Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-30
The View We Take OF IL

| 7 ernluptOn vocabulary, Douglas Heh-Hhu
tbe Republicans are standing on the same
nlalform. This he undertakes to prove Ivy
the fact that the Republicans and Douglas
Democrats voted against the admission OF
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.
According to this reasoning. the Lecompton-
ties and Republicans are on the same plat
form also, for they have voted together re-
peat,dlv against the leading measures of the
Administration. II voting together against
the Administ alton he any sign of identity OF
principle. the Lecomp'on party Is ms th"r
oughly Republican as any organization could
possibly be. Leconutonite tesand Republicans
voted aguiust an increase of the army for the
Utah war Lecomptoniies and Republicans
voted against the Pacific Railroad. Le-
comptouites and Republicans voted against
giving the President thirty millions of dollars
! for the purchase Of Cuba 1t would be hard
to say what, except ng tn, admission of Kan
sas they have not voted for, together. 80
much for such argument as this ItamourtS
to nothing.
But the Express, under is new conduct
saws. in reference to the Leconpton Constl-
tn ion:
TIN. d;safftcted D. mocrnts took the position
th,t Co.yr.>S has nu right [ review the acts "i
the rr,pie. " hu have spoken through their legally
| c,n.uIrntrd representatives,. The Republicans al
or CO perceived that ms was an e""o'Ssine't :.
tbr nrnc.plc FIR which they cuutendtd III 90;
for if Congress has the pnw,r rtn reject Consiitn.
| tip, that i relnb c IA ia lis form, wh cll has
! been regularly aud legally adopted, for any rcI-
s,r, it surr ndcrS the whole question "f C"i-
gr, ,Sin al rgis hti"n in the TcrrturieS. The
X pub cans, ther fore. united with them 10 de-
fat the Democratic party.
The main error Of the above consists in a
wrong statement OF the facts. The con,titu-
tiun had not been regularly and legally
adopted unless YOU call fraud and swindhng
legal and regular. The Lrcompton party had
IL different idea Of what was legal and regu-
| lar. it il true. from what the Douglas Dem
ocracv had, in the matter of this Lecompton
business. The Douglas Democracy ii not
think it was legal and regular to hold con-
vent on in which the people were not repre-
ing Of which the people hand no hand or
uicc. The Lecomptonites thought it WAS all
! light, bur, then. Lecomptonites notions of
m, nlity and justice are rather peculiar
The disntfrctei Democrats" quoth the Ex-
press, meaning hy that complimentary appel
htiun stephen ~ Douglas and his followers.
took the p siliou that Congress has the right
To review the acts IF the people who h"v"
spoken through their iegalty constituted rep
resentdticeS' Now. the fact is, the people
never did speak through those representa-
tires in the Lecompton Convention, whether
| they were legally constituted" or illegally
constituted. There was the trouble; the peo-
pile had ne\ or elected them in the first place,
and, 50 far from speaking through 'hen, they
condemned everything that they ill at the
/ first OPP urtu,ity that they go,--condemued
| the whole operation, from top to bottom, ly
u vote of ten thousand majority. The Doug
las Democrats took no such ground as Is at
trihu,ed TO them 10y the Express. They did
not claim that Congress hnd right to reject
u Constitution which had been regularly and
legally adopted Nothing of the kind. They
said that the kansas \ ehlqska Bill acknowl-
edged and guaranteed the will If the nmjori-
tV in forming a State Constitution, and that
Congress was bound tu inquire whether n
Constitution coming before them was really
the act and deed Of the people fit was
really the act and deed ufthe people and re-
publican in form, then Congress was bound to
admit the new State under it. 1t is perfectly
idle to say that. if the Lccompton Constitu-
tior had come up in II fair and legal way.
subject to no objections of fraud or rascality
in the getting up, aud unopposed hy the in
Iii Inant cumors of the great mass of the peo
pie; it is peri city idle to say that, un1er
these circlIn tancrs. the Doug,as men would
haze voted against the admission of Kansas
under the instrument. 1t is merely dodgng
! the question 10 talk as the Lrcomptouites do,
Al ont the Douglas men wanting Congress to
"rr,iew the acts of the sovereign people" aud
to say that such and such shall BE- their Coz
-tituiion and thus must they do and in no
other way. and all that kind Of humhuggrry.
Nobody contends for anything of the kind
and mol ody wants it.
The EXPRESS, however. lays its great est
stress On the fact that the Republican organ
the ). F. Tiues has put forth the declaration
that "thc Anti-Lrco, p,onites are very nearly
with the Republicans and, il left to their
convictions of duty and prime plr they would
sooner unite with them than with the I.c-
compton Democrats" We = oull respectful
Iy ask the Express if the Doughs Dcmocra-
cy are not hettrr fitted to define their owl
po-it"n than any Republican is 10 define il
for them. The f'ct is. the Il, putlicans' gam,
has been to draw into their ranks ms man,
persons from al, parties as they possibly can
aud, in order To create the impression tha
they are sweeping everything before them
they claim thar every great political move
rnent that is made is operating in their favo
in some way or other. aud that ultimately
there IN, II lie My two parties in the coun
t"y the Republican and the Lecompton
This is all very nice for them, but it is falls,
reading Of the times. The ). f. Times an,
the Express both know very well that til,
DO gias party, which IS the true Democracy
are opposed TO Congressional interference,
Nhh slavery in the Territories, while tn,