Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-12-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Indignant Patriotism.--0ur ingenious
knowing, amiable, and talented neighbor,
seems bent on making hay while the sun
shines. Or, in other words, on accumulating
the very largest possible pile of snti-slavery
capital in the brief season to elapse before
printer for the House may be elected. In his
issue Of yesterday he grows exceedingly in
dignant against his late friends who prove to
be 50 weak in the knees, as demonstrated in
the efforts to elect Speaker-ws mean the
18th section men. He tells them in effect,
Depart ye cursed" DC. Peter himself, was
not haifso quick to deny his Master, as our gen.
tie neighbor's Journal, the masters for whom
(up TO the palpable demonstration of the fact
tina. Identification with them is to be death
tots hops' for the House printing! its every
issue up to that time breaihed nothing but
the most intense devotion to the Philadelphia
platform; and mere especially to that 18th
section, for which it was ready to fight, bleed,
and die, At any moment and under all circum.
stances. It used to tell rs in effect that moth
Ing but the now go unceremoniously kicked
and-cufed-about platform, could possibly save
the Union and reform the Govsrnment-noth-
ing else under the sun.
See its change of front, reader, In its issue
Of yesterday. Why, no "double summerset''
OF its conductors never-to- be-forgotten two
horse act IN the Philadelphia convention WIS
printing to 1t in point of political agility
It amounts to a double summerset, with half q,
dozen flip flaps" or to the end ont; landing
our talented, amiable, knowing, and ingenu.
Gus neighbor far beyond the spring board of
the recent Cincinnati Choctaw convention
indeed, almost on to that on which the veneer.
able Joshua r. has been exhibiting his aero
bGt;c feats, up 70 this time almost solitary and
alone, FOR the last twenty years
We admire the patriotic ard virtuous indig.
nation with which our so sincere neighbor re-
pUdis;es the Know Nothings proper-those
. sectional scamps who sciH insist that the
twelfth section was originally sound plank,
and Is ut already SO rotten as that it should
DC split UP sans oeTen,onie and used for stove
wood.
Who that has read our interesting neigh.
boris leader Of yesterday, can dream that
Choctaw il not bis vernacular7 That to him
il is gift suddenly vouchssfsd, by miracle
as il were, Pshaw, the idea is ridiculous.
II Is really to be hoped if the sentiment of
gratitude has the slightest space in his so pro-
verbally philanthrOpie bosom, that our friend
Greeley viii not overlook the miracle, the
Ire,eGt display Of his power at this point has
worked On our pstriotis neighbor. What, but
that display, could induce him to rdicuIe and
revlls the twelfth section and anathematis
tie who.s Know Nothing party Of the South
for SET Of Union SIN ashers, bent on breaking
up Cur thousand times glorious oonfederacy
and disturbing the peace and happiness of his
new iove-the Choctaw Nation of the nom
s:a9oholding States. Save the pieces Save
TIC pieces Save the pieces...
The King of the Lobby Really, when one
rejects On the virtuouS horror of the machin-
cry Of The lobby, which the able conductor of
TIE New York Tribune has 60 consistently
displayed for The last fifteen years, whenever
re nad occasion to write Of the way in which
he has eontended things are fixed" in
this city, Ike works il just now in ,,yopyia psy-
So"o 10 charm. We had supposed that he
would DO the very last man on Garth who
would soil his fair fingers by contact with those
wires or pollution. The "lobby at Washing
ton has been one Of his pet diversions ever
since we took to reading newspapers iutentlv
OF mas he almost made our hair stand ON end
WITH his pictures Of its immortality, and of the
fearful consequences of its unchecked exist
enes 10 the future Of Z" our beloved country
n Paintings Of the dreadful consequences of
ffse run were not more oul-harrowing.
S]' We should suppose that he must be get
"hs 'raFely over some Of the little idiosyn.
cracies OF his more juvenile days, from the ex.
Pertness with which he isjust now discharsipg
the duties Of the great manager Of .tb. 49,
81 Washington" if we did NOT krow a., =.
almost threatened to commit suicide bseau.a
tie late Now York Republican State conven.
i'oH failed TO say word in its resolution,