Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-26
The HypocriticaI Party.

/ than do the party of James Buchanan. lhey
pretend that they are friends Of Popular
Sovereignty. But, how do they show 1t
| BY endorsing the most outrageous political
swindle that was ever gotten up upon the
face of the earth-the Lecompton Constitu-
tion; by explaining and technically reason
/ ing away the whole spirit and substance of
that great doctrine which is the boast of the
Democratic party; by reducing the broad
principle Of the sovereignty of American cit
liens at the ballot-b box to the pitiful PROPOSE
tion, creed, belief or whate' er else you may
choose to call it, that the people have no
right to question the acts of their Represen-
tatiyes, no matter how greatly those SO called
Representatives may misrepresen! them.
Great sticklers for STATE SOVEREIGNTY do
they pretend to be. And how do they show
their regard for this kind of sovereignty? By
endorsing the admission into the United
States Senate, Of two Bogus Senators elected
by an irresponsible convention held in direct
violation of the Constitution of the sovereign
State of Indiana. Beautiful friends Of State
Sovereignty they are
Here in this county, just on the eve of olec-
tions, they pretend to be very warm friends
of Douglas. But how do they show it By
reading him out of the Democratic party, as
soon as the election sover
Here also they pretend to be great enc
mics to Know Nothingism, and yet they go
further than the Know Nothings ever went
and refuse a man the rights of an American
citizen, after he has been t,renty or thirty
years absent from foreign soil
They pretend here, also, especially in this
city, to be in favor of non-intervention by
Congress with the affairs of slavery in the
Territories, while they know well that all
the great leaders of their party, together
with their great party organ at Washington,
the Washington Union, have distinctly and
repeatedly declared that there must and
shall be Congressional slave code for the
Territories.
They pretend here in this county to view
with horror any boiling from regular organi-
zation. But how do they show it? BY open
ly boiling the regular Democratic organiza-
tion of the county and holding Bogus Con
vention at the Martin House, in which the
leaders were the same persons who had either
acted with the regular convention in all its
proceedings, or had been defeated candidates
for office before it. Beautiful specimens to
talk about regularity and to denounce Bolt
ers. Oh, the shameless hypocrites
Here as well as elsewhere they pretend to
be great advocates of nationality" "conser-
yatism" and the like How Go they show it
By favorng the Southern section of the
Union only, instead Of legislating or advo-
eating legislation for both sections alike, ir-
respective of geographical lines or geograph-
ical prejudices. The KansasN ebraska bill
was all very WELL as long as it was likely to
operate in favor of slavery, but as soon as it
operated in favor of freedom, it was no long
er to be regarded. and the power which that
bill denied to Congress must now, according
to these political Pharaisees, be restored to
it. Tremendous nationality and "conserva-
tism" this
Great friends of economy do these Admin
istration Pharaisees pretend to be- And how
do they show that? By the depletion Of a
lately overrunning Treasury, and the present
burden ofan enormous debt which they have
saddled upon the country!
They pretend to be greatly in favor of ex-
tensive Overland Mail facilities for Califor-
MIA. But how do they prove it? BY giving
advantages to a route passing through the
Southern portion Of the Union and reaching
the extreme Southern end of the State which
they deny to the most direct and central
route, and the one in which the masses of the
people of California are most particularly
interested. Very great friendship for Over
land Mail facilities for California this is
Where, too, is that Pacific Railroad that
the present Administration was going to give
us? Echo answers, "where ?"
We might go on enumerating the titles of
this Lecompton faction to the denomination
of the Hypocritical Party, ad infnit,m, but
we cannot spare further space for the nau-
seating subject at this time