The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-05-21
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM.
Adopted at San Francisco, May, 1854.


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| ResOiued, That we are in favor of the restor-
alton and Preservation of the whole American
Union and that we recognize to its fullest exter
the right and duty of the Government to resist
| by every constitutional mode rebellion or insnr
rection against is lawful supremacy; but we re.
cognize the right solely for the purpose of restor
ing its constitutional authority, and for no other
purpose whatever.
Res0ired, That it is the duty of the State Of
| California, as member Of the Union, to yield
obedience to all constitutional Acts of Congress
and the Federal Executive, and that any party
who shall endeavor to incite insurrection or re-
bellion within her borders, or dsaffection and
dlscord among her people, is traitor to the
! best interests.
Resoived That the aim and object of the Dem
| ocratlc party is TO preserve the Federal Union
and the rights of the several States unimpared,
and they hereby declare that they do not con-
slider the Administration usurpation of extraor-
binary and dangerous powers granted by the
constitution the subversion Of the civil by
military law in States not in insurrectionary re-
belllon-the arbitrary military arrest, imprison-
ment, trial and sentence Of American citizens in
such States where civil law exists in full force
and vigor-the suppression OF freedom of speech
and OF the press-the open and avowed disre-
gard OF State rights-the fanatical attempt to
place the negro on social and political equality
with the white race and the employment of un-
restore a union of the several States or perpet-
uate Government deriving its just powers from
the consent of the governed.
Reso/red, That we are opposed to all secret
political organizations and societies as dangerous
to the liberties Of the people, and destructive Of
republican form Of government.
Resolved, That we claim and demand as ina
lienable rights, freedom of thought. freedom of
speech and freedom of the press, and further de-
clare that government agents should be at all
| times be held at strict accountability to the
people, and that all errors Of such agents should
be liable to the full and free exercise of untram-
meed popular discussion for the purpose of cor
rection by the ballot box.
ReSOiDed, That we denOunce and unquaifedly
condemn the Emancipation Proclamation of the
President of the United States, as tending to
protract indefinitely civil war, excite servile in
surrection, and inevitably close the door forever
to restoration of union of these States.
Resolved, That we disapprove of all Congress
sional laws tending to substitute paper cur
| rency in California in place of our own metallic
circulating medium.
Resolved, That the spirit and meaning of the
Democratic Platform of this State are comprised
in the words, THE Constitution as it is and the
Union as it was"
Resolved, That in the opinion of this conven-
ton, the war at present conducted by the Abo
lition party, is not prosecuted in manner to re-
store the Union, (nor with any expectation that it
will have that result) on the contrary the object
| of those in power is simply to abolish slavery,
and in the event that they succeed in this. to rev.
| olutiOnizc the Government, and establish a cen
tralizeo power utterly subversive of the rights of
the States under the constitution. and tn t we
therefore hope and believe that the National con-
vention will pledge the Democratic party to a
restoration Of peace upon just and honorable
| terms.
Resolved. That the Democratic party of this
State are opposed to the taxation Of the mines by
! the Federal Government. believing that it will
tend materially to repress the energy and enter
prise with which the mining population are now
developing the resources Of the country-be det-
rimental to the best interests of the State. and in
many instances will be simply an oppressive bur
den upon unproductive labor.
| Resolved, That the increase of the State tax by
the last Republican Legislature. and their extrav-
agant appropriation of public money, when the
people were already overburthened with National
taxation, is conclusive evidence of the unftness
Of that party to control our State legislation.
HOME RAISED TRoUT-The experiment of
raising the California mountain trout in ar
tfcia ponds has proved, says the Alta,
complete success in the hands of Engineer
Won Schmidt, of the Spring Valley Water
Works, and it is now demonstrated that they
can be grown to almost any size, and greatly
feeding. One of the trout brought to La
guna Honda when mere minnow, has
grown to the length of nineteen inches, and
weighs two and half pounds; and another,
which has been brought down to the Com
pany's office, is now sixteen inches in length
No one is permitted to disturb them at the
Laguna and they have become almost tame
and Indifferent to the approach of man as
any other domestic animal. Any ranchman
or gardener having good spring of clear
water of sufficient capacity to fill small
pond or tank, could, with very little trouble,
raise all the trout he would require for his
private table, and that, too without the outi
lay of dollar after his pond was once
stocked with fish.
Coon IDEA OF DEATH.-That death and
sleep are very much alike, the sages all tell
us; but see how attractivey Leigh Hunt de-
scrbes the latter: ''lt is delicious moment
certainly, that of being well nestled in bed,
and feeling that you shall drop gently to
sleep. The good is to come-not past; the
limbs have been Just tired enough to render
the remaining in one posture delightful; the
labor of the day is done. A gentle failure
of the perceptions come creeping over one;
the spirit of consciousness dsengages itself
more and more with slow and hushng de-
grees; like mother detaching her hand
from that of her sleeping child; the mind
seems to have balmy lid closing over it,
like the eye; tits closng-'tis closing-'tis
closed. The mysterious spirit has gone to
take its airy rounds
When man discovers an oil we'll upon
his premises in these days, his fortune is
made. Witness these prices recently paid
to farmers in Western Pennsy lvania: Among
the sales recently made are the Parker farm
for 100000; the Funk farm for Sl50, 900;
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