Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

are being more roundly abused by the oppc
sitlon press OF all factions throughout the non
siaVehoidlng States, than any party or peopl'
were, ever before, in this country. All arr
thus abused, from Senator Atchison and Gen
Stringfellow, down to the humble frontier-mar
who shouldered his rife and axe and went
over the border on horseback to make settle
| ment in the new Territory, if but to counter.
| act with his vote that of some abolition pauper
paid 10 60 out there to revolutionize to suit
anti-slavery notions, the institutions of Missouri
and neighboring slaveholding States, by max
ing Kansas a ground upon which the slave
stealers may with impunity carry out their
illegal plans on the property of others. A,
tor the Legislature whom the people of Kansas
have seen fit to elect, they are denounced for
the most God-forsaken rufians the world ever
produced. Yet all the world know that they
are honest and truthful representatives OF
their constituents, a large majority of whom
are bent on counteracting the abolition de-
signs of the New England Aid Societies, who
have no more direct interest in the character
Of the institutions they seek to mould, than
the man in the moon.
We are not at present prepared to express
an opinion of the merits of the quarrel
between the Legislature and Governor Reeder,
as we are persuaded that there must be
facts bearing on it of great importance in
coming to just conclusions, which are as vet
unknown to the distant public. However
strong the belief may be out there, we have
not the least idea that Reeder sympathizes
with the abolitionists directly or Indirectly;
forming our opinion upon his long previous re-
cord as public man, which was as firmly and
emphatically anti-abolition, as that of any
other public man in the United States, South
or North. We prefer to judge any man by
such criterion, fair and considerable one.
rather than by the extravagant denunciations
of those with whom he is engaged in a contro-
versy characterized by as much violence and
political intemperance as has ever marked
similar affair in any portion of this country
We are, we may add, by no means surprised
at the earnestness displayed by the anti abo-
litionists of Kansas. They are set upon by the
higher-law men of the East, in order to de-
stroy slavery. That, and that only, is the pur-
pose of the original emptying of Yankee pau
pers and mischiefmakers into the Territory:
and it was undertaken with the full under
standing that the first result Of its success
would be the destruction of the value of many
millions of the property of the citizens of Mis-
souri,, whose rights they had bound themselves
to respect, in availing themselves of the pro-
lection of the constitution and laws of the
United States.
The only wonder to US is, that knowing the
object with which the robbers were sent ont
there, so violent people as real frontiermen
Of this country always are, they were not at
once received with rife and knife in hand, in
stead Of being allowed to gain even so much of
foothold as they have so far been allowed t.
achieve. 1t is notorious that throughout every
State, except portions OF
Iowa, illinois, and Indiana, the slavery obi
CATION of the constitution and laws Of the Uni
ted States are now set at defiance
The South cannot and will not submit e.
this state Of things, which are encouraged BY
those at the North who have something to
lose by the revolution that threatens their in
terests, only because the South has, up to
this time, submitted without violent retalia.
ton to revolution aimed at the destruction of
its interests, rights and property. Abolition
ism, as now being carried out, is revolution
nothing more nor less-active, open, and effec-
tive revolution. Its supremacy is not the
government under which the South stipulated
TO live with the North, on the formation of the
constitution of the United States The result
Of its supremacy can be neither moro nor less
than the reduction of the whole South to
condition of social and political inferiority as
sacrifice to Northern demagogueism, fanat-
cism, cupidity and self-rigi teousness to a
condition which is only paraileled in the ex-
isting condition Of the British West Indies.
brought about by a precisely parallel cause
Every hour is bringing forth more proofs that
such is to be the ultimate results Of the un-
checked labOrs Of the abolition leaders. Con-
fdence in the devotion to the Union of those at
the North who have something to lose by reyo-
luton to end in separation, has, up to this
time, induced the South to submit, but with an
i'll grace, to being robbed by wholesale, and in
fragrant violation Of law, by organized bands
of so-called pbylanthropists The violence of
the anti abOlitionists of Kansas and Missouri is
the first organized and systematic effort on the
part of the South TO resist and retaliate; which
will speedily SO increase and extend, as that
the conservative portion of the North will be
compelled either to give up their conservatism
in the matter of slavery, or to put down aboli-
ton efforts and organizations around them; it
being now clear that they cannot progress much
farther without bringing on a very general and
violent collision between the two sections. We
are writing in sober earnestness in these re-
marks.
The Washington Monument. We hear,