The daily Butte record., 1858-03-02
Kanaas I'm Congress.


show that the Walker Nicaragua excitement
has given away before the appearance at
the Federal Capitol, Of the Lecompton Con-
stitution for Kansas. Gen. John Calhoun.
Car of Kansas, has graciously forwarded
to the President Of the United States single
copy Of that celebrated document, which the
President has transmitted to the Senate,
with message recommending its acceptance
by Congress
The message Of our venerable and res.
pected Chief Magistrate. upon this subject,
we have attentively read. and cannot re-
frain from saying that it is decidedly the
best pettifogging document that ever ema-
mated from the White House, or met with an
enthusiastic reception in the halls of Con-
gress 1t meets the entire appreciation Of
Mr.. Toombs, and other gentlemen, who re.
Gently accused our venerable and patriotic
President of having violated his oath OF Of
fee. Thus far, the gross and hagrant VIC.
lation Of principle by the administration,
has gained to its support upon this measure,
the baleful friendship Of sectional men but
it makes no new administration supporters,
nor does it "add new strength to the spinal
column" Of those who were weak backed in
their support of Lecompton, while it shows
to what purposes Chief Magistrate may
loan himself. and only exctes contempt and
indignation from Democrats, who do not 20
to the White House for their political opin-
ions
Gov, Denver, had forwarded the result of
the election Of January 4th, showing that
the people of Kansas had rejected the Le-
compton constitution, by n vote of nearly
two to one, and yet Mr.. Buchanan insanely
argues that the people of Kansas, had a
right to form their institutions in their own
way" and that they did not require the
convention to submit the constitution for
their approval, and therefore they have no
right to complain, and intimates that those
who do complain, are "in II state of rebellion
against the government in which they live"
Ii this is 50, why have they not been ar
rested by the Federal authority
There are strange Inconsistencies in this as
In all other pettifogging documents. Mr..
Buchanan first argues that the people were
bound by the action of the delegates in con-
vention, and IA little further along in the
message, he asserts that majority can
amend the constitution at will, and that the
provision making the constitution binding
is wholly unavailable. He forgcts that by
adopting that constitution that one third of
the Legislature can defeat legal amend.
ment.
Again, Mr.. Buchanan says-"thc will Of
the majority is supreme and irresistible
when expressed in lawful and orderly
manner" Mr.. Buchanan recognized the
legality of the election Of January 4th,
which was conducted in an orderly manner.
and at which the Lecomptou constitution
was rejected by an overwhelming majority
of the voters of Kansas. And yet Mr.. Bu-
chanan urges Congress- to force that objec-
tionable constitution upon them. Did ever
exalted before The New York Herald may
well claim that the great statesmen of the
country have all departed
The utmost power of the administration
is now assduously and ndustriously applied
to perpetrate this foul wrong upon sove-
reign people of 4 sovereign state, and the
indications are that it will be accepted. Its
effect upon the Democratic party will be but
temporary. "Truth, crushed to earth, shall
rise again" They may be destroyed for the
present, but will triumph again, when the
present treachorous and unprincpled al
ministration shall have passed away. and its
its iniamy only be remembered to receive
Its well-earned heritage of loathing and
scorn.
Had Mr.. Buchanan adhered to the Just |
principles of his party, there would have
been no agitation His election was hailed as
harbinger ofpeace, and until he treacher-
"usly abandoned those principles, quiet
reigned even in Kansas. Let him turn the |
National Democracy over to their enemies,
the Black Republicans-but let every patri-
OF pray that his success in crushing the life
out OF the party that have conferred honors
and position upon him, may not induce him
to go step further, aud re.enaot the coup
de etat of Louis Napoleon.
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