Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-10-19
ADDRESS TO CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS.

/ ADDRESS TO CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS.
On the 9th day OF July last, political
/ Convention assembled at the city of Bal
timore, clothed with authority and charg-
ed with the duty of reaiirming the cher
/ ished principles of Democracy but false
/ to its high mission, that Convention, in
stead Of proclaiming, renounced the DEM
ocratic faith, and indorsed the heresies of
the Republican party. In its approval of
Republican misrule, 1t even went SO far
as to indorse pretended changes in the
| Constitution Of the United States, which
no Democrat believes have any higher
sanction than such as was obtained by
force and fraud and in defiance of the
peoples will. Not content with merely
indursng these unconstitutional amend
ments the Baltimore Convention in adopt
ing the Cincinnati Republican platform
pledges its followers, to oppose any re-
opening Of the questions settled" there
by. So that, according to this new De-
mocracy, it is perfectly proper to reopen
any and every other Constitutional ques
ton except such as has been settled by
force and fraud, and against the will Of
the States and the people. Finally, as If
to place beyond doubt the sincerity of this
unparalled political apostacy, after adopt
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Republican platform, the Baltimore Con-
vention chose for its standard bearer the
oldest, most inveterate, longest tried and
deadliest foe Of the Democratic party.
l. There is not a political principle
distinctly Democratic which does not to-
/ day find in Horace Greeley a bitter and
uncompromising enemy. He is the chief
advocate and main supporter of that enor-
mously high protective tariff, which is
beggaring our people by forcing them to
| pay for their clothing and other necessa-
ries OF life double what the same articles
would cost with the tariff removed. He
| Is the head champion Of that infamous
and degrading policy which, if persisted
in, will speedily flood this country with
/ MOngolans to the degradation Of our own
race. In his late letter of acceptance,
Mr.. Greeley declares himself in favor of
equdt rights to dit, regardless Of cTeed
ciime or cOt0r." In the Tribune, under
date July I'D, 1870, he claims for the Chi
naman "JUI permission to come Withia
oar border, to ao0rk here at his t1dde,
and generally do all those
1 things Chich he might do if he acre q
SCede, an IriShlndR or q ItttdgOnidn,"
which is the same as to say that China
men should have the right to become
voters, to hold office, to make laws, and,
when sufficiently strong in numbers, to
decide whether we, the present occupants
of the soil, should be privileged to remain
here, or compelled to seek homes in other
lands.
II. On the third day of September, at
the city Of Louisville, Kentucky, noble
band Of true, tried and unpurchasable
patriots, who preferred principles to the
spois Of office, snatched our glorious old
Democratic banner from under the feet OF
Horace Greely and his new found allies
Of the Baltimore Convention, and once
more unturled its weather-beaten but un-
furnished folds to the breeze with the
honored and illustrious names of Charles
/ O'ConOr and John Quincy Adams, rec
| Trade, State Rights, and Strict Construc-
! tlOn Of the Constitution emblaZOned there
on. Around that noble banner the true
I friends Of Democratic Government and
| Constitutional Liberty are everywhere
rallying. Let not Calitornians, while
having more to lose by the defeat of Dem
ocratic principles than the people Of any
other State in the Union, be the last to
fall into line. Do not desert your princi-
plies under the cowardly plea that you can
do no good by voting with the minority.
Such an argument can have no force
except upon the false assumption that
it is better to be wrong with the many
than to be right with the few. True,
it may now be too late to achieve
success at the November election, but it
is not too late to demonstrate that the
spirit Of Democracy still lives, and that
honor, truth, consistency and genuine
manhood are not extinct in the Ameri-
can character. 1t is not too late, neither
Is it too soon, to administer wholesome
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more Convention for its shameful aban-
donment Of the Democratic faith ut the
moment when it should have clung there
to with the most unlaltering tenacity.
No Democrat who votes for either Hor-
ace Greeley or L. S. Grant can ever con-
siderately complain Of any outrage which
Republican misrule may hereafter intlct
upon him. Should he see his wife and
children in want because half his earn
ings go to pay tariffs on the necessaries
of life, he cannot deny that his own vote
was partially the cause. Should he find
/ his place in the field or workshop given
to Chinese coOlie, while he and his
family are turned out to starve, he can
not but accuse himself as the foolish au-
thor OF his own misery. Should force
and fraud be again resorted for further
amending or even aboishing the Fede-
! lRl OOIStlluIlOil, MlIuI COulu he say 10
such an enormity after having indorsed,
/ by his own vote, a proceeding admitted
! by himself to be entirely similar. Let
not Democrats excuse themselves for
casting their votes, either for Grant or
/ for Greeley, on the ground that Charles
| O'Conor refuses to say that he is candi-
date for the Presidency. In this he but
follows the example Of the illustrous
| Washington, who never so much as in
tlmated his willingness to serve as Presi-
dent until after his election. Let every
Democrat, who has the capacity TO see,
and the patriotism to feel, the vital i'm
| pOrtance Of the issues now at stake, and
the great principles now in peril, bestir
himself from this hour until the sun goes
down on the 5th day Of November, as if
/ the whole fight was entirely his own.
| This done, though we may not achieve
success, we shall at least have deserved
/ to succeed, and shall, moreover, have
laid deep and broad foundations of future
triumphs.
The following appointments were made
and the meeting adjourned
Elexors-J. Mora Moss, jackson Tom
! pie, Zach. Montgomery, VIM. j. Graves,
NJ. X. Patten and A. j. King.
Alternates-G. w. Hunter. Edward F.
Mccarthy, Daniel Taylor, A. p. Ber-
nard, f. N. Foot and Edward Bean.
State Central Committee-John Nu-
gent. Charles f. Bolts, Thomas Golden,
W. d. Sawyer, j, 5, Reardon, JAS. C.
Goods, Nathaniel p. Jones, II O'Neil
4. A. Rockwell, j. Van Ness, 4. l..
Goold, Geo. Seckel, j. NJ. johnson, w.
T. O'Neale, Jacob Snyder, DIR. S. NJ.
Monser, Dir. Dobbins, Thos. Wallace
and William Faulkner.