Convention at Sacramento
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Convention at Sacramento
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Editorial written mostly by Jeremiah B. Sanderson, a delegate of the Colored Convention in Sacramento in 1855.
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From Gale. 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. 2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission.www.cengage.com/permissions.
Date
1856-01-25
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CONVENTION AT Sacramento.
Our friend Jeremiah B. Sanderson writes from California to Wm. C. Nell, that the Convention of colored men there, of which we printed a report last week, was quite satisfactory. He says:-' -' We have got among our young men here the right material for devising and carrying out plans for our general good. We anticipated opposition from the press, and this is apt to stir up the baser sort to indulge in some excess. Those papers, however, which spoke, did so calmly, and encouragingly in regard to the objects of the Convention, (which was mainly to get the right of testimony in the courts,) and though we heard distant grumbling and dark threats, it passed off.
One of our city papers, (Know-Nothing,) the Daily Tribune, liberally reported our proceedings from from day to day. This did us good, and certainly did them good, as they were obliged to strike off many extra copies, to supply the very general demand. There has been a general desire here among the whites to know what we were doing - and that is what we want they should know.
In what we are trying to do, in order to get the right of testimony, very many of the best and most influential men of the State are with us-Southern - Southern as well as Northern. This right is secured, and then ' the next thing will be something else,' as we used to say.
The School Question still remains in statu quo, and is likely to be for the present. We have got an ordinance from the Common Council, through much tribulation, for a separate school. Here we are in the condition to take the half loaf; ; we have "Hobson's choice." ." The only difficulty now is, 'no money in the city treasury.
We are glad to learn that Mr. Sanderson has been appointed teacher of the Colored Public School in San Francisco--an - an excellent choice.
Our friend Jeremiah B. Sanderson writes from California to Wm. C. Nell, that the Convention of colored men there, of which we printed a report last week, was quite satisfactory. He says:-' -' We have got among our young men here the right material for devising and carrying out plans for our general good. We anticipated opposition from the press, and this is apt to stir up the baser sort to indulge in some excess. Those papers, however, which spoke, did so calmly, and encouragingly in regard to the objects of the Convention, (which was mainly to get the right of testimony in the courts,) and though we heard distant grumbling and dark threats, it passed off.
One of our city papers, (Know-Nothing,) the Daily Tribune, liberally reported our proceedings from from day to day. This did us good, and certainly did them good, as they were obliged to strike off many extra copies, to supply the very general demand. There has been a general desire here among the whites to know what we were doing - and that is what we want they should know.
In what we are trying to do, in order to get the right of testimony, very many of the best and most influential men of the State are with us-Southern - Southern as well as Northern. This right is secured, and then ' the next thing will be something else,' as we used to say.
The School Question still remains in statu quo, and is likely to be for the present. We have got an ordinance from the Common Council, through much tribulation, for a separate school. Here we are in the condition to take the half loaf; ; we have "Hobson's choice." ." The only difficulty now is, 'no money in the city treasury.
We are glad to learn that Mr. Sanderson has been appointed teacher of the Colored Public School in San Francisco--an - an excellent choice.
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1856.CA-12.09.SACR
Citation
The Liberator.., “Convention at Sacramento,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/758.