Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-05
Leeompfon seIf-conceIt.,

up the regular organization of the party
Well, so far as Old Yuba is concerned We
imagine that the members elect to the legisla
ture always excepting Mr. Aud, who oceu
pies negative position,) care very littl,
whether they are excluded from Leeomptor
eaucuses or not. They doubtless are aware
that their Douglas constituents expect them
to act "a Douglas Democrats-to stand upon
their principles, and to ask no more favor;
from Lecomptpnites than from Black Repub
licans. They are expected to regard nei
ther of those parties rs politically their
friends. but to consider both as hostile to the
Cincinnati Platform and to the true Democ-
racy.
As for the regular organization, zee hare it
in this county, and we intend to keep it
No soft soaping about Douglas, and d" ho-
ueying" around Douglas men to convince
them that no war is intended against Douglas,
but it is all against Broderick and the Black
Republicans" is going to take that organiza-
tion from the hands of the Douglas Demoera
ey. We are organized here for the next
campaign. and the next and the next, and
this county expects to cast her vote in 1866
for Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency Of
the United States. The regular organization
of the Democratic Party in this county, the
whole State knows, is, rs we have said, Q
Douglas organization. The Lecomptonite:
in this county are Boilers, and probably will
remain so. They bolted the nominations
made by a regular Convention of the Democ
raey, after having acted with that Conven-
ton in its entire proceedings. They shame
lessly refused to abide by the responsibility
of their own acts in that body, but called a
bogus, boiling convention of their own, NOM
mated their candidates and appointed bo-
gus Central Committee. This Committee
will doubtlass have the face, hereafter, to
pretend to speak authoritatively for the De
mocracy of Yuba county, but if Old Yuba
does not hiss them down from their selfcon-
stituted positions, we have not yet under.
stood her character.
The Lecomptonites may talk as much as
theyIplease about never more recognizing
Douglas Democrats as brethren, hut if the
Democracy of this State do not send Doug
las delegates to the next National Conven-
ton of the Democratic Party, we shall be
most grandly mistaken They have no very
intense desire to be reorganizcd by the Lee
comptonites. They can get along very we'll
on their own footing. They never expect to
fraternize with the Leeomptonites, unless
the latter will come back to Democratic
principles, One thing is certain if the Le-
compton Democracy bring up where we
are certain they will-that is to say, if they
boldly and openly, as their leaders do now
eovertly and in effect, repudiate the doctrine
of the Kansas n ebraska Bill-the two poles
will not be more widely apart than they and
the Douglas Party, 1t is time that all true
Douglas men were aware of the wide diver.
gence which is taking place in the two wings.
They are separating farther and father The
Leeompton party is tending fast towards
thorough severance, an eternal cutting loose
from the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
If they are not, why should they seek to
circumscribc it with so many quibbles and
technicalities, and to leave open so many
loop holes of construction, for the benefit of
those who may desire to thwart the popular
will in the establishment Of new State Gov
ernments? Why, in the face of the plain
fact, that the LecomptOn Constitution was
repudiated by the people of Kansas, did they
attempt to force it upon them by the mere
shadow of technical authority Why agree
to let Kansas into the Union with a slave
Constitution which was not approved by the
people, and then refuse, as they intend to do
to let her in with a free Constitution which
is approved by the people ? Why this tear
of Popular Sovereignty-this eternal shuf-
fling around the doctrine twisting and
worming and wriggling all about it, if it is
not the intention ultimately to ignore the doe
trine entirely? The only reason that they
did not openly repudiate it, in the first place,
was because they dared not. They knew
that the principle was anchored in the great
Democratic heart OF the Nation
Now, what is the purpose and aim of the
Douglas Democracy? Simply this,-to in
| sist upon the free exercise Of the popular will
in all cases-not technical exercise, but an
actual exercise, of it; to make no distinctions
in favor of slave States or free States, but tc
treat all alike; to allow the people of the
Territories, when they come to form their
State Constitutions, to vote upon their organ
ie law, if they desire it, and TO take it
for granted that such constitutions are not
their act and deed when they arise and
| protest to Congress that such is the fact-ip
| other words, if two thousand voters. bv some
sort of technical hoeu pOeus, frame a consti.
tuition, and ten thousand protest against it.
to regard the protest and not the technical
hoc"s poc,s in short, to give such a con
struction to the doctrine of Popular Sover.
eighty. that there can be no possibility of de-
feating, in any instance, the will ofthe people
and to oppose any Intervention of Congress
in the matter of forming State Government
except to inquire whether constitution is
really the act and deed of the people or q
mere bogus affair gotten up by few design
ing individuals. This is sound Democratic
doctrine and all those who are in favor of il
would do well to leave the Lecompton or
ganization at once Many good Douglas men
were deceived, by the cry of "Black Repub-
liean," into going into that organization, in
the last election, but there is no reason why