Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-08
Spirit Of the Morning Press.


The Republic publishes and praises the last
fourth of July effort of the Hon Edward
Everett, which was spoken in Faneuil Hall,
Boston, replete as all such things are with pa
triotic compliments to our forefathers The
editor also defends his journal from the criti-
clsm OF the New York Albion, which charges
upon that paper and the Washington Union.
the settled design of generating ill-feeling
against England on account of the nterfer-
ence OF her abolitionists in our affairs. Our
contemporary handles his subject capitally.
Inc Union repeats its late by-authority
reading OF the New York Post and Buffalo
Rep"6l'c out of " the party 1t strikes us
that the editor is wasting his powder it being
understood by all the patrons of those two
journals that they " 60 in for anti -slavery
first and democracy afterwards The Union
also disclaims " Wing sympathies'' for the
Administration, and congratulates its party ON
the alleged fact that the opposition have so
tar been unable to find peg upon which they
may hang reasonable complaint against its
policy. Commenting on the proceedings of the
recent Democratic State Convention in Maine,
and the nomina ton of the Hon. Albert Pills
bury for Governor, a veritable veteran Wild
Cat, the editor goes into extacies well nigh,
over the vehement attachment to :. ocgu;ss-
cence now deci dedly his party s shibboleth
which the resolutions and nomination mani
fest The Maine Liquor Law interest or in
fuence, which for some year or so past has been
uppermost in the councils of the Maine Demo-
cracy. seems in the action of this Convention
to have been forced to take back seat Tho
temperance folks will hardly stand being
treated as though the principle for which they
contend is mere :" good enough Morgan"
for the party's purposes. The history of the
rise and progress of their organization shows
that they adhere to their cause in season and
out of season, with pertinacity not even second
to that manifested by the abolitonists.
The hteihgeMcer, in Illuminating over the
by-gone days Of Washington city when lone
building land that not very large one) con-
tanned the two Houses of Congress and its
clerks, the Post Office. the Patent Office and
the Public Library, and when the Depart
ment of State was accommodated in a twenty
foot three-story house." compares with mas
ter pen, the amount of public business trans
acted here at that time with that which is
transacted here now; incidentally explaining
how and why those who WELD the destinies of
our confederacy at this time are clothed with
much heavier responsibilities and arc taxed
mentally and physically, more than their pre-
decessors were. In the course of this article
the editor takes occasion to pay a deserved
compliment to the Hon. Caleb Cushing. At
torney General, for the manner in which he is
systematizing his Department and is disposing
of the vast additional labors which have been
devolved on it by the want of experience of
public employees, who have entered Office.
&c, since the 4th of March last.
The Suns correspondent q Ton'' discusses
the history of Administration organs and can
didates for the Speakership. explaining graph
ically the miseries of being without ono,
and the no less perplexing ombarrassments of
being at the mercy Of their kinks and blunders.
The Clipper again continues its religious
disputations, publishing a long extract from
the New York Orern, which criticises Arch
bishop Hughes with sectarian zeal and Sc
verify; and communication signed q Tole-
ration, occupying much space and taking
ground of course, against the doctrines of the
Catholic Church.