The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1868-05-02
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION,


trail Committee, on Monday, April 9th,
1868, at IL o'clock, A. M.
The Convention was organized by the
election of Geo. w. Apologize as temporary
Chairman, E. NJ. Banvard as Secretary, and
A. Huntey as Assistant Secretary.
On motion, the Chair appointed John
Kneeland, Ii. w. Starr and G. B. Bird, as
Committee on Credentials. Also,
W. b. Perkins, A. c. Neil and A. o.
Pedan, as Committee on Permanent Or
ganization, and upon motion OF II. T. Graz
vens, Joseph Wakup and G. & Mason were
appointed Committee on Resolutions.
Upon motion the Convention adjourned
to meet at one o'clock.
Convention met at one o'clock p. NJ, pur'
suaut to adjournment. The Committee on
Credentials reported the following, as en-
titled to seats in the Convention, viz:
TOWNSHIP No. l.
Aliens Ranch-2 votes Peter Snyder
and NJ. Mansfield.
TOWNSHIP No. 2.
Viroinia-2 yotes-Wm. McMahon and
VIM. HALEY.
Ophir-2 voes-James Moore and D. G.
Turuey.
TOWNSHIP No. 8.
Auburn-5 votes-R. 0. Cravens, Joseph
Wakup. Owen King, F. Deppendeiuer and
A. c. Neil.
TOWNSHIP No 4.
Colfax-3 votes-John Kneeland, G. w.
Apologize and A. o. Pedan.
Gold Runs vo,es--Geo E. Mason, G
w. c. Wrinkle and Paul Weber.
Dutch Flst--4 votes-E. M. Barnard, G.
G. Cassidy, w. Ii. Kruger and Fred. Grohs.
Kearsarge 3 voles--W. D. Bourne and
J. f. Talbot.
TOWNSHIP No. 5.
Forest Ilill-4 voles--Thomas MrGoey,
A. lIuntley. NJ Dougherty and Otto Johnson.
Yankee Jims--2 votes-Charles traitor
Geo. w. Gilbert
Todd's Valley-2 votes-A. B. Brown
and S Il Forward
Butcher Ranch-No representation.
TOWNSHIP No. 6.
Michigan Bluffs votes-M. Mcbride,
c. +. Friegay and NJ Hoffman.
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b. Bird aud J. G. Currer.
Wisconsin Hil--2 votes--W. P. Lipp
and James Gleason.
Damascus-No representation.
TOWNSHIP No. s.
No representation.
TOWNSHIP No. 8.
Pine Grove-2 votes Coleman Wilkes
and j. M. WaIdren.
TOWNSHIP No. 10.
Lincoln--5 votes-Isaac Stonecpher, G..
Small, Fred. Hartford, G. Gray, and Ii. w.
Starr.
Union Shed . votes-O. P. Richardson
and S. G. Newman.
TOWNSHIP No. IL.
CISCO votes--R Montgomery, S. B.
Wyman, James Canavan and James Gibson.
Summt--No representation.
Lake Bigler--No representation
The Committee on Resolutions reported |
the following which were unanimously adopt
ed.
The representatives OF the Democracy of Placer
county feel that they would not do their whole
duty without making a declaration OF the senti
ments OF those they represent. Therefore
ResOlued That we regard the present Radical
party and its representatives in both Houses of
he Congress Of the United States, as a band OF
The most desperate fanatics and usTrpers, who by
successive violations OF their most solemn pledges,
by intrac tons of the organic law, and Of the pub
lie faith, TO encompass mere partisan ends. have
brought our people and institutions to the very
verge OF ruin. They have, after tapping the life
blood OF the Nation, and expanding millions Of
treasure under the most solemn and repeated |
pledges and declarations that the same was done |
to prevent the States which sought to withdraw
from the Union from doing so, themselves drv en-
those States out ; treating them as subjugated |
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and now hold ten sovereigntcs subject to control
and military supervision, and the guaranteed
dominion OF an inferior race. They have def
antly spurncd the Constitution as the organic
law of the land, and issued their DEGREES and
erected their will as the higher law to which
coordinate branches Of the Government, the
Judiciary and Executive are to yield acques.
cence, and to which the people bound in letters
and thrallom as their minions, are to submit with
out murmur. They have, under pretencc of
diminishing the public debt imposed heavy
tribute upon every citizen, saving always those
who have riches, and making the poor, poorer
They have invented the most oppressive systems
of taxation to take from labor the hope Of re-
ward and they have filled the land with swarms
of officials who harrass the people and eat
out their substance. Hoping thereby to in
sure their final dominance in the pending can
vass through corruption and frauds, and to COM
plete u full conspiracy to overthrow the Govern
ment Of our fathers, they resolve to overthrow
the President, and to install one of the woi st of
their chief conspirators in his place; an act which
the conservative lrccmen Of the country declare
to be without justification or plausible excuse,
and which we denounce as an outrage without
parallel in the history OF the civilized world, and
worthy only of its corrupt and revolutionary au-
thors.
Resolved, 2nd. That we believe in and will
practice the doctrine of % let the dead bury the
dead" and therefore extend cordial invitation
to all honest phite men, to join with us in our
endcavors to redeem and reinstate our beloved
country and Government to the happy and pros
porous condition of the days when Democracy
and Democratic ideas, honesty and craftsmanship
held control.
Resoiped, 3rd. That as honest men and the
representatives of honest men, we believe that
the Government should pay every just dollar that
she owes, and in the same money, according to
contract as citizen pays citizen.
Resolced, 4h. That we believe in such just,