Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-14

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sion to which the facts lead The Democratic
County Committee legitimatey representing
the party organization, chose to abandon
what the majority of the whole party held
ms their principles, bolted the National and
State organization and affiliated openly with
the epubGcans.-ErpresS.
We are disposed to congratulate the Ex
press on the facility with which it accept.
the title Of " Lecompton for its side of tn,
house. seeing that the latter could never
hope to be denomiuated Democratic" But
its definition of Lecomptonism is hardly tn,
thing. 1t is based upon the assumption thai
the Lecompton Constitution was the act anC
deed of the people of Kansas, and that, con
sequently, Congress had no right to review
the sovereign act Of the people" whereas
the whole civilized creation knows that that
Constitution was not the act and deed of the
people, and that all that Congress did, in the
matter, and which Douglas contended should
be DONE was to refuse to admit a State into
the Union with a constitution against which
two thirds of the pee pie openly and yehe-
mently, and in a strictly legal and official
manner, protested. There was no review.
ing the sovereign act Of the people about
it, for the people had not sovereignty acted
in the Lecompton Convention. On the con-
trary, they had sovereignty refused to have
anything at all to do with the infamous Lee
compton business, whether inside of the Con.
vention or out of it, and had sovereignty
marched up to the polls and voted down the
counterfeit instrument by majority of about
ten thousand.
The attempt of the Express to defend the
bald pretence of the Lecompton County Com
mittee to regularity is about the lamest thing
we have ever seen. Lame 1t might be ex
pected to be, since no amount of human in
genuity could transform so palpable boiling
operation into anything else than what it is
As to the Douglas Democrats, boiling the Ma
tonal organization of the Democratic Party,
that could not be, because there has been no
National Convention of the Party, since the
Lecompton issue sprung up and consequently
there could be no boiling of the National or
ganization except the boiling of the PLATFORM
Of that organization which the Lecompton.
ties have already done. They are the only
ones that we know of who have bolted the
National organization.
As to the State organization, admitting,
for the sake of argument that the Lecompton
State Convention was regularly organized,
could an irresponsible and unauthorized set of
delegates become legitimate by simply going
into it2 If the Lecompton delegates of this
county acted without the authority of the
regular Democratic Convention of this county,
how could they in their irregular capacity go
into a regular State Convention ? The idea
that they could is an absurdity Though the
Lecompton State Convention had been,
thousand times over, a regular body, no con
vention had any authority to send delegates
to it except the regular convention of the
county, and that regular convention Of the
county sent no such delegates Consequently,
if the Lecompton State Convention was the
regular State Convention of the Party, it
follows that there were no regular delegates
from this county IN that body at aH and the
refusal of the regular delegates to 90 into it
left this county without any representation
in the convention. The thing is plain, and
the whole affair resolves itself simply into
this; that the regularity of the Lecompton
State Convention, if it was regular, did not
interfere with the equal regularity cf the
Democratic County Convention of this county.
Both could be regular at one and the same
time The regularity of the State Conven-
ton has nothing to do with the regularity of
our County Convention, and the point that
the Express has attempted to dispute with us
is that which relates to the regularity of our
county convention.
Any body who knows the history of that
convention knows that its regularity cannot
be questioned. 1t was called by the regular
Democratic authority of the county. Doug
las and Lecompton delegates were duly elect
ed to attend it. The majority happened to
be Douglas, the county being Douglas
county. The Douglas and Lecompton dele
gates all took part in the proceedings of the
convention from its opening to its adjourn
ment and thus both parties were bound by
its action. After the adjournment, the Le-
compton minority, notwithstanding they had
fully committed themselves by staying in the
convention, held a little meeting off to them
selves and took particular pains to publicly
stamp upon themselves the character of out
and out BOLTERS. This pitiful minority of
Botters appointed a committee of five, to wit
John 5. Love, Jasper Rand, Dr. Hague, B. r.
Spillman and Byron Whitcomb, to attend to
Lecompton business. Afterwards this unau-
thorized and Bogus Committee called an
equally unauthorized and Bogus County Con
yention, and this Bogus Convention appointed
the present Lecompton County Committee,
whom the Express denominates the regular
Democratic County Committee" We shall
see whether the Democracy of this county
will recognize any such counterfeit concern
SERIOUS AFFRAY-A difficulty occurred
last evening" says the Alta of Friday, at
o'clock on board the ship Lucknow, lying at
Market street wharf, between the first and
second officers of the vessel of very serious
character of its Oripin we ora ,n;r c,r,,,,1