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DEMOCRATIC   STATE   CONVENTION.
At an adjourned meeting of the Democratic State Cen
trai 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. Provines. the Corresponding Secretary, be instructed to address the Chairman of the respective County Democratic Central Committees informing them of the action of this Committee.
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
tbey 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 said
State Cenvention shall be as follows:
BASIS OF BEPKESENTATTON.
Comities. y0ie. So.Vel.
Alameda ,  804 6
Alpine     . 3
Amador 2064 11
Butte 1490 8
Calaveras 2029 11
Colusa 564 4
. Coso   ;  • 3
Contra Costa  534 4
Del Norte  152 2
El Dorado , S....SS.2139 12
Fresno    378 3
Humboldt [ 196 2
Klamath  199 2
Lake      S.S..S.267 2
Lassen   3
Los Angeles  982 6
Marin .',  489   '      3
Mariposa ,  921 6
Mendocino .,  571 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 6452 28
SSan Joaquin 1473 8
San Luis Obispo  219 2
San Mateo  :140 3
Santa Barbara  143 2
Santa Clara 1525 9
SantaCruz  403 3
Shasta ,   617 8
Sierra 1303 8
Siskiyou  999 6
Solano 1124 7
Sonoma 1712 10
Stanislaus     399 3
Sutter  679 4
Tehama  453 3
Trinity   604 4
Tuolumne 1923 11
Tulare  715 5
Yolo   768 5
Yuba 1393 8
CHARLES L. WELLER, Chairman.
W. D. Sawyer, Secretary.
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patrons shall find tbat this bouse will be carried
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Los Angeles, May 31, 1862.
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(OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN THEATRE,)
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Boarder, that he has leased the above well
known and centrally located Hotel, and intends
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A FIRST-CLASS HOUSE,
At moderate Prices.
In the last three months there has been expended a
arge amount In
Re-modellng and Re-furnishing,
the EXCHANGE, and tt will now compare favorably with
the ttntclass hotels of the city.
WE HAVE SPLENDID
SUITS OF APARTMENTS
for Families; also a large number of fine single rooms for
gentlemen.
It Is the purpose of the Proprietor to make the EX-
HANGE one of the most comfortable  and home-like
otels In the State, and make the
Prices to Suit the Times.
THE    TABLE
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Attached to the house are fine BATHING ROOMS for
Ladies or Gentlemen.
JOHN W. SARGENT, Proprietor.
[From the Democratic Press.]
FREEDOM'S CAU..
Awake I ye freemen! arise from jour sluxbers I
And to your imperous duty away !
No longer a cloud ot despair encumbers.
And tbe morn bids fair for a prosperous day.
Then arise from yonr slumbers and view the bright
star
Which is bigh o'er the eastern horizon beaming;
Its unsullied beauty now no tyrant can mar,
Audits rays through the hearts of all   freemen
are streaming;
i
They pieroe through the bastiles dreary and dan
And enliven our patriots' lonely hours;
They gleam where iho fratricidal gun
Our nation's life and Strength devours;
Tbey fill the hearts of the loyal and true
Wilb hope for   their  country's   salvation   and
peace;
They strike with terror the knavish crew
Whose blood-stained reign must shortly cease.
McClellant   He is tbat star 1—Liberty's life-giving
star—
Who ntver to rebel nor tyrant surrendered ;
The heroic leader of victors in war,
In whose breasts to this hour he is  fondly   remembered I
Then on I ye freemen I—stern and bold I
And to no traitorous league give way;
Hard to your Coostitutioo hold,
And no one sacred right betray I
Aod as your liberty you prize,
Upon its cause your influence shower,
And now, that your country calls, arise !
Aud burl all thieving knaves from power I
Then awake ! ye freemen I Arise from your slumbers!
And to your imperous duty away 1
No longer a cloud of despair encumbers,
And the morn bide fair for a prosperous day I
A   GLORIOtS SPEECH.
At a SDemocratic mass meeting in
Sonoma County on the 30th inst., Hon.
Zac. Montgomery, of Sutter county, was
the principal speaker, and electrified his
auditors by his unanswerable arguments
and burning eloquence. We make the
following extracts from the masterly
production:
"But in an evil hour the golden bonds
of fraternal love, corroded by the blighting power of Abolitionism, were snapped asunder and this mighty fabric of
human government, the great American
Union, was split in twain, and, strange
to tell, the monsters who had done the
diabolical deed, with more than satanic
hypocrisy, straightway proclaimed
themselves friends of the Union.
SBut if they were the friends of Union,
it was not the Union, mark you! which
our fathers made; not that Union which
had its foundation in the consent of the
States; not that Union whose vital
principle consisted in the reciprocal love
and affection of those who were united.
No, Sir! No, Sir! The Union which they
would give us is a Union of deadly and
implacable foes, thirsting for each other's blood; a Union of force upon one
side, and of fear upon the other; not a
Union between States which share with
each other their joys and their sorrows,
but a Union where the different States
and sections smile at each other's sorrow's, laugh at each other's woes, and,
cannibal like, with hungry jaws, feed
upon the flesh and fatten upon the
blood of each other; a Union at the
sight of which angels weep and devils
shout for joy.
And now, my countrymen, again I
ask you, after nearly four years experience, what do you think of such a
Union? Look at your exhausted
treasury, your heavy taxes, your enormous debt, your worthless paper currency, your hospitals filled with sick
and wounded soldiers, tho streets of
your cities crowded with paupers, and
men maimed, crippled and helpless for
life.
Look at youryoung men falling bythe
sword, and your old men stricken down
with grief, and giving children to the
grave; contemplate the vast army of
widows and orphans who can never
again, without a sigh, pronounce the
loved named of husband, or of father;
look at your national banner—that once
proud emblem of liberty—as it now
hangs tattered and torn, its stars going
down in blood, while its eagles play the
vulture over tho mangled corpses of
your country; and, in view of such a
spectacle,' tell me, I beseech you—tell
me, my countrymen, is it this you call
Union ?
If this be Union, then, oh, then, Recording Angel of the great Jehovah, let
that word be blotted from the annals of
time, let it be stricken from all languages, and let it.be erased from the memory of man, that it may no longer serve
as a cloak for the most infamous crimes
which have ever polluted the oarttt or
blackened the pages of history.
SMSy countrymen, I know not whether
the old Union can ever be restored; but
one thing I do know, war can never
restore it—no, sir, never! never!! never!!!
If we would move a single step towards a restoration of the" old Union,
let us first stop this bloody war; let us
pluck the accursed steel from our brother's heart; let us pour the oil of peace
over the gaping wounds of our poor
bleeding country, and let us implore
high heaven to do what no human power can, namely, to transform the now
controlling spirit of bitter, unrelenting
and malignant sectional hatred, into a
spirit of earnest, sincere, and cordial
fraternal love and and friendship, until
every American can share both in the
joys and tho sorrows of every other
American, without stopping to inquire
whether he is lending his sympathies to
a child of the frozen SN orth, or to a son
of the warm and genial South. Away
with that miserable, unmanly charge,
so often preferred against ■ Democrats,
of being southern sympathizers. Why,
sir, the veriest slave that lives, or the
most worthless dog that barks, finds
some sympathy in the breast of tho
most heartless master; yes, sir, the
most guilty felon, as he ascends the
scaffold to pay the last penalty of his
crimes, excites some sympathy in the
heart of his executioner; and the meanest worm that crawls, claims by divine
right the sympathy of the Great Eternal God; and must I be told that it is
treason to sympathize with my own
flesh and blood ? and must reason as
well as humanity be insulted by being
told that sympathy with the South is a
disunion sentiment ? Why, who, let me
ask, are more likely to desire Union
with the Southern people, those who
love them, or those who hate them ?
And, on the other hahd, with whom
would the Southern people more readily unite; with whom would they more
readily sit down in council, and whom>
think you, would they be more willing
to trust as their Presidents and Vice
Presidents; is it those who sympatize
with them or those who withhold their
sympathy ? Do you believe that the
Southern people can either be persuaded or compelled to trust their liberties
to a President whom they look upon as
guilty of the foulest perjury in trampling under his feet the Constitution
which he swore before God to support ?
A President who at the very beginning
of this unfortunate struggle endeavored,
by1 making medicines contraband of
war, to scatter disease and death
throughout their land, without regard
to the age, sex, condition, or even political sentiments of his victims, and that,
too, be it remembered, as early as the
month of June, 1861, at a time when he
professed to believe the Southern masses true to his Government.
5J*. ?jC 5|C 3(C J|C 2fC 3p 3^C
Behold, under the operations of this
edict, some loyal husband of the South,
standing by the bedside of his siok wife,
as she lies parched with fever and dying
for the want of those medicines which
are made contraband by the order of
Abraham Lincoln. Is not this a splendid sight with which to stimulate the
loyalty of that distressed husband ? He
says to himself, if the blockade can only
be broken, my wife lives, otherwise she
dies. How long, think you, would that
loyal hand hesitate to light the torpedo
destined to blow into fragments the
whole Federal fleet ? Sir, when the
men of the South look npon their wives
and children, sick, and feeble, and dying, the victims of this nameless edict—
I say nameless, because to call it barbarous would be gross flattery to its author—when they view the new made
graves where sleep their fallen heroes;
when they see their towns and cities in
ashes, their public and private libraries
converted into kindling fuel, their own
slaves in arms and allied, for the purpose of butchery, with imported foreign
mercenaries, ignorant alike of the Amer-
can language and the American laws;
in view of all these, and a thousand
other untold woes, for the source of
which they look to the present Administration, do you believe that those people will ever consent to accept Abraham
Lincoln for their President ? Believe
mo, my countrymen, he who pretends
that they will, is most sadly deficient
either in honesty or intelligence.
But, my friends, my Republican, my
war-making friends, if in view of all the
horrible consequences, both present and
prospective of such a policy, you are
still resolved to force a President upon
an unwilling people, then pause, I beseech you, for one moment, after nearly
four years trial, pause, and ask yourselves the question, how goes on the
bloody work ? Over how many inches
of Southern soil does Abraham Lincon
exercise any but military jurisdiction ?
How much nearer are you now to the
subjugation of the South than when
three and a half years ago William H.
Seward promised you a restored Union
in sixty days time ? How long will
those last legs of the rebellion, of which
we have heard so much, continue to
perform their office ? Look at the hundreds of thousands of lives which have
been sacrificed in a fruitless struggle for
the Confederate capital. Look at
Spottsylvania Court House, where your
slaughtered heroes where piled in heaps
four feet high. Look at Coal Harbor,
where your brave boys were cut down
at the fearful rate of six thousands in
ten minutes time.
Listen to the voice of a leading Republican, who has just returned from
the seat of war, and «vho tells you that
the Confederate army around Richmond
"in point of numbers and gallantry,
has but one superior in the world, while
in point of desperate, determined, heroic
and unconquerable will, it has no equal."
And I will here add, without the fear
of contradiction, that that army is commanded by a General whose military
reputation would not suffer by a corn-
prison with that of the most renowned
heroes of either ancient or modern times;
a General who beats back the mightiest
and most ably commanded army ofthe
North, and defends the city of Richmond with one hand, while with the
other he thunders at the gates of Washington.
Look at tho eagoraess with whieh-the
beardless youth and the toothless old
age ofthe South rush to arms in defence
of what they regard as their most sacred rights, while your Northern recruits are dragged in chains and handcuffs to a war revolting to. their reason
and damning to their conscience, a war
which they religiously believe can result in nothing better than the loss of
their liberties and the ruin of their own
country.
And when you have duly considered
the past history and present aspect of
this unnatural war, and further taken
into account the fact that tve are a divided Jtf orth, in constant danger of a civil war at home, waging a war for
subjugation against a united South, then
tell, again I ask, tell me how much
nearer you are to the completion of
your work than when you first began ?
Tell me how many of those sixty days,
those direful, bloody days, must yet roll
round.
But it seems to me that I hear the
squeeking voice of some intense loyalist exclaiming, we will crush out this
divided sentiment in the North, and
then the war will be more successfull."
Why, sir, a Roman tyrant once tried
the experiment of crushing out divided
sentiment.
He made the eternal city run with
blood, but only demonstrated tho maxim
that "the blood of the martyr is the seed
ofthe church."
The early Puritans tried it, when
they cropped the ears and bored with
red hot irons the tongues of unoffending
Quakers, and the world laughs at their
folly, and has fixed tho stamp of everlasting infamy upon their intolerant
bigotry.
Why, sirs, have you forgotten that
Washington was once denounced as a
traitor and that the first emblem of American liberty was a serpent, and under
that serpent were inscribed the sig
nificant words, "Don't Tread on SM.e?"
And as for history, let tyrants and the
willing slaves of tyrants tremble at its
voice. It has no terrors for the patriot.
It is to the voice of history and of God
that he looks for the vindication of the
purity of his motives and the justice of
his cause.
My countrymen if we could entertain the blasphemous thought that at
some future period the   nature  of the
Almighty was destined to undergo an
entire change; that he would hereafter
approve of these things that he now condemns, and condemn those things of
which he nowapproves; andif we could
moreover indulge the belief that the
voice of history and humanity were
destined to undergo a similar change,
then we might rest assured that Abraham Lincoln would stand pre-eminent
in the galaxy of kings, potentates, and
Presidents.
Yes, my friends, in that kingdom
where error shall stand for the truth,
where darkness shall take the place of
light, where the black man shall be substituted for the white man, where sympathy and affection and fraternal love
shallbe banished as elements of disunion,
and where the most malignant hatred,
and malice and ill-will, shall be received
as the only genuine bond of Union between different States and people; in
that country where war shall be hailed
as a blessing, and peace denounced as a
curse; there, my friends, in that country we may expect to find Abraham
Lincoln enthroned as a monarch, and
around his majestic person, as his chief
officers of State, will be seated the illustrious Nero, the humane Calligula, the
merciful George the Third, the sainted
B. F. Butler and the immaculate Beecher with his Sharps' Rifles; there, too, we
shall probably find the Rev. Dr. Anderson, calculating the immense financial
profits to a country, of a war which
costs three millions of dollars per day
to maintain; while Sanitary Bellows,
being of a pious turn of mind, will sit
complacently contemplating the purifying effect which the cutting of throats
and burning of cities, and the ravishing
of maidens and of matrons is likely to
produce upon the moral and religious
aspect of society.
My countrymen, this is the first
speech that I have made, and will probable be the last that I shall have the
honor of making during the present
campaign. I have endeavored to speak
to you, not in the spirit ofa partizan, but
of a patriot. If the principles which I
have here enunciated can be regarded
as an endorsement of any one of the
Presidential candidates now in the field,
be it 60. But on the other hand, if
those principles can be looked upon in
the light ofa condemnation of all, be it so.
I have said nothing which I would be
willing to retract, either to secure the
election of George B. McClellan, or to
defeat that of Abraham Lincoln or of
John C. Fremont.
War In Uie Abolition camp.
The failure of Lincoln to conquer tbe South will
turn npon him the whole pack of disappointed
Abolitionists. Chagrined at defeat, overwhelmed
witb mortification, gad filled with rage, tbey will
pronounce Lincoln all aud more than all that tba
most malignant "rebel" has ever conceived of.
During the past week two important manitestoea
have appeared. One recommending the call ofa
new Convention to meet at Buffalo in September
which will request both Lincoln and Fremont to
withdraw, and then prooeed to nominate a new
man. This suggestion ominously comes from
Oblo, and suspiciously points to Chase, the defunct Rag Baron, as its author. Besides, it is endorsed by the Evening Post of this city, a firm
friend ol Cbase. Evidently when a party is in
such a dilapidated condition, as this revelation
sbows, it must be on the verge of dropping into
very small pieces. Its days are about numbered,
and it will soon go tbe way of otber delusions
which have strutted tbeir brief hour npon the
stage to wrong, vex aod kill mankibd, by their
sins and enormities. The other manifesto, betokening even more demoralization in this precious
party, is a letter signed by Ben. Wade, of Ohio,
and Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, in which
Mr. Lincoln is denounced as a "usurper" for having refused to sign the bill passed by Congress "for
reorganizing the rebelious States." It seems that
Abraham preferred his ''one-tenth plan," as it
enabled bim, provided he needed a lew more votes
to manufacture tbem to order. Wade and Davis
profess great borror ot this design on tbe part of
Linooln, but that is all mere pretence. Wade
sanctioned the suppression of tree elections in
Kentucky, and Davis is bimself a cartridge-box
Congressman. No ; their holy horror comes Irom
no mch a motive. It is born of tbe conviction
that Lincoln is gone—tbat no amount of bayonets
can re-elect bim—and tbey hope to keep tbe ship
from sinking by getting Lincoln to withdraw. But
they are too late in the day. The flat has gone
forth. Abraham has filled the cup of his iniquity
nearly to tbe full. It only remains now for the
people to execute judgment upon him, and then
tbe punishment.
Dying—Dying.—Senator Doolittle said in Congress the other day: "Slavery, Mr. President, is
dying all around us." To this the Dayton Empire
says:
Yes. And Constitutional Liberty is dying;
morality, pubic and private, is dying; all thut we
have prized ot peace, n' p< o a1 ler, of leighbor—
iy kindness, of friendly Intercourse in sooiety, is.
dying. Aud dying, too, by hundreds of thousands,
are the brothers, fathers, sons of this most frenzied,
deluded and miserable people. Wby did not Mr.
Doolittla tell It all while he was about it ?
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