Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-12
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The Intethgencer contains letter from |
Truman Smith, in which that gentle
nan resigns his seat in the Senate, to
-e effect after May Oath next. His
.eason is the fact that the business sacri
fees which remaining in the Senate de-
mands of him, is more than he bargained
for. Abiding shrewdness was always a
leading Characteristic of Truman Smith,
and he gives evidence of its possession in
resisting the mania to remain in public
life as long IS possible, which, Of late
years, has been an all-pervading disease
with those once getting a taste of it.
For the public's sake-for that of Con-
necticut and the country at large-we
regret that they are about to loose the
services of statesman of great sagacity,
holiness, energy, experience and indom-
liable will. For Truman Smiths sake,
we are gratified tho. ne has the nerve to
prefer private to public life. He will
live ten years longer by the change. ...
The Union announces the temporary
return home of Mr.. Lane, of Indiana, on
account of sickness. The Union also
contains an appeal for the ratification
of the Gadsden Treaty, in which its
editor embraces the opportunity to pitch
into ssthe Satanic" and its alien coHduc-
tor, in most scathing style. As with a
rod of heated iron, the Union man bis
tiers his victim with every touch of his
pen. Hear him: F/- ~a 10
"A solitary journal has arrayed itself vio-
so--.ly against the treaty, even as it is ever
- tors arraysd against jadicious measures-a
oi ioreign euiPrlls VINO ever escaped the grasp
OF the common hangman of the land which
gave them birth; Journal that from the bopr
II was ushered into existence has takan a
hendish delight in calumina ting eyery good
ami prominent statesman in the land a ;our-
nal that has caused, at one time or another
every American to exclaim, the dungeon, .
cell Ii the proper abode for the remorseIes.
villain 10 whose debasing opinions ard views
gives currency journal that never ex-
pressed an honest sentiment EXCEPT f, deIude
nor employed truth in an argument wbsn
falsehood would add more strength to its nosi-
tlon; journal that seeks foreign circnlaf;on
aVowedIy Tor the purpose of harming US in
foreign esteem; Journal which has in its ser.
wee spirits as evil as ever surrounded n rob-
Oer,cnief.the more evil the more favored
Could y be believed, from its antecedents
that this journal would advocate anv inst
neasure-any measure calculated to foster
the true interests Of the Union-unless it had
nrss received a quad pro guo2 Blu. its
opposition will be as powerless as its
support sup would have been Injurious in
Ine instance Ut the Gadsden treaty
Its editor, pesonifying all that is repulsive m
the eye in the formation of numan features
ana revolving to the instinct in Economical eY,
Pression, Is loathed and avoided az would he q
mend who bad assembled from the internal nit
Even those VINO ought 10 hold him most dear
I'VE In eternal exile from him-an exile az
distant as oceans can create An inter ont !
cast, brigand-like, he wars against his racs
associations be has none either of family q,
Hlends In guilt he has had q successful
career-that infamous guilt whica aims AT |
creating the greatest degree of misery Pint |
the hand writing upon the wall'' is becoming
more and more distinct If we mistake no
the signs Of the times, the Termination os ~
power to do mischief is near at hand. An in.
dignant nation, aroused at his Increasing |
temerlty, will consign him to that infam9
which the accumulated outrages of scores Of
years SO justly merits'
The same paper argues at length to
show and insist that Ga comparison of
lgures will show that where the Ne
braska issue was met and fought in Con.
necncut, the Democrats Jared as well, at
least as in those parts of the State where
the issue was avoided" |
The Sentinel discourses of "the North
ern and Southern Wings" taking occa-
sion to give the former particular fits,
of course.