Year: 1859

yourselves. And we, your Committee, have
been appointed as such to address you, sta
ting briefly and suecinctly the objects and
reasons of this call, and we beg of all, an hon
est and an earnest consideration Of The rea-
sons here given; and we also most earnestly
desire of each and every citizen of our county
who feels any desire for the success of the
cause in which we are engaged, an attendance
at the Mass Meeting, to act with us in this
movement


In order to briefly inform you of our OBJ
jects and intentions, we would state our
present position and our future intentions
and in making this statement, although we
but reflect our views, yet we are confident
that not one word fall we here state can be
successfully contradicted by any man, and if
true, we leave it to the good sense of the
People of this County to determine for them.
selves whether it is not duty that they owe
to themselves and TO their future prosperity,
to join with us in this movement. Let us
here cast glance at the present position of
affairs: The present Federal Administration
upon assuming the reins of our National Gov
ernment, found in our National Treasury a
surplus of over Thirty Millions of money, and
our country at peace with all the world
Since that time, and until now, we as a ma
ton have been engaged in no foreign or civil
war; we have not added to our national do
main by conquering or purchasing one foot
of territory; we have made no national i'm
provements of any nature built no railroads
or canals done nothing whatsoever of that
nature to exhaust or deplete our National
Treasury, and yet to-day that Treasury is not
only exhausted, but Treasury Notes to the
vast amount of over Fifty Millions of dollars
have been issued and all of the vast revenues
of government in the interim collected, have
been expended. AS State, we are lowering
upon the very verge of reputation, scarcely
able from year to year to pay the aecumula-
ting interest upon our State debt; although
as State no other in the Union possesses
such rich natural advantages az our own
With untold mineral wealth, our agricultural
lands unsurpassed in quantity or quality, our
advantages for rich and extensive commerce
unequalled, and our citizens the bold enter
prising and adventurous from all parts of the
world; yet with all of these advantages and
resources we occupy the position Of being, as
we are, the poorest State in the Union, and
the poorest people, as a class, of any people
in any State in the Union. All of the natur-
al advantages and franchises of our State are
either owned or controlled by huge monopo-
lies or greedy speculators As County, the
County of Sutter is one of the richest in its
natural resources of any in the State almost
exclusively agricultural, it is peopled by
class of men who need but little assistance to
control their own affairs and yet from year
to year we have wrung from our grasp
large portion of our gains, as taxes-but more
in the nature of fines than taxes, from their
huge amount; whilst at our homes we sell
dom or rarely see any of the officers of our
County or State, except our County Assessor
to determine how much we shall pav. and
the Tax Collector to enforce its payment
Whilst from year to year we have candidates
for office selected FOR Us by little political in
triguing cabals, dignifed by the name of
all necessary to be capable or qualified to fill
the various offices to which men aspire but
only necessary to be good at political wire.
working. Thus we have gone on and are
still going on, whilst our County plunged in
debt, boasts no possessions of a public nature
OF any value to any amount, without any i'm
proved public highways, her rivers spanned
by Toll Bridges and Ferries, the result of
private enterprise. Thus are we situated
and it is against the further existence of this
state of things that we propose to make war.
We attribute this state of affairs not only in
our County, but in our State and Federal
Governments, directly to the yielding of the
People to Party rule and Party dctation,
and by this means we, the People, are com
PEELED, for no honest or worthy purpose, to
toll on in unremitting drudgery to support
in luxury and ease a set of political tricksters
and corrupt politicians and as becomes men
in every relation in life, when we are made
aware that we are wronged in any manner,
we must seek to know the cause of that
wrong and apply the remedy Gf within our
power) to redress the evil. That power, fell
low-citizens, lies in ourselves, and in order to
fully and fairly exercise that power, it be-
hooves us and becomes our duty to arouse
ourselves and take action as People. To
etfectually do this, it is necessary that we
should forget party prejudices and party poll
tics and meet together for general consulta-
ton and for general action. Let us then. at
the time and at the place mentioned, assem-
BILE as community of men, determined and
resolved to exert themselves to produce a
change in the nature of our County Govern
ment, by electing from amongst ourselves,
men worthy and capable, as candidates of the
People of Sutter to fill our various County
Offices; and also to select County Central
Committee to be known as the County Com
mittee of the Peoples Party of Sutter Coun-
ty; and when thus met to thoroughly or
ganize Party in this County whose sole pur
pose is opposition to corruption in office,
County, State or Federal and the support of
principles and not men.


J. E. STEVENS Chr. Com.


Sutter county, July 25, 1859.


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