Year: 1861




venton That such body could sit at all
in this State is the highest evidence that
could be offered of the spirit of liberation
which governs our people. The Convention
which adjourned yesterday was as noisome
q stencil in the nostris of the sound Union
masses Of this State as would be an Abolition
gathering in the city Of New Orleans. The
Disunion ticket put forth is as obnoxious to
be in Georgia. But we can afford to be Eb-
eral We do not have to run Secessiopists
out of the State, lest they should overPower
us In Secessia Union utterances cannot be
tolerated, for if they were. the people would
soon put Secessionsm under foot. If this is
not so, why are the traitors so unwilling to
permit Union men to epeak in their strong
holds2


We happened into the Dixie Convention
on Tuesday last, and soon saw that it was
simply gathering of restless and turbulent
men, chafng over their pitiful lack of
strength in this State, and determined, at
any rate, to show their brethren in Davis Is
army, that if they would not go on and aid
to overthrow the "Lncoln Government
they would express their sympathy with the
rebellion by ranting speeches, and reasonable
resolutions They were utterly regardless of
the public sentiment Of this State. and seemed
bent only on making a record which they
might proudly show to their great model
statesman and Dixie patriot. Jefferson d. The
contemptuous manner in which they spurned
all propositions to modify their Secession
platform was proof that they had at last
given up all hope OF ever again holding CT
fee in this State, and were only desircus OF
showing the utter contempt and hatred they
felt for the people upon whose bounty they
had solong fed.


The Convention which passed the South
Carolina secession ordinance could not have
been sounder, in the Dixie sense, than was
this noisy final farewell convention of the
clans Of Cottondom, in California, gathered
together to have grand carousal or "wake,"
over the funeral Of G win Democracy. That
"hoary iniquty,' that "white-bearded Satan,
that vile "mia-leader of youth"-the boss"
traitor of the Pacific coast, VIM. M. Gwin,
was in the city, but was not, we believe be-
fore the Convention. He should have been
the nominee for Governor. We saw the old
veteran at the st. George and wondered how
he could leave his dear friends Davis, Benja
min, Toombs, Mallory d Co., even for a brief
season. Poor old man. lie is perhaps in
disgrace. lie agreed fer his share, as we all
believe, that California and Oregon should
go for Brecknrdge, and that then, after Lin
coins election and the Secession of the Gulf
States, he and his friends would take this
coast and manufacture it into a Pacific Re
public preparatory to tojoning it to the South
ern Confederacy Alas.


"The best laid schemes Of mice and men aft


gang agley."


The Convention nominated a queer ticket,
if we consider the antecedents of some Of the
men, but we supposethey are now all worthy
of the confidence Of the DisuMonists. II
they can stand it, who shall complain? We
think some Of the candidates, Mcconnell and
Findley, for instance, were nominated in or
der TO utterly crush and annihiate them for
all time to come. Such sturdy and unflinch-
ing Sccessioniss as Judges Bolts, IIeydcn-
feldt and Robinson, who controlled the Con
vention, would never have permitted po-
litcal weathercock like Mcdonnell to head
the ticket, unless they had been prompted to
it by thirst for revenge. They have now
got him into his political coffin, and have
screwed down the lid. He has paid the pen
atty for having supported Douglas and Popu
lar Sovereignty last fall. Findley, too, who
was claimed all last summer both by the
Breckinridgers and the Douglas men Find
ley, whose personal friends were betting with
each other as to how he stood, until the day
Of election; Findley, who finally'gave sixty
dollars to one party and forty dollars to the
other to aid them defeat each other, $50 we
are informed and belicve;) Findley, who
was setting traps fohr weeks ago to be the
nominee of the Coercion Union Democratic
Convention-he, toe, was thrown into the
sea with milestone about his neck The
relentless Secessionists are revenge3 upon
him. What care they how many or few
votes the ticket receives? They are no longer,
as they think, citizens of the United States
They look forward to the time soon to come
when they may repair to the peaceful king
dom Of secession and be courtiers about the
throne of j d,


Before leaving they made record to take
with them as proof of their loyalty to the
great Southern Confederacy. They will often
laugh with thinking of the graves they dug
here, for men who who were with them for
the mere sake of wearing the badge of servi-
tude. Mcconnell is very good Secession
ist. we admit lie goes with Kentucky, not
withstanding he runs for Governor in Cali
fornia, and he is convinced that Kentucky
will soon "secesh" But he was "mulatto, ,
last year, and only went over to the cause of
Dixie a month Or SO ago. Vae Secssonists
are killing-two birds with one stone. They
are making Mcconnell the recipient of the
few votes which they must poll for somebody,
and they are, at the same tme killing man
who has entered the vineyard atthe eleventh
hour.


Brooks for Controller Fairfax, for Clerk {;
IIigley, for Surveyor eneral, and Robinson,
far Atfornov-G r. enero1 were nominated to