peace and manifold
| blessings. [Appause]
The local ideas raised by some in this cam
paign, my fellow citizens are of no Importance
whatever. This talk of the press about Bulk.
head" is a bugaboo-a perfect bugaboo. 1t
| is used for a weapon of personal attack
| upon certain of our candidates who hap.
pened to be in the Legislature at the time
| the measure known as the Bulkhead bill came
up and who voted for it. Now the people
| Al, ;otn iutar ta1 in unur
city front and your wharves as you yourselves.
| The people in the mountains built and are build.
| ing up your city. The spot covered by this city
would be desert to-day had not the miners
come to California. Whatever is thought best
| for the welfare of this city, in which we are all
interested, we are willing to participate in and
| aid. If you are not willing to have seawall,
we are opposed to it. If you are willing, we are
| for it. Yet this bulkhead question is made a
bugaboo of to scare off people from voting for
| our candidates. 1t is preposterous; tits absurd.
| 1t is not becoming men, to raise this question in
this crisis. The question in the Legislature was,
whether bulkhead scheme was right or wrong
and whether A, b, OF G should build it, if right.
| Our candidates who were there took this posi-
ton That you needed it; and they accordingly
| voted for it. | confess TO you, that on coming
| down from the interior on the steamer and ar
irving in the evening, considering your streets
and your man.traps, | would like very much to
have a safe conveyance up town. Laughter
| and applause.]
| MANY life has been lost through the " open.
| ngs in your wharves, ia the mud, and confess
| that if it should cost you few dollars to make
safe ingress to and egress from your city, should
| not lament it bit [Laughter.1 1t would suit
me and the balance of the people who come
down here from the mountains. You who live
in the city, can perhaps find your trails
| [merriment] through the man-traps better than
/ suppose we in the mountains can find our trails
| through the Businesses Of the hills. [Great
laughter and applause.l We get lost here; you
get lostthere. [Laughter.] Now, pray straighten
your by-ways and fill up your man-traps. Whether
| YOU call the work thus done asea-wall or a bulk
head, we don't care. But give US a fair show
when we come down on business or for plea
sure. Laughter and applause.l The institu-
tons you have at present got down here are
not very safe. They are something like the Re-
publican party, laughter and applause, j which,
you know, a short time ago, were willing to "let
the Union slide." No,o, if you don't save it, ac-
| cordng to Republican prescription, you are a
traitor. [Laughter.1 1t is so with your wharves
here; and if you don't fill up your holes, we will
have to prescribe for you, and fill them for the
| benefit of the State at large Laughter and ap-
| plause
| But these are local matters and of little mo-
ment. Your railroad to San Jose is OF more i'm
portance to the people OF California than your
bukhead. We in the country do not care any
thing about your bulkhead. We have no inte-
rest in it except this: that we may be able to
land safely when we cone down from Sacra-
mento; that is all. But your railroad to San
Jose, for which your county has voted money, is
a matter Of Importance, and not OF local impor-
tance merely We expect you to spend money
in extending it through Liyermore's Pass to
Stockton; from thence over the sierras by No
bes Pass; from thence over the Rocky noun
tans by the South Pass, to st. Louis. 1t takes
money to do it, but if anybody proposes to do
it and furnish the money, then, even if they do
| 10 ant nf |
| daughter and applause.l There is this, too,
about your bulkhead These newspaporal gen.
tlemen, without regard to its merits, are at
| tempting to make capital for the Republican or
| Secession ticket, and to scare the people from
1 voting the Union Democratic ticket. But that
kind of talk wont pay. ur. Conness has attend
ed to those geBtlemeni need say Iothipg' One
word, however, in regard to the editor n the Bui.
ietin and the editor OF the Alia. They fre simply
men like yourselves. 1t is true their opinions
are circulated widely, by the aid of the columns
| of the papers they respectively conduct. Yet
they have but their indiuidual opinions; and the
opinion Of each one of you who are here to-
night is worth as much, or more than the Opin.
| ion of either of those men. know them both,
and the simple fact that they can put their opin-
ions in type would not give those opinions any
more authority with any man, than they would
! have were they privately uttered. Not bit.
Newspapers were formerly reaectors OF public
| opinion. NolG, they are bnt the mouth piece OF
| Jne preJuulCeu UT iupeTeSteu OBiniouS W pINdte
: persons. Anybody in this State who knows any
, thing of the matter, knows that you can buy the
majority of the editors very cheap. Laughter.
Can you, then, give additional weight to theiG
opinions, because expressed through the col
umns of "A newspaper? All the difference be
tween the opinions of any individual in this
audience and those of the editor of the
Bulletin, or of the Ahd, or the mule " of the
Times, is simply, that those gentlemen have a
paper IN which to spread them out before the
public, and thus give them a better circulation
than you can Yours. That 10 all. J had friend
who was once Threatened With an attack in the
newspaper of this city. He said to the editor
" If you do. will head you Oft can circulate
more anC,nt mt this town before ten O'Clock than
Won can. and VIII. viz heat you at your own game"
[laughter.l The editor e." NO. Pupl,sn Ine
threatened article. Laughter and applause
Now, fellow citizens, we have to,hlgn raIlle4 u
the nominations of the party. In leaving you
have only this to say; Whether we elect that
ticket in September, or not, ! wish to say 10
Democrats here and to all incned To be pnlon-
loving men, that the fight is between the leli0
cratic headed by John COnness, and the Repub-
lican ticket. Those who wish the Repu6llcan
| ticket to win, will not vote for COnness. THOSE
| who do not, WiH vote for Conness and all the
balance of the gentlemen on tbs ticket with him.
That is the fight This is bound either 10 be
Republican or a Democratic State, and it is for
the people of California to say, and Tor the
people of San Francisco to say how it shall be.
IA VOICE The latter Applause
Some one in the audience asked: " Suppose
you take sectional interest in the matter =
Mr.. McCoRKLE-I do not understand what the
gentleman says I would like to hear what he
did say THE speaker paused for response,
| lint nnne came | 7 was about when INTERRUPTED,