Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-01
The I,sne RriafIr stated.

| James Buchanan was elected President oil
the United States, upon the strength Of a
course of policy which may almost he said to
have been created by Stephen A. Douglas
Whilst Mr.. Douglas twas contending for the
right of all white men, who were amenable
to the laws of the United States, whether
residents of States or Territories, to have the
regulation of their own affairs, James Bu-
chanan was representing our government at
the Court of St james, and perhaps confirm
ing in himself those Aristocratic notions,
which governed him when he so expressed
his adherence at the idea Of being possessed
of one drop of Democratic blood"
The great principle of Popular Sovereign
ty was applied to the Territories in 1854, un
der the Democratic leadership of Stephen A.
Douglas. while fanatics showered wild ana
themas upon his head, and dilatcd largely
upon his then soealled treason Stephen A.
Douglas was, as will be remembered by all,
hung in effigy, in various localities, by men
who would have it that his advocacy Of the
right of the people to self government, was
trucking to slave power, as their cant phrase
ran. Upon Mr.. Douglas measure, the Kan
sas Nebraska Act and the endorsement there
of in the National Democratic Platform
framed at Cincinnati, in 1856, Mr.. James Bu-
chanan placed himself, before the people Of
the American Union He declared, at the
time he accepted the nomination Of the De-
mocracy, that he twas TO longer james Bu'
chanan," but that he was the embodiment of
the Cincinnati Platform. In 1857, body of
men, claiming to he elected from less than
onehalf Of the counties of Kansas, drew up
u monstrosity, somewhat famiiarly known as
the Lecompton Constitution, which James
Buchanan, at the instigation of few seces
sioni.ts, recognized as legitimate. Gov.
Walker, of Kansas, his own appointee and
Others, Immediately informed the President
that that this so.called constitution was n
miserable fraud, and that it had never been
submitted to the people of Kansas. The
President was further informed that nearly
all the people in Kansas were unwilling TO
live under the constitution, and that tleir
duly elected legislature had ordered an elec
tion for January 4th, 1858, at which the peo
pie were to vote upon the absurd swindle
known as the Lecompton Constitution. Mr..
Buchanan's Secretary of State, Lewis Cass,
wrote an official letter of instructions to the
acting Governor of Kansas, (Gen. Denver,
of this State,) in which the validity of thi,
Jdnuary election was acknowledged, and or
ders given that the federal troops should, ii
necessary, be called into requsition, in order
to insure fair expression of the popular
UW. Well, the election was held, and the
people of Kansas voted down the Lecompton
, Constitution by 10000 majority, at a legal
election. The President then, instead of re
cognizing this legally expressed wM of The
. majority, actually sent in message to Con.
gress, in which he made advocacy of the
admission of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution an Administration test.
Then it was that Stephen A. Douglas, the
champion of the PEOPLE, rose up in his ina.
jesty, and said that no power, not even thai
of the President of the United States, could
or should trample upon the Sovereignty ol
the People. Mr.. Douglas was as good as his
word The President was defeated by Con
gress, and the Lecompton Constitution was
not forced upon the people of Kansas. A
miserable political trick called the English
compromise Bill, was then 6ri5ed through
Congress BY the President Of the United States
but Mr. Douglas refused to acquiescc in the
corrupt and shameful affair. lie voted
against it, and made a speech against it in
the U. S. Senate. Was, or is, Stephen A.
Douglas an English compromise man? No!
The tongue which has the effrontery to utter
such an untruth, should be blistered with
the lie. MIR. Buchanans followers now seek
to avenge him by defeating Mr. Douglas for
the U. S Senator=hip in Illinois, with an aJ-
oLitioniSt, named Abram Lincoln.
Will the National Democracy of Califor-
MIA sustain Stephen A. Douglas, or will they
endorse james Buchanan, Federalist of the
old school, and one who despises the voice Of
the PEOPLE? The answer will be given to.
day at the polls, and it will sustain Stephen
, A. Douglas. and repudiate the Kansas policy
of James Buchanan.
Mr. Buchanan once pretended to be the
embodiment of the Cincinnati Platform, but
that platform never did pretend to be James
Buchanan. " Principles, not men," is the
motto of the Democracy. Mr. Buchanan
has abandoned Democratic princples-Dem
ocrats will not fear to adhere to them. never.
theless. There is the issue, in nutshell.