Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-03
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PsSss

The IateHigsncsr, on the authority Of .
Massachusetts, gentleman, asserts that the per.
sonal- liberty-act Of the Legislature Of that
State will be imperative, a. the Governor,
lover whose veto il was snaoted,) rot believing
It constitutional, VIII not give the requisite
orders to inscrs its due administration. The
same j,urnal rspublishes the following card
from General Quitman, appearing in the Nat
chez (Miss) Courier:
"A ARD-I have Just read In the National
IRteiligsncsr Of the 9th instant an editorial
under The head Of Pocket Patriotism com
menting, with vulture appetite, upon csluun.
NOUS article from the New York San.
"The authors u these ISLANDERS know that,
whatever may have been my connexion with
the Cuban Junta, il would not now be proper
time to make explanations. L feel 1t, how
ever, due 10 others, as well IS myself, to say
that both the above articles, so Tar as they
purpoTt to rtAsct upon myself or my imine
diate associates in the Cuban movement, are
q tissue Of barefaced and gratuitoss false hoods
for which no honorable man will make him.
self responsible j. A. QuIfMAN.
Monmouth, June 20, 1856"
The editor replies to this out-burst Of the
General IN calm and digniisd language
showing that the New York Sun, the accrsd
tied organ Of tie Generals late fllibusterins
associates, (the Cuban Junts,) was tho author
Of the aspsrsion on him in qusstion-not him
self Cths editor Of the IateIiigeaeer,) and
takes occasion to make the fur fly in it, quis
way.
The Uasen rePub.ishes an Grafton delivered
BY Gen. Gushing in 1850. saying. in the cours,
Of its comments on l.:
When the eloquent speaker slludes to th,
position Of Massachusetts, and her relation,
to the other .stes, be seems to Lift the curtain
which hides the future, and to picture the
very scenes ard events Of the present period
MASSACHUSETTS,, isolated from her sisters, hos
tile to her own historical memories the prey
of ambitious knaves or fanatic prissts--Massa
chusstts, once tie fountain Of revolutionary
principles, now the source Of doctrises poi
sonous TO all healthy liberty-Massachps e,,s
among the earliest to move against the foreign
foe, and now the last to defend the domestic
pesce-whst spectacle 10 this to hold ND tc
the contemplation of American youth on the
sacred Tomorrow! The pen ths: writes OF
her present position cannot do more justice to
Its worst features, or employ terms Of loftier
rsbuke Of her most REASONABLE example, than
all these results from her early stubborn
hostility TO every doctrine looking to the
preservation Of the constitution and its
compromises Who will say that this was
no. the act Of patriotic and flial Affection ?
How much better and purer such an exhibi-
ton OF courage aud # friendship than the si.
lencs Of the great minds of Massschuse in
this hour when base AID migrate men have
enoompasssd her with peril, and threaten to
steep her in the deepest degradation? When
the whole American people outside Of Massa.
chuseIts look with horror upon tho strait into
which she has fallen, and sec the vermin OF
disunion fastened upon her like living plaques,
10 there no voice from the great wings Of 1850
that will rise from the silence of this charnei.
house, and summon the past to rebuke the
disgrace and the treason or the present? Has
the success of fansticism stricken them all
dumbf Let the inspiration which thrills
through the grafton Of General Cushing be at
once infused into thorough oIzaniIa alton
against treason, and the viciory tn at Webster
achieved over fsnaticism On the same field will
be triumphanuy re enacted, with solid and
permanent advantages TO all portions of our
happy country"