Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-23
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


In this paper to which the NEST ardent pro-
slavery believer in the doctrine of sqaatter
sovereignty Ito which, by-the-by, We have
never pinned our faith) can object It require $
stronger spectacles than ours, through which
to discover the least leaning towards abolition
ism in the paper in question Every candid
Southern man who may read it will come to
this conclusion. Indefi, II is heartily rep
rotated by the Northern press siding with the
cause of ant.-slavery in Kansas, who denounce
itiu unmcasur 4 terms, ana avow that they
exp,s1, Il different things of him, in considers
ton Of b's quaissl With Gen .StiingssIlow and
the M'vsouriers. - ~ -s-
The Governor az goes the whole for giving
the Legislature Of The Territory it's swing upon
the,slavery question. Under ex 5. rs circum-
stane es, this means-in favor of the institution;
as very large majority Of the body are very
Ultra anti-aboli, ;opis. men who would glad
ly enact the death pur'sbment against practi-
cal aboii ioris:s sgsipst those who st cal slaves,
or who 80 conduei them ,lyss as to render the
tenure of slave prop ,i.y insecure in that
region So r II - .sIslao $500.
For our part, VIII we conceive that this
message eomplet ''y relieves Gov. Reeder from
the suspicion of sympathy With abe.itionism.
and though the dos; enc in this connection
makes as matters now stand, in favor of slavery
IN Kansas, we hays no low for 1.-THE doc
l. ne of squattef sovereignty. According to his
Gov. r - e;-imats, there ct, some six thou
sand white men AID women sttled in Kansas
in az. some $3.50 Of whom are voting citizens;
every man being entitled to vote on the day
he takes up bis residene in the Territory
Under the docsi inc Of sauatter sovereignty, a
ma. oIty Of these 3, 800 men may, at will, shape
the laws and Institutions Of that Territory, ca
pable CT suppoi ing populati ION of, it may be,
26,00o, 600 of souls. Nay, IS they number ed
but a hundre I, the sosercis aty . the same
extent is in them, according to this, to us 90
fs4a iious doctrine. 1t was conc civ 4 origi-
nelly 10 cheat the South; that is, it was
judged by fhe inv sntors that its OF Grafton
world te to exclude slavery itom all territory
of the Upitci States thereafter - be opened
to settlement; 8 Slave property, and those per-
senally iaseYc tad in it, is slower than white
labor to settle LIE eou1tries. The th, Try was
plausible; but no allowance was ma 10 for the
sympathy with that ins, tuition of those pra :
tes'ly squaints with lis operation and eff 1t
on American communities.
The fact that there may / +, said to l., liter
ally no division Of sentiment On the subject
wneIe slavery exists, wss entirely overlooked
N their calculations, as wei as the facts that
while thousands of the classes in tn non slave
hold ng States who arc prone to emigrat, ito
change) are tbemsely5: sympsthizsrs with the
Institution, the slaye-holding States are quite
as much given to emigration as those Of the
North sending ont from their midst too, men
Of far more energy, adventurous charaetsr
and experience in tee management of political
affairs, than go, as general thing, from the
North, which, FOR the most part, ends out men
bent only on IA sking money. These elements
operating in Kansas, viii doubtless secure for
the South her rights there, of which she wa.
unfairly robbed by the enactment Of the Mis-
souii restriction -a-.. .-a...
In what We have said above concerning the
expectations of the original squat sreiyn-
ity men, We do not mean to include all Of
them as Senator Dcug,1ss and mauy others
holding sentiments in common with him, have
''ways proclainad that they were wiling &c
abide the issue Of the struggle between the
rival s-;tioDs in the matter of colopiziay ter.
ritory in dispute between them, and to aid the
people Of sach territory to come into the Urion
with slave holding State constitutions, if they
shsr III so eiect.
Deserted.-The New York Courte, ami
Er3airey, which. for the last year, has be n
hangi 1g on the skirts OF the Know Notbipc
party, has at length fairly gone over 70 the
encrny-thc new Republican party of Messrs
drecley, Seward, Chase, Wilson Co Itcan.
not : 60 the Philadelphia plat,or as that
fails 70 MIKE the restoration of The Missouri
| restriction the sbibbol,;h Of Know NOTHING
pohtiea' faith. The editor says that he is W u
ing to vote for Garrison, Tappan & Co., il thai
may be necessary, to carry the with himJ all
important point.
We ned hardly remark, that this excuse
for his desertion Of his Iats friend is the meres
subteriuge imaginable; as be, as welt as ali ths
rest OF those who are familiar with party poll
tics IS awsre, that the repesl or ilnportan,
amendment Of the ksnsa Nebraska bill is te
te a govsrpmentsl iupn' .ibility in the next
twenty years. The Truth is, the Conyfs,
leaves Know Nothirsism IS rat leaves a
sinking ship Its conductors are we'll aware
thatthe new party has already absorbed three
fourtbs of It's ava able SIT eDgth in the non.
slasehelding States, and p,sfsr t, fight under
| the abolition banner Cf Me esrs Chase, Seward.
Wilson Co., than {? rsms'n identified With
party that cannot, by any possibility, win,
since Noi them political sfsirs have taken the
| turn marking their present course
We shan not b. surpri. ID to find the Know
NOth;prs OF the NoI.h-.h,t % H. c.: