Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-20
wAsHrroTor NEWS AND eossrP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND eossfP.
The Presidents next snd last levee will be
on Friday, March 3Ist, instead of Friday even
ing next "a
The Prospec..-We have rarely seen men
overresch themselves more glaringly than the
very ultra opponents Of the Nebraska-K ansas
bill arc now doing that same thing They have
played their game of Misrepresentation much
too strong. Their bullying-and, to use plain
English, lying-has completely defeated their
purpose, which was to brighten the Northern
supporters Of the bill from standing by it.
Thus, the measure is stronger, at This moment,
before the House, than before the Church-and-
State clergymen undertook, formally, to de-
nounce the pains of hell against the South,
and the Northern friends Of the bill according
to the form Of memorial prepared here Gas is
well known to the initiatedl by Mr.. Giddings
and his co-laborcrs, aud sent Nsrth to be sigc-
cd by the $500 self elected vice-regents of
God, who have undertaken to control the acts
Of the Government of the United States in the
name of tho Almighty. The New Hampshire
election, too, has strengthened the bills pros
poets before the House of Representatives All
he members understand that the total average
Democratic majority in the popular vote Of the
State is $500, while it is also evident to them
that the course of Mr., Edmund Burke, and the
extraordinary efforts of the coalition, who
made the bill an issue in every town in the
State may hardly be said to have Substantial
~ lessened that average majority in this elec-
ton They know further, that at any elec-
ton in any Northern State, occurring 50 soon
after a new Administration concludes its di-
vision Of the Offices, a wing Of its nominal
friends, quite equal to FIVE per cent. Of its
total strength is sure to fly off, temporarily, to
get revenge for the failure of some of its mem.
bers to obtain Office. We care not what position
the Now Hampshire Patriot may have held,
As to whether the bill was, or was not the issue,
the opposition, and the Burke interest COM
bined, made it tie issue of that contest.
Every speech against the Democratic candi-
dates there was an anti-Nebraska bill speech.
Yet the opposition by no means succeeded in
overcoming the Democratic party's average
majority Of $500, or in so electing members
Of the Legislature, as to prevent the choice, as
L. S. Senators, Of the nominees of majority
of the Democratic party in the Legislature.
We repeat, therefore, the New Hampshire
election has strengthened, rather than weak
ened the Nebraska bill before the House of
Representatives of the United States.
An important element of additional strength
for the measure is to be found in the almost
insanity manifested by those of the North who
assume to lead the opposition toit. The tone
Of the New York Tribune on the subject, is a
fair illustration of what we mean in this con-
nectiOn. 1t denounces all who favor the bill,
as the deliberate perpetrators of numberless
crimes, and holds them up to public indigna-
ton as worse than thieves and murderers; in
GLIDING, by name, not only the prominent
Democrats who sustain the bill, but Messrs
Pearce of Maryland, Clayton of Delaware,
Jones of Tennessee, Badger of North Carolina
| and every other Southern Wing who, up to
this time, the same journal has been in the
habit of praising in terms almost as unmea-
sured Not content with its current abuse of
gentlemen who are knownin all respects to de-
serve and enjoy public and private confidence,
the class of the bills opponents represented
by the Tribune are all following its example
in publishing the most improbable falsehoods
As truth, concerning the South and their polit-
zeal purposes. They get up accounts Of the
burning of negroes at the stake, who never
| smelt FIRE of the action of State Legislatures
F.! VIGOROUSLY not in session and attribute say
ings and doings to public men likely to aid in
their work of infamiog the ignorant at the
! North, the falsehood of all which they are
at times forced to admit in twenty-four hours
| after thus making them public. The wors,
| feature of all for their cause, is the fact
| that all the world are aware that success in
| defeating the bill will not be followed by a
cessat:o on Of their labors against the peace and
harmony of the Union &c. there is nothing
to encourage northern men who are Of the
moderate and conservative school. to aid in
| giving them a substantial victory, as it were
As 50 to do, would be but to strengthen their
| hanls for future labors against the perpetuity
of the Union. We have heard Of late north
ern representatives declare that they will sup
| port the bill as d means Of fixing on the policy
Of the Government, practice with reference
to the slavery question, which being appliea-
be to every case that may possibly hereafter
arise, will involve such settlement of the
dangerous issue, as will forever force abolition
ism to war against the great principle of the
right of self government, if abolitionism avill
insist ON keeping UP the war of words.
We know of forty-six members Of the House
from non-slayeholding States who are for the
bill, and presume that there must be others so
disposed. Under these circumstances, we have
to say to cur distant readers, that notwith-
8 anding the current startling telegraphc sto-
ries of disaffection in Congress, the terror
under which northern members rest, &C., it is
| ut this moment sure of a majority of thirty in
the House.
| Hon. John Robbins.-We hear that efforts
are be- ng made $50 far, In vain,) to induce the
Hon. John Robbins, NJ. c., to accept a nomi-
nation as the Democratic candidate for the
Mayorality of the cor solidated city of Philadel-
| phia We trust that he may consent to permit
his friends thus to use his name. Mr.. Robbins is
eminently practical man, with large share
Of common sense-that so rare, yet so necessary