Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1858-01-18

otsm to enable them to ignore the Republican issue
rot sectionalisn and oFsufcient ligence to com.
pfehend that1 Is oetter 70 yield favorite point
especially where the same result rsay be attained
than to persist in it. to the distraction of the great
party of the country --Stdte Jouraai
1.-The great party of the Countrywide
Observation-Disclosures never be distracted
while it adheres to the great principles OF
popular rights and sovereignty, embraced
in the Cincinnati platform, and endorsed by
our Democratic State Convention, six months
since. WHAT agitation and distraction may
ensue from abandoning those principles,
| points, the Journal now calls tham,) we
shall not pretend to foretell. The President
tells you chat
! "All were cordially united upon the great doctrine
OF popular sovereignty, which is the vital principle
OF our free Institutions
Again the President tells you that the
friends and supporters of the Nebraska and
Kanzas Act,
| Everywhere throughout the Union publicly
pledged their faith and honor that they would
cheeriuly submit the question of slavery to the
decision of the bona fde people of Kanzas, wiUOut
any restriction or qualification uh tereT"
I lhC CAtiuCt 10 tuhCh iioi wv
Walkers letter of resignation
In such of the counties, where full and free OPP
portunty was given to register and vote. and they
did not choose to exercise that privilege the ques
ton is very different from those counties where
there was no census or registry, and no vote was
given could be given. however anxious the people
might be to participate in the election of delegates
to the convention Nor could it be said these coun-
ties acquesced for wherever they endeavored by a
subsequent census or registry oftheir own to supply
this defect occasioned by the previous neglect of the
territorial officers, the delegates thus chosen were
rejected by the convention. repeat, that in nine
teen coun mites out of thirty four, there CEN
sus In fifteen counties out of thirty -four there
no registry. and not solitary vote giyen or
could be given for delegates to the Convention in
any OF these counties. Surely then it cannot be
said that. such a convention. chosen by scarcely
more than oneenth of the present voters of Kanzas
represented the people of that territory and could
rightfully impose constitution upon them without
their consent. These nineteen counties. in which
there no census, constituted n ma jOrty OF the
counties of the territory, and those fifteen counties
in which there was no registry, gave much larger
vote az the October election, even with the six
months qualification. thar the whole vote given to
the delegates who signed the Lecompton constitu-
ton on the 18th November last.
The Lecompton convention compels the
people to vote for a constitution that they
have never sanctioned, and to- which they
may have insuperable objections, before they
are permitted to vote for or against slavery
That convention permits the people to vote
the following ballots :-"Constitution with
slavery" or CONSTITUTION without slavery"
Is this submitting the question without any
"restriotion or qualification whatever !"
Does it redeem the "faith and honor" of the
party. which the President tells US was
everywhere publicly pledged to a fair
submission of this single question ? Does it
redeem the Journals publicly pledged"
faith and honor" Does it give the people
of that territory the privilege of forming
the INSTITUTIONS, by which they are to be
governed, in accordance With the democratic
doctrine of popular sovereignty, ard the
recommendations of the President to Gov
Walker? To ,ui mind it does not, for it
not only denies to the people the right of
saying what shall be their fundamental law,
but compels them to vote for q constitution
of which they do not approve, or not vote
at all. A firm difference to the doctrines
unity of the Democratic party, and a speedy
and eternal settlement of the agitation in
Kanzas The adoption of the hecompton
constitution by Congress, which does net
permh the people to vote against its adop-
ton, is not only outrageously tyrranical
and oppressive towards the people of that
territory, bat is subversive of those princi-
Piles of selfgovernment, without which no
party can be national There is no medium
course to be pursued. The Democratic
party must alhere to the principles of pop
ular sovereignty, or degenerate into Sec
1alism. This points" which the Journal
I'D surrender, would cause the recently
.rious democracy to disappear from a
rity of the States like hoar frost be
he rising sun
then, is contributing to the distrac-
the great party of the country Is
who remain firm to tia principles
emocratc party, as enanciated by
ocratic National Convention, and by
Democratic State convention or
Hr. Journal, who have abandoned
IN of national principles upon
party went forth ''conqusring and
/? Does not that platform Gig
publican issue Of sectionaljsm, >
Lecompton tissue of section.