Year: 1863

our government, are the very doctrines and


principles under and in pursuance of which


it has been administered for more than sixty


years-with results of prosperity and happi


ness unparalleled in the history of the hu-


man race-that they are the time honored


traditions Of the Democracy-that they now


are and have been held by them as the very
corner stones and foundation of their polti


cal faith-and as constituting the very form


and expressions of their devotion to the


cause Of constitutional liberty, Government


and law-there can be no doubt as to the


object at which this violence has been direct


ed. 1t is designed by minority party, who
have accidentally come into power by the
dissensions ofthe Democracy avaing them.
selves of the war against the South as a pre-.


tense, to crush out Democracy in the land


These enactments are intended to, and do
virtually work disfranchisement of the cit
izen. No Democrat can take the oath they
prescribe without being an apostae If
taken by Democrat he is dsregarded-
refused he is outlawed. As the true man


will suffer the extremity Of earthly ills before
dishonor-and not even by the dread of
death will submit to humiliation, and as the
Democracy are in the majority in this State,
the extent to which this outawrv will oper-
ate is unparalleled in the annals of man. 1t
has been left for the State Of California to
be the first, in the long records Of mankind
to furnish an instance Of outlawing more
than a moiety Of its citizens by one single
act of its legislation.


Now, sir, does not opposition to these
laws constitute sufficient ground in itself to
unite, not the Democrats only, of every
shade of opinion on other subjects, but also
every true, honest, thinking and upright
man, whether Republican, Abolitionist, or
what not, in formidable and invincbIe pha
lanx against the party which has inaugura-
ted such banefuI system of legislation, or
which defends and iust6es it, AS for my self.
not perhaps wholly unknown as an opponent
to this war at its inception, and in all its
progress. | would sooner support the man


who'is in favor Of the subjugaion Of the
South by war, but is hostile to and opposes the
legis alton here spoken of, than to support
the advocate Of peace and who should defend
such flqgrant iniquities. never will oppose
principles or betray them knowingly. But
can postpone their consideration and dis
cussion when such becomes OF no practical
Importance, endangers other greater and
more important principles. If ones heart is
with me in the endeavor to relieve me from
the oppression which now bears me down
from the yoke that is now CALLING my neck


imposed by my government here, will be
willing to postpone the consideration of the
war question until we get rid of the foes
that is threatening destruction alike to him
and me.


The importance Of the approaching cleo
ton to US cannot be over estimated. Judges
are to be chosen for the entire State from
periods varying from two to ten years A
Governor and Senate for four years, and an
Assembly for two Years. Whether these
Judges are to be like Jetfries or Hall
whether the Governor shall possess the quail
ties that shall adorn the executive of a State,
and enttle him to the confidence and respect
OF his counrymen, or serve only AS a vain,
idle and useless picture of painted Jove,
hurting bis painted thunderbots-- whether
our Assembly is to be superior to the last
in other words, above ntamy--depends upon
the Union of the Democracy. We should
not forget that the aggressions of the adver'
sary has been imposed upon us in the first
year in the very infancy Of their power If
they have done these things in the green tree
what will they not do in the dry. The acls
performed, however tlsgitious, are simple ini


ial, and experimental. They have but test
ed the new tiedged wings of tyranny by
short and uncertain fight. If they should
be returnd to power, after an appeal to the
people, owing to the dissentions of the DEM
ocrats, flushed with triumph, goating in
their love of cruelty, and !iendish with the
hatred of those they have wronged, they will
prove to US what We now endure is but the
beginning Of evils-tIlat we have only felt
the velvet of the tigers paw. The resources
of tyranny will be exhausted and the suffer-
ing of the past will be tender mercies com
pared to the wo which they will hereafter
visit on us.


My conntrymen, in view Of the ills int1icti
ed, and the greater caIamities Of which they
fore>hadow, what are you prepared to do?-
Are you content to be IuIled into sumber
by some DeIah Of the mind, while the foes
of your country and your alters are upon
you. Arouse ye Democrats. Awake to the
knowledge ofyour power! The party dis
senslons which have paralized your strength
are bnt AS the green wilhs on the giant Sam
son. Rend them assunder. The true source
of your strength still exists-the conciousness
that freedom is your birth right-rhe mem
ores of the past-lhe glory of the future
arise with the might of these inspirations,
and hurl from power into final oblivion the
enemies who have despoiled your heritage,
invaded your rights, and have presumed to
lay their base and sacriligous hands on your
country's magnificent and awful cause.


With an earnest desire to be received into
ful communan and brotherhood with those
who Lold that the constitution throws its
protecting egis over all its citizens alike, and
who believe that its sacred provisions should
be supreme in Peace, supreme in War, and