Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-30
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Dick Unto 1t Is cell that the press il free
in tais country; otherwise gentlemen who
have grievances against whoever may for the
nonce WELD the Government of the United
States, would burst, from being overcharged
with spleen. The New York Tunes, like Put
nana's Revieso, seems to be q special channel
through which abuse of those composing the
government is squirted in the face of society.
Park Goodwin, who wanted cen a most any
thing from the present Administration and
got nothing, turns out to be the writer of Put
MANS Our New President" article, and the
rest of the Misrepresentation and fragrant slam
ders against the Administration which have
appeared in that magazine since March 4th,
1858 Had Pierce, or either of his Secreta-
ries, thrown him a bone, when, through friends,
he was so pertinaoiously seeking one, his by.
percriticism of their acts would have been
the other way. Peans of praise of all they
say and do would have flowed from his facile
pen, instead of the gall and bitterness of per-
sonal disappointment to which he treats the
world through Putnam's columns. Dick Tin
to-young Goodrich-afords another example
Of the same kind. Ho, however, lost q fat
place, and mourns therefore something SUBJ
stantial-not mere expectancy, as Park
Goodwin does. "Dick" was his pas chief
clerk or secretary; pa being q. S. Consul at
Paris. Between them, they had good thing
OF it, more especially as one or both of them
were handsomely remunerated for writing at
the same time for American newspapers. Pa
has returned to the United States, and the
hopeful son remains at Paris, where he is
evidently running around picking up from
servants, and such ike'' persons, every lit
tie bit Of scandal which envy and malice
together can generate against any American
functionary who remains twenty -four hours
in Paris, which he duly retails though
the columns of the New York Times. He
gravely tells the American public that the
foreign appointees of the present administra-
ton are one and all vulgar, ignorant fellows,
unfit for the society Of gentlemen and always
meddling in matters with which they have
nothing to do. Now, it strikes us that the
American public knew all about nearly every
diplomatic appointee of the present admins.
tration before young ''Tinto'' was old enough
TO have moustache for his pOmatum or to
sponge in the cafes, as at present, for a lemon
ade; as one and all, they are men whose names
have been more or less Identified with public
affairs at home for many years. Mr.. Unto
also declares that since the advent of the pre-
sent administration, we, as nation, have lost
ground amazing in popular estimation in
Europe. That instead of the ardent affection
which everybody in the Old World had frr
every thing American, while he and his e
we're in office, now, An intense hatred of Americ
and Americanisms pervades the European
breast. 1t is unadulterated fun to read the
lucu 5rations Of this young gentleman, when
one knows the fact that he is merely crying
after his lost bread and butter
Yiberia.-The Eventng Post at length sees
in Liberia the germ Of great and valu- BILE
changes in the status of Africa, acku owledg-
ing what all educated men in this country, not
crazy abolitionists, hevs long sic So: Wig:
that the American colony in thai quarter Is
rapidly becoming thu lever with which Africa
bids fair, in time, to be raised to as high
state of civilization as TIE mental nature of its
inhabitants admits Of which i. strikes u.s. can
never be very high In view Of the fact, that,
according TO information preserved in (and de-
rived FROM the Pyramids, i've thousand years
no boIl h., a.
same relative position to the white races then
known, which they occupy in this year of our
Lord 1854. The paintings of the pyramids
made five thousand years ago, represent them
as slaves of the whites, their neighbors. If,
in the mutations in governments, creeds, and
institutions, which the world has undergone in
five thousand years, no one community of the
race has ever come to rival their white neigh.
bors anywhere in the arts, learning, refine
ment, and other development of man sintellec-
tual nature, We cannot hope that Africa, (the
negroid portion of it, will ever come to rival
the races on the south shore of the Mediter.
ranean, even some of whom can hardly be
fairly classed among civilized people How
perceive that Liberia is doing an immensely
for Africa, already satisfies US that the fact is
no longer to be doubted; as that journal, in
common with all the rest of abolitionism
has, up to this time, been sworn foe to
the American Colonization societys labors
It is not to be doubted that nowhere else IN
der the sun has the negroid rass done so we'll
as in the United States, the masses of that race
among US, slaves as we'll as free, being intel
and morally as much superior to
their fellows elsewhere, as the white race is
superior in capacity to them. 1t happens,
too, that a large proportion of tie colonists
from this country are Of remarkable enterprise
and energy, for colored persons. Indeed, it
required, until very recently, no little of both
to induce one to venture the risks and troubles
Of emigration to Liberia. Britaia and Portu-
gal have, for centuries, had colonies on tn e