Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-13
SPIRIT OF rHE MORNING PRESS.


The In.eklizsnosr contains q spicy personal
correspondence between General James Ham
ilton of South Carolina, and General Leslie
COMBS of Kentucky, growing out of the clash
ing Of their respective interests in connection
with that interminable topic-Texas bonds
The Union eulogises the late Thomas Richie:
and explains what is editor conceives to be
the plans Of the coalition (of Wings, Abolition
lists and Frse-Sol Democrats) in the northern
States
The Union further takes definite ground on
the public land question, in . manner, too, to
lead US to believe that it is formally expressip z
the Administration's views on the subject. 1t
endorses the plan lately brought forward by
Senator Hunter, which, as explained in the
Union, embraces the leading features of Speak.
or Boyd's bill. Inview Of the great Importance
ofthis demonstration, we quote from the ar
ticls in question as follows, viz:
a. Mr.. Hunters bill seeks to establish a new
and comprehensive land policy, by combining
Into one system the several great objects OF
graduation Of price, transfer Of MANAGEMENT
TO the States, and the security to actual settlers
Of their homesteads on terms 30 reasonable as
20 be entirely satisfactory. The propriety of
such combination Of objects impresses itself
on our mind as peculiarly important; and,
upon examination OF Mr.. Hunters bill, we
think be has succeeded in framing a system
which is not only practicable, but which, when
reduced to practice, would prove eminently
serviceable to the country. The system is
recommended to favor In an especial manner
because it lops OF from the federal government
large amount of its executive patronage and
transfers it 70 the State governments, where
1t can be exercised without embarrassment
1t is another decided movement in the direc-
ton of State rights and of popular sovereignty,
because It looks to the removal of that anOma-
Ious state OF things which limits the actual
sovereignty Of the State over the lands within
its limits, and seeks to transfer the entire juris-
diction to the people of the State. The sys-
tenn proposed by Mr.. Bunter graduates the
price of the lands according to the time they
may have been in market-the scale ranging
FROM one dollar twenty five cents down to
twenty five cents; thus adopting principle
of equity which has long been contended for
by many statesmen. The bill does overlook
that now feature in the internal improvement
policy, which Is based upon the idea that rail-
roads give greatly increased value to the lands
in their vicinity. But the last, and by no
means the least, important feature il the bill
Is that which cares and provides for the actual
sctbel dltuougn tnls Is not Q0no, as In the
pending homestead bill without any consider
alton, yet the consideration is so small and the
terms so favorable that the price is merely NOM
inal, and hence the measure retains substan-
TALLY the homestead principle"
We find also in the Union . personal card
from Mr.. Clingman, in reply to letter from
the Hon Edward Everett, recently published
In North Carolina, wherein the latter virtu-
ally takes the ground that the recall Of Gen.
Edney, Of North Carolina, from the charge
ship to Guatemala, by Mr.. Fillmore, before be
started to fulfil that mission, was occasioned
by an offensive ito the Fillmore administra-
tom letter from that gentleman (Mr. e. to a
Mr.. Fagg. Mr.. Clingman quotes Mr.. Secre-
tary Conrad to disprove Mr.. Eyerett's last, and
produces previous letter from Mr.. E. to Gen.
Edney, to show that in 1858 he placed the re-
call in question on very different ground in
deed.
The SsntiRsI rejoices over the fact that the
Albany State Rsg1sssr sets its face earnestly
against merging. the Northern Wing party in
the Abolition organization.