The Placer herald., 1865-12-23
The Record.

The servile followers in the Legislature. Of
the Wilson Sumner school of Radicals, have
shown themselves fit instruments for carry
ing out the mad purposes of their leaders.
They were not content with passing the Con
stitutional Amendment abolishing negro ser.
vtude, but they voted that appropriate leg
islaton" in the second clause, means any.
thing and everything that fanatca, un.
principed and domineerng majority in Con.
gress may choose to say it means. Mr..
Pearce, the Democratic Senator from Sono.
ma County, offered on the 18th, the follow
inc resolution as expressive of the sense of
the Legislature upon this subject:
Resolved BY the Senate, the Assembly con.
curing That the Legislature of the State Of
California, in agreeing to and ralifying the
proposed amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, known as Article XII, did
not intend to empower Congless to in any
manner legislate upon, or the Federal Gov
ernment to interfere with, the right Of sut-
frage or The elective franchise in any Of the
States or Territories of the Union.
For this mode of proceeding there was
illustrious precedent. New York and New
Jersey and other States expressly declared
their meaning in terms and qualified their
acceptance, in ralifying the Federal CONSTR
tuition. 1t was no doubt with these hisor-
cal incidents in mind. that Mr.. Pearce brot
forward bis resolution. In view of the ex.
traordinary assumption of power claimed toy
the Radicals in Congress, it was peculiarly
appropriate. What was it's fate? After a
lengthy debate, in which the lea'lng Abo
tionisls participated, on the final test vote of
indefinite postponement it was unceremon
iously disposed of by the following ayes and
noes:
Ayes-Messrs Belden, Bradley, Cunning
ham, Evans, Ever, Hale, Ilawes. Jones. Ku'z
Leonard, Love't, Maddox, Murphy, Myers
PeQrce, Porter Robinson, Smith, Teegarden.
Tuttle, Wadsworlh, Wocott and Wright
20.
Noes-Messrs. freeman, IIager, Johnson,
Montgomery, Pratt, Rich and Shaw.
This is strictly party vote with the ex~
cepion of Pearce, in the affirmative, who
voted so for the purpose of moving recon
sideration, and Pratt in the negative, who is
pronounced the abest of the Republican
Senators
The thanks Of the Dem ocracy are due to
Mr.. Pearce for compelling the fanatical me-
groites to show themselves. That they are
ready to obey the crack Of the whip of their
leaders at Washington, we never doubted.
1t is by this means that they expect to buy
their peace for supporting the "disoyal" Spe'
cifc Contract Act. They now serve two
masters: Il e hard money Shylorks Of Cali.
tornia and the Abolition oreenhack Shoddy
ties and Boudocracy on the other side. To
propiIiate The latter they would 90 to the
full figure Of radical extremes Nowhere
has there been more base Abandonment of
State sovereignty and dignity and righ, than
by the dominant party OF California since the
reign Of Abolilionisln. No act of self-de-
basement seems too degrading for the,n.-
This last is the crownng work of their in
fanny. They give their consent to Congress
to regulate the franchise of suffrage among
us; to say who shalI vote ard who shall not;
to declare Chinanlen and negroes and Dig
ger Indians entitled to all the privileges Of
the white race in short, to legisate the
white race down and the inferior races up,
to suit the purposes of their viilainous party
schemes. God speed the day when the peo-
pie will he reused from their mental paraly
sis with which they are atf1 cted, and drive
from power these traitors to liberty, traitors
20 free government and traitors to genuine
manhood. s. r Examiner