The daily Butte record., 1858-05-06
.sacram mento Correspondence.
SACRAMENTO. May 4, 1853.

SACRAMENTO. May 4, 1853.
EDIToR REcoRD.-Th times three
cheers for the tyranny hating, anti-Le-
compton Democracy OF Sacramento All
credit is due them for drawing first blood
for Popular Sovereignty. The issue was
worshipping sectionalists. Fealty to the
squarely made By the "mud Gill;" man
Administr alton, in its attempts to force the
infamous LecOmpton swindle upon the un
willing citizens Of Kansas, was made the
test Of orthodoxy by the two toad eating,
sectional papers in tho city, which have
been laboring zealously, in time AMI out for
several days past, to drum up Leeampton
votes. Studiously and systemate iIly have
they labored to read out of the Dsn cratic
party, oil who will not lick the dirt from off
their shoes. This reading out bi, proved
rather q serious matter for thea, for up
on q close count Of the returns, the anti
Lecomp ptonites have carried the election by
some 200o majority, notwithstanding they
put forward their most worthy and accepta-
bic men. competent in every particular, yet
D they have suffered most humiliating do
feat, oil simply because they denied to the
citizens Of Kansas the right to regulate
their own aff,irs. While / write, a twelve
FOUNDER pcals forth the welcome sound Of
victory, and death to Lecompton on the
shores OF the Pacific. | hope our friends
will not be too severe upon tho little sec
tional minority. They are chop fallen, cha
! grinned enough already. And well they
4 may be, for after drumming up the Know
= Nothing rump, after receiving the 9pume Of
the Custom House, c)uplel with all the rag
tag and bob.tail they could buy up, you may
well conceive that they are anything but
u jublant Several noted individuals from
/, tho purlieus Of the Custom House, were il
= town, with their pockets stuffed with gold
wrung from tn, employees of that delectabl'
institution. who boastcd openly and boldly
on the street, that even if the people wer'
u against them they could buy up enough o
IS the "roughs' to win A vapid lot Of trasi
n was put out under the caption Of "Mercuria
:. Messenger" which cndeavored to arouse al
the worst passions; but like its literal name
u sake when administered in over doses, il
d proved its own bane and antidote. On
r fact strikes US forcbly, as exemplifying tn
q feelings Of the people upon the Lcconpto
Outrage: the people outside Of the City wer
almost unanimously opposed to consolida
y ton through trickery and fraud. candi
% didate from the country was nominated TO
, the most important Office under the consoli
=" dation bill, who was .every way popula
Of aud acceptable man, except alone his lac
compton pandering. Ye; his opponent, DI
'e Nichols, beat him some 800 votes outside {
lt the City.
Set the issue down as fair and squar
l. one upon Popular Sovereignty. Set dow
y the intelligent, working men. tax payin
citizens, haters of tyranny, MS voting to
the anti Lecompton ticket with DR.. Nicho
at it's head, while all the rumps and section
~ aists opposed the same.
v. The result is glorious, and should be hal
ed as an earnest of what will follow through
rs out the State, when the diseased man wo
as shipping Lecomptonites have the temerity
make the issue.
er The two Custom House organs in this cit
Iii endeavor to cover up their defeat by cryin
Republicanism The short-sighted section
US alists, they should learn by this time tina
ia Il so long rs the stink of Lecompton hans
about them, their statements will receive b'
ms little credit. Yours,
ho ASTI LgcoMPToN.