Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-27
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Hards on the Bill.-Rumors, crediting
most Of the New York Hards with the design
Of defeating the Nebraska bill, If their rotes
,oiH affect that end, are rife. The Sentinel
Of yesterday morning gives countenance to
them, and in emphatic language warns those
gentlemen against placing themselves in an
attitude in which they must demonstrate to the
world, that all that their enemies have pub
lished concerning their alleged want of integ
rity of purpose, is true, to the letter. We have
again to call the attention of the readers of
the Star to the fact, that We have invariably
pronounced them Enthusiastically. This, we
did, from our knowledge of their political his
tory long antecedent to the last split in . the
party in New York. They are the legitimate
descendants from the conservatives of Jack
sons times. Or, at least from that portion of
them who failed in those days to dissolve their
connection with the Democratic party, after
encouraging their leaders in their opposition.
until the latter had gone so far as to make it
necessary for them to quit the party" if but
for the sake of the appearance of consistency.
Subsequently, they have opposed every meas
ure of reform essayed by their nominal politi-
cal friends in the constitutional changes
carried by the latter, and in the action of their
'glSlature; the secret ballot-cutting of party
candidates known to favor reform-being their
usual mode of effecting their anti progressive
ends, after failing to defeat the nomination of
t6o g.
around Albany for traficking in legislation.
That is, for procuring or throwing the votes
necessary TO turn the scale in securing the en-
actment of bills to subserve individual inter-
ests, for which the parties interested are willing
to pay heavy contingent fees. The report of
the committees who Investigated the Canal
bank fraud, and the canal lettings frauds, ex-
hibt their leaders in an unmistakcable light :;
showing that in the councils they give those
in public life sympathising with them, their
only objects are to make money out of the abuse
of their trusts and to conceal their efforts to &C.
complish such purposes as far as possible
They are the men who first debauched' the
politics Of the Empire State and city; being
the parties who originated the custom of buy
ing nominations, and hiring gangs of fighting
men to control primary and regular elections
by dint of boOt-heels and brckbats In the
| last twenty five years, the Legislature of New
York have enacted no special legislation out
| of which fayortes or cunning men have made
heavy profits in which some of their leaders
have failed to make large sums ofmoney SO,
also, in connection with legislation here, or
with payments from the National Treasury on
questionable pretexts. More or less of those
renowned for doing the scheming Of the Hards,
| have shared the profits of every such "haul''
| accomplished in Washington. We would not
be understood as intimating that there are not
| honest men among them; yet even that branch
OF their organization is composed almost
wholly Of persons Of loose notions with refer
| ence to the use of public funds, and to the
| limitations of the functions Of government in
all its branches as well as to those (the duties
and functi0ns) of legislators and executive
officers We write above of their leaders, great
and small Their followers are, for the most
part the unthinking, the ignorant and the
vicious-the men in every New York commu-
nifty who are easily controlled by sinister per
sons and means. In the city of New York
they have, Of late, had the countenance of a
large number of Southern merchants and
others engaged in commerce with the South
because they, nominally, jumped on the South.
ern side of every sectional question arising
with seeming alacrty and honesty Of purpose
/ Their aim in SO doing, however, was simply to
obtain the countenance of the South in their
purpose of inducing the present Administra.
ton tnationaD to recognize them as exclusive.
| ly tie Democracy Of New York. That such
| was their purpose, is demonstrated by the fact
that there is no telling where they stand upon
| the first issue Of the kind-the Nebraska ques-
ton which has arisen since the present Ad-
| ministration came into Office, notwithstanding
the vehemence with which they have been
protesting that all their trials and tribulations
had their origin in their devotion to the main
tainancc Of the rights of the South under the
Constitution. The South, with great unanim
| ity, refused to endorse the propriety of their
opposition, because they failed to carry their
points with reference to the distribution of
Office, and this, they conceive, to be cause suf-
fcicnt to justify their failure to stand up for
| their nominal principles. 1t will be recollect-
| ed further that they are the men of New
York who, in 1850, contended for the doctrine
| of non Intervention in the formation of the in
| stitutions Of United States territories 1t was
| then, emphatically, their doctrine Yet we
find them so early, ignoring their Identified
ton with it, in proclaiming their willingness
| to aid those who would defeat its supremacy
| under TINS Government, by voting with them
| Oh all collateral questions started, in order to
defeat the enactment of that great principle
t. which they even yet assert their devotion
We note the course of those this party have
s-nt to the National Legislature with no little
interest, believing that what is bred in the
bone u'tN come out in the flesh" For this
reason, we are not surprised that some of those
gentlemen are now said by Northern papers to
be openly ''in the market
New Appointments by the President.-We
have reason to believe that, to-day, the Presi-
dent made the following nominations of very
recent appointees to the Senate, viz:
Michael Stock of New Mexico To he India