The daily Butte record., 1858-09-06
Beaten but not Conquered.

HFateu but NOT conquered
Notwithstanding tho present indications
are that Baldwin has beaten Currey for Su
preme Judge, the Indications are equally as
as strong that the great majority Of the vo-
ters Of California have sustained the Popular
Sovereignty principle. in opposition to the
Lecompton policy of the Administration, by
an emphatic endorsement Of the Hon. ]. G.
McKibbin. This we believe to be the case,
although the result may not be determined
until the Votes of the State shall be officially
canvassed. But whether such is fact or not,
the great principle for which the Democra
oy have contended in the recent election,
"still lives" and will, when the issue shall
be better understood by the masses, and the
organization in its favor extended through
out the State, triumph over every faction
and ism that may enter the field in oprosi-
ton to ID.
Tho Lecompton party Of California, with
all the Federal and State official patronage
did not dare to make the fight openly and
fairly sgainst Stephen A. Douglas, and the
great principle he upheld in the Senate Of
the United States, and which hs 10 now up
holding in Illinois. against the combined
forces of Republicanism and tho minons o
Federal power, with the Washington Union
Mr.. Buchanan's administration orgen at
their head. With hypocrnsy only equaled
by their former treachery to the principle Of
popular sovereignty, they claimed to be
true friends Of Douglas, and thus deceived
many into the support of their men an mca.
sures. Thus those counties that have given
majorities Tor Lecomptonism, have done 81
under the belief that they were not repudia.
ting Douglas, and the great principle of free
government which he has so nobly chamIi
oned. Tho scales will soon fall from tho
eyes Of those who hayo been deceived, anC
the monster iniquity, Lecompton, will h'
obliged TO stand their scrutiny upon it!
merits alone.
The National Drmocrat. in an article
headod "Tho result in the State at Large
speaks MS follows:
Tho Douglas men. however, made the fur
fy from the Lecompton monster Mt nearly
every step that he took, and he goes back
to his den sorely wounded and exceedingly
sick Mt his stomach. In San Francisco. he
was in great danger Of being skinned alive
In Sacramento county, they made him howl
mingled wrath and pain. In Yuba he got
somc tremendous digs in the region of the
wind. In FL Dorado, they bosot him with
sword and fire, until no "swung the soaly
horror OF his folded tall" in an agony OF
torment that was really excruciatng to be-
hold IIo squaled like n stuck pig, when
Old Butte got hold Of him. and he will wear
her brand upon him for some time to come
Fearful that he wauld be slaughtered out
right, his friends dressed him up in Douglas
armor, and wrote "Douglas' upon his bias
phemous forehead, in order to deceive tho
Douglas men who were sworn to kill him
and will yet If they ever get fair chance
at him. Thus equipped he managed to 20
through several large counties, like Sierra,
Nevada and Tuolumne. without that scath-
ing which he would otherwise have received.
That he was not knocked squarely in tho
head, and his Internal carcass torn up md
scattered to the four winds, WAS owing to the
ono solitary fact, shat he ran under false
colors in nll those places in which his back
ers dared not tear the lions skin from his
baok, and show him rs he was, hell. born,
cloven- footed, dragon tailed and sulphurous
of aspect. The sledgc hammer that will
yet fell him like beef. waits for him in the
Douglas camp, and his doom is as certain as
if it were already chronicled in tho Book Of
Fate.