Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-07
Gwin the Head and Front of the LecOmp-
ton Party.


To elect the Administration ticket in the
present contest, and especially to elect the
Leeompton candidates for the Senate and
Assembly, in the different counties, will be
equivalent to electing VIM. NJ. Gwin to the
United States Senate to succeed himself when
his present term expires; for it may be con-
sidered settled thing that the election for
Senator will be brought on one year in ad-
vance, should Lecompton Legislature be
elected. Are the people of this State pre-
pared to re-elect VIM. NJ. Gwin to the respon.
sible position of United States Senator p
Do they deem him the pure, upright and
honorable man that United States Senator
should be2 If they do not, let them vote
against the Lecompton ticket this fall, for in
voting for that ticket they vote for VIM. NJ
Gwin. Let them inquire into the proclivi-
ties of the different candidates in the different
counties for the State Legislature, and they
will find that they are Gwin me-. They
may deny it, but their anticedents will show
that they are Gwin's friends, and that, as
they have sustained him before they will
sustain him again.
VIII any sane man pretend to dispute that
| Gwin is the head and front of the Lecomp-
ton party in this State? Is he not stumping
the State now in opposition to the Douglas
Party Did he not take issue with Stephen
| A. Douglas in the United States Senate, on
the 22d of February last, when he declared
that he disagreed with him, ,ohoIly, on the
construction which he placed on the Kansas
Nebraska Bill, and that he was against him
on the great question of Popular Sovereign
ty2 Has he not already IN this State, since
his return from Washington, denounced the
position of Stephen A. Douglas, on this same
question. and publicly repudiated the Doug
las doctrine from the stump? Most assured
ly he has. Do not the Lecompton presses
approve of what he says, republish his speech
es in full and with approving comments, and
continually laud him with fulsom adulation
Certainly they do. He is their acknowledg
ed leader, and he dictates the whole pro
gramme of the Lceompton performance in the
present campaign For what is he taking
such an active part in the canvass, but that
he may be reelected to the United States
Senate9 Why does he visit every leading,
prominent point in the country, and endeavor
to rally his peculiar friends in the contest -?
The case is clear, he intends to be the next
United States Senator succeeding himself,
and the Lecompton Party intend to elect him
to that position.
Ask the Express now, if it believes the
charges which are so boldly made, and SO
universally believed, against the honor und
integrity of DIR. Gwin in his public course at
Washington. It will have nothing to say =
Why2 Because it knows that Gwin is the
leader of the Leeompton Party, and it will
not do to repudiate him, and if it did, IL dare
not Ask any of the Lecompton papers if
they are opposed to Gwin, and they are as
silent as the tombs. They know that he is
their leader, and that they must support him
If the honest, industrious, moral and up.
right citizens of California will now 90 delib-
erately to the polls and vote for the success
of a party which intends to re elect VIM. NJ
Gwin to the United States Senate, we con
fess that we shall despair of California.