Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-22
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

OF moro importance 70 Tue IutuIo Oh oor hoof-
ties, than that of the right Of every man to
have counsel when he has occasion to 60 be-
fore a court OF lsw-none other is moro sol
emily guaranteed, nor has any other been
more sincerely respected and uniformly OBJ.
served up to this time But the continuance
Of that right stands in the way of the triumph
of the ratification sohsme Of the present
Legislature of Massachusetts,, who strike 1t
down az though 1t wore a mere reed in their
path. One provision of their law "for the
protection of liberty" declares, that if any
lawyer Of their State shall appear as counsel
for any claimant for q fugitive slave, his
name shall be stricken from the list of coun-
sci entitled TO appear in any and all the
courts Of the State. The outrage upon the
profession Of the law involved in this natical,
bigoted, and illiberal enactment is hardly less
than that upon civil liberty itseif-on the right
Of the citizen t. have counsel before the
courts. We take it for granted that every
judge of every court in the State above the
grade OF that Of cross roads or corner of
ward, will treat this enactment a. it deserves,
insomuoh as no lawyer, who has ever read
the Constitution CT the United States and
that Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
would dare intimate it's constitutionality. If
it is q proper enactment. then the principle Of
equal rights and personal equality before the
tribunals Of justice in cur land are all wrong.
The Naval School The experiment of edu.
eating Ulcers for tho naval service of the
United States as thoroughly as others are edu.
catei for tho military service proves eminently
successful. Tho United States Naval Acade.
my at Annapolis, Md has been in operation
sufi,iently long to have produced results from
which it is evident that the establishment is
to turn out class Of professional gentlemen
superior, IS body, in their scientific and prsc-
Zeal naval attachments, to any officers Of any
other naval service whatever. For four months
Of each year, during the term which youths
entering tho service pass as midshipmen, they
are st sea in practice ships, when they are
taught practical seamanship by being made
to perform all the duties Ct the seamen they
are afterwards to command. For the balance
of the time they are in tho institution, per-
fec:iDs themselves in English, French, Span.
ISL, mathematics, nautical astronomy, &c.
While there they are subjected to worry rigid
course of discipline, as we'll as mental train
ing, being forced 70 conduct themselves with
az much circumspection as the cadets at West
POiat, and also to psss the highest order of
examinations in the studies they pursue.
The Virginia Eieotion.-This event il too
close at hand for u5 to speculate upon its
probabilities. We may, however, state that
letters from the managing men in the Wise
ranks in ten different counties of the common
wealth, situated in as many congressional
by-the-by, were received by gen.
llenan in Washington yesterday, ali Of them |
embracing assurances from which We draw the
Inference that the majority for Wise will come
up to the calculation published 10 the Star en-
Friday last
The following extracts, the first from the |
New York Express, OF Friday last and the
other from the columns of our talented, anna.
bic and entertaining neighbor, show that the |
Know Nothings have forgotten that some time |
since they wore confident, according to their |
of electing Fiournoy by 80, 900 |
majority:
The VIRGINIA ELECTIos.-An undue i'm.
portancs is attached by many to this election; |
as if anything depended upon ii. When we |
remember that in 1910 this State went against |
General Harrison in the Revolution Of that |
day. and against General Taylor in 1S48, we |
see that its politics. and is politicians, are far
from being controlling; now in the secondary |
rank OF States as it is, though it must be con- |
fessed that when the " Democracy" cannot |
carry such States as Virginia ard New Hamp |
shire, it can carry nothing Thus, then, if |
Virginia goes Dem cratic, she only goes her |
her usual way, as in lS40 and lS4S-and |
il means nothing.
1--WE indulge IN nc 10000 and 20 600 ma
jority anticipstions for Fiournoy, the K n |
candidate against Wise, for that is all talk and
Dragging. Ii is very rue that great many |
Democrats will vote for Flournoy-Demoerats |
in the Know Nothing lodges-aud Democrats |
out-but 1T is not the less true-that there are /
a good many Wings in Virginia, who are wait l
ing for plausible pretences to get out of the /
party, and who will avail themselves of this to /
resist the Is. ". nomination. There NAV be /
from 5000 to 5000 such men, and we should |
not be surprised if there were. Thus-if Wise |
Is detcated-only defeated-we shall consider |
it the greatest victory Sam has ever achieved |
over impotence, not to say eloquence, passion, |
prejudice, and extreme Southern silly fanati
cism. We look to no sounding, sonorous bul.
letins Of msjorities-but hope simply for vic. |
tory"
Well-iuformed persons from Virginia, with |
whom the writer of this paragraph has con-
sefsed, form a very different estimate from
that presented By Mr. Wise, through the |
Lesser organ of the Pierce and Forney dynasty
They allow majority in only trco Congress. |
sional districts-Lotcher's and Goodies These
may give him 900. In the others he will be |
beaten from 5000 to 1000. Let the reader |
stick pin there and see who is right
So the Exprsss claims q triumph for Flour
noy "by the skin Of his teeth" while the |
Organ's man claims a probable triumph for |
him by from to three thousand majority
only. So they 60.