Year: 1861




The Hon. John Conness, of El Dorado, is
to be our next Governor. A State Conven-
ton, composed of more than six hundred and
| fifty members, chosen in pursuance Of an in
vitation extended by the Union Democratic
State Committee to all the unconditional
| Union men OF the State, have proclaimed
him the first choice of those they represent
for that high and responsible position. The
nomination is worthy of the Convention, and
will be ratified in September by vote that
will uproot and forever destroy the rotten
and corrupt faction which has at times in the
past had too potent an influence in the coun-
ellis of the State. The unprincpled men who
have consumed the substance of our people
without holding single sentiment in COM
mon with them, have had their day. The
hypocritcal, shufllng politicians are to be


thrust aside, and their places are to be tlled


by men who can think, and who dare speak
to us of something besides the imaginary
grievances of distant and disloyal malcon-
tents, who, in 1850, threatened a dissolution
of the Union because California was admit
ted, and have ever since been laboring to
carry their threats into execution.


We rejoice in the nomination Of Conness


His name at the head of our ticket is proof
that we have made no false pretenses upon
the Union question. We have not made
sound platform for effect, and placed doubt
ful man upon it. Our preaching and practice
are in harmony. There lives no man in this
State whose record is cleaner, both as a citi-
zen aud public man, than is that of our
nominee for Governor His votes and speech
es in the Legislature upon all public ques-
tions will be searched in vain by his enemies,
for any evidence of carelessness or unsound
ness. His earnest and untiring labors in the
Assembly last winter, to have California, by
her representatives, placed in true light be-
fore the world upon the great issue then and
now convulsing the country, were sufficient
in themselves to enttie him to The high posi-
ton he now occupies We know there will
be virulent assaults upon him, becaese he is
a positive man. and like all earnest men,
strives to deserve the enmity of those he be-
lieves to be the upholders of wrong. lie
has been a constant enemy, during all .of his
public career, to those who now sympathze
with treason against the Government.


lie can be truly accused cf having been
friend and defender of David c. Broderick
of having vigorously denounced the treach- J
cry of James Buchanan from its incipiercy |
of having called traitors and treason by their
right names of having opposed any division
of the Common School Fund Of the State into
sectarian channels; of having sought to levy
a contribution in behalf of the Schools upon
the Bulkhead project. by voting for it when
it could not be defeated of having been the
bold and unyarying enemy of all attempts at
hollow truces between Cotton State Democ-
racy and Union Democracy; in fact, he can
be accused truly, and in general terms, of be-
ing radical in opposing all compromises be-
tween right and wrong-patriotism and
treason. During all the political storms
which nave sWepI over Ihe oIale. lie Has oeeh
rather like the firm oak. than the chance
sapling; and SO We believe he will be in the
future. Mr.. Conness is entitled to the vote
of every citizen who is opposed TO the rule of
thinly masked treason on the one side, and of
ultra Republican partizanship on the other.


There were other gentlemen before the
Convention, for the Governorship. who
would have been as worthy the support of
the Union people of the State as is Mr.. Con-
ness. They were fairly defeated, and their
friends will Of course cheerfully abide the
result, for the Convention was assembled in
good faith to choose candidates upon whom
all might unite,