The Nevada Democrat., 1858-02-03
The Kansas neutrality-suspicious. OF the DEM
ocruffc Press.

i I'VE give DelOW 0AtA aOtS lAVm nSNNhoA SA WI
Democratic contemporaries on the present
phase Of the Kansas question:
[From the S. F. Globel
The Administration desires no sunshine friends
now Those papers processing to be Democratic
who are not with it are against it. "Glittering
generalities,p no matter how fulsomely ex-
pressed, will not answer the occasion. We
therefore call upon the Democratic press to
define their postion-to meet the issue on one
side or the other. "The roll is being called"
from Maine to Texas-from the Atlantic to
the Paci6c-and the soldiers are answering to
their names
[From the San Joaquin Republican,
The San Francisco Globe is pursuing q NEST
extraordinary course, for Democratic Journal
in reference TO the Kansas business. Itpersists
in the absurd position, that there is conflict
between Buchanan and Senator Douglas, and
that every man who does not support the Ad-
ministration side of the Kansas question is 3
Black Republican, and traitor to the princi-
ples of the Democratic party. With due defer
ence to the superior sagacity and profound
statesmanship of the Globe, wo must say that
the Administration will be but little obliged TO
il for the kind Of support it is rendering just
new.
The admission Of Kansas on the Lecompton
OeDStltut10u, uus uOb DCCll, ahu Will hes NC
made. an Administration measure. 1t cannot
be 80 made, unless the Administration shall
abandon the very foundation and essence of
Dcmocracy-th principle Of popular sovereign
ty-the inherent right of man to self-govern-
ment. This we believe the administration will
not do.
Douglas stands precisely where he has stood
from the beginning. on this queston-on the
great principle Of the sovereignty of the people
that they have right to regulate their do
mestic affairs in their own way. If that makes
} him Black Republican, he has been SO for
many years; if that principle makes man a
Black Republicans, we have abundant evidence
in the message of the President, that he is O
Black Republican himself.
From the s. f. Herald.l
But the only question presented to the Pres
, ident was, whether the Kansas-Nebraska act
: which he was sworn to maintain, had been vio-
, lated by the convontion-that is, whether they
f had ATTEMPTED TO stfe the voice of the people
on the slavery question.
We do not anticipate any disagreement in
the Democratic party rel tive to it, We admit
that there is slight diffe ence Of opinion be-
tween individual members OF the Democratic
party, both in and out of Congress, upon this
question But we have not the most remote
idea that there are any differences which will
! not De met ia " hpIlt vi CuHuVlg vi WhtNSh " III
interrupt the united and harmonious &C ton Of
the party, or which will not be adjusted in n
manner entirely satisfactory to the great ma
tional Democratic party, and in strict aocor-
dance with the dictates of right and justice to
the people of Kansas. That confidence which
the Democratic party deserves and has won
from the people by its Underwriting integrity,
its strict adherence to principle and its knewn
henssty of purpose and devotion to the public
interest, forbids any other conclusion.
[From the Sonora Democrat
No one denies that the Convention which
framed the Constitution was legally chosen-no
body questions the fact OF the republican cha
racter Of the document prepared by them-ths
subject Of slavery, which has been the bone of
oontenton-the only source OF trouble and ex-
citement that has reached our ears from that
quarter-has been referred-as matter Of pru-
dence, net pocy-aot from any legal require
ments-to the people.
TFrom the Butte Recordl
1t is mistake to suppose that the principle
OF popular sovereignty was asserted in the or
ganic act for tho single purpose OF settling the
slavery question in Kansas, but rather as
principle upon which all questions of domestic
policy, or State government, including that Of
slavery, might be Justly, fairly, and permanent
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+ yerv as the only one embraced in the popular
sovereignty principle of the Kansas-Nebraska
, act seems to us the most vulgar legerdemain Of
sophistry. 1t il not only begging the whole
Kansas question, but is narrowing the policy of
: the Democratic party for the past eight years,
dswn to that question alone. 1t is not
reasonable to say that the Democracy repealed
the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited sla-
very north of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes,
for the single purpose Of settling the question
in Kansas by the popular vote 1t was not done
for that question alone, but because 1t was the
proper way to settle all questions Of domestic
, pscy. This was the principle upon which the
friends Of that act defended it before the people.
Shall they now assert that the principle of pop
ular sovereignty applies TO but single ques-
: ton of domestic policy, when they have every
where previously dsclared-in their platforms
/ and beforeIthe people-that, under that act the
:. veop pie had right to say what kind of judi
,, ciary system they would have--what kind Of a
school system they would establish--what kind
of a banking system they would have-what
shall be their elective franchise-wbat shall be
the rulo Of taxation, and the principles upon
which their finance shall be regulated, and made
the principle general and universal in its appli-
cation to all matters that were local and domss-
tio. and not national or federal? Shall they
declare that the principles Of popular sovereign
ty were promulgated, and that those who favor
their application to other questions of local
policy, are guilty Of attempting TO agitate and
destroy the Democratic party? We are told
that this Wow must be adopted in order to pre-
vent division in the great party of the couR-
try. which is alone capable Of saving the repub-
lie from dismsmborment. Well, who are the
agitaters and fanatics? Those who would apply
the popular sovereignty principle as laid Down
by Democratic conventions and understood and
sanctioned by the people? or those who have
recently arrived at the conclusion that it was
only intended to apply to the single question
already submitted?
From the Mountain Domocr"tJ
We are. the Democracy of California are full
ly and unequivocaly pledged to sustain the
principles Of the Kansas-Nebraslia Act We
took stand upon this point very distinctly
and decidedly when the bill was first ntroduc-
cd, and we see nVoauEe to abandon the position
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