Year: 1860

there listening and applaudlng Alter char
exordium, he addressed congratula
tory remarks to the convention on the bolt
which had taken place, and said:


"Acceptthat congratulation at the hands
of one who, some nine or ten years ago, de-
sired and endedvored to obtain disruption of
this Union, because he believed then. as he
believes now, that there was then existing
cause why that Union should have been dis
the Constitution had been
violated IN the admission of California IN the
Union upon the principle of "sqHatter sover-
eighty and because the internal slave trade
between the District of Columbia and the
States had been destroyed by Congressional
by that act initiating the great
policy of abolition


Where slept the thunderbolts of Heaven,
that this man was not stricken down in his
place, as lie made this most shameless avow-
al ?


Further on IN his speech, he said.


"Whcnever the time comes in which
wrong shall be done to the section in which
live--which is palpably and clearly done
with a view of wronging that sectional


wrong that shall affect its honor and equality,
shall endeavor to be, as | was in 1850,
among the first to raise the banner of State
secession"


That is TO say that whenever there is any
legislation in Congress or action of the Fede
raj Government, which in the opinion Of Mr..
Tancey, is unjust to his section, he will raise
the banner of secession. lie will not abide
by what may be pronounced constitutional
by the Supreme Court of the United States
and rest the rights of his State or the South
to the constitutional action of the National
Legislature and the General Government, but
he will himself assume to say that powers
may or may not be exercised, and the mo
ment that he is dissatisfied with anything
that has been done, he will hoist his banner
of disunion and walk out with the State Of
Alabama, and as many other States as choose
to follow him.


How small a provocation it would take to
rights q we already know from history and
his own avowal as above quoted. He tried
his utmost to persuade the State of Alabama
and the South to secede, because why Be
cause California WAS admitted into the
Union, upon the principle of Popular or as he
calls it 'Squatter" Sovereignty-the principle
of allowing a majority of the people to frame
their own Constitution.


Strange to say that this very man, who
thus tried to dissolve the Union on account of
CALIFORNIA; having been admitted into it,
was addressing and receiving the plaudits of
a Conv ention in which the delegates from
that same State were sitting. Was there
ever such spectacle? ? Was there ever
baser Misrepresentation of a sovereign peo-
pie? Was there ever a grosser violation of
a public trust


This whole secession movement both at
Charleston and at Baltimore was planned and
under the control of VIM. L. Yancey He it
was who obtained from the State Convention
of Alabama the Unreasonable instructions which
that body gave to the delegates when they
were commanded to withdraw from the |
National Convention if the demands Of the |
minority were not acceeded to. He it was
who obtained a similar ukase from the Flori-
Ia and the Texas and the Mississippi Conven
ions, and stirred up that ungenerous and
'nmanly feeling in the South which so
reacherously displayed itself in the National
Convention


Vet, knowing all this, we see men in this
same State of California rallying around the
Yancey Breckenridge banner and huzzaing
for its success What are we to think of them?
What is to be our opinion of men who would
sanction and approve the very man who has
thus insulted our own Eureka State, our own
bright sovereign star of the Pacific, with the
declaration that to admit such a State into
the Union was good ground for the disso-
luton of the Cenfederacy, and afterwards
accepts the nominees of Convention which
approved and applauded the author of that
declaration Here are men pretending to be
lovers of the Union, to say nothing of their
being Californians, who are yelling around
the street corners in favor of this black ban
nered secession movement, from morning till
night and from night till morning. as if the
salvation of their souls depended upon the
amount of breath that they would expend in
the effort. Will the honest and intelligent
masses put any trust in men of this descrip.
tion? viii they not spew them from their
mouths? Will they not trample them under
their feet? WIN they be tolerated in the
councils of the Democratic party


The Sierra Democrat is for Douglas and
johnson and hoists their names at the head
of its columns. 1t says:


We put up at the head of our columns the
nominees of the regular convention, COM
posed of 2l2 delegates, who never lost their
Identify as the representative of the National
Democracy-never changed their organiza-
tion, nor their creed-never asked for any
thing but was granted by the majority vote.
The nominees stand before the country on
the regular platform, adopted in full conven-


ion at Charleston.


MEETING AT AuBURN.-A dispatch from
Auburn, Fridry evening, says:


A large and enthusiastic ratification meet


ing is now being held in honor of Douglas
and johnson. The meeting is now being ad-
dressed by Hamilton -, Thomas Hig-
gings and others. Auburn brass band is en-
ployed for the occasion. Great enthusiasm