Butte record., 1856-05-10
Political Parties.

haps, be considered strange that the
restless spirit of political fanaticsm
should find its way to the Pacific coast,
and establish thereon its party. 1t is
the age Of humbug, and if urged in
quick succession, it is believed that ma
ny may have triumphant day, before
the public shall become disgusted with
them, and reject them with the scorn
ard contempt they so justly deserve.
The K. n. party was a most glorious
and short lived humbug, in which polit-
ical renegadss and mountebankS seized
upon the patriotism of the people to
crafty an inordinate lust far spells Po-
litieal mountebanks and whisky bloats,
wrapped themselves in the Amer can
flag, and paraded forth in their secret
wigwams, to awe and captivate the open
mouthed initiate with welcomed and
parrot-like speech, and to bind him
slave to fearful obligations. Who
that has Witnessed this .emi-tragic per
formancs in the back woods, in the
Mountains, in barns, and fields, does not
look back with smile at his folly and
credulousness, for being deceived into
humbug SO palpable and glaring. Is it
not matter of wonder that an nteli
gent public shOull ever have tolerated
their ritual, or suffered thpir proscrip-
tive principles to take momentary root
in our midst. But the Known othine
party is rapidly passing away, and will
only be remembered as an unpleasant
dream-a public nightmare-or contag-
lous disease, which spent its force with
out prostrating its victim The public
mind, now free from its baleful effects,
look with disgust and adherence upon
the erroneous doctrines taught by its
ritual.
Attempts are now being made to or
ganize another party, almost if not
quit. as Objectionable as the one whose
earthly career on the Pacific coast, the
democracy of San Francisco, Sacra-
mcnto, Marysville, Stockton and Nevada
have just brought to premature close
The doctrines of the republican party
ori. mated with sectional fanntcs in the
northern States, and avow the strange
principle to liberty, that the people Of
the territories have not the right to
govern themselves. The Republican
party go beyond this, even, and contend
that the general government, which is
the creature of the several States, has
the power to say what internal regala-
tions shall govern the States This is
a doctrine, the error of which every per
son can satisfy himself who will take the
trouble to examine the Constitution
for all admit that the Suites have re-
served to themselves all the power not
expressly delegated to the general gov
ernment by the constitution. That in
strument gives the general government
no power to perpetuate or abolish slave
ry in the different States.
The Republicans demand the repeal
of the Fugitive slave law, the restoration
of the Missouri compromise, and its ex-
tension to the Pacific 1t will require
but moments attention, to show the
uselessness and consequent folly of such
Statute as the Missouri compromise
If we take from the people of tho terri
tories the right of ssIf-government and
say they shall not come into the Union
with constitution recognizing slavery,
and compel them, in order to gain ad-
mission to come in as free State, they
would still have the right to amend their
constitution, after their admission into
the Union, and permit slavery to exist
in their State The most ardent Re
publican Will hardly have the hard hood
to assert that the general government
has the power to prevent State from
doing this, or to lop it off from the I'm
ion because its people had seen proper
to do so. Here we see the folly of the
cardinal principle of the party in this
State, as their late convention at Sacra>
rento avowed it TO be that of excluding
slavery from the national territory.
There is no power of that description
vested in the general g0vernmant, and
Missouri comprises are eless, unless
the people of the States it affects, shall
themselves prefer TO exclude slavery
from their boundaries. We tell the
Republican party that the Missouri
compromise can never be re enacted Ii
has been agiated out of existence, and
is gone, aud gone forever. Tho time
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