The daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-187?, 1858-06-10
The Steamboat Senator on Popular sove-
Teignty.

and venality, Senator Gwin, the base
hireling of the Pacific mail monopoly,
enemy to the Pacific Railroad and
traitor TO Democracy, made speech,
not in favor Of the railroad question,
but at the jolliication on the dark Fri
day night after the passage of the En-
glish Land sovereignty bill, in which
he took grounds in favor of that infa-
nous measure, and in direct opposition
to the doctrines he avowed throughout
California during the campaign of SO,
as we propose to show. The following
extract from his jollifcation speech,
shows his present position. 1t has
smack Of Minnie rifle patriotism
NOW. fellow citizens, after four years
contest with sectonalism. we have declared
that the principle Of popular sovereignty
hall prevail in Kansas, and IL Kansas ac-
cepts. then she will como into the Union
with the repu blicau form comma nding all the
guarantees that nrs given under the admis-
sion. II she rejects it because she receives
millions Of the public domain as other States
have received them coming into the Union,
and demands itsas paramount Of her admis-
sion. then let Kansas shrek. and let her
bleed, she shan neper come in an I'll she has
sufficient population, so far as am CON
eerned."
The Senator convicts himself of
falsebood, in saying that they have de-
clared that the principle Of popular
sovereignty shall prevail in Kansas, and
in the same breath asserting that she
shall not come in unless she accepts the
constitution as amended by Congress
sional Intervention. 1t is false that she
receives millions of the public domain
GAS other States have received then,
coming into the Union" No such in
famous proposition was ever submitted
to an inchoate State, the donations Of
land following the act Of admission az
ter the people had formed their own
constitution. 1t is, perhaps, no mat
ter for astonishment that Senator Gwin
should rise in front of the Presidential
mansion at Washington and utter such
misstatements. His previous votes in
opposition to the doctrine of popular
sovereignty, and his trcachery upon the
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Pacific railroad bill, has prepared the
public Of California to see him descend
still lower in his uprinciplcd career of
political trickery aud fraud.
The citizens of Orovile well remem-
Der the speech of Senator Gwin, deliv-
cred in this city in tho fall Of so, in
which he declared his eternal devotion
to tho principle Unpopular sovereignty,
and the right of the people to form their
own domestic institutions without Con-
gressional interference and subject only
to the constitution ofthe United States
He proclaimed this doctrine wherever
he went. We have the evidence of his
organ in FL Dorado (the Mountain
Dcmocrat,) that he proclaimed the
same doctrine in that county.
With what consistency then, could
the venerable steamboat hypocrite vote
for the Lecomptcn swindle How can
no rise at the Federal Capital and call
the Intervention of Congress- popular
sovereignty, and declare that they shall
accept of the terms dictated by Con-
gress or shall not come in for years, so
far as he is concerned? The sooner
tho Democracy cast off all such hypo-
critical vipcrs the better will it be for
the party, and for the sacred interests
of California. The people of Kansas
will receive OWNS present version
of Democracy as California will receive
him-with scorn and loathing.
What excuse will the old railroad
hypocrite be able to render then, for
keeping bowling Kansas in position to
agitate the whole country, and to iuau-
ence the next Presidential election :
He refused to admit her upon popular
sovereignty principles embodied in the
Crittenden amendment aud passed BY
the lower house. Refused to admit
her under the Leavenworth constitution
when it should be adopted by the peo-
pie, and now proclaims that she can
come i'm with the Lecompton constitu-