Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-05
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON CITY:
SPIRIT OF THx MORNING PRxss.

SPIRIT OF fHE MORNING PRESS.
The Union contains an elaborate, learned.
and powerful defence Of the labors Of Congress
ut the last session, against the .neering criti-
cism OF the Courier des Etats Unis, Dor
roved, for the most part, from the run.mad
notions Of the New York Evenine Post. The
French papers complaint il on account of the
garrulity of the members. The Unior main
tains, that except in . few particulars, this
so-callsd objectionable garrulity Is one of the
guarantees of the public liberties of America,
and conceives 1t much better for society tn ut
1t should exist, than that our Congress should
b, Ike the French legislative assembly, en-
gagged in merely registering the edicts of
tyrant- The organ also takes Mr.. Gsrris
Smith to task for boasting that he was princi-
PAiy instrumental in superinducing the par
don Of the colored man Hanson, convicted of
harboring the runaway negroes of Mr.. COL
cock, Of 8. g., who formed part of tho Dray-
Ton and Sears speculation. The editor shows
That the President released the convict on
higher grounds than that of compliance with
any ones personal solicitations.
The Sentinel discusses the course of the
National inselligsneer upon the current effort
% get up huge abolition party, to comprise
the majority Of the votes of tho North. In
This article the Seminal man SAYS.
Inc principal reason which the National
1nteiilgencer gave for opposing the Nebraska
Dill, was the agitation which the passage of
that bill would produce. When the bill bo-
came law. the coufs6o of the National Intsi.
Agencer was we'll calculated to foment encour-
age, ana exasperste agitation That journal
seemed to be resolutely determined to produce
the result it bad predicted az if regarding the
validity OF Its own claim to the power of pro-
Poesy OF more consequence than the peace and
perpetm'y OF the Union. From the beginning
IL chronicled the Proceedings of anti Nebraska
meetings, thereby giving them circulation and
influence throughout the country.
ineee puoiicati)ps were not accompanied
Dy censure-no! not even By . sign of disap
Pi0oation TN the contrary, they were pub
Iisned without censure and scattered through
fne country as specimens of the natural indig-
1anon OF patriotic men who had been offended
py the action OF the two houses Of Congress"
We need hardly add that tho Sen.tnei's
views Of the effect of the tone of the In.eAieen.
Ger upon the most popular phase of the aboli
tionism OF the hour, are similar to ours. That
fact NO explain In another article In to davis
Star
The InteHigsnesr rejoices, aud We rejoice
with that journal, over the denomination of
Hon. Messrs- Taylor, of Ohio, and Yates, of
Illinois, for Congress; and mourns, as We do,
over the shameful defeat of Hon J. Il. Chand-
Ter before the Wing convention of his Congress
sional district. We trust that Mr.. Chandler
may run - al Independent candidate, and be
elected over the nominees of both the parties,
If the Democrat has not the good sense to offer
TO withdraw from the contest in his favor The
Same paper makes 8 strong point against tae
Richmond Enquirer, which has been preach
ing indignant homiliss over the abolitionism
OF tie Northern Wing party, by quoting the
anti-siavery resolves Of the Democratic State
Convention, for 1s49, of Massachusetts The
same journal seems indirectly to justify the
recent arrest of Captain Rollins, on the ground
OF the success Of the we'll known suit against
Colonel Mitchell, for seizing the goods of HaI-
mony b Co., in chihuahua, under orders from
General Taylor, during tho Mexican war Our
nsighbor forgsts that Harmony & Co.'s goods
were travelling in the wake and under the pro-
lection Of the Invading arfny when so seized
and further, thst it was we'll understood tina:
both Law and justics were VIGOROUSLY set aside
In many Of the particulars CT the Judgment
rendered against the United States, blu. nomi-
nslly only against Colonel Mitchell.