The daily Butte record., 1858-03-06
The Assembly OF California X Repudiates
the Doc trine Of POpular SOXereIgnt

puDHshcu elseWnere IN tO-uay paper IL Will
be seer that the Assembly have adopted the
resolutions instructing our Senators, and
requesting our Representatives in Congress,
to vote for the admission Of Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution. With the
knowledge before them, over the certificate
Of Governor Denver, that the people Of
Kansas bad repudiated that instrument by
an overwhelming majority, they instruc.
our representatives at the Federal Capitol
to force it upon them. And what is still
worse, but one man could be found in the
Assembly committee, to say that he had seen
or read the constitution they were instruc
ting our Federal Representatives to sup
port.
Such vote Is unworthy the representa-
tivcs of free and intelligent people, and
we hold up those forty nine Members Of the
Assembly Of California to the contempt and
reprobation of every honest man who be.
lieves in the capacity Of the American peo.
pie for elf-government.
We charge the Assembly of the State Of
California, with a reputation Of the "vital
principles Of our free Institutions pro-
uounced 80 by Mr.. Buchanan himself
We charge them with slayish and an un-
holy abandonment of the Democratic doc
trine, and on the authority of Gen. Cass
with having "grossly violated tho inaliena-
BILE rights OF man"
We charge the Assembly with voting to
sustain what they knew to bo an unnitaga-
ted falsehood, in assuming that tho people
Of Kansas had formed constitution for
themselves, as the Assembly resolutions as
sert, when they knew that the people OF
Kansas had repudiated that constitution by
n two thirds vote.
We charge the Assembly with violation
Of Democratic pledges. made from every
stump throughout tho Union, that the doc
trine of popular sovereignty should be up
held, and the entire constitution submitted
to the people for their approval.
We charge the Assembly with violation
of the principles upon which the campaign of
SO was fought, and endorsed by the people
of the Union in the triumph Of the Demo-
cratic party-principles well understood by
an intelligent people, then and now.
We charge the Assembly with exercising
their own right of suffrage, to deprive a
portion of the Union of the exercise that
just right guaranteed to them by common
constitution.
We charge the Assembly with a solemn
violation of tho right of the majority of the
people Of n State TO make their own laws
under which they are to live, and to which
they arc required to render obedience,
We charge the Assembly with q violation
of the Democratic National and State Plat
forms. thus treacherously and basely, COM
pelling the Democracy to become party of
oppression and Tyranny, instead of recog-
nizing the capacity of the people for self
government
We charge the Assembly with violation
of the Constitution of the United States,
which they have solemnly sworn to support,
because the fundamental law they would
force upon the people of Kansas, having
been legally and peaceably rejected by the
sovereign power, is "an.i.rcpublican" in its
character.
We charge the Assembly with grossly in
sulting tho intelligence of tho people they
wero chosen to represent, outragipg the
clearest principles of free government, and
government "consecrated by the
blood of our fathers and hallowed by the
affections of their sons"
This unprinciplod action Of the Assembly
will no more meet the appreciation of the
Democratic sentiment Of California, than i'll
it had emanated from the Sacramento chain
gang. The people of California may we'll
look to their own liberties. when their rep
rcsentatives thus fippantly discard the
principles of right, reason and common jus.
tice. We would inform these unprincipled
and traitors to their party faith |
and obligations that, notwithstanding they |
may vote away the inalienablo rights of
sovereign people, and pack Democratic Con.
ventions to endorse their treason and usurp-
alton, there is place where even q Caliior-
na Assemblymen can but legally balance
The vote Of an honest man--and that is at the |
Tho ballot box-"the bulwark of American |
reedom" The wisdom Of our Assembly
nay follow the dictates Of treason, and rcpu-
liate the ballot in Kansas, but they will be
epudiated by the ballots of California.
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