Butte record., 1855-10-27
Washington tuiop and California Democracy.


Washington tuioD and California Democracy.
The Democracy Of California, although
beaten in the late contest, have the sat
isfaction of knowing that they were
beaten while protesting those liberal
principles Which have controlled the
country from the organization of its gov
ernment to the present time and undcr
which its progress and Importance have
outstrippcd all other nations The De-
moeracy are a national party, ana their
principles must live until the spirit OF
freedom is driven from America The
Isms of the ambitious and unscrupulous
may for time prevail, but the great
mass Of the people will not long submit
30 deception and imposition, nor consent
to be governed by loathsomc regulations,
which refard the advancement and pros
periiy Of the country. In speaking o.
the democratic convention: the " Nash>
ington Union of August 9th, uses the
following language
THE democrats have announced their
platform Of principles, taking the most une-
quiyocal ground on every issue, and unani-
mously re-aiIirming the repeated declarations
Of doctrines by the national conventions Of the
party. The opposition have as usual taken
shelter under a new name; AMI this they have
/ adopted the current appellation Of know
Nothism, )" to hide the hopes for Office, the ha
treds frota disappointment, and the old whig
animosities against the progress Of the com
try and the asccndancy of the democratic
party-all of which elements are now fused
into-one crusade for place-and are looking
for success as if success would not, as hereto
fore, explode them into n thousand fragments
Some additional interest has been excited by
the canvass in California, as in most other
states. by the detection Of a few men, intoxi
Gated by their own selfimportance, or misled
by the low purpose of wounding their old party
to crafty their dislike Of individuals but
we have not doubt that these examples o
treachery will be mere than made up by the
accessions Of honest wings, and by the enthu
siam and Indignation that will be infused into
the rank and file Of the democratic party, by
the fact that noisy desertcrs always insult
the masses by assuming to make their yenaI
individual motives the guide and rule by which
to mislead the people. Nothing has distin-
gushed the brief prosperity of the Know-No-
things more Significantly than the evidence
that while the democrats have lost many good
men, who, when their delusion became appa-
rent returned to the arms Of their old friends,
there were others whose loss was a gain, not
only because it was lifting a weight and 4
burden from the broad breast Of 4 noble party
Gut because it has done so forever. Never
can q so-called .'leader"-one who has reapcd
honors and rewards from his party-one who
has gone the rounds of station and distinction
never can such man, whether his name be
Donelson, or Burke, or Foot or Marshall, live
down or live out the stain, and the sin and
the shame OF having catered to an influence,
or of having yielded to prescription which is
SO scandalous and Sc uugrateful, that the fu-
ture historian viii rank it as among the events
that have done most to disgrace and degener-
ate the name of republicansm. And if this
is So in the old States, what will it be in that
fair and far off region, which, within few
years, has risen like a new Minerva from the
brain of Jove, and has advanced to glory and
greatness alone through those godlike in
stincts which animated our fathers in the car
ly days of the republic, and which stir the
heart and inspire the emulation of all those
who love the example of the past, or who
strive to bless and brighten the future wheth-
or they dwell in this hemisphere, or toll under
the weight of the crumbling despotisms of the
old world