Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-16

all the fathers of our government to get rid Of
He takes due care to ignore the advantages
70 the business and territorial interests of the
North accruing from our acquisitions of terri
tory, and charges as sectional crimes on the
slave-holding interest the results of the climate,
geographical position, &c., of such of those
acquisitions as are now slaveholding. He
also sets up jeremiad over the failure of
the General Government to do everything for
everybody at the North, in the way of making
mails, &c; and charges (as q sectional favor
upon that terrible ogre, the slave power, the
action of Congress in apprOpriating money to
remove the distractions in the Cape Fear and
Savannah rivers, placed there by our then e.
isting Government as a means of defence
against the British-such being, in brief, the
only grounds whatever on which those ap-
preparations were advocated
But the want Of space will not allow US to
pursue the tenor of his argument farther.
Suffice it to say, that he bases the cause Of his
party-for despite the triumph of Senator
Chase in Ohio, when Mr.. Seward takes snuff
it sneezes from Maine to Iowa-on the aboli-
ZIONIST views of the slavery question, making
no pretension of desire on its part to confne
its abolition efforts within constitutional limits
As adroit an appeal as it is to the passions
and prejudices Of the insufficiently educated
North, it is simply adroitness personifed, with
out foundation in facts and sound philosophy
1t should be met by calm reason and irrefra-
gible history. and not by calling its lu;hor
disreputable names and GO bucking up" to him
a duel, out of him, who VIGOROUSLY refuses to
settle bis share of the management of public
questions in that way.
The truth il, Senator Seward is the great,
the overshadowing man of the Northern CD.
position. All familiar with the last five years
history Of public affairs are we'll aware
Of the fact Commanding the hearts and
heads of SO great party as he practically
carries in his breeches pocket, it is time that
he should be sensibly met. Otherwise, there
is no slling what may be the results of his, of
late years, SO rapidly increasing power and
influence.
The California Election.-We apprehend
that the Know Nothing victory in California
is complete-sweeping-th as yet few de-
tails Ct the election have reached Washing
ton. Its most important consequence will
probably be to give the Know Nothings two
United States Senators; as we understand
change in the State constitution, consummated
at this election, brings up next winter the cleo
tion for Mr.. Weller's successor as we'll as that
Of DR.. Gwin. The condition Of the Demo
cratic party there for two years past has been
such rs to make their recent defeat long a
matter of certainty in the minds of those who
comprehend in advance the effect of political
causes. The war in the party has been upon
DR.. Gwin, the only really considerable and ser
viceable public man in the State, so far as tie
record of its public history shows. 1t origin
ated in tie overweening ambition of dozen
small men in intellect, character, and capaci-
ty, who, desiring to divide the "fat" things of
the State among themselves, saw the necessity
of destroying DR.. G's influence at home by
driving him into private life at any cost to the
interests of California here
"Dave" Broderick, the New York porter
house keeper, who, having become wealthy by
following two nr thrsn Kindred callings in San
francisco, was long the head of the faction of
the Democracy warning on DR.. Gwin, backed
by gamblers powerful fraternity there
the grog-shOp keepcrs-he being the very
king Of both these interests--and, indeed, by
all interested in keeling the public morals of
California as they were two or three years
ago. Democrats who made pretensions to per-
sonal character, hoping to profit by using
Frederick and his forces, bankers desiring to
speculate through the use of State and Ma
tional funds, aspirants for the United States
Senate, &C., joined in that disgraceful war,
which has ended as it deserved to end-in the
defeat of the Democratic party.
We look on the destruction Of the prospect
for the reelection Of Senator Gwin as the se
verest blow which the prosperity Of the new
State has or could possibly receive Her in
terests here are vital. With the exception Of
his late colleague in the House, Mr. Latham,
the State SO far has sent no man but Dr.
Gwin to either branch Of Congress who has
exercised, so far as we could perceive, feath.
er's weight over its deliberations. Yet Califor-
mia has necessarily required more at the
hands of Congress than any other State did
in the same time, and, probably, far more than
any other State over will 1t required all the
well-known energy, sagacity, experience, in
fuence, and indomitable will Of DR.. G. to
pilot her cause safely through the breakers
many of which grew out of Janz pas on the
part Of other California members
1t is to be hoped, sincerely hoped, that the
Know Nothing majority in the new California
Legislature will make wise selections, If thew
succeed in making any; sending persons to
represent the State in the Senate, who may,
at least in mart repair the iniurv IN bor ;ptar