The daily Butte record., 1858-02-02
ZINC California De1egatIon ana Congr.ss

A
tion, now agitaiing congress and the ma
ton, is somewhat shrouded in doubt SO far
as q portion Of its members are concerned.
Forney's Press classes Messsrs Gwin and
McKibben as remaining firm by the princi.
Piles Of the party by whom they we're chosen.
This is denied by the few-very few-San
Francisco advocates of the Lecompton farce,
who claim Senator Gwin as being favorable
to the acceptance Of the Lecompton iniquity
and gross outrage upon the Democratic doc
trine Of popular sovereignty. We have seen
nothing difnite concerning Mr.. Scots DO.
sition. We can safely assure these gentle
men, however, that they can only sustain
themselves before their constituents, the
people Of California, by o firm adherence to
the principle of popular sovereignty for the
settlement of the difficulties in Kansas. No
power on earth can save them from being
indignantly repudiated by people who
were the first to ask for admission into the
Union upon the principle Of popular sove-
reignty, should they 80 far forget the inal-
ienable rights of American citizens, and vote
to fasten minority constitution upon the
people OF that territory, whose unchangable
and .anti-Republican provisions can only be
sustained aad enforced by tho military pow
er of the Federal government.
The decided and Democratic position of
Senator Broderick upon this subject, is sus-
tanned by the people of the entire State,
with an unanimity seldom equalled and new.
er exceled in political history. The princi-
pie upon which he stands, i. the accepted
aud vital principle of the nation, and Cali.
tornia may rejoice that she has one repre-
sentative at least, who will not surrender
the doctrine of the national Democracy and
the "vital principle Of our free institutions"
to become the grovelling lick k-spittle, and
servile tool Of unprincipled expediency (ne-
cessity, if you choose-the ready pea of
tyrants,) and power. The Democratic par.
ty have ever boosted of being party of
principles, and our representatives in Con.
gress secured their positions by pledges to
carry out the national doctrines of their
party, which saved the Republic from the
horrors Of bitter sectional triumph. Let
them them not become noses of wax, and
rcpudiato the just principles which they so
ably upheld before the people, and which
sovereign people confdingly entrusted to
their charge. We earnestly hope that our
delegatioepay act unitedly and upon the
Democratic principle that the majority Of
sovereign State must rule
The efforts of a contemplate and malig-
nant faction-of an unprinciplcd, triffiing
and lick.spittle press to misrepresent and
vilify Senator Broderick, only begets scorn
and loathing in the minds Of the Democratic
party, who believe In the justness of the
principles they profess, and approve that
Senator's decided adherence to them. The
impious assumption of Democracy by the
vile and and unprincpled Vigilante Globe,
of San Francisco, is only equalled by the
facility with which it abandons Democratic
principles, and its baseness and misrepre-
sentatons in traducing the consistent ad-
herents to the Democratic doctrine of popu-
lar sovereignty This loathsome prostitute,
this Vigilante organ, which sustained the
mob of San Francisco in its uprising against
the Constitution and laws of the State, but
would now deprive the majority in Kanzas
of tho power to rule-whose plant democ-
racy permitted it to support the eleven Black
Republicans who fouud seats in the Legisla-
ture Of le57-controlled during these antics
by its present ox.peter Funk auctioncer
Editor--is the receptacle of flth--the caul.
dron-in which seethes and bubbles the va
pid animosities Of its vascillating conductor,
and the stygian Misrepresentation of un-
principled demagogues, to blacken and des-
troy even the disinterested and patriotic and
Democratic adherents of principles, when
those principles happen to intefere with its
ILL gotten. and traitorously earned bread
and butter. The Globe, with great instinct
of selfpreservation, and daily warned by
its limited circulation of the public contempt
which its unprincipled course everywhere
generates, assures our delegation in Con-
gress that the Democracy of California re-
pudiate the doctrine of popular sovereignty
and are willing to sustain the Federal au-
thority in forcing an obnoxious constitution
upon the people Of Kansas, and systematic.
ally villifes those who adhere to the we'll.
understood and accepted principles of the
party.
In this unprincipled vehicle of filth and
detraction of the S0th instant. we find
garbled extract of Senator Broderick's re-
marks upon the Kansas question. and a COL
umn Of silly butfoonery, peculiarly charac.