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the burden, the citizens had called the meeting to take into con-
sideration the means of changing the civil status of the south.
In Los Angeles a public meeting, presided over by the mayor, was
held on September 12 to urge division and make plans for a con-
vention. The resolutions adopted begin:
Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that the political con-
nection, which exists between the North and the South of California
is beneficial to neither and prejudicial to both, therefore,
Resolved, That we, the citizens of Los Angeles County, will use
every effort to produce a separation of the Southern portion of the
State from the Northern, and the establishment of a separate and
,distinct Government.
"The reasons given for a separation are similar to those given in
the San Diego resolutions. -The convention was invited to meet in
Los Angeles because Santa Barbara had no public press. 1
An ati empt was made to hold the convention at Monterey as at
'first proposed. Owing to the misunderstanding about time and
place, when it met in October there was not a full representation,
'but the delegates who were present issued an address in favor of
'division and stated their reasons for their position."8 Their address
was dated October 8. It declared that in the beginning of the agi-
tation for a state government, it had been feared that an attempt
to form a constitution for so large a state would result in confusion,
:and that the laboring classes and property holders not situated in
the gold districts would have to bear the larger portion of the cost
"of government; such had been the result; laws had been unjust and
oppressive to a portion of the state; laws passed by the legislature
had not been lawfully promulgated; disparity in taxation existed
and as long as the state remained so large, the government would
be oppressive to. a portion of the people.'9
It was finally agreed in the south that a convention should
assemble at Santa Barbara on the third Monday of October, and
to it delegates were quite generally elected.2o All the southern
counties were represented except Santa Clara and Santa Cruz.
'Three of the delegates elected from Monterey did not go, fearing
'Los Angeles Star, September 13, 1851, in Hayes' Constitutional Law, 7,
"San Francisco Daily Herald, September 17 and October 12, 1851.
"San Francisco Daily Herald, October 12, 1851.
"Daily Alta California, October 13, 1851.114
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, July 1913 - April, 1914, periodical, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101061/m1/118/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.