The daily Butte record., 1858-02-09

cratic National Administration should take
sides with either polticol party in Kansas.
The administration Of President Pierce,
standing upon the principles Of popular
sovereignty, refused to admit the validity Of
black republican arguments in favor Of the
Topeka Constitution. and was sustained by
the people. The administration of Presi-
dent Buchanan has taken sides with the op-
posite party in Kansas, and the President
and his Cabinet, chosen as the exponents of
accepted principles by the nation, make
use Of the repudiated arguments Of Black
Republican agitators, to convince, confound
and overwhelm the National Democracy and
carry out the policy of local political par
ty. Below we give extracts from the argu-
ments of the administration in favor of the
Lecompton constitution, and the arguments
OF Black Republican agitators in favor Of
the Topeka constitution. Their great SINH
larity will at once be perceived, and demon
strate to o nicely, who are the present Sec
tional and fanatical agitators.
Mr.. Waldron, Black Republican agita-
tor and Member Of Congress from Michigan,
urged the following in favor of the accept
ance of the Topeka Constitution by Congress !:
every reason and every consideration of
necessity, that justified the admission of
Michigan, applies with ten-fold force to the
case OF Kansas, in view Of the unprecedented
difficulties that surround it, and which can
only be obviated by its admission as State +"
Gen. Cass, Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of
State, is highly pleased with this sectional
Black Republican idea, and twists it around
80 as to favor the acceptance Of the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, as follows:
"Pass law for the conversion of the Ter
ritory into State, and you say at once to
the dangerous and conflicting elements,
"Peace, be still" The storm will be hushed
the institutions of the country, whether do
mestic or political. will be regulated by the
people of the country, and but few brief
months will pass away before peace and
quiet will be restored; and this alarming
contest will be remembered only for the les
son of forbearance it would inculcate"
Was Waldron talking Democracy, or has
| he converted Gen Cass into a sectional agi-
| tor. like himself'
Mr.. Harlan, Black Republican Senator
from Iowa, used the following language in
favor of the Topeka Constitution
Congress can settle these disturbances in
"a single day, by suffering Kansas to become
State in pursuance of "the true intent and
meaning" of the organic act that conferred
on the people 'the right to regulate their
own institutions in their own way"
Mr.. Cobb, Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of
the Treasury, uses the following very similar
language in support of the factlonal policy
of the Administration
"In recognizing the legality Of the Le-
compton Convention, and recommending the
admission of Kansas as State into the Un-
| ion, in conformity to the action of that Con-
vention, the President has given to the
country the assurance of wise aud fixed
purpose to carry out in good faith the great
principle incorporated into the Kansas BILL
of allowing the people of Kansas to decide
the question of slavery for themselves and
in their own way"
We might fill our paper with extracts
showing that those who favor the acceptance
of the Lecompton Constitution, are forced to
employ the same arguments advanced by
the advocates of the Topeka constitution. -
We might show that Mr.. Buchanan had ar
rived at his Kansas policy by the same ar.
guments that Seward and Hale advanced in
support of the Topeka instrument, and
might quote from his message to show the
absurdity Of his conclusions in connection
with the principles he, enunciates but will
not make further extracts to-day. 1t is q
matter Of regret that Mr.. Buchanan and his
Cabinet, once honored National Democrats,
should adopt u party policy that can only be
supported by the repudiated arguments of
sectional party. With the just principles
Of the National Democracy for his theme.
the eloquence of Gen. Cass filled pages and
numbers of the Democratic press. His
efforts TO sustain the Kansas policy of Mr.
Buchanan ceases with half a column of
argument formerly advanced by sectional
orators. Neither the administration nor any
of the supporters of its Kansas policy, have
attempted to combat the National Demo-
cratic position of Gov. Walker. They can
not do it, and dare not attempt it. His po-
sition is invulnerable founded upon eternal
principles of simple justice, alone capable
of rendering the American Republic immor.
tai tits the position assumed by the Ma
tional Democracy. tavoring the institutions
Of no locality. condemniug those of no sec.
tion. Occupying such a position in good
faith, he could not be u party to fraud and
and trick that disfranchised majority of
his fellow-citizens over whom he had been
appointed to preside,