Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-09
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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cause Of the repeal of the Nebraska bill loses
an aggregate of ten votes, as compared with
the strength Of the cause Of opposition to it
(the billy by the positions on it assumed by the
Standardization men in Tennessee and by
Col. Hunt, OF Louisiana, If the latter be re-
elected. We may add that it is understood
by the well-informed public men here, that
there will be majority in the next House of
Representatives against In any manner inter
fering with the Nebraska act rs 1t stands On
the statute book. The reader will recollect
that " fusion" tho new Republican organiza-
ton in the whole North) has declared against
the restoration Of the Missouri restriction law.
which movement will have due weight on the
course of some forty members, from non. slave
| holding States, Of known afiliation with the
new organization, who were elected on account
of the fervor with which they 4" went in for''
the proposed restoration, when before the
people.
By'the-by, the entire change of front on
this subject Of the new organization, forcibly
brings to mind the demagogism of much of the
opposition to the Nebraska bill and fugitive
slave law. In 1852, 1t will be rccollected
the anti-slavery politicians went into excruci
ating spasms over the project Of repeating tho
latter-the fugitive slave law-and used their
promises and political delirium tremens con-
corning this Law to stir up the sectional pas
sions of the ignorant, controversial, fanatical,
and prejudiced at the North, until disunionism
ran so high there as to seriously threaten the
much longer existence of the Union. All the
world, at length, realizes that there was
nothing in the world in the threats of, and ap-
peals for, the repeal of the law in question;
the promises of the demagogues riding the
hobby on the stump having never been even
seriously attempted to be carried out. Later.
we had Mr.. Sumner and his sectional coadiu-
tors proclaiming the Nebraska bill to be
fraud and violation of a most sacred COM
pact between North and South, and, on that
hobby and Misrepresentation, raising the late
anti-Nebraska storm, which, having ragged ita
brief hour at the North, has already subsidized,
| leaving hardly more of trace of its existence
whistling gently in the popular ear Oike the
soothing signing of the last Of storm through
the leaves of the forest) than the anti Nebraska
TRADES of candidates for county officers, who
have been late in coming up to what they
| fancy to be the issues of the day.
Nessrs Summer i Co. were the original
authors of the compact "dodge" Itrequired
an astonishing endowment of "cheek'' in
them to essay such fraud on the public, it
strikes US, after having themselves labored
for at least five years to break what they style
the compact that should be more binding than
the constitution, under their reading of the
obligations of the latter. 1t was broken by
them in the application of the Wilmot proviso
to Oregon; deliberately, knowingly, ard fore /.
bly, broken, over the protest of the South against
the injustice not of repeating any particular
act of Congress, because it acas an act of Con-
gress,l but of essaying to place brand of in
feriOrity upon a great section of the States
We never witnessed more impudence than has
been manifested by the "repealers" during
the past year, IN stuItifying the public history
of the five previous years, and seeking to
play upon the most dangerous prejudices and
worst passions of the most ignorant and really
brutal portions Of the northern community, on
this subject.
The result is already before the country
Ere Congress meet they have, with one accord,
proclaimed the want of integrity in their
course, by formally resolving it to be inexpc-
dient to lift finger to repeal the Nebraska
bill, which thing SO many of the were elected
particularly to accomplish. With half the
common sense for which our experience indu-
ces Us to credit the people at large, they
must realize in the history of the repeal
war which we narrate above, the utter want
of character, integrity, true patriotism and
good sense in the counsels which govern the
movements of the anti-slavery opposition in
this country; in thus basing all hope of success,
as it does. on misrepresentation, false pret2nces
and its capacity to stir up passions, the exer-
else Of which tend to disturb the harmony and
brotherly love that should exist between the
two sections Of this great confe deracy
The Elections The majority Of Governor
Johnson in Georgia is at least 5000 over his
hnoW nothing competitor, and 4 900 over his
(Andrew's) vote combined with that Of Ogle-
by, the Temperance candidate. The Demo.
Gratis have certainly elected six members Of
Congress from Georgia, and the Know Moth
ings one, (Trippe) leaving it still questionable
whether Linton Stephens alexander II s
brother) or Foster (Know Nothing) is elected
from the remaining district
To-day, there is general election in In
| diana for county officers. There now exists
nothing like Know Nothing Philadelphia
platform party in that State, Know Nothingism
being merged in the new Republican party
The Indiana politicians now in this city seem
to anticipate an overwhelming victory for the
Democrats. to which party, we may add, they
| all belong.