The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-19


of Santa Clara. and after making his course
due west, reached the Tulare Valley, passing
over a country which, to use his own words,
you could drive ten mule team through, any
where"
The Speakership-The politicians are can
vassing for the Speakcrship of the next House
of Representatives, among the new members.
Mr.. Boyd, the late Speaker, is not mentioned
as candidate but the names Of Messrs Orr
of South Carolina, Phelps of Missouri, and Olds
of Ohio, are spoken Of The Washington cor
respondent of the Mississippi Free Trader says
Mir. Orr will be supported in caucus prin-
cipally by Southern Rights men and extreme
Northern gentlemen Mr.. 0lds by Ohio, Penn
sylvania New York, New Jersey, and Indiana
members-not with unanimity however and
Mr.. Phelps by the far Western interest. The
Administration, it is believed, will incline to
the reelection of Mr.. Speaker Boyd by way of
reconciling the Union party Democrats gener-
ally, and Mr.. b. particularly, all of them being
very much chagrined on account OF the man.
ner in which the claims of their friends to office
have been overlooked"
The Hopkinsville (Ky) Rife says, that Mr..
Boyd has concluded to run for Congress as
neutral candidate. He will hardly secure the
vote Of the Democracy by this course.
The New York Evening Post warns South
ern men against the delusion industrously
propagated, that Slavery has legal existence
in the new Territory of Washington, and calls
upon the Washington Union for its views upon
tha =
about Slavery being excluded, the country
should know it,
The Democrats of Mississippi Union and
State Rights have formed a compromise ticket
for State officers and Congressman. John ].
McRae has been nominated for Governor Ex-
Senator Foote is anxious to come back to the
Senate, and announces his intention to canvass
the State. Some of the papers conjecture that
Col. JEFF. Davis will be his competitor for the
Senate but we imagine this is a mistake.
The Baltimore Argus uses the occasion of
the Hale Festival at Boston, on the 5th inst,
to express its deep disgust" at the proceed
ings of the malignant fanatics there Assem-.
groundwork of an Infamous political agita.
ton, displayed in this Hale Banquet in all its
malignancy and personal dishonesty" The
Argus processes to be q Democratic print, and
thus labors to suppress agitation" We trust
it now breathes deeper and freer.
Samuel Lewis and Joshua R. Giddings are
addressing the Free Democracy of their State
Arrangements for fifteen conventions are ad-
vertised
The Cleveland Forest City objects to the ex-
ceptions to the Pierce Administration, filed by
the Era. 1t says the Wings care very little
about being accommodated from the Offices.
1t is the measures of the Administration the
Wing press regard. So far, these have differed
nothing from Wing policy" Will the Forest
City please inform us what is "Whig policy?"
The Charleston Mercury is regarded as the
ablest champion of the slave system in the
United States. recent article in that print
exhibits signs of progress unexpected in that
quarter. 1t says
"The institution of African slavery is every
day becoming more and more isolated and, by
consequence, the section in which it exists, and
to which it gives prosperity and peculiar char
acteristics is being gradually removed from the
pale of sympathy and social intimacy with the
rest of the world Everywhere, slavery is de-
and the stakeholder regarded as an in
human tyrant What will be the effect of this
upon the permanency of the institution, and
how should it dispose shareholders to their out
side enemies! The influence Of slavery on the
National Government has certainly been for
long time on the wane. The last eventful strug-
gle is of yesterday, and the results forever con-
demned to political inferiority. A wall has
been built up around it. and it's vitality must
henceforward increase rather by the perfection
and energy of its internal organization, than
by the expansion of its domain
The idea that slavery gives prosperity" to
" the section in which it exists" is peculiar.
What is meant by the last sentence in the above
The Expansion of its domain,
i may be, tends to weaken the institution.
Some of the Wing prints are much exercised
about the future of the Wing party. Conser-
7ative in their feelings the signs of progress
Alarm them The Monroe Democrat, publish
ID at Rochester, New York, under the head of
The Free Soil Festival and its Lessons fears
hat I" the crusade will sweep over the land"
md adds:
"The question arises, What are we to do1
AS the organ of the Wings we shall make it
the subject of anxious consideration but it
will be for the intelligent and conscientious
members of the party, who have fought its bat
ties and rejoiced in its victories, without seek
ing to profit personally thereby, to reflect upon
the question"
The basis of principles the Democrat propo-
ses, are "truth to the principles of freedom, up
rightness in public service, and sincere Amer
lean feeling, which prompts to the protection
and cherishing of our own institutions, in which
the progress Of the human race and the enjoy
ment of true liberty are involved, and the sus
tanning of our own industry as the best source
of prosperity, wealth, and social advancement,
that VIC are to succeed, if at ALL"
Very definite and clear
Judge Jacob Burnett, who died in Cincinnati,
on Tuesday, emigrated from New Jersey to that
city in 1885, when it contained only fifteen or
twenty log houses. He was a member of the
first Territorial Legislature Of Ohio, for ten
years Judge of its Supreme Court and at one
time United States Senator
Rev. Thomas F. Davis has been elected Prot
cstant Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina.
The Union, referring to the recent state
ments in reference to the Sandwich Islands
and the French Government, which appeared
in the Providence Journal, thinks them true in
the main, though false in some of the details,
and says that under no circumstances can this
Government suffer the dominion Of the Sand
witch Islands to be transferred to any other
Power.