AN APPEAL TO CALIFORNIANS

TO IMMEDIATELY UNDERTAKE

A PEACEFUL

REVOLUTION IN 1876,

AND REORGANIZE THEIR

STATE GOVERNMENT.

TOGETHER WITH AN ADDRESS BY THE SAME AUTHOR ON THE SAME
SUBJECT, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF CALI-
FORNIA, FEBRUARY 7TH, 1856.

By WILLIAM J. SHAW,

ON THE EVE OF THE STATE ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER, 1875.

FOR SALE BY

A. L. BANCROFT & CO., 721 MARKET STREET,
A. ROMAN & CO., 11 MONTGOMERY STreet.

PRICE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

AN APPEAL TO CALIFORNIANS

TO IMMEDIATELY UNDERTAKE

A PEACEFUL

REVOLUTION IN 1876,

AND REORGANIZE THEIR

STATE GOVERNMENT.

TOGETHER WITH AN ADDRESS BY THE SAME AUTHOR ON THE SAME
SUBJECT, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF CALI
FORNIA, FEBRUARY 7TH, 1856.

By WILLIAM J. SHAW,

ON THE EVE OF THE STATE ELECTION OF SEPTEMBER, 1875.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
By A. L. BANCROFT AND COMPANY,

721 Market Street, S. F.

1875.

CONTENTS.

INCOMPLETE REFERENCES.

By the statute submitting the question, every voter will be declared to have

voted against it, who has any words about it on his ticket, excepting

only the words 'For the Convention."

66

Introduction and excuse for this pamphlet, 3, 4, 5.

Our system of juries, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Our system of taxation, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Our mode of choosing judges, 14, 15, 16.

New local governments, 16.

New State Legislature, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

Plan to be hereafter explained. Present necessity is to order the Conven-

tion, 17.

Theory on which plan is founded, 17, 18, 19.

"Well, what does he want?" 19.

Public defamation of private character, 19, 20, 21.

Simplicity of new State Legislature. 21.

Its cost, 22.

Our present mode of legislating, 22.

Constitution creates but one Legislature, 22, 23.

Biennial legislation no remedy, 23-4,

Dignity of Legislature; nobody required to be present who understands any-

thing about legislation, 24.

Can have one better than the English, 24.

The English system of legislation, partly explained, 25, 26, 27, 28.

Our own State Legislature, 29.

The kind of legislation the Constitution causes it to perpetrate, 30, 31, 32.

Others accuse us of intellects too short to read anything lengthy, even in

behalf of our country, 32.

All our great men dead, but we must try, 32-3.

All appealed to to recall objections not named, 33.

Colonial plans too contracted for present necessities, 33, 34, 35.

Celebrate our Centennial by redeeming our forefathers' plans from dis-

grace, 35.

CONTENTS OF FORMER ADDRESS ON SAME SUBJECT.

Great evils exist, 36, 37.

Our government already sinking into contempt and general disrespect,

37, 38.