The daily Butte record., 1858-05-29
The Dinerenc;e---Wks are Black RepubIi.
eanse

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California who have abandoned Democ.
racy to embrace Lecomptonism, charge
the adherents to'tbe democratic princi-
pie OF popular sovereignty with chang
ing and that senators Douglas and Brod-
erick have gone over to the Black Re-
,publicans. Let us see if the facts will
bear them out in this broad assertion.
On the sutjees Of the admission Of
new States, Republican members Of
Congress have used the following Ian
guage:
"Mr. Farnsworth So help me God, an
other slave State shall never enter the Un.
ion by my vote"
"Mr. Giddings. I will never consent that
Ohio shall associate with another slave
State"
MIR. Bingham. will not vote for the
admission OF q slave State-certainly not"
"Mr Colfax. I would not vote for the
admission Of Kansas If the tDhoie people
came here Nth sfaUe eonsfitutioa."
Senator Broderick states his position
upon the same subject as follows, and it
is in perfect accordance with the de-
clared doctrine Of che National Demo-
cratic party:
Entertaining these vie,ps, J tsouid not
oppose the admission of a State riih a
clause in its Cohstifutioa toieTating sia.
veyy, II Were satisfied that ii tcas the er-
p'essed rish Of majority Of the people,"
That is the difference between Black
Republicanism and Democracy on that
subject.
The passage of the House bill for the
admission Of Kansas with pro-slavery
constitution, should a majority of the
voters of Kansas prefer slavery, is a
decided and hcalthful improvement tor
the Republicans. 1t shows that they
have abandoned the ultra declarations
above made, and that the democratic
mode for the adjustment of such ques-
tons, upon the popular sovereignty
principle is the proper one. Those who
oppose the admission of new States on
the terms proffered by the House bill,
(the Lecomptonites and the A1minis-
tration,) are opposing the democratic
doctrine upon the subject, and are as
sectional, as ultra, and as inimical to
tho democratic sentiment as the above
declarations show the Republicans to
have formerly been. That the provis-
ions Of the House bill for the admission
Of Kansas are democratic, VIC submi,
the following evidence from tho Wash.
ington Union, the chief Lecompton or,
gan OF the administration, if we except
the New York Herald, which was for
merly FreMont's chief organ. Here is
what the Washington Union says:
"The House bill cuts up two cardinal
Black Republican doctrines by the roots. II
first denies the right OF Congress to decide
the slavery question. referring the decison
to the local community; aud Il, secondly
upon the contingency Of n popular vote, sc
long warred against by the Black Rcpubli.
cans, which IL authorizes, provides tor the
admission Of slave Ssate"
And yet it is opposed by the admin
istration and by the Lccomptonites. -
Do they not occupy grounds as section
al as that taken by tho Black Re.
publicans in their palmy days. Doe,
not their factious opposition to the
House bill, prove the Lccomptonites to
be the genuine Black Republicans
We think it does, and so must the
Washington Union, if the above cx'
tract is true. The Lecomptcnites have
hollered "Black Republican" unit
they are acting upon ultra Black Re.
publican doctrines, and opposing the
admission ofa new State asking to come
in under the principles Of the Kansa.
Nebraska law.