Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-01-23

g2Sj~ The New York Express, paper which
and is representative of that class of people in
the free States, whose favor is essential to the
success of the Democratic party in any Northern
Or Western State, holds the following strong Ian
guage in regard to the position of the President
in the Kansas controversy
POPULAR SoyEREIGyTY-AN EXPERIMENT
is the great and cardinal principle for which
Judge Douglas is cOntending in the United States
Senate-and the successes of the principle is as
certain in Kansas as elsewhere in the United
States. In the vindicaton of this principle. the
Senator is perfectly consistent and the opposition
to him in the Democratic party is utterly ncon-
sistent-as it was the great principle upon which
Mr.. buchanan was elected. 1t was more discuss
ed than anything else pending the Presidential
election. and upon it Mr. Buchanan carried New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Cali
fornia--the vote Of which States made him Pres
ident though in very large popular minority.
II the Fillmore and Fremont vote were united
against him.
Nevertheless, we now see that the President
and his Administration are about to try the ex-
pertinent Of disowning this principle of popular
sovereignty, or self government, and Of drageon-
ing the Democratic party into opposition to it,
The sixty or seventy millions of patronage they
have at disposal will scduce all in the North who
love money more than principle, and the fifty or
sixty thousand Federal office holders among us
will try hard to make the Democratic people
change front and in the South, sectional feeling
with the strong desire to make Kansas slave
State, in spite OF the people of Kansas-will there
in those fifteen States, unite and consolidate the
Democratic party 1t is a singular spectacle to
see Democratic party repudiating the rights of
man, and the principle of f-g0ternment-bu it
is clear now that the experiment will be tried.
But the experiment is certain to fail. 1t will
fail, in the first place, because the erperimcHtlm
crucis is first to be tried upon the people of Kan
sas, who will not submit to it, Now it is of no
use, upon the soil of America anywhere to at
tempt to fgH people out Of The principle of
self-goyeFnment and if Mr.. Buchanan dares to
make the experiment in Kansas, he will array the
Federal troops against the people of Kansas and
the Federal troops will either be run out of Kan
sas, or be driven out by the bayonct and the bull
let. The President of the United States is strong
enough to create a civil war, but he is not strong
enough TO force upon Kansas a State Constitution
they will not have. The physical power to resist,
in Kansas, is now too strong for the Federal force
The experiment is certain to fail, in the next
place, because the Northern people will not stand
by the President, and because that portion of the
Southern people who despise tricks and trickery,
and unfair play-such MS the Kansas Constitution
eXhlblts-will not stand by him in creating civ
IL war in Kansas or in ordering the Federal
troops to dragoon the people of Kansas into an
abandonment of the principle of selfgoVernment.
The members of Congress who ATTEMPT to stand
by the President in this use of force, will first be
defeated in the North, while in the South-if
Southern aspirants for their places dare to main
tain the great principle against an apparent self
interest--many of those members will be defeated
also. The next Congress will be opposition, and
OF a stern kind and character.
The President is making new sectional issue
in which the North, with out touching the topic
of slavery, is perfectly right in upholding the
great Cardinal principle of selfgovernment. We
know it is attempted to evade this issue, by say
ing, the people of Kansas have it left to them to
vote upon, all they care about the slavery or no
slavery question. But this is not so--and, if so
it is an outrage TO deprive white people of their
right to govern themselves, aud leave to them
only the government of negroes