The weekly Butte record., 1858-10-09
The Violation Of Principle and Pledges

NOTWITHSTANDING the fOpuiar Co'eio'5'
professions and pledges of the Lecomp'on
party, in California and elsewhere, the wnole
tenor of their course exhibits deadly hatred
to the principles avowed by the Cincinnatl
Convention. and falsity to the pledges there
made Had not the administration made its
Kansas policy party test the phase now as
sumed by that question would have rendered
its solution as easy it was previous to the in
PRODUCTION of the Calhoun contrivance, Hon.
est mefi were not left free to entertain an hon
est opinion. All must bow to Lecompton
straight, or feel the force and power OF Federal
authority in their political relations. Where
ever the satellites of that monstrous inquiry
could usurp the Democratic organization they
did not hesitate to prostitute it to their base
purposes, and when to weak too accomplish
that, with recklessness characteristic of Sec
tional and unprincipled Demagogues, they
have bolted from the Democratic organization,
and collecting the fag-ends OF factions and
sms have organized Iecompton societies.
The fate which attends rudderless ship,
beckons the Lecompton party to their des-
truction. Their efforts to uphold Lecompton
straight, and the arguments then used to sus
tain their position, with which they flooded
the country, rise up like the ghost of Banquo
to confound their support of the English Bill
With an unprincipled and blind adhesion to
central dictation they rush madly on regardless
of their former protestat;ons. Requiring every
one to sanction plain, unadulterated Lecomp-
ton, they should stand or fall by that policy.
Failing to sustain that measure, they dcmolish
their own acts, votes and arguments, by the
passage of The English Bill, the provisions of
which are not in accordance with the recon-
mendations of President Buchanan's annual
message, which recommended the wise policy
adopted towards Minnesota to be followed
thereafter. Why was not that wise policy,
recommended by the President, pursued after
the failure to pass Lecompton7 ? Was it be-
OuuSS thS eoouuie dI'Oh ehS VI Hop-'s
sovereignty had not succeeded, and because
Federal power had determined that Congtess
should interfere to form and control the do
mestic institutions of States and territories?
Abjuring the Minnesota recommendation of
President Buchanan, as they had formerly dis
regarded the principles and pledges of the cam
paign of 1856, they support as the duintes-
sence of popular sovereignty, the provisions of
the English Bill. With the provisions of
that act, our readers are already familiar. 1t
excludes Kansas from admission into the I'm
ion, for an indfnite term Of years. 1t ex-
cludes Oregon also: How they can reconcile
that act with the territorial resolution of the
Cincinnati Contention; must certainly pass the
comprehension of honest and consistent men.
The National Democratic resolution "recog-
nzes the right of the people of all the terrific
ries, including KANSAS and Nebraska, acting
through the legally and fairly expressed will Of
the majority of actual residents, to form a con-
stitution, with or without domestic slavery,
and to be admitted into the Union upon terms
of perfect equality with the other States
No one can deny that the policy sought to
be established by the English Bill is an eva
sion of the Cincinnati resolution. Suppose the
administration adhere to such territorial poll
cy. Its effect will not be felt more disastrously
than upon the Pacific coast, by the exclusion
of the recently organized State of Oregon. 1t
is claimed for Kansas that she possesses the
ratio of population necessary, under the Le-
compton rule, to claim admission INTO the Un-
ion as free State, or with such fundamental
law as majority Of her actual residents may
see proper to adopt. If this be true, then the
only territory to be excluded by the discrimi-
mating rule established by tie English bill, Is
Oregon, and, to come in under that rule, with
her present population, Oregon must adopt
the Lecompton constitution, so recently reject
ed by Kansas. Is it the true democratic poll
cy of California to aid in preventing the ad-
mission CT Oregon? Is it not rather to our
interest to secure as great representation at
the Federal capitol as we are justly entitled to
under the Democratic policy of 1856?
No one supposes, however, that the Admin.
istration or Lecompton party, will Insist upon
this rule so far as Oregon is concerned. Her
admission is already decreed. What then is
the effect of this rule, established aid broken
by the Lecompton party? Merely to punish
the people OF Kansas for not accepting a con-
stitution, which Congress first endeasored to
force upon them, and then to purchase their
acceptance. A rule to punish the inhabitants
of single territory, but to be disregarded by
government when dealing with other terrific
ries, and which men in every portion of the
Union are called upon to sanction as true ma
tional democracy. Verify, the millennium of
demagogues and bummers has arrived 1t is
60 longer honorable, or an evidence of man.
hood, to maintain an intelligent and consistent
course. Those who have been simple enough
to imagine that intelligence, honor and faith