Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-31
Corrnntion IN High Piaces.

Let Jhe peoI lie remember thuti III this CON
test between Popular Sovereignty. aud this
newly raised OLE Blue Light Federalism
which comes in the shape Of Lecomptonism
and bears the Image and supcrscription" Of
that acknowledged Old Line Federnlist,
James Buchanan, let the people remember,
that in this contest, they are to war against
the only real and great danger that threatens
the existence of our Republic. We showed
you, in our last ssue--for we have access to
the proofs that the Kansas 20 icy of the
President was carried through the Senate and
the House Of Representatives, by threats
opportunities, promises and Tribes, and but
barely carried through then. so tremendous
was the sentiment against it, But, that a
great wrong was thus carried through at all,
is an evil omen upon the horizon of our coun
try's future 1t shows how vast power is
that which the Presidents of this nation may
exercise for evil over that august body in
which the rights and liberties of the Ameri.
can people are represented aud deposited
Il Congress Of the United States Intmi-
date that body, buy up any considerable por-
tion of tat body. by Executive gifts and
offices, and we my bid farewell to all the
glory and grandeur of our young Republic
Already, we shall find that decay sits gnaw-
ing at its pillars and tho earthquake of com
ing dissolution, with presaging throes, is
heaving at its foundations But chiefyis this
danger of Executive brow beating, Execu
tive entreaties, and Executive purchase, to be
dreaded in the senate. 1t is a smaller body
than the House, and more easily mou ded
because few men can be bought more
readily than a larger number Besides
this, 1t Is of more importance to mould
the Senate to the Executive will, for the rca
son that it confirms the appointments which
are made by the President, makes treaties
and concludes many grand and weighty trans
actions without the concurrence Of the House
1t was intended by the trainers of our Gov
ernment that the Senate should be pure
wisest and best should sit in its councils, and
that there the sovereign States, in there ca
pacity of States, should be represented
WHAT sort of Senate was that which ad.
Journcd in June last? A majority of it was
composed Of obseqnious partizan tools of the
| Adninlstration-men who stopped to any
thing for the rewards which followed servili-
ty, and committed moral treason against
their country with the same shamelessness
that they would commit legal Treason, were
the hour propitious and the reward sufficient.
One act alone of that Senate is sufficient to
damn it to eternal infamy, and that is the con
rmation Of the pretended Indiana Senators,
Messrs. Fitch and Bright If ever there was
wrong done upon earth to make Man
blush and Heaven weep, it was then. Here
were two men pretending to be the Senators
OF Indiana, but no more the Senators of In.
diana than they were members of the Eng.
sh Parliament The Constitution of Indi-
ma, sovereign State Of the American Union,
nad declared that no man should be Sena-
Tor from that State who was not elected by
joint convention of the two Houses of the
Legislature, and that majority Of each
mouse must consent to go into joint conven
iOn, or joint convention could not be held
In the case Of Bright and Fitch, only one
mouse consented to 60 into joint convention,
! the Assembly. The senate refused by large
majority. Yet the Assembly, with the help
of Il minority of the Senate. went into con
vention, bogus aud unauthorized and un
constitutional convention, and pretended to
elect Fitch and Bright United States Sena
tors from Indiana. Thesc men went on t.
Washington. There was no earthly chance
apparently, for them to get their seats. But,
1t was soon ascertained that their votes wer,
needed to carry through the Lecompton mi
quity-they were sounded and found, OF
course, under the circumstances-their seats
ueing staked ON the issue--in favor of Le.
compton. They were accordingly allowed
their seats and voted for Lecompton 1t wa.
not supposed that the Senate would dare tc
confirm them in their seats finally. but that
the LeeomPton struggle being over, and tn,
votes of these tools given in favor of the ini
quity, the Senate would have lingering
remnant of respect and declare that the Con.
stitution of Indiana had said a. no, and that
these men were not properly Senators of that
state. Far from it. The decision of the
question had been delayed and the votes o.
the Bogus Senators secured first; it remain
ed, then, to hestow upon these obliging indi
5 viduals their reward, and so they were mad,
senators of the United States, in the ver,
face of an outraged and indignant publ,
, sentiment. A Constitution of soyereig,
state was tramPled under foot, and it wa.
the President of the United States jaime.
Buchanan, through his obsequious slaves and
hircIiDgs who did it, Oh "our noble Presi
dent!"
CB r. NJ Briggs, who, we believe never
voted Democratic ticket in his life. was u