Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-25
What Does Lindley Want!

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OutSider-What is before the Convention
now?
Delegate Lindley has got some rcso-
lutions up to temper down the platform
Outsider-Well, what does Lindley want,
anyhow?
Delegate-That's what can't find out. ]
don't know.
OutSider-Well, does he?
Deleqats III be blessed if | think he
does
We will give Judge Lindley the benefit of
to Tuesday, and perhaps our readers can find
out what he did want If anything can be
gathered from them, at all, it is that he is
endeayoring to tide q great two-horse act
to stand by the Government and its enc
mies-to carry flag, on one side of which
are the Stars and Stripes, and on the other
the device of the Southern Confederacy: in
that he is doing everything to show that he
is good natured man" and everybody S
particular friend. The Secessionists laugh at
him, the Union Democrats laugh at him, and
the Republicans laugh at him. lie is in o
bad fix.
He moved, on Tuesday, to refer the origi-
nal Secession platform to new Committee,
saying:
He would move that the resolutions be re-
ferred to a Committee of Seven. He made
this motion in order that every gentleman,
whether he was here at the last meeting of
the Convention or not, might have q voice
upon the subject of a platform. Not more
than two-thrds of the Delegates then pres
ent were present at the former meeting of
the Convention, when it adjourned ostensibly
for the purpose of allowing the Democracy
of the State to be fully represented To-day
they were here, and had a right to be heard
upon the all-Important subject of a platform
for the party. There was a sentiment in the
Convention, whether the sentiment of the
majority or not. he could not say. that the
platform already adopted should remain un-
changed, and that if anything more was
done it must be by additional resolutions
The Committee might report back the reso-
lutions without alteration or interineation,
but at all events the Delegates coming here
fresh from their constituents should be heard
on the question. If they were confined to
the process of offering additional resolutions
he saw a vast amount Of labor before the
Convention The proceedings of the last
Convention. perhaps, more than its resolu-
tions, placed the party befor the country in
a false light. His own efforts to obtain some
moderate changes, and the votes taken there
upon had placed the Convention before the
people too much in the light of Secession
Contention. and more in that light than the
Convention intended TO remain. He made
this motion with a view to enabling the Con
ventiou to correct its position.
and tried to choke him off. After receiving
the proffering he made another "brush." He
said he desired now to present what lie had
hoped to have presented TO Committee He
believed slight alteration could be made in
the platform which would render it accepta-
BILE to all, and he would offer the following:
|. Resolved, That the Federal Government
has no power except such as are delegated
by the Constitution, or clearly implied as
necessary in executing the expressed powers.
1t is supreme within the powens delegated,
and has the constitutional rights to preserve
itself intact, until charged or destroyed, by
means provided in the Constitution.
2. Resolved, That the State Governments
have respectively all the general powers OF
sovereignty not delegated to the Govern
ment, and are equally supreme within the
limits Of their reserved powers, and have also
the right to preserve themselves intact
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but q separate and complete obligation to
each within their respective limits.
3. Resolved, That California, from her in
stitutions, interests, associations and patriot
ism remains true to the Union and loyal to
the Constitution and flag of our country.
4. Resolved, That we condemn both North
ern and Southern Observation-Disclosures
and Secessionists-fo plunging our country
into sectional war Itshoud be the mission
of California TO aid in arresting this fearful
strife, and restoring peace to our distracted
people. But she must contend for peace as a
question of policy withim the Government
with whose desties she is cast, and whose
honor is our honor. She must contend for it
to preserve the whole country. If she fails
in this, then she must contend for it as a
means of preserving from exhaustion, anarchy
or military despotism those States with which
our lot is cast.
The resolutions were seconded.
Mr. Lindley said he would detsi:'the Con
vention but a moment He knew the senti-
ments of the Convention, and it was with re-
luctance that he offered the resolutions here.
But in the former meeting of the Convention,
he knew there were members sitting who, II
reports were true, Were noaC on Their Wdy TO
Join the forces of the Southern COnfederdcy.
let they had helped to make party platforms
by which he was to live in this State He
said to those gentlemen, and to all others
who were disposed to carry their proceed
ings with pretty high land, that that was
not fair. While the country was at peace
he had fought for the rights of the South,
bnt the South was now in a beligerent atti-
tude towards the North, and the destin les OF
this State were clearly and enthusiastically ~ith
the North. 1t was necessarily therefore their
political duty, whether from choice or neces-
sity, to act within the sphere of the Govern
ment within which they lived, and whose
laws and Constitution they were bound to
obey He..would fight for peace in legal
manner, if possibe-not alone nor mainly
for the interests of the South, but for the
sake of preserving the Northern States from
anarchy, military despotism, bankruptcy,
disntegration and total ruin. He would do
that, not to aid the flag of the Southern Con-
federacy, but for the benefit of the North,
with whom his own lot was cast. He desired
the Democratic party to stand before the
people of California in that attitude, and not
in the altitude of battling for peace for the
sake of the Southern Confederacy No gen.
tleman from Kentucky or Louisiana ought to
expect him to do more than that, and they
ought all to join with him, foregoing their