Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-30


career, has not only saved many millions to
the national treasury that would have been
squandered uselessly but for his never sleep
ing vigilance in the discharge of all the duties
OF his trust, but in so doing he has defeated
the schemes involved in them for fixing dan
gerous and extravagant precedents upon the
statute books, which, once there, would have
proved the basis of othensimilar expenditures,
adding fearfully to the sum total OF the money
wrung from the sweat of the faces of the Ia
boring taxpayers of the country. His elo-
quence, admitted by his compeers in public
life to be of the highest legislative order, has,
to his credit be it written, been expended
with rare exceptions, upon legitimate business
before the House. Were all his fellow mem
bers as ambitious as himself, simply to trans
act the real business before the House, and to
eschew blatherskiteing, three months would be
sufficient time for the proper disposal of every
thing that comes properly before Congress
We have occupied one of the seats in the
House hall assigned to gentlemen connected
with the press ever since 1S43, being absent
from it, when the body was in session, hardly
more than q dozen hours in whole session.
Our opportunity for judging correctly of the
character, capacity and labors Of the Honora-
BILE members has been, therefore, hardly Sec
ond to that of every other person whatever;
and we write in all sincerity in what we say
above of Mr.. Hamilton, of Maryland, whose
failure to appear again in the Hall would
really be little short of a National calamity
though the plunderers would shout over it for
joy, as they never shouted before.
The End 0n't.-The following paragraph,
from yesterdays Baltimore Sun, embracing
the last Il" Kinney expedition news from Gen.
trail Americs, THAT came by the Daniel Web.
ster,) tells of the exact condition of the Kinney
expedition in language stronger than our pen
can indite, though it is a very brief and sim
pie recital of facts, indeed:
"COL. KINNEY AND PRESIDENT WALKER.
Col. Kinney is now said to be at San Juan with
about twenty men, half of them sick, and the
rest Lying around loose, ragged and in a most
the story that came by way of Panama, which
represented him as doing very well, and gain
ing reinforcements. The story, it will be re-
membered, was told by one of kinneys men,
Walker is lying off at ReaJo. He and Munos
don't agree. His prospects are represented as
very shabby"
We may add, that shortly before the Daniel
Webster sailed from San Juan, Consul Nelson,
(the man who got the kink, y and young Daniel
Webster sailed for New York, heartily re-
joiced, doubtless, in being able to leave Central
America with whole skins.
The public will perceive in this worse than
ludicrous termination of the celebrated Kim
ney expedition. realization of our anticipa-
lions from the moment we felt it to be our duty
to raise warning voice against the efforts of
Messrs. Kinney and Fabens to seduce the un-
wary and inexperienced to venture their
lives or money in the desperate speculation of
making war on the territory of a neighboring
nation, with whom the United States are at
peace, and to whom the American public faith
is pledged in a proper treaty of amity and
commerce, that our citizens shall respect all
their rights.
We ask the reader to compare the brief and
unvarnished account from the Sun, of the ex-
listing state of the expedition, with his recollec
tons of the splurging fourishes over its entire
success appearing in the Evening Post not
long since, which we're written " to order" by
the Posts assistant editor, who, being bitten
with the mania, (being a "green" young
msn) went down with Col. Kinney as leading
member of the expedition. Verify, it proves
that the Colonel, Mr.. Fabens, the Posts as
sistant editor, and all other active Kinney
expeditionists do understand the art of getting
up whOppers for what they can effect by them
with a credulous public.
The Progress Of Abolitionism. Every
Southern Journal that really has at heart the
defeat of the schemes of the Abolitionists, will
do we'll TO republish the "leader," in the
Union of yesterday, which escaped our notice
until last evening. Its aim is to show that
Northern Know Nothingism has become al.
| ready merged in the new Republican party of
Messrs. Wilson, Chase, Hale, Seward d Co.
The Union presents facts and names, showing
that, with the exception of few leaders, the
| entire Northern Know Nothing party, and near
| ly every Northern Know Nothing newspaper, Of
| every grade, have abandoned the slavery
clause Of the Philadelphia platform, (that
good enough Morgan" until after the recen,
Southern State elections,) and are ranged un.
der the banner of the repeal of the Nebraska
| BILL with its consequence of the repeal of the
| fugitive slave law, and, indeed, the entire
abolitionizing of the government; as when the
Abolitionists obtain power to repeal the Ne.
braska bill, it is very clear they will have
power to work their will upon the South on al
other matters in which the question of slavery
may be involved.
Some weeks ago we commenced to call the
attention of our readers to the sweeping way
in which the Know Nothings of the North were
marching over into the abolition camp Since
then, as the Union so forcibly explains, thei,
march in that direction has been in " double.
| quick time" as they have, with one accord
including all the silver-grey Know Nothing
newspapers-thrown aside all pretensions o.