The daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-187?, 1858-04-17
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steamer. contains an excellent article. giving
the history Of the Democratic party from
iSi3 to the present time. This history
shows the utter baseness and degradation
Of those false and hypocritical trickstcrs
who now accuse the Democracy opposing the |
Lecopipton swodle, of desertion from their /
principles aud disposition TO fraternize |
with the Republican party. The Northern |
Democracy have never paused to inquire
which section Of the Union was to be most
benefited by the application of their correct
national principles. OF which section should
control the Senate of the United States. 50
long as the policy Of the government should
be guided by the principles of the National
Democracy. II was left for sectional preju.
dice to higgle about sectional equality
Republicans, aud latterly, the vile aud
treacherous crow Of recently hatched Le-
comptonites. Placing the questions Of d.
nestle government with the people Of the
States and Territories, il mattered notwhat
section might be in the asccndsncy, so long
as those protesting Democracy should re-
main faithful to their principles
The Northern Democracy have not re-
fused to admit slave State. even when ii
gave that purely domestic institution pre-
ponderance in the United States Senate. In
proof OF this, We refer to the admission of
Texas, which made the twenty seveuth
State of the Union, fourteen of them being
slaveholdng States. At the commencement
Of the stpggle for the annexation Of Texas,
"the Democracy of the North stood in the
lower house OF Congress, 81 to 81 opposition.
The Democracy of the South, 81 to - oppo.
siton." The Democracy Of the North stood
BY their southern brethren in this contest,
and carried them successfully through, but
they suffered severely, ani came into the
thirtieth Congress, 1917, with only 56 menu
bers TO 20 opposition in the lower house :;
and into the thirty FIRST Congress in lsi9,
with only 30 members agains, 30 opposition,
aud. ia the meantime, with the loss OF the
Presidential election of 1913 and Demo.
cratic Senator from New Hampshire one
from Connecticut; one from Pennsylvania.
aud one from ohio.'
1.-THE enactment Of the compromise meas
ures OF 1850, removing, as was supposed, the
subject Of slavery from farther contest in
Congress, enabled the Northern Democracy
10 retrieve in part, their losses in the Texas
and free soil contests. and they came into
the thirty second Congress. 1851. with 81
members in the lower house, TO as opposi
tion--carried every NORTHERN State in 1882
for Gen. Pierce. but Nermcnt and Massa-
chusetss, and returned TO the lower house Of
thirty third Congress, 1853. 9S Democrats
to OIL opposition Of all parties"
The passage Of the Kansas Nebrasa act
and the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
line, acts in which the Democracy Of the
Northern States engaged for the rights Of
the Seuth--",hsir equal rights in the terri
tories--the right Of the people Of all the
States to 60 there aud form their own gov
crnment, without anti,slavsry restrictions"
by Congress brought them into the thirty
fourth Congress. 1856, with onlT - mem
hers in the lower house TO III opposition. -
The plain iastuess Of their position, however
enabled them to eater the present Congress
with SO Democrats to 81 opposition. Ia all
,his the Democracy have been governed by
what they recognized rs correct national
principles, and 10 establish them have suf,
iered defeat after defeat,
IL now pleAsos the administration and its
LeeomQtonite adherenis, to deny TO the reo-
pie Of Kansas the right to govern themselves
and TO carry the slavery question again in
TO Congress, The Democracy of the North
only ask OF them an alherencs to correct
aational principles in good faith, Ne Ma
tienal Democrat can rcgOnire the right Of
Congress 10 force constitution upon the
people Of Kansas, without dishonorins him
self and his former professions, by standing
uroa the Aholitiea saa Republican plat
forms, and practically proclaisning the RICH;
Of Congress TO lesisla,e uroa the subject Of
Slavery in the Territories We tA&uk ea
that there are yet national minded men in
both seotiSns Of THE raiOn to combat the
foul and reasonable heresy.
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4 FRoN Bio MSApows. MIR Charles Rrawn,