Year: 1861

SACRAMENTO, Feb sth, 1861.


EDITOR DEMoCRAT.-In accordance with
the action had by the Democratic caucus last
evening, the Senate to-day adopted a resolu-
tion to go into joint convention for choosing
Senator, on the goth inst, by vote of 10
to Is. The same resolution was offered in
the Assembly and defeated by vote of 40
to 36. 1t is in the power of the two wings
of the Opposition to defeat the proposition
for joint convention, and it is becoming
more and more probable that they will use
their strength for the purpose. Those
Breckenridge men who feel confident of sue
cess in the next State campaign see no par
ticular reason why they should elect even
the least Objectionable of the Douglas candi-
dates, while, on the other hand some of the
Republicans see as little reason why they
should assist to elect any one but a Republi-
can, when in the next Legislature they may,
as they think, have their own way. Either
Breckenridge or Republican votes must be
had to get the Assembly into joint conven-
ton. Neither would assist except upon the
certainty that the Democratic caucus nominee
would be tolerably palateable to the assisting
party. How can either party feel confident
that most exceptionable man will not win,
as matters now stand and SO losing conf
dence, and the fight in caucus being so en-
velopedin fog, how can any of the enemy
be counted on for votes to carry the resolu
tion for joint convention in the Assembly? i?
The caucus cannot again assemble until both
houses have resolved to go into joint conven-
tion. Now if the whole Democratic vote is
bound by last nights caucus proceedings to
vote for joint convention on every occasion
between now and the goth, why may not the
Brecks. and Reps. withhold their votes for
convention until the last day, and then, that
is on the goth, aud enough of their votes to
bring on the joint convention, giving the
caucus no time to meet for the nomination of
Senator? The candidate who is favored bv
the Breckinridgers would perhaps stand a
better chance without than with a caucus 1t
has been said that the Breckenridge men are
unwilling to vote for any man who has the
caucus nomination of our party. They would
prefer a scrub-race, and would then unite
upon the choice of the wavering Democrats
and claim that the votes given him ought to
form nucleus around which to re-organize
the Democracy. The secession sympathizers
hereabout are straining every nerve to in
veigle week-kneed Democrats into their en-
braces They hope to draw off Just enough
from our party to be of service at the polls,
but not enough to give them any trouble in
party conventions. 1t is not to be considered
Conservative" hereafter to favor for office
any man who was not at heart q traitor to
his country and an apOlogist for the treason
of others. Union men may be trusted with
fow deputy ;.s-Tps, if they are very sorry for
having been honest, but the offices must be
bestowed upon men who now prove their
"soundness on the niger question" by advo-
eating the secession of California, and the
foundation of Pacific Republic. My heart
bleeds when l think of the punishment
which awaits those fond, deluded creatures
who now stray from the paths of Democracy
TO wander among the political graves of
those who fell in November last, never to rise
ag,in.


The Breckin ridge men were in great glee,
al first over Douglas speech, and | learn that
an edition of 10000 copies were printed at
the Office of the State Printer, by whose order
do not know A sober reading of the
speech has made them less fond of it. They
now seem very unhappy over the coercion"
views of the Little Giant" as expressed in
the paragraph upon the objects for which all
governments are formed, and are positively
miserable over the announcement 10y Douglas
that the North vest will never suffer the
mouths of the Mississippi to pass into the
hands of Southern Confederacy or any for
eign power whatsoever. Besides these trou-
blesome points Douglas distinctly AYERS that
he is not yet prepared to say what ought to
6e done when all efforts for compromise shall
fail, if fail they should. His speech seems to
be mainly directed towards deprecating in
fiammatory threats by either the Govern
ment or the seceders during the efforts to
wards compromise. He simply desires that
the seceders shall have little time to them
.selv es in which to return to their senses
These are the impressions most generally en-
tertained here among the friends of Douglas.
The Breckindgers, in their eagerness to fall
A0 wn and humiliate themselves before the
chieftain who so lashed and denounced them
last summer, went off "half-coeked." Many
of them were delighted at an opportunity to-
even by mistake, become worshippers of him.
The true-blue Breckenridge Calhoun men
laugh at the shallowness of those who so
foolishly and ineonsiderateiy nppiauded
Douglas for saying that he would threaten no
war while working on compromises They
knew very we'll that if all all other remedies
are exhausted, the Democratic champion of
the Northwest will be for war upon any who
have subverted or may sabvert the Federal
Constitution in any State of this Union.


CAPITOL.


ARIzoNA.-The Messlla Times of Jan oath
has the following:


"a mass meeting had been held in Burch-
willie which was addressed by many promi
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