Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-12

protest, publishsd yesterday, having been q.
ensively commented upon around uublie
places in Washington, has brought out the
TACT that the Northern press are somewhat
in their ideas Of the character Of |
hat paper, # not having been designed a
protest, but rather az . claim for damages in
aicssd ON the innocent in rightfully Furnishing
The guilty at Greytown.
1t strikes "a that yesterday afternoon or this
morning, the Nicaraguan Minister essayed o
reply to the Kossta-letter. junior, which rumor
sredits him With having received from under
Marcy's big and very emphatic Est
In which he corrected the popular impression
rs 10 the nature Of his previous commun;ca.
ton: For the life of as We cannot conceive
how the Nicaraguan citizens or subjects who
we're in Greytown ct the time Of the bonn
bardmsnt could have lost anything, as they
were merely the half-naked bostmen and others
OF that class, who frequentsd that point from
the interior, at times OF course, none of them
we're residents there; a. all the native residents
OF the burgh diselaimed and repudiated the
authority of Nicaragua, for which act, coupled
Of course with point blank refusal of obedi.
ence to Nicsrsguan laws and officers, they
we're denounced to this government as outlaws
for whose conduct Nicaragua was not respon-
sible, as we explained yesterday. 81
However, the act Of making claim on the
o. s. Treasury for the property of Nicarag-
uan citizens destroyed on that occasion, goes
far to illustrate tho truth of what We wrote
yesterday upon the character of all the claims
which ara being prepared to be urged a. grow
ing ont Of this affair. We really question
whether, If all the rags on the backs of all the
Nicaraguans who were in Greytown ut the
time were put up at auction in the mart where
materials for paper-making may be dearest,
they would bring an aggregate Of one dollar.
sc onsistsncy, thou ant Jswel!'-Ths
New York EvsniSg Posts editorial columns
on %sdpesday last, fairly illustrated the con
sistency Of abolitionism. One hslf we're devoted
to sbuse and Misrepresentation of Mr.. Borland,
on account Of the alleged violence and vehe-
msnee of his character, while the other half
"oAo uesos0o W Poooe VI Ptnieo W MI Deli
ton, on the ground that he is in all respects
the psoperest man now in public life-the very
model of propriety in all he says and does.
Though We are FREQ to admit that Mr.. Borland
does partake in some of his characteristics Of
temper, too much of the custom of the cour-
Notwithstanding apt to be sraptanker-
ous," % 1t were, 1t strikes Us that for every
exceptionable word which that gentleman Ut
tered while in the Senate of the United States,
Mr.. Benton, during the same period, uttered On
the same floor twenty, at least, which were
equally as violent and 1ndignifed, and far
more apt to generate popular contempt and
disgust for the practices of the Senate of the
United States, than those of his Arkansas CO
because of his previous higher po-
sition in popular estimation. Since both lett
the Senate, Mr.. Borland has had but his single
affair which has made noise in the newspa-
pers. We here refer to that occurring in
Greytown, in which, it strikes us he did
bat his plain duty under the circumstances
In the meantime, Mr.. Benton has had dozen
According to letters and dispatches from this
city, he has gone ont of his way to abuse Sena-
tor Douglas in as coarse and opprohrious Ian.
suage almost as that to which the late Felix
arundy Mcconnell was in the habit of resort.
ing. His published letters concerning Sena-
Tor Petit, and bis colleague, Mr.. Phelps, are
hardly behind hts attempt to appear witty at
lie expense of Senator Douglas-while his
.nti-P Pierce and anti Postmaster General Camp
bell demonstrations. faithfully chronicled in
he press by admiring Washington letter wri-
ters, are fair parallels with those just above
referred to. Really, tho Posts criticisms
apon Mr.. Borland in its first column of Wed
,esday's paper, and on Mr.. Benton ip the
eoond, afford happy illustration of what that
really il, which abol tionis uu sets
lbove the laws Of the land, seeing everything
black whom looking at its neighbors and all
u white Is the driven snow when turning its
microscope upon any thing standing upon its
'wn side of the fence
The North Carolina Election The result
q North Carolina evidently rsjoices those
Iround us supposed to be in the confidence of
he Admi nistrstion and most directly to re-
iect their sentiments. They did not expect
hat Bragg would run better than Pierce did,
nssmuch as his record on the State internal
Improvement question had been steadily
against making dollar of State debt on any
uch account Just now, North Carolina is in |
be midst of her first internal improvement
ever, the mania for railroads there being equal |
o that existing in Wisconsin at this moment,
u in Pennsylvania fifteen years ago. Under
hese circumstances, Mr.. Bragg's political |
friends in Washington thought it highly prob
'bis that he would be defeated by his ultra
Internal improvement opponent. They ev-
IDENTIFY credit his handsome Triumph under tt o |
and their working majority of |
ixteen on joint ballot--the last legislature
'sing practically tied-to Nebraska, and are |
ickled 'een "a most to death over this frs
PRACTICAL demonstration of the effect of the en- |
Ictment Of the bill of the session. Az strange
IS 1t may appear to those sympathising with |
hsrNew York Tribune and Evening Post, they
10 not seem to be in the least apprehensive |
hat the Nebraska question is to lessen their
trength single vote in any of the elections |
i the season ut the North. They expecf, as |
natter of course, that everybody tinctured with !
mt slavery political predictions, or with |
'ither Of the other raging isms OF the hsur,
will vote every where against the regular |
Democratic party candidates, and they antici- |
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