Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-04


shall come when they may regret it, 1t is all very
pleasant now. They have the power and no
DOUBT love TO eXerciset. There is strong Fed
eral atmosphere just now But wait few years |
VIII say that no Lecompt0n Democrat will take
his seat in the Presidential Chair in 1860. Nay,
turther, sir no Lecomptonite will EVER take his
seat IN the Presidential Char. 1t requires not the
gft OF prophecy to see this. The signs of the
times are omnous. 1t must be Popular Sover-
elghy douglas Democrat who takes the Presiden-
tlal ChalT IN 1860, or it must be Republican
so read the signs of the political horizon. | saw
thatf from the struggle we had to elect james Bu-
cnanan, from tue tremendous work and labor up-
on the Democracy to run him into the Presiden-
tlal Chalr, see SIR, that no Lecompt0n man can
ever WIN the hight in 1860 And sir | am more
thoroughly satisfied to-day than was when the
news tlrst came on that Douglas had dared To dis.
sent from the Imperial decree of KING james
why n0r Have not the whole great North spoken?
Where is Pennsylvania the home of the SAGE (Yi
ut Wheatland? Where is Pennsylvania? Given
over to the Opposition. Where is Old Berks
county, in Pennsylvania, that in times gone by
had poled up six thousand Democratic majority
i1r Uahcy Jones, the pet and protege Of the Pres
ldentY Was he not wiped out there? IL went
ag INST the Democracy. Where is Ohio, and In
diana, and Illinois, and Iowa, and Michigan, and
Minnesota, and the six New England States, and
the great State of New York, and New Jersey?
Do Lecompton gentlemen think they count moth
tWnutX-
hYe majority IN this Senate going to turn the cur
rent against them in the Presidential fight of
lS60Y Missouri aud Tennessee will indorse Doug
las. They have shown it in their demonstrations
thus far. And here will read an extract from
the Louisville Democrat, showing the condition Of
popular feeling towards Douglas in the South:
"Men are Slow to take open issue with an Ad-
mlnstratlon they have put into power they would
prefer To etevents rectfy themselves in the course
of time; but they have waited until patience has
ceased to be virtue. 1t seems to be the mission
OF parties at Washington to manufacture tests and
issue orders 10 the States"
be leve that part is 81 ghtly developed in this
Legislature. Lax ghter. At least, have heard
some very good Lec0mpton Democrats complain
of Federal Interference. Again "The voice from
the Democracy OF Washington county may teach
these politicians what common sense ought
to have taught them, without experiment. We
can assure these managers that they have mis-
taken the Southern Democracy just as they have
mistaken mistaken everything else for the last twelve
"This whole crusade is gotten up for flctous and
selfish purpsses, and damages not Douglas, but
the Democratic party. 1t strengthens the oppo-
sitiOn daily; and, if persevered in, it will give
1850" There is a faction in
the party South getting Jealous on nice theories.
They are making very fine points on Douglas and
Others. They have forgotten that they all sup
ported Cass in S4S who the father of the doc
trIne thata Territorial Legislature could prohibit
slavery, and that no other power could. They
have forgotten that they all supported Buchanan
IN 1856, who said that the people of a territory,
like those OF State should determine for them
selves whether slavery should or should not ex-
lst within Their limits. The rest of mankind
have not forgotten these things, and it is idle To
go before an intelligent people with a bundle of
inconsistencies and self-stutifcatons. The ex-
pertinent will end in a failure, certainly" Il
That is the language of one of the Southern
Democratic papers. And it is not only the Ian
guage OF Southern papers, but Southern states
men, and of Southern people. They cannot pnt
the Little Giant" down they cannot strangle
popular sovereignty by the decree of james Bu-
chanan As the eloquent gentleman from Stans-
iIuS stated IN his remarks the whole superstruc-
ture OF our Government rests upon the rights Of
the people to determine for themselves in all mat
ters OF civil government and upon the rights of
suffrage OF every citizen to declare at the ballot
box whether this or that principle is a principle
OF the laws of the country of which he is cit-
zen. In every arrangement of the Lec0mpton
Constitution, that dearest right of an American
cItzen-the right Of sufrIge-was set at defiance.
1t was trampled under foot from the beginning
To the end OF the Lec0mpton contrivance. But the
people have spoken-the whole North has spoken
Kansas has spoken and the South, from ST.
LOUIS to New Orleans from Charleston to Wash
ington-have spoken upon this question, and they
sustain Douglas. 1t is only few politicians, of
the JEFF. Davis school and the Slideil school, that
stu persist in opposing the great man of the peo-
pie, Stephen A, Douglas The hearts of the great
majority OF the people Of the South to-day beat in
harmonious unison with the heart of Stephen A.
Douglas, and lndOrse and re-afirm his principles
which have fully stated here to-day. | hopo,
Mr.. President, that this Senate will not cast upon
ltselta stigma-that they will not lower them
selves, and put upon record thing that will be
Troublesome to explain away hertafter-by sun-
porting this resolution concerning one of our
United States Senators. If it were a fact that
MIR. BrOdercks time was nearly out, there might
be some policy, some plauSibllity in passing such
a resouonas this. But Mr.. BrOderck will be u
fresh and young Senator when President Buchan
an and the members Of this body shall have pass
cd away He has five years yet to hold his office
three full years after President Buchanan has
gone out Of office. | say then by passing this
resolution we not only undertake to injure Mr.
Broderlck, personally, but we give death stab
ID ourselves. We are injuring our representative
abroad-we are weakening our power as a State
at the Federal Capital Why? If we pass the e
resolutions, and they go on to Washington, it Is
said If Mr.. Broderick proposes to introduce a
measure that he cannot be heard -"he has be, n
repudmted BY the Legislature of his Smte-he
not entitled to any consideration-the measures
which he ofeOs should not be adopted by the
Senate-hels not the Senator Of California Is this
wisey Is it good policy, considering only our
own influence and our own inter SITS in the mat
ter? tank not. think it foolish | think
It is suicidal think it is unjust, and I hope, in
all sincerity and out of respect ourselv and
tor our own best interests in the ntt,lts of our
State, and for its welfare that we W II restIa our
steps and reconsider the resolutions now before
the Senate.
CB" Rev Mr.. Culp passed thrown towr,