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HUTCHINSON Red Bln o. WM. H. DAVIS San Joao. NOBMAN ANDKRSOX Modeato.Stanislaus Co CHAS. CHF.NOWITH Winnemucca. RASTERS STATES. WM- C- NELL s.Cornhill, Boston. • IGaIAH FP.AtfW, JOHN R. PORTER S' NaMau. ataaai. York OH J. W. H. BACK’ toon rrt.OhiUuJeiubU Rev. J. J. MOORE Waahtngton City,D. C. WM MULFORD, JOHN PARSONS. New Orleans, la. WELLS St- !*“’*• ***’• Republican State Convention. Rooms of the Union Republican State Central Committee, San Fran cisco, April 14, 1875. The Union Republican voters of the State of California are requested to choose delegates to a State Con vention, to be held at the City of Sacramento on Thursday, the 10th day of June, 1875, for the purpose of nominating candidates for State officers, and for the transaction of such other business as shall come before said Convention. Tim apportionment of Delegates is as follows: Alameda, 17 Alpine, 1 Amador, 1 Butte, 8 Calaveras, 6 Colusa, 3 Contra Costa, 0 Del Norte, 1 El Dorado, 9 Frespo, 1 Humboldt, 8 Inyo, 2 Kern, 1 .Lake, 2 Lassen, 1 Los Angeles, 9 Marin, 4 Mariposa, 3, Mendocino, 4 Merced. * 2 i Modoc, I Mono, 1 Monterey, 8 Napa, 6 Nevada, 14 Placer, 9 Plumas, 4 Sacramento, 23 j San Benito, 1 ; San Bernardino, 2 . San Diego, 3 j San Francisco, 78 San Joaquin, 12 ' San Luis Obispo, - . 3 | San Mateo, 4 Santa Barbara, 5 Santa Clara, 15 Santa Cruz, 7 , Shasta, 4 I Sierra, 6 , Siskiyou, G' Solano, 1G; Sonoma, 11 i Stanislaus, 3! Sutter, 3! Tehama, 3 Trinity, 2 TH !■: I' A CIFIC APP E A L Tulare, 3 I Tuolumne, 5 ' Ventura, 1 Yolo, 6 Yuba, 8 ('-ouniy—w. 1 provision in their respective Coun ties for the election of Delegates in j accordance with said apportionment. The Committee reccommend the following as a test: “All voters in the State, who are i opposod to the restoration to power i of the Democratic Party, and in l tend to act in good faith with the : Republican Party.” The State Central Committee j recommends that delegates to the ■ Congressional Conventions be cho ; sen at the same time; and that the Congressional Committees arrange their call for Congressional Con ventions in accordance therewith. By order. Walter Van Dyke, Chairman. Wm. Sherman, M. I). Boruck, Secretaries. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The State Central Committee of the Republican party of California, assembled for the purpose of calling a State Convention, deem the occa sion an appropriate one for inviting attention to the political situation. So far as State affairs are concern ed, it may be safely assumed that the masses of the Republican voters will, in the selection of delegates to represent them in the State Conven tion, choose from among themselves men of such character as wil: ensure the nomination of candidates for State offices whose names will be a guaranty of honesty and capability in thaStato abministratioa. Unless tho RopobfTcXtis of the State honest or less intelligent than their political opponents, they can elect from their ranks in the usual man ner, at primary elections well guard ed by law as fair and discriminating a body of men as can be assembled in California, who shall, in an or derly manner, name such candidates for State offices, as will deserve and ; receive the support of all true re publicans. Our call is addressed to all who have a decent regard for republican institutions, and are will ing tovote intelligently for their preservation. We urge upon all who are with us, to take an earnest part in the election of delegates, to the end that the State Convention may truly represent them. In vain will be all profes sions of a desire for honest and economical government, if the can didates are not trustworthy men. To doubt that such candidates can be selected by the united efforts of all good Republicans, is equivilent to saying that all who entertain cor rect political views are unworthy and that to ensure good men we must support those of bad political principles, or of none at all. Hon esty and capability in our candi dates will be the best; platform we can present to the people on State affairs. Those who really have the best interests of the state at heart, cannot easily go astray in dealing with public questions as they arise. The Republican party is National The aim of our ancient enemy is to cripple and paralize it, under a false pretence of superior regard for home affairs in each State, in order that democratic success in the nation may be thereby assured in 1876. It is to this scheme the committee desire to call special attention. The Democratic party of the country has not forgiven the sup pression of the rebellion, and eman cipation of the slaves, the extension of equal rights, or the establishment of manhood citizen suffrage. At the south a guerilla waijhas been remorsely waged by a desper class, against law, order and govern , ment, ever since they recovered from the stur ning shock given them by the overthrow of the Southern : Confederacy, and the capture of tho j armies of Johnson and Lee. The sworn testimony of hundreds 1 of witnesses, —among them Unionists and Confederates of the high posi-! tion, and national reputation—fill ing more than twenty columns of large size with closely printed mat- “Trutli cruslied to earth will rise el g-sc Izz / 7 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875. ter, constitutes the faithful history jof a period more disgraceful to the j country than were the years of the ! rebellion itself. If the barbarous I atrocities perpetrated at the South 4 bad been commit-tod only occasional i ly, they would have aroused n spir jit in the nation which would have i brought swift retribution, upon the I offenders; but so common have wrong and outrages become—death and torture for political opinions— that they apparently ceased to at tract the general attention. In the single State of Louisiana more than four thousand citizens have fallen victims to the savage and insatiable hatred of defeated rebels. Not ,alone are the blacks thus hunted down, but throughout the lately rebellious States no white man, whether of northern or south ern birth, can avow himself a Re pub’.icin without endangering his life. If he is from the North he is insultingly denounced as a carpet bagger; if a native of the South, even though he fought in the Con federate army, he is known Only as a scalawag. White Republicans of Southern birth have first been scourged, and then forced to advertise a recanta of their political opinions, Dr as the phrase there is—to “publish their principles” on pain of a repetitioa of the outrage. Peaceable and thrifty citizens of Northern birth have been driven out of their habitations, and shot like dogs on their way under a pledged safe escort to distant and more hospitable abiding places. Women and children have taken refuge in the woods by night, steal thily returning home by day for food, having less to fear from such exposure and deadly malaria Ihjyr ■ r -rmrnrgjinizen 0< rv aitti which has been strong to defy the law. White Leagues, Ku Klux Klans, Pale Faces, and similar secret or ders have flourished, sworn to pre vent the holding of office by their political opponents, whose fair elec tion by the people was not denied. The ballot box has been forcibly and openly seized and destroyed when known to contain more Re publican than Democratic votes. Churches and school-house have been burned, and clergymen and teachers foully outraged. Surviving friends found the slaughtered victims of the Vicks burgh massacre unhurried, being guided to the place by tLe foul birds of prey which circled in the air above them. Says one of the witnesses: “Where we saw the buz zards hover there we found the dead men.” Magistrates are powerless or in different, juries are tainted with the presence upon them of the very oat laws themselves, witnesses are in timidated, and law and justice are a mockery. This reign of terror, inaugurated and maintained for the sole purpose of securing Democratic ascendency, has done its work in most of the Southern States, and in them the hapless victims of barbarity arc dumb. In the remaining States, the Federal arm has now and then been extended in aid of the local authorities, in compliance with the plain provision of the Constitution of the United States (as originally framed), which provides for national protection of the States against do mestic violence. In the presence of this long con tinued saturnalia of crime and blood shed, not a word of Democratic re buke or remonstrance has been heard North or South. Southern Democrats, when placed on the witness stand, exhibit their insensibility to shame, and their ig norance of the most common rights of citizens, by testifying that “North ern men are never maltreated unless they meddle with politics.” They arc unable to realize that any citi zen of the United States may select his residence in any State or Terri tory and be a Republican, as well ; as another may be a Democratic partizan. The Southern Democracy are not engaged as a whole in the deadly work we have described: but neither do they interfere for its suppression. ’ They excuse, palliate, shield and thus encourage it. Many openly i declare that the extension of suf i frage to the negro is just cause for war, and tha|j as they cannot wage ‘Ofko- .Ar, tfiey are jwifierl iii re to assassination, i The Northern Democracy look, complacently as they did during' the war (except when irritated by rebel reverses), and when the blood of slaughtered citizens cries from the ground, they sneer at what they are pleased to Dall the “ outrage , nil].” They have fonnd no cause i oljcomplaint against the murderers, ; but when, occasionally, after long sufferance, an attempt has been made by the exercise of undoubted constitutional power by the Presi- i ufent to aid the State authorities in restraining violence, ihcir well feigned indignation has filled the air with hyocritical clamor, and the people of the North have been urged : to restrain the tyrant hand of Fed jeaal usurpation. sections the Democracy moan over the dan ger to civil liberty and State rights which must flow out of the restraints put. upon the law-breakers of tho South. The late Gen. George H. -Thomas, in an official report to the war department, made three years and a half after the war had ended, said: “ The controlling cause of the “condition of affairs in the depart “ meht is, that the greatest efforts “ made by the defeated insurgents “ since the close of the war, have “ been to promulgate the idea that “libertyjustice, humanity, equality “ and all the calendar of the virtues “of freedom, suffered violence and “ wrong, when the effort for South “ ern independence failed. This is, “ of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime “ ofTreason might be covered with “ a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, “ so that the precipitators of the re bellion might go down in history “hand in hand with the defenders “of the Government, thiis wiping “ out with their own hands their own “ stains; a species of self-forgivness “amazing in its effronterv. when it “ is considered that life and property “—justly forfeited by the laws of “thecountry,of war, and of nations, “through the magnanimty of the “ Government was not exacted from “ them.” The wolf assumes a lamp-like tone at the North, and rebel chiefs like Generals Gordon and Laraar are sent among the people in New England villages, to persuade them that Republicans alone are opposed to peace and quiet in the South. The end of these things is to come next year. Either the rebel Democracy will then regain power in the nation, and so “ the empire will be peace,” such as reigned on the plantations before the war, or else the party of law and order will prevail, and equal rights be enforced by rulers fresh from the people. The latter result can alone bring lasting peace. The former will sooner or later drive the negro to desperation, and when he shall match the barbarity of his enemy, as he surely can, the South will be a desolation. The present administration has used all the power at its command to preserve the peace and execute the laws. Had it been in less faith ful hands, still greater disorder would have surely ripened into com plete ami flagrant anarchy and re bellion, or the subjection ot all who refused to vote the Democratic ticket The rebel Democracy of the South hope to remove the obstacle of na tional restraint, by possessing them selves of the Presidency. This is a more imminent danger than loyal men generally suppose. The ag gregate electoral vote of the Union j is 366.’ Necessary to a choice, 184.1 Of these the Southern States have 138. If violence, fraud and intimi dation can consolidate for a Dem ocratic candidate the 138 Southern votes, only 16 out of the 228 North ern votes will be necessary for the . success of the treasonable disunion ' faction of the Democratic party. I The 138 Southern votes made by the white leaguers would not go over to the 46, but would absorb them. 1 Can those who were war Dem ocrats during the rebellion contem- ; plate the near future with indiffer ence? Can Republicans afford to waste their in senseless bickerings in such a c >ndi- Jtion of affairs ? " The Union men of the Democratic party will ever be powerless as liigainst their Southern taskmaster within that organization. Demo cratic succe s?s in means Southern ascendancy aud a restoration of the old order of things. It means revenge on the : patriotism of the nation, a whole s sale plundering of the national , treasury for Southern claimants, ■ and dishonesty towards national i creditors. If such a disaster cannot be averted, the nation would not long outlive such complete humilia tion and disgrace. The premium thus set upon treason and rebellion ; would soon do the work of final de structioiL To aver these calamities the dan ger needs only to be realized. Cal ifornia. Ohio, and Maine arc to hold elections this year. Let us do our share towards staying the reaction which has already placed 84 ex- Confcderate soldiers in the next House of Regresentatives. Let us meet the cry of federal interference with a stern demand that organized assassination and tortures shall cease, and law and order be respect ed throughout the land. Putting forward our best men, let us show our opponents that the Republican party can govern the State well, without ignoring national issues. The same treacherous voices which now demand silence upon these questions urged upon us in 1861 that California had no interest in the great sectional war then inaug urated by the South. The people refused to be deceived then. Let us be equally vigilant now. Na tional patriotism can never be too fervent,- or too suspicious of those who deprecate its free expression. It is now nearly tweaty years since the result of a presidential election has 1 een peacefully acqui esced in by the defeated party. The choice of Buchanan, in 1856, was followed by no dangerous expres sions of the deep discontent it cre ated; but Lincolns authority was resisted by eleven States from the day of his inauguration until a month after his second began, and when rebellion was driven into the last ditch he was assassinated by one of its natural outgrowths within a week. That Grant’s authority has not yet been openly defied is true, but the embers of rebellion are carefully kept alive, and peace has not been restored. The rebels and malcontents now propose to drive enough Republi cans away from the polls at the South to give the democracy of that section a vote entirely out of pro portion to their numerical strength —an insolent and revolutionary subversion of the right of the people to the choice of a President. Ter rorism and violence are to be sub stituted for the peaceful decision of the majority. The past ought to admonish the rebels and their abet tors to beware how they thus chal lenge the manhood of the North. The knavery which, under the thin guise of local interests, strives to wholly divert public opinion from the great and overshadowing question we have here presented, is clearly in the interest of those who are preparing to strike a blow at the vitals of tho Nation. The ene mies of the Nation cannot be the friends of the State. Walter Van Dyke, Wm. R. Wheaton, Wm. F. Whittier, Henry R. Reed, Frank Eastman, F. D. Atherton, Paul Neumann, John Martin. John Sedgwick, Wm. Sherman, Executive Committee. [Communication.] ‘ Consistency, Thou art a . Jewel.” The editor of the Elevator in its last issue works himself into a per fect frenzy, and indulges in insinua tions and attempted aspersions against men who differ with him as WHOLE KO. 557 A to’the utility of the so called “ Civil Rights Celebration,” which took place at Horticultural Hall on the 20th of April. He assumes the position that there was no honesty of purpose with .those who differed with Jiinu. iaud -vainly attempts to arraign the ministerial and political, as weM P os<^ou a °f those who with, h.'.jjjn order to | joathe course he had mapped out to pursue in regard to the cele bration. The writer of this article is charged with belonging to the “ hoodlum element,’’ because of his opposition to the so-called patriotic dancing celebration. I admit that a notice did appear in the Pacific Appeal, signed by the writer hereof and others, that a celebration would take place, but through some inad vertence on the part of some one, a false construction made it appear that I was in favor of celebrating the Civil Rights Bill. Now, the • editor knew lull well that I was bitterly opposed to celebrating the .event, and had so declared in his presence and in the presence of others. He also knew that I was elected a member of the committee of arrangements before he was (the editor himself being on the nominat ing committee that presented my name), and the report of the nomi nating committee was unanimously adopted by the meeting. He is also aware of the fact that when the names were presented at a subse quent meeting, my name was inten tionally omitted from the printed list, which was under the control of himself and the editor of another journal. Now, I ask, in all sincerity, why was my name omitted? The reason is because he knew full weii that I would make a determined op position to said celebration, hence ho, as President of the meeting, ■ ruled that I was not a member of ; the committee, my name not appear ing in the printed list, which he himself had purposely manipulated. “ Oh, Shame, where is thy blush ?” Again, as to the “ hoodlum element” in connection with his paper—l was one of the thirteen who started the concern, and paid up every dollar of my obligations to place him as ed itor. I worked on the paper three months, carrying, folding, etc., re ceived twelve dollars for my ser vices in cash, and there was owing to me by subscribers the amount of forty dollars, which I presented to him. And further, while in Portland, Oregon, only three mouths, I do nated in cash more than the price of one and one-half year’s subscription to his paper. After my return to San Francisco I found the concern in a hopeless pecuniary condition, the editor having abandoned all hope of publishing another issue. Acting upon the authority of a pub lic meeting, I, in company with Mr* Montgomery, canvassed the city, and collected the sum of two hun dred dollars for him, and, lastly, donated a sum towards purchasing the type, to prevent its loss to the concern, and from tho first issue to the present time I have been a con stant subscriber to the paper, and paying for the same. Now, if this is “ hoodlumism,” it would be far better for the concern to build itself upon such hoodlumism. Oh! in gratitude. As to the vindication of my character, I will leave that to those who have known me for the past twenty years upon this Coast. In the absence of Wm. H. Hall, who comes in for his share of slurs in this connection, I would say that he is fully able to refute the unman ly aspersions cast upon him when he returns from Panama. As the editor has given us a hom ily upon politics, a .d claims to be an unswerving Republican, reads good meu out of the party, and now comes boldly to the front, and ad mits in his last issue that as soon as Mr. Cockrill, a good Democrat,was elected Chief of Police, he came upon the scene, and we find him quietly manipulating for positions for his truant friends. Truly, “ Consistency, thou* art a jewel.” R. A. Hall. Flagging of the white marble is beinjj laid in front of the Palace Uo ‘ el - w»a