The weekly Butte record., 1858-12-04
The Rebuke.

Dsidc iu Int history OF Admins
'rations, has the popular voice administered so
decided a rebuke as that just given by the re-
i cent elections, to Mr.. Buchanan. his own
great State of Pennsylvania. heretofore firm
IN It's devotion 10 his advancement, and which
IN 1856, gave him forty thousand majority
over Fremont, has repudiated him and his
reasonable and corrupt policy, by majority
almost as decided. Even New Jersey-the
gallant Jersey Blnes refused TO endorse
him, and turned with disgust from his treach-
cry, and from the putrid carcasc of Lecomp-
ton that he sought to fastcn upon their shoul-
ders. in New York, Michigan. Iowa, Indi.
ana-eyery State where the Democracy at
tempted to endorse the Administration. they
have met with defeat
The poverty of Lecompton is best llustra.
ted by the election in Illinois. With the free
nse OF the immense Federal power at his CON-
mand-his removal of every petty postmaster
who could not swallow his Iecompton policy
he was sustained by three thousand rotes We
may well doubt whether has postmasters voted
to sustain his policy. At all events their in
flueence was decidedly limited
The rebuke is not confined alone to those
States in which elections have recently been
held. His attempts to defeat Douglas, and
thus intinidate and render subscrvient to his
demands the Senate of the United States,
aroused national men in every section of the
Union, to sense of the appalling danger
which menaced that branch of the govern
ment, and the giant minds of the nation north
and south, rushed to the rescue of the national
Democracy of Illinois, against whom the Fed
erai arm was directed, and against whose Giant
shield that Federal arm was shivered and par
ayzed. The attempt has failed. Mr.. Bu-
chanan with all the power at his command
with his DANTE myrmidons and unscrupulous
hirelings ready to lie away those who would
not swallow his odious ard reasonable doc
trnes, he has failed TO control State politics,
and to render all United States Senators the
slaves of Federal power. He has been taught
that the people sometimes choose servants to
represent their sentiments instead of those Of
reasonable and unscrupulDus President The
power, the malice and fanaticsni, of the Ex-
ecutive department, has failed to control the
choice of the Legislative departments, and the
three branches still remain, as designed by the
wisdom and patriotism of cur forefathers,
check and balance TO each other.
No man occupies prouder or higher posi-
tion than Stephen \. Douglas He has
been the national STAR upon whom all eyes
have centered the past year. The great ma
tional heart has long beaten his victorious
march. Even here in California. his name
was evoked to aid in the triumph of Lecomp-
ton. Subsequent events have shown the hy-
pocrisy of their professions. The National
Democracy OF California, should no longer
neglect that thorough organization which is
necessary for the success of correct national
principles IL opposition 10 the blind fanatcism
Of an INSCRIPTIONS Federal power. Califor-
MIA is national in her Democracy, and if the
Federal power be not permitted to overawe its
organization, the Lecomptop advocates here
will be found not more numerous than
the late election has shown them TO b, iu ILL.,
nois.