The Daily Butte Record

The Issues.

The Placerville Register, contains a synopsis of the speech delivered by Senator Carpenter, of El Dorado, in which the issues of the campaign were sharply defined as follows:

"Upon a small piece of bunting, supposed to have been smuggled through the Custom House, was inscribed by authority'—not the substantive and significant name of Democracy, but "The Administration"—not Popular Sovereignty, but Official Supremacy—not the adopted finalities of our National Platform, but the lately primeval tests prescribed by treacherous power—not the original sovereign rights of States, territories and people, but the usurped prerogatives of a central and despotism, "And to complete the chivalrous coat of arms, we are not confronted by a death's head and cross bones,' but piteously importuned by a dead head and wish bone. Such were the half threatening, half tempting shibboleths, watch words, under which we saw arrayed the train-bands of the administration. From these, he would ask them to turn their eyes to the superb standards of the Democracy, bearing the spontaneous victory shout of an enlightened and patriotic public sentiment. They are Popular Sovereignty and the names of its indomitable champions, Broderick, McKibben and Douglas—down with the English bribe for the admission of Kansas at any time, and under any constitution adopted by her people—out upon Federal sectionalism, whether backed by threat or bribe, by fraud or force, and instead thereof justice and equality to the North and the South—State, territorial and personal rights, as secured by constitutions and organic laws, made binding by the sovereign will of a consenting people."