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constituents that a State Government should be formed. At the
same time, as a great majority of this convention appeared to be
in favor of a State Government, he proposed that the country
should be divided by running a line west from San Luis Obispo,
so that all north of that line might have a State Government, and
all south thereof a Territorial Government.
Further on in the discussion he said:
that. he conceived it to be to the interests of his constituents, if a
Territorial Government could not be formed for the whole country,
that the country should be so divided as to allow them that form,
while the northern population might adopt a State Government if
they preferred it.'
When the vote was taken on the question of a state or a territorial
government, 28 voted for and 8 against the formation of a state
constitution. All six of the delegates who were present and voting
from the extreme southern districts voted against the formation of
a state government. A delegate from TMonterey and one represent-
ing the San Jose district joined these.
The reason why the delegates from the southern districts desired
their section to be left in the territorial condition was brought out
in the debates on the representation of districts and on taxation.
The native land-holding class felt that the representation should
be on a basis that would take into consideration the permanence
of their interests and the transitoriness of those of the population in
the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. They saw the difference
between a settled, land-holding class and a transitory population,
and believed that injustice could easily be done the permanent class.8
The issue was even clearer when the subject of taxation was being
discussed. It was revealed by this discussion that the people in
the south9 had feared from the first that a state government would
bear heavily upon them, and that they therefore wanted a territorial
'Ibid., 22.
'Browne, Debates, 22, 23.
8Ibid., 400-416.
'The terms "north" and "south" when used in this paper refer to northern
and southern California, respectively, unless capitalized, in which case they
refer to national sectional divisions.104
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