The daily Butte record., 1858-03-11
Policy OF the Leeompton,t...


reignty in the sole instance Of the admis-
sion Of Kansas. as contended by some who
blindly follow wherever the appointing pow
er may lead; but it Is the Inauguration of
movement to check the power of the peo-
pie, now legitimately exercised, under the
constitution and laws, through the right of
suffrage. and vest it in the Office holder -
This does not contemplate an entire denial
TO the people of the right Of suffrage; but
they aver that the tendency Of power ia too
much towards the people, and must be
checked, and brought back to the Office
holder-that anarchy must follow the ex-
ercise of popular sovereignty by the people
That this is the object of the renegade
Democrats, who now form the Lecomptonite
party, must be admitted by all who have
noticed the arguments Of the press in their
employ. or the individual advocates of Pres.
ident Buchanan's Kansas policy. 1t is the
working of the small lump of old Federal
leaven that still exists in the Republic, and
unless rebuked in the present case of Kan
sas, it will be impossible to tell what State
or Territory may next suffer an invasion CT
rights, under the sanction of some law that
has been recognized by Congress. And this
will doubtless be accomplished by the LIE.
comptonites, as the aggression upon Kansas
is now justified, by solemnly invoking the
constitution and laws.
The Democratic party, acting under the
constitution, and with view to reno We the
subject Of sectional agitation from the halls
of Congress, originated and passed the Kan
sas- Nebraska bill, which gave the subject
direct to the people. 1t was the justness of
| this principle that commended it to the good
sense Of national men everywhere, and ena-
bled it to triumph over sectionalism IL is
only through turbulent and restless rebels
against the supreme will Of the majority
that the subject has been again transferred
to Congress. The Lecomptonites, who de.
sire the power of the government concen
tratcd at Washington. ask Congress to es-
tablsh institutions for Kansas The Ma.
tional Democratic doctrine, and the organic
Act of that Territory, says the people may
form them for themselves.
What has all this to do with California ?
for the hundredth time re-iterates our CO.
temporary of the Marysvlle .hems. We
grant that the institutions of Kansas, what
ever they may be, can have little or no ef-
feet upon us; but the principle by which
those institutions may be established will
have an important bearing upon the inter
ests of our State. The popular sovereignty
doctrine, upheld by the Democracy and now
repudiated by the Lecomptonites, has been
applied to the mines of California. Claims
have been had by those who desired to take
them up and work them governed by such
rules and regulations as the miners them.
selves might establish. The poor and pen
niless man can engage in mining for himself
without dependence upon capital to pur-
chase claim. 1t is thus that they afford
business for immense population, aud place
in circulation hugo sums of money De-
stroy the principle of popular sovereignty,
and cover the mines with certificates of
ownership that permits them to lay idle,
and how would it be with California
The Democracy have kept the mines in
this condition, in opposition to the wishes
and endeavors of other parties, and the
mines have been free to those who desired
to work them. Will our contemporary still
insist that the Democratic party is not the
"best party for California" and that the
State has no interest in sustaining the doc
trine of popularity sovereignty If Con-
gress abandons that doctrine, and interferes
in the affairs of Kansas, what is to hinder
them from levying upon our banks of de.
post, and appropriating our cash to give
force or splendor to concentrated power
We would not require our cotemporary,
should he desire to join tho Democratic par
ty, to go down upon his knees (although he
has been great political sinner), to any
man or set of men; but simply to stand to
and abide by the Democratic doctrine of
popular sovereignty. II will not do stand
upon that doctrine in any fraudulent or
double sense, for those who pursue such
course find themselves, not in the ranks of
the Democracy, but in the treacherous
squad of-LecOmptonites.
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