Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-11
Nyhnt thr ne,t stenmcr VA b, Ing.

The next steamer will bring the news of
the rejection or acceptance of the English
proposition by the people of Kansas. The
probabilities are that the proposition viii be
rejected by an overwhelming majority. If
it should be, the Kansas question will be
very far from being settled It is true shat
the English bill provides that, in case the
people of Kansas refuse To come into the
Union under the Leeompton Constitution,
they shall stay on. until such time as they
have an amourt Of population equal to that
required 70. one Representative in the Ma
tioual Legislature But, it is to be remem-
bered, that Tone Congress has no power to
bind another in a matter Of this kind, and,
if Kansas applies hereafter for admission un-
der q new constitution, Of her own framing
the next Congress may admit her without
any further regard for the English bill than
that which would be embraced ia the act of
repeating it. For our own part, We believe
that the Kansas question is not settled at all,
and the only way in which it ever can be
settled is to let the people of that Territory
settle it for themselves, by establishing their
own constitution, without the influence OF
either threats or promises, ON the part of the
Federal Government. Some persons say,
that it is no hardship in the case of Kansas,
to refuse her admittance, unless in accord.
ance with the English bill, because the same
rule may be applied to other Territories in
the same manner We cannot see how ar
application Of the same rule to other Terri
tories would have any other effect than tc
aggravate the very act complained Of Kan
sas complains that she is allowed to enter
the Confederacy as a slave State with popu
ation of something over 30,00O but that sh,
cannot enter it as free State with less thar
three or four times asjmany inhabitants. II
this distinction in favor OF slave States il
kept up in all future cases, it seems to Us
that it is only heaping injustice upon Unjust
ice and aceumulating wrong upon wrong
If Congress had simply rejected the Lecomp
ton Constitution, as it ought to have done
and then said that no State, either slave OF
free should hereafter be admitted into the
ion until it had certain specified amount
of population, it might have been well
enough tutto make an exception in the case
of Kansas, and then apply the rule to every
other Territory of the Union, is plain and
palpable outrage
If Kansas should, contrary to all reasona
ble expectation, accept the English PROPOSE
tion, why then, as Douglas has said, there il
an end of the Lecompton matter-but, it i
not the end of the great principle for whicl
the Douglas men have been contending. |
is still the most vital of all the principle
which now constitute the Democratic faith
In that case, we. of the Douglas party, shal
hold Mr.. Buchanan to his written declara
tion, which was that, in all future cases, h
should be in favor of following the wise ex
ample which was instituted in the case o
Minnesota where the constitution was frs
required to be submitted to the people be
fore it could be considered legitimate in
strument and binding upon them We, Q
the Douglas Democracy, shall expect tn
whole Democratic party of the Union, whicl
laysa claim to Nationality, to subscribe to tn
same doctrine, and we shall expect in par
ocular that the delegates from this State t,
the next Democratic National Convention
shall stand pledged to the like thing. Mr.
Buchanan is right, so far as the future poll
ey Of the party is concerned, provided he will
only stick to it, which we consider very
doubtful, if we may judge by the manner il
which he has kept his pledges in the past
Nevertheless, we, of the Douglas Democracy
) shall hold him TO his word, and we shall cel
tainly expect his followers in this State {
stand up to the same thing Will they do It
e If they DO, then have we, of the Dougla
, Democracy, triumphed. If they do not, the
have we still triumphed, because the Demo
cratic party of this State will never send de
egates to the National Convention who an
4 not sound Oh this question of Popular Sovei
eighty. When the time comes for sendin
f delegates to the National Convention, the il
sue between the Lecomptonites and the tru
Democracy can no longer be covered up III
der the sPecious cries of "Broderickism" an
the "Black Republican party" The question
will then simply be whether Mr.. buchanan
and Mr.. Douglas are right as to the futur
policy of the Democratic party, or whethe
Zack Montgomery and Sutter county are til,
true exPonents of California Democracy.
Is a man hamed Frank Dunn tried t