Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-06
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING P1Ess.

The InfeHigencer, commenting on the
unfavorable report OF the majority of the
House Public Lands Committee, on the
bill of Miss Dix, says:
1--WE cannot lay these documents before our
readers without repeating the expression of
our regret that the highly respectable chair
man OF the committee, and those of its men,
oers who concur with him, should have come
to the conclusion that the proposed grant is
unconstitutional. We are sure that these hon.
oraIle gentlemen are no less alive to the calls
OF humanity than others; but it exceeds the
powers Of our humble understanding to con-
ceive upon what principle the countless vari-
ETY. of objects upon which the public lands are
annually bestowed by law can all be regarded
as constitutional, and yet this limited and
equitable appropriation Of a comparatively
small portion Of them, for 80 general and ben
Efficient purpose, is forbidden by the Con-
stitution."
The same paper contains letter from
Leslie Coombs, Esq, covering an inter
es':ng series of. resolutions drawn BY
-4Iy Clay in 1849, which that .distin-
E-ished man proposed at that time to have
submitted to the people of Kentucky,
without distinction Of party. They are
as follows: -.
l. Resolved, That this meeting is firmly
attached to the union of these States, and tn Al
they 90 for it one and indivisible, now and
forever
2 Resolved, That whilst this meeting would
be most happy that the controverted question
of slavery within the Territories recently ac-
CURED from Mexico should be settled in a
manner satisfactory to all parts of the Union,
no settlement Of it, whatever it may be, will
create any just occasion for dissolving the
Cniol.
3. Resolved, Tha: this meeting beholds, in
the dissolution OK our glorious Union, NO
remedy for any alleged evils, real or imagin-
cry, but great aggravation Of them all, and
contemplate that deplorable event as the
parent Of other calamities far transcending in
magnitude and fatal consequences any of
which complaint is now made
4. Rssoirsd, That, as far az depends n, on
US, We will stand by, support. and uphold the
Union against all attacks from without or
within, and against all ultraism, whether at
the North or the South.
The Union, commenting on the result
C. the Connecticut election, says;
The same baleful influences are now at
work against the present Executive The tide
OF fslsehood and Of Islander rolls ON, "a vet
without one retiring ebb. Led by the bold.
h>i nian Of the New York Herald. who was
among the last of the hyenas that hovled in
t1e onset against the venerated Jackson, the
cry Is hlled up by abolition brawlers and dis
appointed factionists, and partakes of all the
degrees OF attack, personal and political. But
Franklia Pierce, like the hero whose precepts
he has practised, and whose confidence he
shared, stands firmly on the enduring founda-
tons OF principle, and calmly awaits the issue
OF the struggle with abiding confidence in the
result. No democratic administration of the
general government conducted sternly and
firmly. OF constitutional principles can ex-
Peet, or ought to desire, to glide along upon
smooth and summer seas
The Seminal comments with great in
dignation and earnestness upon the i'm
proper interference of the Northern Clergy
IN politics, saying in the course of the
article:
The truth is, that the innate religious SEN
ument OF men has upheld Oh ristisnity against
the weaknesses and the follies of those who
come forward insolently and who pretend to
speak In the name Of the living God Norman
OF ordinary observation can have failed to
perceive the vast strides which in6delity has
made IN our country. No man of ordinary
Judgment can fail to understand that the
clergy IS responsible for the spread of infdelity
Ii those who pretend to be guides would con
hne themselves to their legitimate duties. and
strive to lead their followers in the way they
should 90, we would have the pleasure of re-
cording far different state of things But
when clergymsn spring into the arena of party
politics-vheD they undertake TO give to their
crude notions Of political affairs the seal and
sanction Of Almighty God, and when they add |
10 ignorant insolence and base audacity, foul |
abuse
sane man can doubt that the cau,e of rel;o;on
Is in imminent PERIL
Owe are indebted to the Courtesy