The Placer herald., 1861-04-13
Delegates.
Delegates

Napa: .... ...... 6llrlnny ......... I
Nevada. -. ... 10 Tuolumne - .. 20
Placer. -. Is Tulare -. .......... 6
Plumas ..... =. 6 Y YOlo.... .. 6
Sacramento POI Y uba l6
Total l............ ............37 377
WHEREAS. We are desirOus Of cooperating wi h
all Democrats upon the present political issues,
regardless Of the divisions which existed at the
Presidential election last Fall; therefore, be it
Resolred. That the several County Committees
be recommended to direct, in view of such CO.
operation, that the votes of all citizens be rccev
ed ut the primary elections for delegates to the
Democratic State Convention. that is to meet in
Sacramento city on Tuesday. the 1lth day Of
June. A. D. 1861 who indorsc the Crittcnden. or
similar amendments to the Constitution, and are
opposed to coercion, and any and all attempts on
the part of the Administration to enforce, by
Military or Naval power, the Federal laws within
the jurisdiction of any of the seeding States.
CHARLES LINDLEY, Chairman.
E. E. EYRE, Recording Secretary.
W. j. HooTEA. Corresponding Secretary.
The following address was adopted by the Com
mttee and ordered to be published, with the pro-
ccedngs of the Committee:
To THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE OF CALIFOR-
NIA-Thc Democratic State Central Committee.
simultaneously with the issuing of this Address
call Democratic State Convention. and recon-
mend new qualification Of primary electors-a
qualification necesstated by the extraordinary
changes in the political events which have trans
pired since the session of our last Convention
Justice to the Committee. to the subject and to
the people forbid that we should present the alb
sract qualification contained in the resolution
without accompanying it with the cOgcnt reasons
for It's adoption We. therefore. invoke your calm
consideration of the terrible dangers which envi-
ron our country. Our great and glorious Union
is divided. 1t is vain to call the present public
condition by hny other name than division. Be
uDdeceivcd. 1t is scarcely possible for the Ame-
rican mind to keep pace with the rapid march of
real events.
All thought, all action should be directed to the
future, to the preservation of peace, and to the
prevention of that worst Of Ill earthly calamities
civil war; 1t is idle now to consider the causes
of dissolution, except SO far as may be necessary
to their removal. In the present dilemma. it is
equally as idle to contend about the ri gh of seces
sion, or the right OF coercion. for it is too pain
fully apparent that this very question of right
can now only be settled ar settlement is forced)
by the arbitratement of the sword. 1t matters not
whether separa ion he by the ri ght of secession
by the right of revolution. The movement
whether it is ed secession or r. voution, has as
sumed magnitude and proportions too great to
justify the attempt TO reprcss it by force. Let
this national disturbance, then. be treated rs
great question of policy, in which are deeply in
volved the liberty. happiness and prosperity of
every State of the Union, and of every citizen
thereof, and of millions yet unborn. Unvail the
question, and it is simply one of PEACE OR WAR.
Seven States have seeded and have formed IL
Confederation, for causes satisfactory to them
selves These States contain millions of as no.
BILE, brave and true men as does any portion of
the habitable globe. They are our brothers.
"Let slip the dogs Of war;" and annhatiOn
might follow in the course of time, but submis-
sion never The (himerical idea of successful
servle. insurrection, even if realized, could only
result in turning the cotton country of the world.
upon which depends so many million whites for
labor. and so many more millions for fabric, over
to the retrograding African. Should the Border
States unite with the Southern Confederation (as
it is quite apparent they will in case of coecion)
then would be more terrible the bloody contest
Must we have war? A war between brothers--be
tween the grandsons of the Res olution? Should
the men of the Anglo-Amercan race. whose i'm
mediate ancestors set such an example OF self
government. gave such hope to liberty and to
mankind and shed such lustre upon our political
institutions turn their steel upon each Others bo
SONS, as if to demonstrate in the great and glOri-
GUS trinl, in America, of mans capacity for self
government that it is failure? most sub
lime example of the capacity of man for sefgov-
ernment would be found in the successful and
peaceful termination of our mOmentOus impend-
inc difficulties whether il be in the reunion of
either of which could command at once the
spect of the nations Of the earth. Why should
not the South be permitted peacefully to produce,
and the North to freight and manufacture the
great cotton staple, even if it be done under sep
arate considerations of States? Is it not far
more Christian brotherly, humane and profitable
than war? Would it not contribute more to the
national wealth, happiness and prosperity of each
to direct the labor of its hardy sons, the one to
the production of the raw material, and the 9th
er to the manufacture Of it, rather than to form
them into hostile armies to devastate the land,
and destroy the last vestige of American liberty?
What will be the consequences of war? No NOR
tai man can fully foretel. BY the experience of
nations, and the light of history. we can see con
script laws dragging the sons of toll into mill
tary service, families decimated, industry para
States bankrupt, ruin, gloom and desolation in
the land-the civil yielding to the martial law
military spirit and military chiefs rising, mil
lions of lives sacrificed, finally ending in despot-