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DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
At an adjourned meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held on the 21st day of July, A.D. 1864
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Democratic State Convention heretofore called for August 16th, 1864, for the purpose of nominating an electoral ticket, be and the same is hereby
postponed until WEDNESDAY, the SEVENTH day of SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1864, to meet at San Francisco.
On motion, it was ordered that R. R. Provides, the Cor*
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The former order of the Committee is as follows :
Resolved, That it Is hereby recommended that the delegates to said State Convention be by their respective
counties authorized to meet in separate District Conventions, and nominate candidates for Congress for their respective districts at the same time and place.
Resolved, That the qualification of participants in the
selection of delegates to said Convention shall be: That
they shall support the platform and nominees of the
National Democratic Convention, to be held at Chicago,
on the 29th of August.
Resolved, That the apportionment of delegates to taid
State Cenvention shall be as follows:
BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.
Counties. Vote. No.JDel.
Alameda  804 5
Alpine   3
Amador 2064 11
Butte 1490 8
Calaveras 2029 11
Colusa 664 4
Coso     3
Contra Costa  534 4
DelNorte  162 2
El Dorado 2139 12
Fresno  378 3
Humboldt  196 2
Klamath  199 2
Lake      267 2
Lassen   3
LosAngeles  982 6
Marin  489 3
Mariposa  921 6
Mendocino  671 4
Merced   329 3
Mono   695 4
Monterey  507 4
Napa  660 4
Nevada 1756 10
Placer 1620 9
Plumas  766 5
Sacramento ..„ 1944 11
San Bernardino  376 3
San Diego  132 *2
San Francisco  5452 28
San Joaquin a. 1473 8
Sau Luis Obispo  219 2
SanMateo  S140 3.
Santa Barbara  143 2
Santa Clara 1525 9
SantaCruz 403 3
Shasta „  617 8
Sierra 1303 8
Siskiyou  999 6
Solauo 1124 7
Sonoma 1712 10
StaniBlaus     399 3
Sutter  679 4
Tehama  453 3
Trinity   604 4
Tuolumne 1923 11
Tulare  715 5
Yolo   768 6
Yuba 1393 8
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W. D. Sawyer, Secretary.
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I cannot, cannot say,
Out of my bruised and breaking heart,
Storm-driven along a thorn set way,
While blood drops start
From every pore as I drag on,
Thy will, 0 God be done.
I cannot in the wave
Of my strange sorrow's fierce baptism,
Look up to Heaven wilh Bpirit brave
With holy chrism!
And while this whelming rite goes on,
Murmur, God's will be done 1
I am not strong to bear
This sudden blast ol scorching breath,
Which blossoms hope in dark despair,
And life in death,
I cannot snv, without the sun.
My Gjd, thy will be done.
I thought but yesterday
My will waB one with God's dear will,
And tbat it would be sweet to say,
Whatever ill
My happy state sbould smile npon,
Thy will, my God, be done.
But I was weak and wrong,
Both weak of soul and wrong of heart,
And pride alone in me was strong
With cunning art.
To Gheat me in the golden sun,
To say God's will be done.
OI shadow drear aod cold,
That frights me out of foolish pride ;
0 flood I that through my bosom rolled
Its billowy tide,
1 said, till ye your power made known,
God's will, not mine, be done.
Now faint and sore afraid.
Under my cross, heavy and rude,
My idols in tbe ashes laid,
Like ashes strewed,
The holy words my pale lips shun,
O ! God, Tby will be done.
Pity my woes, O God !
And touch my will with thy warm breath !
Put in my trembling band Tby rod
That quickens death,
That my dead faith may feel Thy sun,
Aod say "Thy will be done."
eb22
W. HOLT.
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Colonel  Weller   Enthusiastically   Welcomed
from his Dungeon at Alcatraz.
The Democracy of San Francisco held a meeting on Thursday evening, and after a number of
speeches were made, marked by boldness and
vigor, the assemblage formed in procession and
marched to the residence of Colonel C. L. Weller.
We give the following report from the Democratic Press:
When the crowd arrived at the house, Colonel
W. appeared upon a balcony. He was greeted
with loud, long, and welcoming cheers.
Mr. Slocum. iu behalf of tbe Tenth District
Democratic Club, called the crowd to order, and
welcomed Colonel W. back from incarceration in
tbat odious bastile where military despotism had
confined him ; in the name of his Democratic
friends throughout the city, he bid him welcome,
thrice welcome, to his home and family. When
the cheering had somewhat subsided, Colonel W.
began to speak in a voice that trembled Blightly
with emotion. As he advanced, however, the
wrongs he had suffered, and the mental and physical torture he had endured at the hands of those
now clothed in a little brief authority, rose up before him, and his eye eye flashed wilh defiance to
chains and bastiles.
My Friends—I can say with unfeigned joy, I
am glad to see you. The occasion is one full of
real pleasure to me, and I trust to yoa also. Whilst
jt might not be entirely unpardonable in me to
appropriate a part of the qompliment of this demonstration to myself personally, yet I am aware
that your attendance here to-night is properly attributable to a higher and holier motive. You are
led to assemble here by your devotion to those
heaven-born principles of Liberty and Freedom,
the basis and pillar of good government—to manifest your joy at the triumph of right over wrong,
and thus to express your undying devotion to the
principles of the Constitution. You have seen the
violent hand of despotism ruthlessly laid upon the
dearest rights of the citizen, and you have come
to express your indignant disopprobation. You
have seen the sanctum ofa freeman's domicil outraged, and have come to express your dissappro-
bation of the act. Tbat threshhold there (pointing
to the door from whence he was taken) you have
seen unlawfully passed by mere military power,
and a free citizen, untainted with crime, violently
wrested from his peacelul family and incarcerated
in a prison erected by a military despotism, and
you have come to see the return of that citizen
over the same threshhold, still untainted with
crime, restored to the happy embrace of his wife
and little ones, and bearing with him the evidence
of his persecutors to the falsity of the grounds of
the outrage. You bave seen the happiness of an
innocent family invaded and changed to distress
without good cause, and you hare come to witness
the restoration of that happiness by Ihe triumph
of truth and justice. The tears of misery forced
by a brutal act-of wrong, you come to see give
place to tears of joy and gladness, expressing a
consciousness ot innooence. You come in all the
freedom of manhood to manifest your determination to retain for yourselves, and preserve and
transmit to your posterity that great right of "free
speech." You come with the welfare of theUnion
in your hearts, and the sheet-anchor of American
freedom—the Constitution of Washington—in
your hands. May God Almighty preserve them
from the vandalism of the spirit abroad ia the
laod.
My friends I am but the symbol in testimony of
the invasion of your rights, as well as my own,
and of the wrongs committed upon good government by an ambitious and unscrupulous political
party. On the 25lh of July last, my bouse was
surrounded and entered, without warrant or color
of law, and I was forcibly carried off by the satraps
of military power, disguised in the elothing of
gentlemen. I was put into a smsjll, unsafe row-,
boat and kept wandering about ia  oae  of San'
Francisoo's fogs all night upon the bay, in vain
search for that bastile called Alcatraz, which in
after years will be looked upon as a monument of
tbe infamy of the present Administration. A just
Providence thus frowned upon the beginning of
this drama of despotism, and in my liberty, free
from condemnation, has also denounced the whole
aB unjustifiable tyranny. For twenty-fonr hours
my stomach was without sustenance, but my mind
was overloaded with food, whicb, when m6re fully
digested, I intend to pour out upon tbo tyrants
who outraged my,personal liberties. From the
day I was first locked up in that horrid hole of in»
iqnity until my release—twenty-three days—I labored, and so did my good friends (Mr. Bryan and
Mr. Highton) to obtain from Gen. McDowell, who
pretended to bave them, the charges upon which
I was arrested, but all in vain. He dared not give
an opportunity to refute the charges; and you see
me here to-night, after my long incarceration, totally ignorant, except by mere rumor, of the allegations against me. And I now challenge Generi
al McDowell to give tne the charges he says he
possesses against me, and if I do not disprove tbem
to the satisfaction of any Judge in San Francisco,
and prove that I have committed no act in violation of the Constitution and the laws in pursuance
thereof, I jvill voluntarily go back to Aloatraz and
remain until the Presidential election, the time tor
which General McDowell originally intended to
hold me.
But, my friends, I have no intention of disscuss-
ing the merits of this matter on this occasion; that
I shall do at another time with deliberative argument, and if I do not show that all the disgrace involved in the whole-case rests upon Gen! McDowell, I will agree to share it with him.
The base, calumnious spy and informer, I perhaps would do well to leave to his God—[A voice,
"He has no God,"]—in his conscience—[A voice,
"He has no conscience,'']—there will come his fulj
punishment—nor will I now say more of him, than
simply to describe him as Byron did Damseties,
thus:
"From every sense of Shame and virtue weaned,
In lies an adept, in deceit, a fiend."
Now, my4Iriends, eo far as there may be in your
intentions or feelings any personal compliment to
me, I give you my most Bincere thanks, and I beg
to offer you a sincere assurance that I have made
no compromise of my right, under our Constitu»
tion, to advocate tbe principles of the Democratic party, amongst which is a free and untrammel-
ed election, a right to be defended at all hazards,
let the invasion come from whatever quarter it
may. - With more firmness and courage there
would be less tyranny in the world. Cowardice
of the people engenders and encourages despotism.
Let us study well our rights and manfully maintain them.
Now, my friends, let us declare our  intention to
support and defend the old   Constitution   of   our
fathers, and to abide by the laws of our   country,
and express onr determination to bave all   others
to do likewise, in or out of public office.   I esteem
the wrong committed upon my person, my constitutional privilege, and the domestic happiness   of
my family so great and so unjustifiable that it must
naturally remain indelibly fixed  upon my   mind
during life, and will unavoidably become the polar star guiding my judgment of and  actions   towards some of the actors in the   premises.     The
language of Byron comes to my mind with  peculiar force and appropriateness as follows :
"For time at last sets all things even,
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Wbicb could evade—If unforgiven—-
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong."
This wrong is treasured up and must some day
be redeemed if there ls justice in Heaven. Wishing
you all as sweet a sleep as I shall enjoy to-night
with the sanctity of my domicil vindicated, I bid
you a good night.
After the Colonel had concluded speaking, he
came out in front of his residence and exchanged
congratulations with his friends. The crowd wanted to hear more speaking and Beriah Brown being
loudly called for, went forward and entertained
tbem for a few minutes. After which the assembly
dispersed.
Brevities from tiie New  York Day Book
Some of our exchanges are discussing the relative merits of Fremont and Lincoln. We do not
think that the question admits of discussion.
There are one or two good things in Fremont—
as freedom of speech and press—hut there is not
one good thing in Lincoln. He is total depravity.
Vulgarity, cruelty and low cunning make tbe
man. Freemont in his manners is a gentleman,
and haB seen some good society. No amount of
good society could ever make a gentleman of Lincoln, and nothing could probably induce him to
stay in such society a single half hour, if he could
get out of it. A pig would not be more disgusted
shut up in a parlor than Lincoln would be if confined to the company of well-bred and honorable
men. Any change in the occupant of the Presidential chair must be for the better. Ia the language of Lord Byron :'
"Whate'er betides, we've known the worst."
In Presidential depravity we  have  touched the
bottom.
An editor professing to be Democratic, but who
is, in reality, a recent hireling bought out of the
Abolition ranks, wants to know what the Peace
Democracy will dare to do if the Chicago Conven.
tion Bhould nominate a War Demoorat on a war
platform? They will let the "War Democrats"
elect their nominee, if they can. Those who want
this war to go on, will bave to join Lincoln's Abolition ranks if they ever get a taste; of official
plunder. Not in the name of "DeDDS5c^lp«,' will
ihe work of death and despotism go on. '
In one of General Grant's dispatches he said, "I
will fight it out on ihis Hue if it takes all summer."
In just five days after this dispatch he abandoned
that line altogether and found himself moving
round into the old line ocoupied by General McClellan two years ago. So "all summer," in Gen.
Grant's language, means five days. A short summer.
The word "War-Democrat" is a misnomer.
Strictiy speaking tbere can be no suoh thing as a
"War-Democrat." no more than there can be a
black-white man. If a man is for the war he is
not a Democrat of any kind, unless it wonld ba
proper to call bim an apostate Democrat. There
is not a principle of Democracy that is not violated by this war. That is the name for those who
have abonded the principles of Democracy—"apos.
tate Democrats."
General Grant haB been doing what in military
language is oalled "feeling the enemy," about
three weeks now. He seems to have felt them
pretty thoroughly. If he feels them at the sama
rate for a month longer there will not be a man of
his original army left.
The Richmond Examiner, of June 2d, makes
up a table of tbe late battles for the month of May-
claiming that 61,000 northern, and 19,000 southern soldiers had been slain.
The Hartford Times thinkgs the negroes wera
the most respectable members of the Baltimore
Covention.
They have on the bill of fair at the hotels in
Nashville a "Lincoln pudding." That, we suppose,
is simply the old-fashioned blood pudding.
We have seen a soldier who has just returned
from Grant's army, who received a frightful
wound in his side. He says :—"It is the luckiest
thing that ever happened me, for if I had not received this wound at the time that I did, I should
certainly have been killed the next day, for there
were only four men in my company left." That
is not giving a fellow even so much as a choice
between life and death.
Forney Bays that "any man who fancies that wa
are going to get Richmond without further and
more determined fighting is mistaken." If Forneys morals and manners could improve as rapidly as his judgment appears to be improving, ha
might be made a decent man in the course ofa few
months.
The following heart-sickening incident shows:
how the shoddyiteB take care of the families of tbe
men they have tempted or dragged into the army
"Mrs. Betsey Elliot, whose husband is in the 17th
Maine regiment, was found dead in Portland, a
few days since, on the floor, there being no bed or
furniture in the house, and nothing to eat. Her
daughter, about 15 years old, was the only persons
with her. The corps was lying upon a few rags
and there was nothing in the house to cover it
with."
Since the nomination of Fremont the Linc< la
papres have fallen upon our foreign population,
especially the Germans, without mercy. Fremont
they now declare is an adventurer put forward by
infidel Germans and foreign disorganizers. Is
that the way you talk of your once darling Fremont? Leaving rotten burroughs and bayonets
out of the canvass, Fremont will beat Old Aba
handsomely in the race for the White House. So
well does Old Abe know this that he will not dara
to leave the canvass a fair and free one. Watch
aad see.
Senetor Hale declared the congressional banking act would be better understood if put in this
form :
"And be it further enacted, That all those in»
struments heretofore known as State constitutions
be, and they are hereby abolished."
All friends of State banks are now added to tha
number of the "Copperheads."
The Statesmen says three thousand farms ia
Ohio are left without a man to.attend them—thousands of fields are left to wither for the want of
hands to cultivate them. It is the same everywhere to a greater or less extent. In many towns
of New Jersey the last conscription took about
every man liable to military duty.
The eleven regiments of Pennsylvania reserves
just returned from the front, their time having ex-
pireb, number in all but 1500 men, or less thaa
I40.to a regiment. The 1st New Jersey, which
went away a thousand strong, has returned with
about thirty survivors. Some of the returned regiments have only fifteen men left.
John W. Forney, the President's "dog" made a
speech in 1855, in which he spread himself after
the following fashion :
"What is there in our happy conntry to make
men afraid of the light of day and of honest inquiry ? Have we a conscript law that tears tha
husdand from his plow, the father from his family,
the son from his widowed mother, to go forth and
act i» gladiators for the amusement of a few ambitious Kings? Have we a gang of hired tax gatherers to drain the substance of the people ? Hava
we laws for the rich and stripea for the poor? Is
our President an Attila or a Caligula ? Is onr Senate a council of Ten ? Is our House of Representatives a body of tyrants armed with power to ravish and destroy ? Secret usurpations against such
wrongs would be justifiable and right, for we ara
taught the great lesson that "resistance to tyrants
is obedienoe to God.'"
We wonld like to see the answers Forney Would
attempt to give these questions at the present
time.
Oa the 27th June, 1861, the New York Tribune
said:
"If the rebels are not virtually whipped when
the next spring opens, and if they shall meanwhile
have steadily confronted our troops without losing
ground, we may consider that the Republic has
been betrayed by the folly or Incompetence of its
trusted leaders, and that disunion is a fixed fact.'
Two Springs have passed since the Tribune
thus limitted the time which it woald be willing
to fight,
Again, July 1861, the, Tribune said :
"If the national forces shall be beaten in a fair
stand up fight—which we do not believe possipla
—tbe patriot millions will acknowledge the corn
and the independence of secession."
Now Binoe this date, what Greeley calls tbe national forces have been beaten in fifty "fair, stand
up fights," and yet he etill clamors for more blood.
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