The daily Butte record., 1858-02-06
The Party OF silence.


ment like ours, where those who have been
chosen rulers have taught the sovereign
people to discuss the great and true princi-
Piles Of popular government, and have been
elevated to power because of their approval
and endorsement of those principles, il is
bad policy to abandon them for force, be-
cause, perhaps, their application would re-
quire q little Of that vigorous thought and
activity of mind so essential to the preser-
vation Of free institutions. Robesperrie,
raised to the head Of the French govern
ment, could only give practical effect to the
sentiment of " Liberty, Equality and Fra
ternity," by the decapitaton of aristocrats
He was incompetent to the position he occu-
pied. II the Federal authorities employ
force to establish a State government in
Kansas, they carry out the principle of
popular sovereignty, after the fashion Of
Robsperrie. This may not arise so much
from their lack of ability, as on the part
oft heir great prototype, as from dis
position to rest their reverend heads upon
official cushions without being disturbed by
, the reports and designations of Territorial
Governors.
The desire to sleep may be the reason
why our excellent friend who presides over
the Marysvillo Ne,os, so ardently desires
that nothing should be said upon the Kan
sas question in California. Doubtless, the
President and his Cabinet desire that the
people Of tho Union should say nothing
about it. We have no doubt but that the
question would bo settled if they should say
nothing about it. But how BY Uncle
Sans army forcing constitution upon the
people Of sovereign State. The din Of
civil war in Kansas will not reverbeeate
around the marble columns and fcstooned
corridors Of the Capitol at Washington, to
disturb the cushioned sluInbers of power;
nor can it reach the sanctum Of the Marys-
vile .Netcs, or of the Sacramento Journal,
to disturb the soporiic silence of its occu-
pants 1t will not to say this is merely
an ideal picture. United States troops have
been slain in Kansas. And why' Those
who WELD the power Of the nation have dis
regarded the principles that placed them in
power, after having taught the people of the
Union to love. cherish and respect those
principles. senator Broderick has pro.
claimed to the world where the responsibili-
ty of that slaughter rests. The Cabinet ac-
knowledge its truth by the simultaneous
discharge Of an epistolary broadsidc upon
the public, only two days after the "maiden
speech of the Senator. 1t is acknowledged
in San Francisco by being met in spirit of
bufoonery-tho only weapon that could be
opposed to its truth. All was quiet in Kan
sas after the election of Mr.. Buchanan. and
the triumph of Democratic principles, until
the administration had intimated its deter
mination TO force a minority constitution
upon her people, and one that the admins
tration knows would be voted down were it
submitted to them. This is why Mr.. Bu.
chanan's troops are slaughtered in Kansas,
an unfortunate event that could never have
transpircd had Democratic principles in.
stead of an army, been extended them.
We would keep the "bunde' of Democratic
principles together, so they cannot be brok-
en-. Those who would discard a portion Of
the "bundle," thus rendering the whole
easy of being broken, must not expect even
our silence to favor the act. We have the
high authority of Mr.. Buchanan himself for
the discussion of this subject, and may pos
sibly continue it until his next annual mes
sage, unless previously settled upon the
broad and just principles Of Democracy,
As one of the States of the American Un-
ion, California has an undoubted and long
acknowledged right to instruct her Federal
Representatives upon this subject. The
time necessary to do so, need not bc extend
cd beyond the time spent in determining
whether the Legislature would have "Pa.
per.folder," or whether they wSald have
four "Pages" instead of FIVE.
Neither does it follow as the .Netcs would
apparently have its readers believe, that
those who favor such instructions are in fa-
vor of the present State Prison system, or
the present odious attachment law. When
the present Penitcntiars contract was given
out by q Know-Nothing Legislature, it was
claimed as being an economical one. If the
State is at liberty to secure more favora-
BILE contract, we desire to see it effected.
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