Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-03
A Word to the Brec!linridgers.


The Shasta Courier says We ask the
Breckinridgers of this county if they were
not, almost to a man, in favor of the famous
"Hook Resolutions" offered in the California
Senate in 1851? Now do not dodge the
question, gentlemen, upon the ground that
we are speaking to no one man in particular
We ask each of you individually We ask
Mr.. Bass, your candidate for the Assembly.
We ask each one who sought that nomination
at the hands of your Convention. We ask
each Of your county orators. When next
they made public addresses, let them answer
this question, did you not in 1854, support
the Hook Kansas ebraska ResolutionsY 2"
We want Il frank reply. We will brook nc
dodging. Say yes or no, or keep your mouths
shut We assert that every one of you did
approve those resolutions. Now deny it, il
you darel
Well, having thus pinned you to the wall
where there is no chance to dodge, unless you
perform the gymnastic feat of leaping clean
over our hesd4-%e will proceed-with helmet
on and vizor down-(the helmet of truth and
yizor Of justice) quietly and at our leisure to
elegantly stab you with that same series oi
resolutions. Now hold your breath and pre-
pare for the thrusts of regular Damascus
blade. Here they come:
WHEREAS, A bill to organize the Territory
Of Nebraska, has been introduced into the
Senate of the United States, which bill recog
nzes the following doctrines: That ALL SUITS
INVOLVING QUESTIONS OF PERSONAL FREEDOM
AND TITLE TO SLAVES, SHALL BE DECIDED BY
TIE LOCAL TRIBUNALS OF THE STATES OR TER
RlroRIEs, WITH RIGHT TO APPEAL TO TIE SU-
PREME CoURT OF THE UNITED STATES that the
provisions of the Constitution of the United
States, in relation to fugitivcs from service,
shall be faithfully executed in organized Ter
ritories of the United States, as well as in the
States, and that they ought to be rigidy en-
forced alike in both. THAT the people residing
In tie Territories and the States to be formed
ont of them, shall decide all questions pertain,
ing to SLagery therein, hrough their Represen
tatiues to be elected for that purpose That
the compromise of eighteen hundred and fifty
is inconsistent with, and supersedes the com i
promise of eighteen hundred and twenty,
known as the Missouri Compromise. and
whereas, the above principles but reitePate in
language and substance, the compromise
measures of eighteen hundred and fifty, in re-
lation to slavery which measures ought to
be faithfully observed in all the States and
organized Territories: Therefore be it
Resotged By the Senate and Assembly OF
the State Of California, that we approve OF
the provisions as set forth, of the bill for
"An Act to organize the Territory of Ne
braska," introduced into the Senate of the
United States, on the 23d of January, 1854.
Resoiped That our Senators in Congress be
instructed, and our Representative requested
to vote for, and to use their best eXertions to
procure the passage of said bill.
Thsy were introduced by Mr. Hook, Sena-
tor from Ell Dorado, and were written, so
understood at the time, 10y Senator Crabb,
then the leader of the very hottest class of
Southern hot-heod politicians in California.
Now let any man read them, and then re-
member the remarks of Senator Gwin, de-
lvered in the Senate last winter wherein he
declared that he would never have voted for
the Kansas-N ebraslIa bill if Mr.. Douglas had
IN 1854 placed the same Interpretation on it
that he does now-and then say what he
thinks of Dr. Gwin's assertion. Why our
Legislature instructed him to vote for that
bill, because, as the resolutions themselves
asserted, it declared Just what Douglas now
asserts, to wit: that the people residing in
the Territories, and the States to be formed
cut of them, shall decide all questions per-
tanning to slavery therein, through their
representatives, to be elected for that pur-
pose" Douglas does not now claim for them
anything more than did a Democratic Legis-
lature in 1854. In fact that Legislature in
terpreted the Bill then precisely as Douglas
does now-and for that very reason instruc-
ted DR.. Gwin to vote for it. And yet he has
the eifrontery to say that, if he had then un-
derstood it as did the Legislature which in
structed him, he would not have voted for it
1t is historical fact that since 1854 men
have been crushed, as "between the upper
and neither millstone,' in Democratic State
Conventions, for having voted against these
resolutions. We have ourself been in Demo-
cratic State Conventions and seen gentlemen
defeated for the sole reason that they hac
voted against the "IIook Resolutions" Anc
further, we assert that the very men who
then raised the question, are now blatan
Breckinridgers. We assert, and defy sue
cesstul contradiction, that in no less than TIVE
Democratic State Conventions have candi-
dates been defeated for having voted agains
the Hook Resolutions said candidates de
c.aTing at the time they thus voted, that the.
endorsed the sentiments contained in til
resolutions, but deemed them an impertinen
interference with matter that was who'll,
and entirely of Federal character an
therefore not one upon which State Legisla
lures had a right TO legslate.
CoUNTERFEIT HALF DoLLARs.-A most capi
al oouptnrfait of tho ell 1,,a, al ALA,