The daily Butte record., 1858-05-04
The Traitor. Unmasked.

sought to be established by the admin
in accepting the Lecompton
Constitution for Kansas. In SO doing
they have'been governed by no factious
spirit, nor by an Incorporate zeal for
popular rights. Not factious, for the
Democracy have ever denied the right
of self constituted leaders and admins
trations to create party tests and not
governed by an Incorporate zeal for
popular rights, for the principle which
they have upheld is the sub-structure
upon which our free government is
reared and was solemenly declared by
the patriot founders of the republic,
who pledged to its united support their
"lives, fortunes and sacred honors. -
They have met the false charge Of Sec
'ional prejudice and animosity, made
by the advocates of Leeompton, by
pointing to an undertaking political
record and their sacred regard for the
primary principles of a Democratic
government, and by a patriotism as
broad as the American Union. They
regarded the attempt to force an OBJ.
noxious constitution upon an unwilling
people, who had repudiated it by every
legal means at their command, as a re-
vival Of the long-exploded doctrine Of
ancient federalism, "that the people
have neither the right to, nor the ca
pacity for, self-government."
The advocates of the Lecompton
fraud met the charge of having aban-
doned the National Democratic Plat
form, with the plea Of "Expediency,''
and declared thems elves governed only
bya desire to localize and speedily
settle the agitation arising from delay
in the admission of Kansas. Was this
their motive Let us examine the
vote by which the Senate bill for the
admission Of Kansas was defeated in
the lower House. This bill con-
tanned clause recognizing the right Of
/, the people to alter or amend the con-
stitution at any time. This was so
e calz ing" and SETTLING" the question
4 and yet, strange to relate, there were
but seventy-two out of one hundred
and twelve Lecompton patriots and
; statesmen in the House to vote for its
passage. They desired TO "localize'
and "settlo' agitation by the passage Of
$ Lecompton straight, Notwithstanding
. it had been shown by evidence that
is undenied and cannot be disprovsd, to
have been conceived in sin and per-
i, tected by the most glaring frauds upon
o the ballot box. Is there nothing Sec
tional in the course of these forty Lee
$ comptonites who refused to stand bv
, the administration in support of the
Senate bill 7 Shall the adherents to
principle heed tho wild rawlings of Sec
tional fanatics about loyalty to the ad-
5 ministration, who thus turn the cold
D shoulder upon the principal measure et
that administration ,
The pap-eating, spread eagle" jour.
; nails of California have, from time to
time. announced that "the next steam
er" would bring Intelligence of the ac-
l ceptance Of the Lecompton swindlc.-
There are sixty-two Senators, and two
hundred and thirty-four members of
the lower House, making total of two
hundred ninety-six. After months
spent in showing the wisdom of the
measure, and urging its passage with all
the power of an administration having
in its control eighty thousand appoint
ments, it received but one hundred and
four votes, leaving a majority, in both
branches of Congress combined, of
eighty-eight A clear defeat.
In favor of the Crittenden amend
ment, which refers the constitution
back to the people for their adoption,
there are in the lower House. one hun
dred and twenty. clear majority of six
counting all the members of that body.
The Senate, on the Crittenden amend
ment stand twenty-six favorable, to