Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-01
Lecompton Convention In Butte.


object Of which is to convert that county to
Lecomptonism The idea is to keen up n
distinct anti.Dcug,as organization between
tlis and the elections which are hereafter to
take place. Accordingly. q County Central
Committee has been appointed, and the pre-.
iminaiies arranged, upon paper. for estab-
fishing q Lecompton county organ. Had th.
movement been fairly made, upon the plain
issue of Leeomptonism had the convention
boldly and distinctly enunchted the true lie
compton doctrine, and stood up To what the
Lecompton party must hereafter stand up
to throughout the Union, we would have con.
si1ered it q much more respectable move.
ment and a much more creditab'e body.
But it disgusts us to see that Convention and
the movers in it plying the same old dctes
tttle game OF hypocrisy which has chorae-
ter,zed the entire action o. the Lecompton
purity in this State The resolutions passed
10y that convention. md intended to influence
the public mind Of Bate county do no more
reflect, as a whole, the true sentiment Of lie
cumptonism than they do the light of aroth
er world They are intended rs llind, 10y
means which to steal march upon the De.
mocracy of Butte county, and get unsuspect-
ing Democrats inveigled into gradual re-
organization of the party, which will turn
out eventually to be a thorough and com
plete Lecdmpfoa organization. The resolu
ions are worded in such way as not very
greatly TO shock the notions of Douglas men
\ sharp sighted man could see the drift, but
Il superficial thicker would at once seize upon
a portion of them as good Douglas doctrine
Afraid to come out, in sound old Butte with
the stuff that lies at the bottom of the cor
rupt heart Of Lecomptonism, they throw in
Just enough Of the Douglas doctrine (as they
Think to prevent Douglas men from at
once turning their backs upon the whole
movement:
What DO the resolutions say? Here they
are:
Resolrcd That the Democracy of Butte
county in Convention assembled. do hereby
re affirm and endorse the principles Of the
National Democracy rs enuuciatcd in the
Cincinnati Platform of 1856, and do recog
uize rs the true and legitimate Democracy OF
this state, that which was represented in the
Democratic State Convention that in August
last ut Sacramento nominated Joseph G.
baldwin for Supreme Judge, and A. K. Ma
loney for State Comptroller, and we do here
10y cordially approve and endorse the resolu
tiors adopted 10y that Convention reafirluing
the tenets and policy of the party, including
those endorsing the present able and patriotic
| Chief Magistrate of the nation.
Resolved Tat we are for the Union, for
our party, and the union of the States, for
equality in power and equality in right
among all citizens and all soyereigntics which
compose our Confedcracy.
ReS0iged, That we endorse the policy that
requires all Territories before they shall be
admitted into the Union as States. TO have
population equal at least to the Congression-
al apportionment that would entile each State
to one Representative in Congress at least and
that when that policy was applied to Kan.
sas in what is called the English compromise
bill, We recognize in hat act. one step to
wards extending what We believe to he the
true and iast rule over all the Territories be-
longing to the United States
Resolred, That the people have q right TO
ordain and establish their Constitution in
their own way, and while we recognize their
right through their Representatives. in Con
Yentioa assembled, in the absence Of any |
law 10 the contrary, to ordain and establish Il |
Constitution without submission to the peo |
pie we deprecate that policy, and believe
that all State Constitutions out to be submit |
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by them approved or rejected; aud that any
Convention that inaugurtes state Govern
ment without such submission, violates what
we believe to be the best rule to determine
whether the Constitution is approved as an
entirety Oy the people to be affected there
by tnat we cor iialiy approve the recon-
mendation made by President Buchanan in
his lust annual message, that all new States,
before their admission into the Union should
be required. as the best evidence of the will
of the eoLie, to present Constitution that
has been approved, N all its parts,b by direct
vote from the people.
Resolved, That all American citizens, wheth
eg native or naturilized. who are qualified
voters, who will acceptand endorse the prin-
cples and government policy enunciated in
the foregoing resolutions. are invited to unite
with Us in putting down discord and faction,
and in upholdlng the Union, the laws and the
Constitution.
The fir resolution good enough LccomP
tonism. The second is CANNON, for, of
course, every decent man is for the Union ol
the States and the maintenance of the rights
Of every individual citizen and of every SOW
ercign State. The third resolution very
squarely lays down what would have been a
very fair rule had it been carried out in time,
but eln never be fair now, since no such test
was applied to the case of the Lecompton
Constitution. Had Kansas been refused ad
mission. under the Lecompton Constitution,
on the ground that her population was not
sufficient, it might do to establish the rule ms
4 fixed policy. and always to adhere to it,
that no State should come into the Union
without a certain specified amoGnt Of popu
lation but to agree to admit Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution without a less
amount Of population than she could be ad-
mitted under any other, is obviously m out
rage upon the Northern section Of the Union.
The fourth resolution is the one which !.
hypocritical. and which is esi5ned to make
Douglas men believe that the L eomptonites
are pretty good popular sovereignty men
after all! 1t recognizes the validity of a
Constitution which has not been submitted to
the PEOPLE, but consi1crsit tie best po! cy that
Constitutions should be submitted in all cases
Now, the first part Of the resolution kills
the last, for we all know what the Lecomp
tonites mean when they say that it is not ne.