Year: 1859

As we expected, IL being on the ere Of an
election, the Express has come out with an
effort to make it appear that Douglas is now
identified heart and soul, with the buchanan
Democracy We know not how many peo'
pie may believe this. but we have no hesitan'
cy in saving that whoever does believe 1t is
! lacLipc in the first rudiments of common
sensc-too complete an idiot ever to under
take to comprehend anything connected with
politics


The case stands simply thus: The great
majority of the Democratic State organiza
tions Of the northern States are Douglas or
CARNATIONS He also has a strong party in
the South, headed by such men as Henry a.
Wise and Robert J. Walker. With all this
enormous power at his back, he goes into
what is summoned as a Democratic caucus
no one darcs to say him nuy-no one has the
hardihood to make any test which would
serve to exclude him. No one has the nerve
to raise the Lecompton issue-the Cham
pion of Popular sovereignty is not required





panoplied in the full armor with which he
was clad when he slaughtered the Lecomp-
tonites hip and thigh in Illinois, he walks,
Giant MS he is, into the very midst of his late
revilers, and they are forced to acknowledge,
by their respectful silence, that he is Dem.
ocrat in full standing, in spite of the Wash.
ington Unions having read him out of the
party, and in spite of all the denunciations
which had been heaped upon his head by the
| Lecompton friends of the Administration
generally. lie took back nothing. He made
no pledges He renounced not one solitary
principle for which he had contended either
in the United States Senate or his great cam
paign in Illinois Ho,c, then, can he be said
to be identified with the Administration
party? The Administration party be-
lieves in the enactment of slave code by
Congress for the Government of the Ter
ritories Douglas believes in absolute non
Intervention, on the part of Congress, with
the subject. The Administration party say
that Kansas ought to stay out of the Union
until she has a population of 93.420. Doug
las says that she ought to be admitted as
soon as she applies under Constitution ap
proved by the majority of her people.
Inasmuch as the Buchananites were willing
to admit her before she had that number, in
case she came in as q slave state, he says she
should also be admitted before she has that
number in case she comes in as free State
ways The Administration party still insists
that Douglas was wrong in his position on
the admission of Kansas under the Lecomp-
ton Constitution. Douglas still contends
and almost the whole Northern Democracy
together with a large portion of the Southern
Democracy, echoes it, that he was right. The
Administration party thinks, or pretends to
think, the Lecompton Constitution was all
right. Douglas thinks and such has been
his language, repeatedly that that instru
ment was an Infamous fraud and despicable
swindle. Marvellous agreement between
Douglas and the Buchanan Democracy here
Wonderful Identification of Douglas with the
Administration party


True, he agrees with the President on the
Gu m question. But the great issue in the
Democratic ranks was the Kansas issue, not
the Cuban. That is new question and
Democrats may think about it as they please
Among the regular non boiling Democrats of
this county, we hear avery general approval
of Douglass views with regard to the acqui.
sition of Cuba. But Douglas was to have
been read out of the party because of his
views on the Kansas question-because of
his Freeport speech-because he dared to say
to ultra Southern Democrats, ~ am still for
the principle of non'intervention with the
subject of slavery in the Territories, rs l was
and as you pretended to be, in 1854 and in
1856" This is the great dividing line be-
tween Douglas and the Administration of
James Buchanan. 1t is as broad and deep
and as clearly defined as ever.


The Lecompton so.called Democracy hate
Senator Douglas at this moment with
hatred the bitterness of which can scarcely
be conceived of. They are forced to tolerate
him, because he comes as a conqueror, with
armies at his back But, could they once
get him in their power, they would crush
him into atoms. We. the regular, bolt.
ing. steadmst Democracy of Yuba county,
stand by Douglas because we believe that he
has the principles of the party with him.
The boilers merely tolerate him, because
they fear him.