Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-18
1ailp MatlonalDemo
S,.eech of John Conness at Folsom.


neghborhood turned outin their full strength
=, Thursday evening, to hear speech from
1.b, Conness, their candidate for Governor
The meeting was held in the open air, and a
LARGE number of ladies occupied seats near
,be platform. J. N. Sibley was chosen Pres
;dsnt. Edward Cristie and T. Hozinger
Vice Presidents and Richard Parkin, Secre-
,arv. The President stated the Object of the
meeting. and introduced Mr.. Conness, who
was greeted with three hearty cheers.
Mr.. CoNNEss said--Mr. Chairman, ladies
and gentlemen, citizens of Sacramento coun
ty: The occasion of my appearance before
Won this evening is that of the approaching
election when officers are to lie chosen to
rule over the people of California for two
years to come. Under any circumstances in
n country like ours and under a Government
such as we have, this would be an import
ant occasion; but under the circumstances
that surround our country affairs, while war
exists in the nation, a war waged against the
Government and endangering its existence
IL becomes doubly important While these
facts are before u.s. while this war as isnrend-
ing, there are organized within 09r lmite
three seperate political parties, each claiming
the suffrage of the people, and each setting
forth that they are the true representatives
of the popular sentiment, the real lovers Of
cur Usion and supporters of our Govern
ment, the only men to be relied upon in cases
of necessity or emergency. | say, such being
the state Of things, the present occasion is
one of more than ordinary interest. To
give perhaps still greater interest to the con-
test 10 which we are engaged, that Of the
Al a E.
that while each Of these three parties is claim,
ing to be the true representative of the Union,
the true defender of the Governments exist
ence it is an unmistakabe fact that one of
them at least is composed of men, or has for
its leaders men indispUtaNy known to be OPP
ponents of the Government No matter with
what degree of liberality we may regard the
principles of what is now 6enominatcd the
secession perty in these States, the leaders of
that party. the men who have now organi-
zed it, the nen who give it all the force and
vitality it has are Enthusiastically committed,
acknowledgedly so, 10y their own statements
both in public and in private, as sympathi-
aers with the party that are now engaged in
making waY against this Government, Not
even while the dire AID sad calamity is upon
lis of recent disaster to the Federal forces
engaged in battling for the preservation of
the Union not even, | say, in view Of events
like that, which should challenge and com
mand the sympathies the feelings all that is
pure and noble in the heart of the truly pa
triotc citizen-not from that party, not from
the organs that represent its sentiments, not
from single leader of that party in the State
have we had the first ejaculation, the first
evidence of sorrow or regret that the flag of
our country had been trailcd in the dust, had
teen for the time overcome by the superior
force Of the enemy. Fellow citizens, without
further comment upon this view of the case,
undertake to say that party so wanting i'll
national feeling, SO utterly dere,ict in the
first duty of the citizen, deserves no cousde-
ration at the hands of the masses Of the peo-
pie Applause How they can presume.
in view of their well known and prolessed
opposition to the Government in this great
crisis, to appeal to the people for their suf
frages, to ask them to place them in power, |
to intrust them with the direct Government
of this State, to indorse them as the true re-
presentatives of popular sentiment, passes all
comprehension. Why, it appears to me that
the comoncst exercise of sincerity would de-
mand that those gentlemen, in place of organ
i1ing themselves as a political party and re-
eenting themselves for the sutirages Of the
people should do as Others of chat party
have done--organihc into companies or bat
ta.ions and take their way 60 the land of
Dixie. [Applause and laughter. They
should go where their associates have gone
or are going, where the banners of rebellion, |
or, if you please, of revolution, are floating
high. They should go where the cause com
amends itselfto the popular judgment, and not
remain here in loyal State seeking insidi
ously to corrupt the popular mind by pro-
Tossing loyalty and devotion to the Union, |
,,l,a . = IL, Al L:
above us tonight, that their devotion is only
to the destruction Of the Government under
which we live. Applause Why, fe- |
low-citizens if there were not these eyiden-
ces, so conclusive in their character, as to the
positions of these men of whom speak their |
doctrines of themselves should convince the |
most simple mind in the country that they |
cut not for n single moment to be intrustcd |
with any public place. Take their doctrine,
for instance, of the superior Sovereignty Of |
the States to the sovereignty ef the National |
Government. Every child in the land knows
that State is sovereign but for its local and
municipal purposes. Every SCI, oolboy knows
that States cannot make war against foreign |
nations or against other States that they car
not enter into treaties that they possess none
of the Characteristic of sovereigns except that
character of municipal sovereignty conferred |
this plan of Government under which we
live harmonious whole. Butthey, neglect
ing ignoring and denouncng the true theory
OF the Government under which we live, un |
,dertake to assert dogma which eleyates
State above the nation the State sovereign
ty above the Federal Sovereignty. As well, |
for the sake of illustration, might we say that
because man is soceregn, therefore his SOW
.ereignty is superor-to that of the great Gre
ator. as well might we say that the hills
and lesser mountans surrounding the base
OF the majestic Mount Shasta are superior in
majesty, glory and sovereignty to that great
column that Heaven has lifted to the clouds
Applause Things in nature as well as in
Government, that order might exist have
relation to each other, and the sovereignty, |
50 called. Of the States is under stood | say, |
oy every schoolboy in the land, not to inter
dere. not to conflict in the slightest degree
with the proper and superior sovereignty off
the Nstlonal Government. But need | 90
INTO an examination of the doctrines of this |
party with you this evening, fellow citizens ? !
la volce-'Oh, no! we knew them long
,ago on are rightt you do know them well
@here Is not man in the land who does not
ktnnow, whose instincts do not teach him that
e s"'S government was intended by its great
iounuers to last-forever and ever. GApplaus
=. ~ was not made for a day or for a Genera
s'oh' Neither was it made for a people, or
,or many peoples but it was made to give
Jaw and order, TO establish justice and right
'9or the time being and then pass down these
great boons and benefits through all time, for