Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-18
wAsHINGroN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

OK Express nave got 1t into their nOddles
that the community are, with few exceptions,
essentially fools. We draw this inference
from the gravity with which they publish as
the truth the following balderdash, accusing
the Administration with being on regular
Protestant hunt, as it were, for the benefit CT
Catholics:
RRMovALs-The Administration is not only
removing from Office Americans as Americans,
but Protestants as Observation-Disclosures
and Professionalism being in its eyes the two
grounds of offence 1t is a mean business and
every decent person, home born or foreign
born, white man or black man, woman or
child must feel, if capable of feeling, that
such prescription reflects infinite discredit upon
the parties who prescribe. The Secretary Of
the Navy Department and the Postmaster Cen
eral have each removed Professionals and ap-
pointed in their places Roman Catholics-and
in the case of the former the person removed,
ueorSe wilson, was one of the most accom-
plished mechanics in the country
The humblest day laborer in the United
States service is now not safe at the seat of
Government, if he is an American by birth
and in sentiment, or if he is not hostile to the
broad national principle of placing the power
of the Government in the hands of his own
countrymen. No wonder foreign ignorance
and impudence combine when sustained by
such men and such principles.-N. Y. Erp,
Jniy Is.
To those in Washington who have observed
the course of the Administration with refer.
ence to its patronage, we need not say that the
above extract from the Express, is tissure Of
falsehood from beginning to end The Admin .
tration, neitherinmakingr removal and appoin,-
ments, inquiries nor knows any more of the reli-
gion ofthc decapitated and appointed, than any
that of the man in the moon. They are remov-
ing men who have secretly bound themselves,
by unlawful oaths, to labor to prescribe every
man in the service of the Government, high or
low-clerk, officer, mechanic, messenger, or
laborer, who does not sympathize with their
secret political organization, and they are ap-
pointingin place of those decapitated on account
of their Identification with the proscriptiye DO
INSTRUMENTATION, men who are actively op-
posed to it. .a-... -...-..
We have given above, in a few words all the
facts which the Express thus seeks to distort.
We hear, and believe, that it has been gravely
considered in at least one Of the Know Nothing
lodges in the city, whether it will not be best,
IN case the Administration perseveres in its
course of physicking men who have taken such
oaths as we describe above with their own
medicine, to seize the arsenal in this city and
thus start revolution at the political capital
Of the United States! This has been done
with the full knowledge that all the world is
aware OF the fact that the Know Nothing
party, wherever they have obtained power,
have relentiessly and remorselessly prescribed
every one, old or young, lame, halt or blind
Protestantor Catholic, foreign-born or native,
who, being within the reach of their Official
axe, fails to sympathize with them politically.
1t strikes us that it will take much more
than such presentations OF its course and
conduct az this from the Express, to induce
the Administration to refrain from treating
every one who he's come Under the reasonable
obligations of tho Know Nothing ritual. as
dangerous enemies to the constitution. More
especially as such treatment is evidently he
ginning to work well for the future of the
country. .-
A Horrible Conspiracy Discover ed The
world IS indebted to that far-seeing journal,
the British New York Albion, for the diseoy.
cry OF the most terrible and horrible conspira-
ey OF the age in which we live, and the British
as well as those Americans who are more
thoughtful of the honor ard interest of the
British Government than of that under which
'hey 1--we, can never be sufficiently grateful Ia
the journal in question. The discovery is that
members OF the Russian legation, in this cty.
actually managed to make the British War
omee In London, as long ago as March last,
Issue orders to have recruits for the British
army IN the Crimea raised in this country,
over, around, and against what they knew u
be the law Of the United States ON the subject
They accomplished even more than that ae.
cording to the Afdion; inducing those who
Kept the keys Of the treasury of the realm, to
send on this side of the Atlantic large sums OF
British money to be expended in this schema
OF the kussian legation in Washington. They
also actually inveiged Sir Gaspar LIE Merchant
into their plot, making him and one Mr.. Howe.
distinguished functionary of the British Gov.
eminent IN the North American provinces. the
chief wire-workers in carrying out their terri.
Die conspiracy against the honor of thei,
Government and the integrity of its dealing.
with other Governments. Nay, they inveigled
the British consuls in different American cities
into their plot as co-workers with them, and
induced them so to conduct themselves as I,
attract the attention Of the Government of The
United States to what they were doing.
In truth, this Russian legation in Washing.
ton must be terrible set of fellows, to be able
to use the authorities Of Britain for such dis
reputable ends, while their Government is ac-
lively engaged in great war with Russia
When the New York albion fancies going on
hunt for mares nest again, we will 90
along, by all means, as we fancy the sport
amazingly-we do.
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