Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-28
They Weaken.

in this State is growing weak at the knees.
The Lecompton press, upon the report of the
great debate in the United States Senate be
tween Brown and Douglas, wherein the form.
er denounced the position of the latter, i'm.
mediately declared that Brown was right
and Douglas wrong. They did this the more
readily, from the fact that their leader, VIM.
NJ Gwin, had asserted in the same debate
that had he understood the Kansas Nebraska
Bill, as Douglas then interpreted it, he would
never have supported it. 1t was very natur-
al to expect that they would have followed
up this unequivocal endorsement of Brown
and Gwin by consistent advocacy of the
doctrine of Congressional Intervention 1t
seems, however, that they have received or
ders from head quarters either to play mum
on the question or take refuge in the pitiful
subterfuge that it may be necessary, at some
future time. to enact Congressional Slave
Code for the Territories but that no such en-
actment is necessary nor. Either course
shows a pusillanimous backing down from
their true position. They are evidently
afraid of the public sentiment of this State,
and desire for the second time to cheat the
people out of their votes by covering up the
true issues of the day and cloaking their real
sentiments under the usual non-committal
DISCUSSES of Lecomptonism. AS one evidence
Of this intention, witness their hypocritical
laudations, again, of Senator Douglas, after
having formally read him ont of the Demo-
cratic party. Witness, too, their electioneer-
ing assumption, brazenly declared that Mr..
Douglas suicidally repudiotes the Douglas or
ganizatiohs
Well, it will be very difficult for these
time-serving sheets to make even their own
party believe any such stuff Every sensible
man knows that Douglas is not with them
that he never will be with them-that he is
the "same unconquered rebel as ever" and
that the sun will sooner burn to ashes in its
eternal socket in the heavens than he will
fail the great principles which he has so po-
tently assisted to enthrone in the hearts of
the American People.
As far as this county is concerned, we be-
lieve Lecomptonism is this day weaker than
it ever was before. While the Douglas party
the regular Democratic organization of the
county-is harmonious and united, the Lee
compton Boiling party is far from it. They
are fighting for the delegates to the Lecomp.
ton State Convention. Whichever faction
succeeds, it is death to the others. Llovd
Magruder wants to be nominated for State
Printer. Judge Haun wants to be nomina-
ted for Congress. Col Tompkins is deter
mined to be nominated for Lieut.. Governor.
Judge Barbour wants something else, and D.
B. Scott desires the nomination fer Surveyor
General. Now, they all know very we'll that
not more than one can hope to be nominated,
because not more than one candidate will be
allowed to a county. 1t is a struggle, then,
of severe personal nature, and bitter feel
ings must necessarily be engendered. 1t is
fair to say, however, that it is reported and
believed that Judge Haun and Mr. Magruder
have formed a combination against the bal
ance of the crew. the agreement being, as it
is understood, that in case the nomination for
State Printer takes precedence of the nomi-
nation for Congress, and Magruder fails to
receive the nomination, then Uaun is to be
supported for Congress, and vice Uersa. With
this understanding, it is said, that these two
aspiTants will conformity labor to elect dele
gates to the coming Leeompton County Con.
vention. In the meantime, we presume that
Zach Montgomery and the Sutter County LIE
comptonites just over the river are not idle.
and that they are having their "say" and
their influence in Yuba Old Zach is formi-
dable aspirant himself for the nomination for
Congress, and how he will fancy the Haun
and Magruder alleged combination, is a mat
ter of pretty serious question to the parties
interested, for Old Zach has a good deal to
say in Yuba county politics when he takes a
notion. He has pretty long tongue and a
pretty fiery one, and while it may have its
pivot in Sutter it plays long way outside
of those rather circumscribed limits We an.
prehend that there will be pretty strong
Montgomery elementin that Lecompton State
Convention.
While these dissensions are rife in the LIE
compton ranks in this section, the Dougla.
party are powerful and united, and viii
sweep everything before them like whirl-
wind.