The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-02-10

rsi days yet, buteSsntually Be decided in hEoi
Of Mr.. VS. right to the seat. -. =
Tho ant-Lecomp,on Democrats numbering
some 10 or 20 in the House, held cauruses bJ
themselves. Theo recently appointed com
mittee Of three to wait upon tho President, and
MORN him OF teir ,ciskss-wbat 6iey wanted
hin to do, and what hsy were determined to do
Mr.. Cox, Of Ohio. it is stated, was one Of the
Committee. They did not get much satiotac
ton, however. out Of the President.
Now, this small minority Of Democrats in
the House,-at least, those from your State
are very inconsistent. They profess to believe
in the right Of q minority Of the Democratic
members Of your Legislature. in caucus Assem-.
blod, to mark out the policy Of the party in
your State, and of compelling a large minority,
either 10 uote against their ogn we,Cs and an oa-
''liaistraon Vhiot they aided in placing in poiser,
or to '6r read out Of the prty." This was the
position Of things when the resolutions Of in
struction" were adopted, at the Democratic
caucus in Columbus. Men in hjs city, aided,
with all their influence, the passage of those
resolutions, and and oppiouiei the action Of The
majority in compelling The npnority to alp. he
majority had right to exercise such power
do not propose to discuss just now,--my OBJ
ject is merely to show the inconsistency of GER
tain men hereabouts. Your readers presume
will agree with me, in saying that if it was ii sht
for a majority of the Democratic members of
your Legislature in Caucus, to force minority
to adopt a course Of policy which they were not
favorable to, a majority Of the Democratic mem
bers in Congress would have an equal right to
do so. If the refusal Of member to go into
the Democratic caucus at Columbus, or to vcte
as the majority Of that ca,tcu' might decide should
place him outside of the Democratic party in
your State, should not the same rule hold good
heie;--or, at least, should it not hold good so
far as The members all concerned uio spere instyM-
mental in enforcing il in the Democratic caucus
at Columbus, and who now find Themselves in
very small minority OF the Democratic members
OF Congress, on a leading measure? Would not
a majority Of the Democratic members Of Con-
greSs have just as good a right to compel mi
no'7ty to vote in a certain way, on party meas.
ure, as had the majority of the Democrats in
your Legislature 10 compel minority to uote
for The RESOLUTIONS OF Instruction." 1t is well
known that a large majority Of the Democratic
members in the Senate AMI in the House, are in
favor Of the admission Of Klnsas under the lie
compton Constitution, why should not they in.
s;st upon their rights as a raejnrfty TO compel the
mjaorityto uote with h,m? Tho anti Lecomp-
ton Democrats of the House and Senate would
have no rishtto complain. They applauded the
application Of similar rule among tho Demo,
cratic members OF the Ohio Legislature, and it
would be but doing what they themselves do
whenever they secure a minority. Th} minor.
ty must then either yield and vote with the ma
ority, or be cast ont Of the par ty; the past has
Illustrated this on several occasion, in your State.
Give them dose OF their own medicine; it can
10 no harm AMI my serve to rid them ol.some
of their inconsistency. B.