Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-14
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Unton, specializing upon the condition
Of public Affairs, and the triumphant position
Of the Democrats party, argues that its enc.
mics have lost far more than they have gained
by dissoiving the old opposition party in the
hope Of succeeding better under new phases
We also find in the Union the following ex
tract from q late number Of the Cesrrser de,
Etats Unis, of New York, in answer to tbs
mendacidns eourse Of the New York Espsss,
with reference to the Louisville riot, as fol.
lows: Oh .1ssi1s1s - - - 81 - ~
- .. The truth Is, that the excuses you enum-
crate (those Of election day at Louisville) were
never heard OF until the day when You and
yours, at first under the designation Of Native
Americans, afterwards under that Of Know
Nothings, sowed division Among citizens, and
. traced an arbitrary line between them, by
making refigion and birthplace the occasion
Of prescription Of q revolving character, in
striving to create in the bosom Of the free and
democratic republic OF the United States he.ots
like those Of Sparta, and pariahs like those Of
India
"Ifmen Of foreign birth now occupy an iso.
lated position, it Is only that which you desire
toplace them in contempt for all the traditions
CT the American confederation and Of all the
rules OF justice aud reason. Men who, with
out hope IF ever returning thither, have quit
ted the land in which they were born, have
come here to demand the rights Of citisens, to
become unto you the children of . common
country. During the time that you have frank
" accorded these privileges-and we cite the
history Of half century-democratic and
liberal principles have prevailed, and the
elections have never brought with them sught
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contests, and inherent in the maneuvres of
politicians. But from the day when your cal
culating Intolerance and your egotistical Gu
pidity have excited intestine disse nsons in this
great famiiy-from the day when we have di-
vided into hostile camps the native born and
adopted children of the republc-yOu have
invoked all sorts of disasters. You have
s0wn the wind; you will reap the tempest!
= :" 1t Is. then, upon you, Know Nothings
whether secretly leagued by oaths or openly
avowed, that the blood shed at Louisville
should fall. Why 90 you speak to US of can
non In the streets, when you yourselves only
brought it there !-of houses given to the
flames, when you alone were the incendia-
Iies !-of terror and anarchy, when You have
produced them?-of American citizens slain
IN cold blood, when you yourselves are their
murderers Leave to ell citizens the exercise
of those rights which the law confers, and
you will not see the pacifc-and legal arena of
the election canvass transferred into field Of
battle. ~. l IT,
The inteLigeneer presents its readers with
valuable table of the relative cost of ordi
nary road and railroad transportation of pro
duce, with reference to which, it says:
{" 1t is thus made evident that ton of corn,
IT carried l70 miles to market by the ordinary
means of transportation by wagon, will not
produce one cent more than it has actually
cost the grower, its whole value being absorbed
by Its conveyance to market; while if trans
ported the same distance by railroad. the nett
proceeds OF its sale would be more than S22.
The transportation of a ton of wheat, by tho
same calculation, would exhaust its value at
the distance Of $50 miles if made in wagon
while by railroad it would be worth more than
~ beyond the cost Of getting it to market
These are stubborn and striking facts, which
no ingenuity Of reasoning can overthrow They
are sufficiently plain to be understood by eyery
farmer, no matter what his distance from
market may be, and they will no doubt have
their influence in determining his decision
when called upon to subscribe 10 the stock of
railroad company passing within convenient
reach of his own granariss. This however, is
put one view Of the practical benefits to be de-
rived from the extension Of railroads to the
states and Territories of the Union that have
10 navigabis streams leading to the great
marts OF the country. In q political point of
view. II might be readily shown that the ad-
vantages would be still greater of multiplying
such means OF INSTRUMENTATION; but they
are TOO obvious not to strike the attention Of
statesmen without word further from u.s.