Daily National Democrat

The Holden Resolutions.

The Red Bluff Beacon (Administration,) thus remarks on these ridiculous resolutions:

"The resolutions of Mr. Holden, censuring the course pursued by the Hon. D. C. Broderick, in U. S. Senate, during the last session of Congress, when the Kansas question was upon the tapis came up for action in our State Senate, on Friday last. So far as the mere censure of Mr. B. is concerned, for the vote he cast on the occasion alluded to, we heartily endorse the resolutions and the vote by which they were adopted by the Senate. But while we endorse the sentiments embodied in the resolutions, we think the facts of the case will not warrant their applicability to Mr. Broderick. True, the Ninth Session of the Legislature attempted to instruct our Senators and Representatives in Congress in relation to their votes upon the Kansas question, requiring them to support, and do all in their power 'to carry out the policy of the President.' Yet it is equally true, that at the time of the passage of these resolutions the question had never been passed upon by the people of this State. it had never been made an issue in any election, and we contend that Mr. B. had the same right to exercise his opinion in relation to what would be the future political course of the whole body politic, as any member composing the Ninth Legislature, that voted to instruct him upon that point. Consequently, while we have always deprecated the vote he gave on the Kansas question, and his subsequent course, both in and out of U. S. Senate, yet good faith and fair dealing have always precluded us from the exercise of a too harsh course towards one who occupies such a prominent position, and whose influence can materially affect, for weal or woe, the future of our young and growing State. Now that the people of California have acted upon the Kansas question, we contend that our Senator should either carry out their views or resign his place. But we do object to the resolutions of Mr. Holden as having a tendency to cripple the energies and the influence of our Senator at Washington, for a violation of something that was not known to exist at the time his vote was cast."

The Beacon omits or overlooks one of the main reasons why the resolutions should not pass, and that is that the Resolutions of Instruction were not received by Mr. Broderick until about a month after his vote had been already cast on the Lecompton Constitution.