The daily Butte record., 1858-03-19
Passed the senate.


bly,. instructing our Senator's, and request.
ing our Representatives in Congress to vote
for the admission Of Kansas under the lie.
compton constitution, passed the Senate on
wednesday, BY vote Of twenty to fifteen.
That this reputation Of the Democratic doc.
trine of popular sovereignty, which the
party had solemuly pledged to extend to all
the Notwithstanding Kansas and Ne.
braska"--will have the effect OF changing
vote in the California delegation. from what
it would have been, il these resolutions lad
never been thought of. Is not at all proba-
BILE. Those Of our delegation 10 Congress
who have as little regard for Democratic
principles. as the unprinolpled men who
compose majority Of our present Legisla.
ture, would have voted for Lecompton be
fore; and those who adhere to Democratic
principles. will do SO still, Notwithstanding
this outrageous misrepresentation of the
Democratic sentiment Of California.
The majority of tho people Of Kansas
were disfranchised at the election for dele.
gates-the delegates to the convention gave
written pledges to submit the constitution
they should frame to the people for their
approval or rejection, which pledges they
violated, giving rs n reason that if it were
submitted to the people they would reject it
The territorial Legislature subsequently
passed law submitting the constitution to
a vote Of the people, and it was rejected.
Nevertheless, Mr., Buchanan, in violation of
the doctrine by which he was elected, and
in opposition to more than two. thirds of the
citizens of Kansas, asks Congress to forco it
upon them, and the Legislature of Califor-
mia say. Eyes, force it upon them" We tell
the unprncipled tricksters who are assem-
bled at Sacramento that they misrepreseut
the people Of California upon this subject.
We tell them they are traitors to Democrat
ic principles by protesting which they Sc.
cured their present positions. How much
better are Representatives in Legislative
hall ungoverned by principle, than the des-
picable hummer who has his price at the
primary election What is the difference
between those who disregard the sacred
right Of tho elective franchise in Kansas,
and those who stuff the ballot. box at San
Francisco Men governed by principle will
never abandon it at the dictation of un-
principled tools and cringiug slaves compos.
ing California Legislature Men will not
sink their dignity and rights as citizens of a
free government. to obey the voice of trea.
son and deprive sovereign people OF their
inalionable rights. Those who have sus-
tanned Democratic principles, and declared
their unfaltering belief in the sovereignty of
tho people and the rights of States, will ad-
here to them still, Notwithstanding their base
betrayal by sectional fanatics and obedient
assess who would place the rights of the
States and the sovereignty of the people in
the keeping Of q central power.
The following is the vote by which the
resolutio passed the Senate. Regarding
those who voted in favor Of the resolutions
as traitors to Democratic principles. to the
sovereignty Of tho people and to our sys.
tenn Of government, we shall take occasion
to present them hereafter, rs mon who, in
our estimation, have proven themselves un.
worthy the confidence and respect of free
people-as men whose principles have been
tried and found wanting We are frank to
say that wo advocate principles and not
men alone. and that men who thus barter
the sovereignty of American citizens are no
friends of the people; and if we can defeat
them hereafter, by exposing their treachery
we shalt prido ourselves in having done tho
cause Of popular government some service.
and in having saved the people from en-
dorsing those who have shown a willingness
to betray and surrender their inalienable
rights. Here are the Senatorial troitars to
Democracy, wise legislators, who believe
(some Of them at least) that the sovereignty
of free people can be delegated:
Ayes--Anderson, Baker, Berry. Burch,
Coulter, Dickenson, Ferguson Of Sierra,
Garter. Gregory, Hamm, Holden, johnson
Of Eldorado, Kctaham, Lewis. Merritt, Nc.
lony. Pacheco, Rogers, Taliaferro, Thorn
90.
The COLUMBIA GAzKrrE j. W. Oliver,