Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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tant admirers Of this gentleman need not be
under the slightes: alarm with reference to the
prospect that he will be lynched 10 this COM
muLity, it being very evident that more than
one mendacious sympathizer with him is es.
saying to create the impression that thereis dan
ger Of such catastrophe. The good people
of this city indulge in no such amusement
1t is, however, worthy Of remark, that after
having himself labored manfully to induce his
misguided followers at home to resist the law
| OF the land by force of arms. he trembles like
leaf on the moment when public opinion
seems disposed to hold him responsible for the
natural results Of his conduct GU. of the Sem
ate, as we'll as in it. All of his political tri be
seem to be alike, however, as was manifested
in the earnestness with which Wendell Phil.
lips and Theodore Parker begged protection
| from the Mayor of Boston, against the people
of that city, indignant because Batchelder lost
| his life only as consequence Of the inaam.
| natory hara1gues of these two notorious indi.
] ,iduals. ALI such peace men, are consttu
t onal towards; being always first to shrink
| from the Legitimate consequence Of their own
insane efforts to achieve notoriety-their sole
| ambition. As for Senator Sumner his fears
| are simply ridiculous. No one has couuselled
| or even dreamed Of inficting personal violence
against him. His conscience has magnifed
appeals, urging that he be punished by popu-
ty of his white waistcoat or a ash buttons if not
to his skin. He shrinks only from the shadow
| of his own recommendations to New England
| fanatics, as refe,ted back upon his own case
here. We repeat, the idea that he is, or has
| been in personal danger here, exists only in
| his own brain, and in those of his CO conspira-
tors against the Union. s-
a Silly Trick The opponents of the fugi-
tive slave law would be better at work in es
saying to answer our facts and arguments,
| showing that Sen ator Sumner and his brother
| invoLers ia armed resistance to the laws of The
| land are really responsible for the murder of
Batchelder, than in cndeayorirg to gain Gre
dence for their so oft-refuted story that we are
tration. We have, over and over again, ex-
planned that We have to thank the President
and his Cabinet only for putting US on a par
with all others, so far as obtaining information
| likely to interest our readers is concerned. If
we get more than all others besides, it is only
| because we get up early, and 60 to bed late
striving from early dawn until midnight to
cater for our patrons. We keep the rum of
everything of interest to them going on here,
and are always sure to be first, as we'll as last
on the trail of interesting news afioat in Wash
ington. AS for patronage" out Of tho Treas
ury, up to this moment we have not received q
sixpence in that way. Nine years ago. Con-
gres5 passed a law directing that the Govern.
ment advertising should be done in the two
papers in Washington having the largest Cir
crlation and authorizing the President to de.
sgnate third paper in which they should also
be printed. That functionary, Of course de
| signated the Union. Less than year ago
we purchased the Star, knowing that there wa
go aheadativeness enough in US to, at dash
outstrip all our Washing; on peti :ors in dali
circulation. 1t took us but three months t.
do that thing. Subsequently, and in less thar
year. our industry and enterprise has Sc
cured for the Star larger daily circu alto,
than that Of all the other Washington news
papers combined,
| We have, therefore, to thank, first, our owl
efforts; and, next, the shreHdness of the PEG
pie every where, for the government adver
tiseme nts-not the Administration. Our effort
deserve the eminent success we have alread
achieved in making the Star a widely circu
lated and universally read newspaper Tn
law under which the public advertisements ar
inserted in the Star, secures them also to tn
National iHgeneer. So far as the AID
ministration are concerned, we treat thel
kindly and favorably, first. because we believ
them to be endeayoIiog honestly to discharg
their trust and, next, because it is The inter
est Of the District and the surrounding coun
try, that local journal like ours-more the
roughly identified than any other in the pro:
? perity and progress Of it's every matera
, interest should give any administration th
benefit Of n cordial support in all matte,
wherein dis,ppointrnents and jsalousies, 9
we'll as partizan blindness and prejudice ger
crates for its malicious Misrepresentation {
its conduct.
1 Again We say to the opponents of the Fug
I tive Slave law, answer our facts and argr
ments rather than attempt to swear thel
down, by repeating notorious f,lsehoods abo,
our being in the receipt Of patronage fro,
the Administration.
Roorbacks notice in late number {
E the New York Herald, story crediing Al
torney General Cushing with on-committa
{ ism upon the Nebraska question, and his "pr
yate secretary tmeanins Mr.. Worcester,
his bureau) with being against the measur,
Now, the truth is, that without stepping out
his way to interfere in the matter Geners
Cushing is well known to hundreds in WasI
ington to have been from first to last con
sistent and earnest advocate for the bill; an
we need hardly add, a very able one. I'll
e private secretary, too, though knowing tn
obligations Of his position too well to interior
improperly in such matter, has always bee
as emphatically for the Nebraska bill, as an
other man in Washington. We mention thes
facts only by way Of giving the distant publ
S the truth concerning matters upon which til
q Herald evidently designs to misIead them
possible. One day the Herald berates tn
Administration for improper Interference i
,