Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-09
tn. vo,es Counted.

State Senator is elected oy majority OF az
over his Leeompton opponent, and that the
whole Douglas Legislative ticket is elected,
with one exception. Mr.. Stoddard, our
Dougns nominee for the Assembly, is beaten
by the Lecompton nominee, Mr. Aud The
Lecomptonites also claim two out of the three
Supervisors elected The Douglas candidate
for District Judge, S. NJ Bliss, has beaten
both his opponents by majority ofSl6 in the
county. Had the friends of Nj. Reardan not
claimcd him as q Douglas man. Mr. Bliss.
majority would have been so great as to have
staggered belief
We of the Douglas and Cincinnati Plat
form Democracy, have won truly glorious
victory, aud Old Yuba has stood up manfully
for the flag of the genuine Democratic party
of the Union. Yubn county will ever be
true to that flag, and will frown upon the
Lecompton Federalists Of the present day as
the old.time Democrats frowned upon the
Blue Light Federalists of TIE past. They
like one about as well as the other.
That Mr. Aud has been elected, despite
those Lecomp.on notions which never, never
never can obtain focthold in this county
is owing undoubtedly to his personal popu-
larty, and to the fact that his defeated op.
ponent did not pretend to canvass the coun-
ty, while Mr.. Aud exerted himself to the ut
most in all the leading precincts. That We
did not obtain two of the three Supervisors
was owing to the fact that in one district
a strong Douglas district, as the vote shows
there were too Douglas candidates in the
held against one Lecompton. Put the votes
OF the two Douglas candidates together and
we have an overwhelming majority in the
district Such are the evil effects which fol
low from the want of discipline in party
and lack of that concert of action without
which numbers are Of no avail
Nevertheless. we have carried almost the
whole Of our county ticket, and we may well
rejoice, fellow Democrats, that we have done
50 well in this our first contest against those
miscalled Democrats who have sought to lead
the Democratic masses of Yuba county into
the old and grass grown and thorn-beset
path of FEDERALISM. We do not desire to
call our opponents hard names, although
they are not at all scrupulous about setting
the example. We would scorn to apply to
them title which We did not believe that
they deserved to wear and when we de-
nominate them Federalists, we are satisfied
that we can prove them to be SO.
We say, it was always the leading charac,
teristic Of the old line Federal party, of which
Mr. Buchanan was "a bright and shining
(6t~e) light" that they distrusted the capa-
city Cf the people for self-government, and
sought to concentrate the political power o f
the nation, to as great an extent as possible,
in the hands of the Federal authorities. Now,
this doctrine of Popular Sovereignty is the
very antipode of Federalism 1t places i'm.
plicit trust in the capacity of the people for
self government, and effectually counteracts
every possible tendency to concentration
| of power in the hands of the Federal An.
thorities. What kind Of recognition of Pop
ular Sovereignty was it, when lIr. Buchanan
and his followers insisted upon using the Fed.
eral power to force upon the people of Kan
sas constitution which they had already
voted down by majority of ten thousand?
Was there no Federalism in that? Suppose
that Kansas had been admitted under that
constitution, would not the Federal Govern
ment, under the control of Mr.. Buchanan.
have compelled the people, by force and arms.
to submit TO it2 Most certainly; and what
would such an ac5 have been but the very
quintessence of Federalism? The Lecomn
tontes say that the people are bound in
all cases, by the acts of their so-called rep
resentatives, no matter whether those repre.
sentatives truly represent them or not. What
is that but to take political power from the
hands of the people, and to transfer tier
sovereignty to body which is entirely be-
| yond their control? And what is such a re-
mova of power from the hands of the peo-
pie and transference of it to n body entirely
and absolutely independent of them but
carrying out of the very spirit of Federal
ism, the cardinal principle of which is to
make the people, in their primary capacity,
as much nullity in the government as pos
slbleF Truly, the old cloven-foot of FEEDER.
alism sticks out from beneath the robes of
Lecomptonism as plainly as did the hoof Of
Satan, in the olden time, when he presented
his ugly phiz" among the sons of God, and,
as Burns has it,
"sklented on the Man Of Uz
His spitefu' joke"
1t Is this same drifting tendency of Le-
comptonsm into Federalism, of the bluest
dye that the Douglas Democracy are now
eontendng against throughout the Union.
and we are glad that it has met with the
barrier that it has in old Yuba county. In
each succeeding battle, fellow Democrats. let
us make that bulwark stronger.
QUARTZ The Nevada Democrat saws
We were shown the other day, several spe-