The daily Butte record., 1858-04-10
The MoraI value of the Approaching
Victory of Popular Sovereignty.

sas In opposition 10 the Lecompton Consti-
tution--the complete and overwhelming
failure Of the sectional, unprincpled and
absconding Democratic administration, and
its pensioned vampires and slavish and cor
rupt tools, to excite national sentiment in
its favor-and the unalterable determine.
tion Of the people to leave the subject where
the National Democratic Platform placed it
are great facts looming up above the dust
and smoke Of sectional clamor more and
more clearly, conspicuously, and imposingly
every day
1t is an exemplary spectacle to witness the
chagrin and dismay which the sccumulatiug
evidences of these facts are bringing upon
sectional Lecopptonites and apostate Demo-
cratic coalitionists, and treacherous and
uuprincipled administration and the en-.
couragemcnt they are affording to the SEN
timents and principles Of that great party
which. through evil and good report, in
spite Of enemies arraycd in all forms and
combinations, and in the face of every odds
against it, pursues always the even tenor of
its way to certain ultimate success, and
patriotic, and overwhelming triumph.
The victory which the National Demo
cratic party is about to achieve, and which
is heralded in advance by the advices which
come from all points Of the compass, will be
one Of the most signal that have illustrated
its long career of successes. The treacher-
Gus Lecomptonite journals are already min
Cling with their desperate fngs at the Ma
tional Democratic doctrine of popular sove
reignty confessions Of their inability to de-
cevc the people into opposition to it. The
refuse Democratic politicians who have
slougbed off from the national party to join
the bowling and rabid sectionalists. who
have at length succeeded in insulting and
cudgelling the administration into submis
sion. are terrified at the prospect of the
double disgrace that awaits them in defeat,
and are exhibiting all the impotent ami
mostly to the Democratic doctrine they
hate because they betrayed it, that foiled
malevolence could inspire.
We are not told in the fable that the viper
which sought to sting the bosom which had
warmed it into life was the same which bit
the file in impotent rage while undergoing
analogies conduct to just conclusions we are
warranted in believing it to have been the
identical and venomous reptile, from the
fat, and conduct which have attended the
crime of an unprincipled administration
and those apostatc politicians who have re-
Gently de erted and sought to betray the
National Democracy.
The approaching triumph of the Demo :
cratic party in tho application Of its great
principle of popular sovereignty and in es
tablishing peace and good faith between Sec
tons, will result no less in moral Advantage
to its own power and prestige than in prac-
tical good to the country. 1t will te8ch
those apostate officials who have deserted
their party for their party's good, that the
safe roads to political success are not those
by which tho fire. brands of sectional excite
ment aLd clamor but those which, however
barren of these rank and combustibe weeds
and of Federal patronage. and however
tardy, rugged and difficult in appearance,
lead in honest directions, to just ends, con :
templating the broad catholic advantage
and general peace and welfare of the whole
country through the observances of good
faith, mutual toleration and good will.
1t is said of the common law that il is the
result of the aggregate wisdom of ages, and
of an experience running back for time
whereof the memory Of man runneth not to
the vontrary. 1t may bo said of the prnci-
pies of the Democratic party of this country
with equal truth, that they are the embodi.
ment of the catholic, patriotic, conserva-
tive sentiment Of the general mind of the
country, marking the general level of the
ocean Of popular opinion-not at at any
particular momen I of high excitement or of
resulting depression, ii may be. but tor pro-
tracted periods aud 'in the long rum
A temporary ebulition of sectional feeling
fomen,ed by systematic falsehood, factious
agencies and the treaehery of the national
administration, may overwhelm the Democ-
racy for q short time but fact and truth,
sindicatiug the sterling honesty and catho-
lic wisdom of their policy. are always sure
to assert their omnipotence sooner or later,
and establish the party more firmly than
ever in the confidence of the country.
Tho arduous and disinterested four years
struggle which the Democracy have just had
TO establish the principle of popular sove-
reignty for all the purposes of local govern
ment Of every State, whether already al.
mtted into the Union or in the act of organ
zing Tor that purpose, free from the inter
vention Of Congress aud their approaching