Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-30
WASHINGTON NEWS and GOSSIP.

Nos % oao "A TREND who vouches Tor the
youth who essayed to address the assemblags
opposite Browns hotel, on Saturday night,
from dry goods box placed in mid-strest,
assures US that the person, whoever he was,
among US, he was assailing his own parents
misrspresented the youths origin; as his pa
rents are both native born and Of revolution
airy stock. And further, that at heart and in
character, the lad is really promising; inso-
much as he respects himself and others in his
walk in life. And still further, that whatever
may have escaped his Hprin tho heat of the
excitement of that excited and exciting even.
ing, under other circumstances no one would
more scrupulously refrain than he from
Wholesale detraction of any class of his fellow
citise1s We chsertully give him the benefit
Of this statement in his behalf, and sincerely
hope that he may (as experience tempers his
enthusiasm and turns his genius into good
sense, as it doubtless wilp in time come 10 ap-
preciate the fact that good Americanism does
not consist in huzsaing for the stars And
stripes, and making fuss generally, when
other people may be improperly and unfairly
disturbed dy it. But that Just appreciation
OF che rights of all others is tho very founda
ton OF the righ's of American citizenship
We live under laws of equality in their priv
ileges, which are expected to be oheerfully
| obeyed by all without the Intervention of
force to insure their observation. Our coun.
try has haan hrauohS 70 -
markable prosperity, and our people and their
liberties to their present remarkable condition
of development, by and through the labors Of
the hands, hearts and minds of people of al
most all known white races Every battle
field in which the American flag has been un
furled, from the contest at Lexington to that
OF Cerro Gordo, has been whitened BY tho
| bones of foreigners, who fell in the cause of
our country in numbers greatly more than q
fair ratio when the preportionate number of
foreigners in this country is taken into the es-
innate. We are indebted to the genius, pa
tient labor, and superior attachments of for
eigners for much of what is termed Ameri
| can superiority in branches of the arts.
science, literature, DC. Under such circum
| stances, 30 fine young fellow as the you; bful
speaker on the occasion referred to has been
| credibly represented to US to be, cannot live
| many years longer without learning to Judge
| of men and things by which he Is surrounded
by practical commcnsense standards, rather
than from the frothy representations of de-
signing politicians and sipists: Office king
demagogues.
The Secretary Of the Treasury The Union,
In complimentary notice of Mr George S.
Houston, published in its issue of Yesterday
morning, does great injustice to the Secretary
OF the Treasury, We are persuaded wholly
without intention so to do, if but from the fast
OF its confidential relations to the Administra-
ton, which are wholly incompatible with an
attack On one Of its members, than whom there
has been nc other person in the Government of
the United States, who has earned. in so brief
period of public Service so high a reputa
ton for enlarged capacity as an Executive
| statesman, and for practical abilities in the
conduct of the Department of the Government
| committed to his charge, which are univer-
sally admitted to be working wonders for the
public and general prosperity. While we
cheerfully admit the experience of the gentle.
man go praised by the Union, and the purity
OF his Intentions, We do not think that his
course on the tariff question vas a haspy one
for the public service He aimed, it appeared
to US, to make Houston tariff; while the Sec.
| rotary aimed to alter the schedule of duties on
imports to accord with what, in his judgment
upon the great mass of information accumu
lating In his Department, he honestly conceived
to be for the best interest of the whole country.
10 differ from the head of the Treasury De.
parsment in mis- position, so widely as Mr..
houston did, SO vehemently, and to be, at
times, so indiscreet as Mr. Houston was in
his manifestation of that difference, was pal
paole insurance that no change In the rates of
duties whatever would be made by the last
C"ngress, however much a change might be
needed by the exigencies Of the public SER
vice. We are not for having a member of
Congress serviie to his friends in the Execu
tive branch Of the Government Nor are We
sndorsers of the propriety OF having the chair.
man Of the Committee Of Ways and Means,
who should be in a measure the exponent Of
tae views of the head of the Treasury Depart
msnt on the fiscal exigencies of the Govern
ment when placed in his position by the
friends Of those in power the most active and
avowed opponent of the policy of the Score
tary Of the Treasury.
A Cock and Bull story.-Our talented,
courteous, truthful, entertaining, and ingen.
uous neighbor yesterday published funny ac.
count of an imaginary order from the PRESIDE emit
to all the Government employees here to vote
the anti-Know Nothing ticket We need hard.
ly say that this order was coined in the prolific
mint of our neighbor itself We, however,
take this opportunity to remind our talented,
courteous, amiable, truthful, entertaining and
ingenious neighbor that 1T has been long
avowing that one of the main purposes of its