Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-21
bestor-V. B. PALMER, scollay's Building
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS

Inc CHto~ comments with sharp and mol
1shed pen on the recent bragga9 acio speech of
Senator Wade, of Ohio, delivered at Portland.
Maine, wherein that gentleman took occasion
to pronounce the Wig party dead, and to add
mat It's remains stink" according to his ele.
CANT verna'piar. He was also exceedino,v
VltuperatITre against the South, declaring tina,
all tnere-whites and blacks-are slaves. and
Propr sed that the abolitionists sbouId nj once
de'-l with the whites of that region as slavss
" kicking them" until they are ouiet. If tbsv
dare to complain. He declared that the North
and the South hate each other with all the
bitterness Of hostile nations, and though in eff
feet pronouncing the Union not fit TO bs nre.
served, he intimated that the North vii, nre-
serve 1t by force, if bat for the pleasure they
VIII derive fror, working their will on the
eouth' &c. of this speech the UaaOn says:
M AZ would seem from the above that Mr..
Made appeared before the Maine fusionists rs
StaOes eVidence'-a questionable characte
a. sest tof ylolator Of that lower standard of
nOIof t,hleh thieves are supposed to recognize,
Sho only saved from meritcd punishment by
me Importance OF his treachery and the impo-
Hnce of his criminality. Mr. Wade is not
satisfied that his late political associates have
las he asserts) been gibbeted, drawn and
CHARTERED upon his testimony. He daintilv
complains OF the stencil arising from their mn
crescent remains. We do not desire to he per.
sonsl In our remarks but Mr.. Wade will dis.
cover that to whatever faction, party, or fusion
ne may bring his treachery and treason he
Will hnd no purity or freshness in the political
IN ~ ha1
lne rottenness and offensive exhaIations are
nearer at home than he is probably aware of
or is willing TO confess
1n!s man OF dainty OlfactOries and Often
ave principles insists that there is no nn;on
between the North Ind South. and that he he
heFes no two pations upon the earth enter
tanned feelings Of more bitter rancor towards
es9I o1ner uLan these two sections of the re-
puohe. .f Mr.. Wade had said that the abe
n hsiohlsE OF the North hate the Union with a
nate e ,ual to that which they entertain 10.
ward every southerner, because he is a south
eln sr, he would have uttered a truth familiar
% The whole country. But we utterly denv
"a at the love of the Union is not as strong with
]le great mass Of the people as the love Of lin.
erty itself. We utterly deny that the bitter
raneorOus, sectional feeling attributed to the
people OF the North and the South has apv
foundation In fact. Each successive dangerfo
tne Union has been the parent of manly con-
ceSsion and generous compromise-bas CALLED
into active and prominent existence patriots
nom the North and the South, the East and
the west, ready and willing to make sectional
sacrifices to bind the brotherhood of States
INTO a closer and more lasting Union. FOREIGN
wars and domestic calamitieS have repeatedly
and proudly shown that although we NAV
differ, as We have differed, about men. meas.
ures, and principles, bitterly and uncomprom-
he
Anne mean heart are seen and felt from one ex
tremlty of the Union TO the other. They were
LoI New Englanders, or Pennsylvanians, or
tlrglnlans, or South Carolinians who planted
tae stars and stripes upon the castle of Mon
terey, who entered the gates of Mexico in !.
sheet Of living fire, and who twice chastised
the Insoience II an invading foe; but Americans
IN feeling name, and destiny, soaring above
secGonai Jesiousles, recognising no geographi-
cal lines Of distinction, and Acknowledging NO
country save the one whose fac elittered in
the gloves OF an unbroken constellation of
stars VI
Inc concluding paragraph in the above
extract is calculated 10 excite a stronger I'D
more active feeling than that of disgust. OF
whom Is no speaking? Upon whom does he
propose to set the dogs?' Who and what
kind OF persons are they that have been held
up by ribald speaker to the derision of a ~
atVrI' the Immediate representatives of SOW.
erelSn States, and who have been elevated
10 tneir exalted stations by their integrity.
capacity, and the maturity of their age and
inteileot and who were prominent arnono Their
fellow citizens, before that elevation. for the
possession of those qualities. They belong 10
Ehstwe have been taught to regard as The
highest Legislative body in the world. The
foreign reader will scarcely believe that tbe
utterer Of this foul language and still fouIer
threat against men respected for their high of.
nee, venerated for their years, and distin.
galsned tor their Intelligence and patriotism
IS actually member of the United States Sen
ate But legislatures, like nature. delipht in
paradoxes; and the body which has given 10
the world Webster has likewise produced
Wade"
The Inte'EFgcncer grows eloquent over an
improved instrument for operating the mag
netic telegraph, the invention of Mr.. Hughes
0fkentucky, of which it says, that
1T seems to possess great advantages over
al the present modes of telegaphing Some
o. these are, that it prints with the most as
1orishIng rapidity that it communicates and
receives Intelligence at the same moment, that
It's Pecdllarlty Of construction is such as to cut
on, %hen desirable, from all intermediate STA
uons, the knowledge Of message sent from
one Instant point to another so that any per-
son IN Washington, for example, wishing to
convey secret TO his friend in Boston or New
orleans, may do so with as much privacy as
II ne were whispering it into his ear He has
only 10 give notice to that friend to attend at
specified hour at the Telegraph Office. and
sucn Is the simplicity Of working the instru.
ment that the one may transmit and the other
receive the message without the cooperation
OF an agent, though neither may know any
thing of the principles of telegraphing 1t Is
only necessary that they should know how to
spell and read Another great beauty of the
invention is, that it may je readily attached
70 any Of the telegraphic modes of correspon-
oenee now In use; and the principle upon
which the powers Of the natural and electro
magnets are brought into requisition are such
rs 10 admit OF the transmission of messages in
any condition of the atmosphere"