The daily Butte record., 1858-04-06
senator Burch and the Trinity Jour
.nnI-The Lecomptonitcs aud the Pa
efH Nai

ibis paper thKcS US 10 task lOr our notice
Of the powerful Lecomptonian speech Of
the Senator from Trinity. and thinks our
article was undignifed Our excuse is that
we we were talking on undignifed subjects,
Senator Burch and the higger question
Were We disposed to recognize Court Of
dignity. to sit in judgment upon cur pro-
ductions. VIC should hardly choose the Edi-
tor Of the Trinity J0urnai as our umpire,
while We would detract nothing from his
competency and fitness to sit in diguiied
judgment upon the distinguished Senator.
We thought, and still think, that we noticed
the Hon. gentleman's effort according to
its merits, and the best proof that we did
so, is the fact that the number Of the Joty.
nal rebuking US, gives what it terms the
argument of Mr.. Burch's anti-popular sove-
reignty speech, and the powerful effort Of
this able and dgnifcd Lccomptonian advo.
cate, is reduced from length of nearly
eight feet in the State JournaI 10 as many
inches in it's Trinity namesake, including
! comments, nstcfisks and extracts. A por-
ton Of this is directed against Mr. Broder.
lex, and another portion conveys the inti-
nation that those Democrats who apposed
the Lecompton views Of the Senator from
Trinity, were ranged side by side with
| Black Republican," This may 6c dignifcd
and argumcntative, in the estimation of the
Hon. Senator and the accomplished Elitor
! of the Journai; but We do not 50 regard it,
| Nor do we regard it as dignifed or truthful,
for Mr. Burch to tell'the Senate that the
! question was not, whether Mr. Douglas was
right or wrong, but whether the Senate
would endorse the language of Mr. Brodcr-
ick and the Butte RECORD Did not the
| Trinity J0HrHdi consider these questions,
propoundcd by the IIon. Senator, as dgui-
fed and argumeutatiye, that they were tx.
cludcl from the argumeutatiyc extracts
which it publishes Our own opiuion is
that An Hon. Senator who occupies the floor
to give expression to such absurd balder-
dash is sadly out of place, and the sooner
the people Of California discharge such un.
! principed public servants, the better viii it
be for every material interest of the State.
Such men as Senator Blrch, aud the
northern asses who suffer themselves to be
influenced by his false and contcmptible in
timations of Black Republican aninties. are
in the Legislature for the purpose ofkeeping
California true to the sectional interests OF
southern States while that section is recor
| ding their votes in opposition to a Pacific
! Railroad We rcpudiate as anti Democrat
ie and fatal to the prosperity of California,
the action Of those who would chain the in
habitants Of the Pacific coast to sectional
Jnggornot that is unaterably opposed to IL
national railroad to the PGciic-to that
/ section that laughs to scorn the proposition
to consider the Pacific Railroad bill, while
there was "niggcr question" to claim proc.
edencc of it. in the United States Senate
Look at the vote by which ;he Pacific
Railroad bin was postponed to make room
for the "niggcr question: in that august
body, and it will be seen that every south.
ern Senator, voting upon that question, with
the exception Of Bell, of Tennessee, voted to
postpone the bin If we Of California desire
this road, is it not suicidal for Us to endorse
those opposed it, and assist to crush out of
political existence, those who are favorable
to it This vote shows that the Republican
Senators were divided upon the question Of
postponcment portion of them, like the
Lccomptonitcs, being anxious tor Congress
to iegislnte on the "niggcr question" Ac-
cording to the Democratic doctrine. the
question OF slavery is one that belongs to
the people TO determine There let it rcst
II the people desire the institution of slave.
ry, they know how to obtain il if they do not
desire 1t, they know how to avoid it. We are
opposed to carrying the "niggcr question"
again into Congress, and iustructinr our
Federal Representatives to pursue policy
repugnant to national democratic principles
aud to those who would assist us in tue pas
sage ofa measure so important to our aa.
vancement and prosperity as a State. What
have we to expect from the Southern Stn,es
but continuance of the present steamship
monopoly or road upon our Southern
borders, to the eastern line Of the State. re-
quiring of California, before our population
and business marts could be reached. the
construction Of nearly one thousand miles of
railway Is there dignity or decency in
Legislative action that binds California TO a
section that thus degrales and despses her.
and would haze kept her out of the Union,
because her people had not applied for ad-
mission with slavery figure, head. and in
troduced that institution into her mines
Standing upon the Democratic platform, we
denounce the Legislature that would thus
bind the giant energies of our people and