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Year: 1863

The Democratic State Convention passed the
following resolutions unanimously, and they stand
as ihe creed OF the United Democracy of Cali
foruiu:


Reso|red. That the Democracy of the State of
California are in favor of an unaltorable adher-
ence to the Constitution Of the United States
with all its guarantees of civil liberty unm-
paired.


Resolved. That we are in favor of the restora-
ton and preservation of the whole American
Union; that we recognize to the fullest extent
the right and duty of the Government to resist
by every Constitutional mode rebellion or insur-
rection against its lawful supremacy; but we re-
cognze that right solely for the purpose of restor-
ing its constitutional authority, and for no other
purpose whatsoever.


Resolued, That it is the duty of the State of
California. rs q member of the Union, to yiell
obedience TO all constitutional acts of Congress
and the Federal Executive, and that any indivi-
dual, of any party, who shall endeavor to incte
insurrection or rebellion within her borders, or
disaffection and discord among her people, is q
traitor to her best interests.


Res0ired That the aim and object of the Demo-
cratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and
the rights of the several States unimpaired; and
they hereby declare that they do not consider the
administrative usurpation Of extraordinary and
dangerous powers not granted by the Constitu-
tion-the subverson of the civil by the military
law in States not in insurrection or rebellion
the arbitrary military arrest, Imprisonment, trial
and sentence of American citizens in such States
where civil law exists in full reign-the suppress
sion of freedom of speech and of the press the
open and avowed disregard of State rights the
fanatical attempt to place the negro on social
and political equality with the white race and
the employment of unusual test oaths-as calcu
lated to preserve or restore union of the several
States or perpetuate a government "derving its
Just powers from the consent of the governed"


Resolred, That we are opposed to all. secret
political organizations and societies. as danger
Gus to the liberties of the people and destructive
to our republican form of Government.


ReSofUed That we claim and demand as inal-
ienable rights, freedom of thought. freedom of
speech, and of the press, and further declare that
government agents should at all times be held 10
strict accountability to the people, and that all
errors OF such agents should be liable to full and
iree discussion Tor the purpose of correction by
the balot-box.


ResoiDed. That we denounce and unoualifedly
condemn the Emancipation Proclamation of the
PRESIDENT OF the United States as tending it to
protract indefinitely civil war, incite servile in
surrection. aud inevitably close the door forever
to restoration of the union of these States.


Resolved, That we disapprove of all Congress.
sional laws tending to substitute paper curren-
cy IN California in place of our own metallic cir
culatng medium.


Resolred, That the spirit and meaning of the
Democratic Platform of this State are compro-
missed in the words. "The Constitution as II is
and the Union as it was''
Year: 1863

In this evil day let no man falter. The
times will change, the day of oppression and
outrage will not last always. Be patient, and
work. Be willing to bear for that which is
to come. Submit to law, but don't fail to Ia
Dor for the success of the party. Upon the
success of the democracy depend the Union.
The Union is worth preserving, and Demo-
cratic triumph will preserve it. We have
had eighty years of unexampled peace ; let it
be ours to labor and wait Every man must
work, every voice must be enlisted in the
good cause IF we falter, if the Democracy
waver, we tremble for the future. IF we do
our duty, we will succeed in the displacement
of incompetent men, We shall have return
of tie great and glorious past-Hamilton


True Telegraph.
Year: 1863

The "loyal leaguers" have singular way
of talking at their meetings. One Lowry, a
Pennsylvania State Senator, said at league
meeting in Philadelphia, the other day


"This war is for the African and his race.
The six hundred colored men who have recent
ly fallen have elevated the race. For all I
know, the Napoleon of this war may be done
up in black package. Laughter We
have no evidence that it is done up in a hite
one, as yet When this war was no larger
than my hand. / said that if any negro would
bring me his disloyal masters head, I would
give him one hundred and sixty acres of his
disloyal masters plantation. Laughter and
applause ] The man who talks Of elevating
the negro would not have to make him equal
to himself'' -


The assertion that the war is for. the nigger
and his race, would be styled the height of
copperheadism if made by Democrat but
coming from Lacquer, we suppose it is loyal
and proper.
Year: 1863

Never before have We known such universal
satisfaction as the selection of Governor and
Lieutenant Governor by the recent State Con.
vention, has given the Democracy Of This
County. The Abolish who predicted that
there would be a split in the Democratic par
ty in case Vallandigham was nominated, are
sorely Disappointed. The few Democrats. in
this County who prefer the selection Of some
other good man, heartily acquiesce in the de-
cision of the party which they know is the
only one which is honestly devoted to the
Union. Instead of losing strength, We hear
from every township in the county, that Vail
landigham will get scores of votes which were
cast for Tod in 1861. Among other. We
have reason to know that he will receive the
votes of two of Lincoln's appointees -men who
voted for him in 1860. What may seemistili
still stranger is the fact, that one Of the can
didates on their county ticket in lS6l, and
another on their county ticket in 1852, will
this year vote the entire Democratic State
ticket from top to bottom. These are com.
forting signs to the genuine cid fashioned
q uiou eEarers,n y and -shesia encourage eur
friends to press steadily forward and look hopes
fully to the ballot box Nsrark -Adgecatc.
Year: 1863

"You can not forcibly hold men in this
Union /; for the attempt to do so, it seems to
me, would subvert the first principles OF the
Government under which We live."


This is the utterance of Ben T. Wade
It is contained in the Congressional Globe
of the third session of the 34th Congress,
page 25. Does anybody think Of e1iting him
for cherishing these sentiments He has
never recanted them he must still entertain
them Greeley holds to the same platform
Who are the copperhcads2
Year: 1863

At wedding, recently, when the otficia-
ting priest put to the lady the question wilt
thou have this man to be thy welded husbandf
she dropped the prettiest courtesy and with a
modesty which lent her beauty and additional
grace, replied, eff you please r
Year: 1863

ALLoTMESTs FOR THE 72p REaMEsr.-As
very few were present yesterday to receive
nllotments, the County War Committee will
remain In session two or three days, ut the
Supervisors Room, at the Court House.
Year: 1863

But for that treachcrous and fanatical
party in the North, that has blackened its
banners with On arowal Of belief in
human Slavery, the war that enoW wage
for the Union and for our institutions,
would never have been forced upon us.
The assurances that they gavo the rebels
then in embryo, that, in the event ofa con
test they would take care that the South was
not unaided, and that the party for the
Union and Freedom should yield to such
offers as Secession might tender, were the
strong impelling motives that forced the
conspirators into the execution OF their
long cherished scheme. And the efforts OF
to-day, which, while they embar.
rass the movement and efficiency OF
our armies, comfort the rebels,
and disgrace the American name, are only
SO many efforts to carry out the pledge.
that were made before the war began,
And had not the sympathizers the existing
causes Of censure and complaint, they
would hare seized upon any others that
might have existed. To quarrel with the
Administration, to first cripple and then
overthrow ito quarrel with it when il
does wrong as well as when it does
1isht-wlen it does nothing as well
es when it does something,-to quarrel
with the Administration anyhow-is the
game. Do not the people Of the North
west zee through it?
Year: 1863

Our renders in the city will not forget
tlat the NINTH OF APRIL is the day, and
Bryan Hall the place, on and in which the
loyal men Of Chicago are not only to form
m Union League for the support Of the
Government in all its constitutional acts,
but to reproyc tho Mayor for his crime of
Withholding his official sanction Of the
meeting. This second refusal to counte~
nance or encourage the citizens in pcacca-
bly assembling together, for no partisan
purposo, solely to deliberate how their
country may be best defended and their in
btitutions preserved, fixes his status as a
Coppcrlcad Of the most ycnomous sort.
The excuse urged by his friends, that lie
las not brains enough to be accounted a
responsible moral agent, will no! avail As
through him others are permitted to do dis
loyal deeds, SO through him they may e1
rect the rcbuke that they have earned.


Men Of Chicago! prove, Oh that day
that, though the Municipality, in the per


son Of its chief officer, torbids the express
sion OF loyal sentiments, the sending o
loyal messages to our army in the ield, o
the encouragement of the Government i,
its war with rebellion and treason, you Or
sound to the core! On the Ninth Of April
Year: 1863

Farmers complain that the fieeces of
wool clipped tits season are much lighter
than an average, and far below what they
were last year. There are many anxious
inquiries in regard 10 the cause of this
more, We presume, than there would have
been had wool commanded it's former pri-
ces. Prominent among the causes Of
this uniform 1ightness of fleece, is the fact
that sheep we're not kept Is well through
the Winter and Spring as usual. Corn
aud other grain brought q good price,
aud farmers thought they could not off ,rd
to feed it to sheep. so they sold the grain,
kept their sheep on dry forage alone, and
as consequence got from three -iourths
to pound less wool per head than they
would if they had pursued an opposite
course BY feeding corn to their sheep D
it would have brsupht them more per
bushel, but they probabl y"couldn't I see it"
theu, and If they do now, il may possibly
teach them good lesson. We have 9TH
er evidence, in addition to this mention
ed, that feeding grain to sheep pays.
Year: 1863

D1srRUsT all those wo love you extremely upon very
slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason
Be upon your guard too against those who confess
their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtues.
Year: 1863

The INDUSTRY OF THE WOMEN OF THE SoUTH-A
letter from Lincoln county, Tennessee says On the
small farms throughout this section ell is life, activity
and industry. Many woman who never before held
a plow, is NOW seen il the corn-feld-many young
gill who would have b!ushed at the thought before Of
handing ploW line, naturally aud unconsciously
cries gee up Dobbin" to the svery tones OF which
the good brute readily responds if it pleasure
to comply with so gentle command. Many Ruth,
of Old is today binding and cleaning in the wheat
field, but alas no Boaz IS there to console or to COM
time but pctare of primitive lite. Throughout the
country at every farm house and cottage, the regular
sound OF the loom, the shuttle flies to and ro with
the whirl OF the spinning is heard, telling OF
home industry. Cotton fabrics of neat pretty figures
the production of home manufacture are now almost
wholly worn in Tennessee, instead of calicoes.
Year: 1863

"SEr HIM BAcK."-Thera is a story tod OF an old
gentleman who made it rule that his Children should
not dae table until they were sixteen years old.
at which age they permitted to eat with the older
members # tie family. On one occasion visitor
who Was aware OF the custom observed one OF the boys
who he thought was d the requisite age, eating at the
side table and asked him if he not sixteen years DID,


Yes" said the boy, Il was sixteen some time ago,
and father let me come to his table but there was
dish for dinner that was very fond Of and ostead CT
being helped undertook to help myself, and reaching
too er met with accident and 30 be SET ma pacK tor
two years."
Year: 1863

REMoNsrnANcE OF AN IMMIGRANT.-"An
Immigrant" publishes the following card in
the California Republican:


Editor RepuJlicun:-The editor Of the
Sacramento Union must be An exceed ngly
bitter politician or he would not assai aud
slander the overland Immigration as he has
done. As to the immigrants on the road,
know that they are from loyal States, and
for the first time have heard their fidelity to
their country and Government questioned 1t
may be that there are men among them who
served with Price, and there are now men
in the Union army who were with that Off
Ger. If there are any men on that road who
served With him, they are few in number, for
the reason that few Of his men have been
left with means sufficient to live upon. The
immigrants are nearly all, if not all, from
loyal States, the greater number being from
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Michigan. That large majority of
them, in 1860 voted for Mr. Lincoln is prob
able. that they are now generally opposed
to the Administration, I believe is true,
but that they are now or ever have been seces
sionisls or disunonists is false. The lmmi-
grants, on the road; nearly all have many
and valuable animals, consisting Of horses
and mules-many of the immigrants being
quite wealthy If not desired in California


If they are to be slandered and harrassed
as proposed by the Union editor, they will
not fail to find the road to Oregon OF remain
in Nevada Territory But l cannot believe
that the people will sustain the Union editor
in his assault upon the strangers now SEEK
ing their homes on the Pacific coast Thus
far have found the people of California gen.,
erous and kind, and have been heartily vel
coined among them.
Year: 1863

has been chosen nothing is known; but that
of course is no consideration, for what would
become of monarchs and monarchies if the as
cension of throne were conditioned on the
qualifications of the candidates The Greeks
have made only one condition, that tho sue
cessors of the King elect must embrace the
faith of the Greek Church. 1t is quite COM
mon for the Princes and Princesses of Europe
to adopt the creed of the Court with which
they may become connected by marriage. The
House of Denmark will undoubtedly not object
to the arrangement on this ground.


The Danish papers, it is said, are generally
opposed to the plan, as the succession to the
Danish throne rests at present exclusively in
tho family of Prince Christian, the father OF
the King elect The King of Denmark has,
however, already intimated his willingness to
consent, provided Prince Christian and Prince
William desire the arrangement and Prince
Williams right of succession to the Danish
throne be reserved. Russia, France, and En-
gland are also satisfied with the arrangement,
which, therefore, is likely soon to conclude the
Greek revolution. The youth Of the new King,
and the grave questions existing in other parts
of Europe, would, in that case. undoubtedly
put off any further serious agitation Of the
Oriental question for several years, to the great
satisfaction of the Grand Powers, which at
present have enough to do with the solution OF
other questions.
Year: 1863

The American and Polish questions have for
some months so entirely monopolized public
opinion that all the other unsolved questions Of
European policy, and among them that of little
Greece, have been entirely lost sight Of At
another time her anxiety to find candidate
for the vacant throne, her frequent failures to
find Prince willing to charge himself with
the unwelcome burden, the intrigues Of the
grand Powers in the settlement of her destiny,
and the cOunter-revolution attempted by the
House of Bavaria, might have attracted some
attention; but in view Of questions of so much
graver Importance all this has passed almost
usnoticed.


By the latest intelligence from Europe, we
learn that once more a King has been chosen
this time not by direct vote of the people,
but by that of the National Assembly. The
long delay in performing this act had raised
an expectation that the people, tired OF their
unsuccessful efforts to find King, might try
to dispense with the monarchical form Of gov
ernment altogether. But this depended much
less on the pleasure Of the Greeks, than on
that of the Projecting Powers, and, moreover,
the first step toward an aggrandzement OF the
kingdom, the annexation Of the Ionian Islands,
had been expressly made dependent by England
on the maintenance of a monarchical constitu'
ton. In view Of such an alternative, nothing
else could be expected from the little nation
than quiet submission to the will and pleas
ure of its patrons.


The King elect is Prince William OF Der
mark, a brother of the Princess Of Wales. The
young Prince is in his eighteenth year. Of hi
qualifications for tho high post for which be
Year: 1863

We print this morning letter from our
esteemed correspondent Truth and Courage"
which, it is due to him to say, has been in
type for weeks, but which the constant press.
ure of news and public documents, which it is
impossible to put by to a more convenient sea-
son, has hitherto prevented US from publishing
Year: 1863

As we are q constituent portion Of tho
Associated Press," we feel bound 10 disclaim
any responsibility for or voluntary participation
in the sending abroad over the country such
atrociously false, cruel and wicked dispatches
as the following:
Year: 1863

Such is the substance Of what they call a
lao in Delaware-Democratic lava law to
keep the most ignorant and degraded class of
the people Of that State hopelessly ignorant
and degraded, abused and oppressed, eyermOre.
Such are the laws which New-York Democ.
racy to-day countenances and uphOlds-which
this Democracy tends to perfect in iniquity
aud make universal. Ought any humane or
Just person to cOuntenance themi
Year: 1863

We present to-day, to the readers Of the
COURIER" the full State snd County Ticket
of the Union party. which will be supported
by all unconditional Union men at TIE next
general election in September.


T. F. Low, the candidate for Governor, was
for many years resident of Marysville where
he established for himself reputation for in
tegrity and great business capacities. He was
elected to the lower house of Congress in
1861, where he acquitted himself with credit
to his State, and honor and fidelity to the
whole Union. He will make q prudent and
firm executive officer, and one to whom every
voter who desires that this State shall remain
in the Union, and pursue its peaceful course
Of prosperity, as in years past, can heartily
give their support at the ballot bog, with the
assurance that under every emergency
through which our people may be called upon
to pass, he will be found faithful to the Ge1-
eral Government, and true to the interest Of
California.


Ofeur nominees for Congress as yet We
know but little, but the unanimous vote re-
ceived by each in the Convention gives assur-
ance that they are sound upon the great
questions which now agitate the American
people, and that SO far as may be required OF
them, they viii render a united support to
the Administration in preserving the Union
through any and all emergencies that may
arise.


The nominees for Judges of the Supreme
Court are all men of known worth and great
legal ability, and each have been known as
among the first and best lawyers of the State
With our Supreme Court composed Of such
men, our citizens will feel that their rights
viii. be protected, and that the laws will be
strictly enforced.


We shall have occasion hereafter to speak
Of other candidates presented upon the State
ticket before election, but from the character
Of the delegates which composed the Union
State Convention, and placed in nomination
our State ticket, we are satisfied no one was
selected but unconditional Union men. and
such as should receive the united and cordial
support Of every voter who desires that this
State should be kept from the hands of poiit-
cal demagcgues and enemies of our Govern
ment, who are striving to betray it into the
hands of traitors.
Year: 1863

READ THIs.-What will rebel sympathiz-
ers, who have been endeavoring, without sue
cess, to prejudice the Germans against the
Administration, by quoting the remarks of a
newspaper correspondent, (who, by the way,
has been compelled to rctract them by Gen.
Hooker) say to the following TRADE, pub
lished in the Richmond Examiner of May
9th:


Too clearly there is 10 law nor Constitu-
ton for that unhappy Yankee nation any
more. If we had no other reason to refuse
utterly and for all time every sort of associa-
ton with that degraded people, We certainly
could not think of sharing with them the sort
of life they are now condemned to lead un-
der Dutch Provost Marshals, and the lettres
dc cachet of an absolute master-and such a
master! The ghost of Democracy gibbers,
mores and hoots like an owl, and makes
night hideous, but its body is in the grave
There is no energy, nor game, nor pluck left
in the down trodden people potent enough to
resist a Dutch Provost Marshal and his
guard Is it possible these vassels are the
same men who once were American citizens
whom we once counted almost species of
fellow. countrymen? But this is judgment
of God,
Year: 1863

TOWNSHIP CoNvENrIoN.-By a call in an
other column of this paper, it Will be seen
that the Union County Central Committee
have requested the delegates in the several
townships. to assemble to-day, at the usual
place of holding Township Conventions in
their respective townships for the purpose of
placing in nomination two Justices OF the
Peace, two Constables and one Rocdmaster
for each township to be supported by the
Union party at the coming election. The
Chairman of each Convention will please
forward to this paper The names Of the can
didates nominated
Year: 1863

RIcH QuARrz.-We have been shown a
rich piece of quartz rock, recently taken out
of we'll defined ledge at the Lower Springs,
about two miles below town, by Messrs.
Jones & Co., which is literally covered with
fine particles of gold in every part. The
owners are now sinking shaft and are down
to the depth of twenty feet. They find the
rock of equal richness all the way down. The
lode is some % inches wide, and has been
traced by groupings for distance of half
mile on either side of the original discovery
claim. Other parties are now prospecting
the lode with equally fair prospects, and the
Lower Springs, or what was at an early day
known as Reading Springs" " will yet prove
as rich a quartz mining district as it has
heretofore been in placer mines.