Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-26
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

liuco preacher, who seems, from his own ac-
count, TO have tsken an sctiSe part In the
squsbbles between the Missourians and Abo-
hdonists IN Kansas, is lecturing in New York
evidently to the end of obtaining Abolition
achievements as well as money for his breth-
rem out West. He is telling the folks some home
truths, among which We find few, indeed, that
60 to justify our talented, amiable, corte Us
and ingenious neighbor in its effort to induce
the South to consent that those represented by
the seceders from the Philadelphia Conven.
ton with whom it gravely proposes to remain
ia political communion) shall work their will
in Kansas, under the plea that slavery cannot
peaceably 60 into Kansas, and would be worth
nothing to tho South if it went there.
This Rev. Mr.. Starr says that so far the
South has gained all attainable in that quar-
ter, and that the chances are ten to one that
Kansas will adopt slave holding constitution,
sending two pro.slavsholdiDg senators to the
United States Senate, and pro.slaveholding
representation to the lower house, as a conse-
qusncs. According to this orator, nothing
but almost super human exertions on the part
of Wilson, Colby, Hale, Colfax & Co., ca j
suffice to give the nen.slaveholding cause I" a
sight" there. His lectures are worthy of no..
tics because they so completely scatter to the
winds the apology of our talented, amiable,
courteous and ingenious neighbor, for its pro.
position to the South that for the sake of Co.
operating with Wilson, Colby, Hale, Colfax
i Co. in the next Presidential election, if
(the South) shall at onco and gracefully sur.
render Kansas. He says:
"The instant tho Kansas-Nebrnska hill
passed last year, We had great demonstration
made at Boston, and they said they were GO
ing to raise a capital CT $4,000, 600 to send
20 600 men of grit and pluck to Kansas. I
| don't know what has become Of the SIS 600.
| 900. But when they talked about SIS 900 O0O
and 10000 men, that sounded large to the
people in the State Of Missouri which ia q
siavo State, and men Who didn't want to have
their property depreciate Is per cent, or so in
the course Of q couple of years, took alarm at
this big talk-which, by the way, didn t mean
anything-was nothing but gas That kind of
Ia k led the State Of Missouri to saw: Who's
going to take that Kansas. If they've got
s. 600 600, we've got $50 600 900. There's
Il
bully them, and out fight then" For they
| al! have an idea that one Southern man can
| whip fifteen NOItherners l have friends
| there who have just this idea, that Northern.
| er can't fight; don't know how to fight, hasn't
got any grit in him to fight, and that one
Southerner is equal to fifteen Northerners at
any time In anything.
People at the North talk all the while
about Southern chivalry as though there was
como to talk right up to Southerner he will
come down. At tho South they say the North.
eners do nothing but gas all the viii O. Now,
TO my mind, they are both badly mistaken.
In the South there is utter reckIessness about
| which We know nothing at the North; they are
| always ready TO fight at the drop of hat.
They had just as lief die about s.xpence "a
about million of dollars when their blood il
up. Here at the North men ara ola different
temperature. X
sour people in the East are behind the
Miseourians in going into that country When
Missoar:an intends to move be takes all his
worldly goods with him. If he has no oxen
he Will harness up cows, and before he goes
ho will pick up all the wrought nails and
| everything Of that sort. Yankees expect to
buy them there" Il
Il have no grief or bitterness of spirit as
great az thai which / have felt to see these
great professions Of the North come to nothing.
| From one end Of the nation to the other these
professions were sounded. They were t. be
| up and doing; but instead of giving their
| money and their nen they have perjured their
very souls, degraded the truth, their honor.
| aad absolutely their dscency as we'll That
| what We should excite the South to such a
pitch frenzy and then do things in such
way! I don't believe in it. 1t is lot right 10
do things In that way! In reference to the
L tbnu
to rally before 1t was begun there, and as soon
as they began to talk about il they saw it was
| time to act. And it Is so especially when you
| have millions OF men whose interest it is to
thwart your plans. You had better keep still
at first ii you can only do little things; then
as you increase your efficiency you can in
crease your noise. That is how they do South
and Keep very aas out they prepared
| IF men would do anything In that country.
they have got to get up early and be smart
Stringfellow was right, In his letter published
| at W ashiD ston, when he said tha. SOutherners
| were not he indolent men they were thought
| to BIO by the North. He showed that negro
| man taken into Kansas 10 worth 81 $50 the
| frst year for his labor, if it happens to be
good harvest; and even in very bad seasons
! in times of famine such as Kansas has suffered
frcGa-tho labor of one negro slave is worth at
the North will star7c 60 death-that is what
be says. But what say IT, you want men of
judgment to 90 there who will 60 prepared to
do something IN e systematic manner. When
u al gets out ihto country two thousand
Inilea wide, IL he cannot expand his ideas SC
as to make bis Yankee Ingenuity 60 big things
! as we'll as to stay here and DO little things, he
| must expect to starve. That is what String
fellow meant, think"
The reader will perceive from these extracts
precisely the worth Of the convenient opinion
of our talented and ingenious ntighbor as to
the value Of Kansas to tho South, and the utter
impossibility that tho South may successfully
contest with the North in its colonization, on
which cur aniable and courteous pro slavery
neighbor bases its advice to the South to
"knocE under" about Kansas without delay,
! and wheel int line with Wilson, Colby, Hale,
Colfax, q Co. for the Presidential canvass.
a Mistake.-"Col. Behlen, eff tho United
States Army, who has been for SEINE time psst
u, 81. ell IL O-I