Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-29
EPIRTT OF The MORNING PRESS

ters on the stump. The same paper announces
widow Of the late General John Mcneil, and
sister Of the President, sged sixty eight years
We also find in the Union an article explain
ing the effect Of the firm policy of Secretary
Guthrie, in compelling all public officers to
dspOsite public funds in their keeping with
the United States sub-treasurers rather than
With private bankers or incorporated banks,
as exemplifed in the fact that though the
public functionaries in California had $685.
O5I 81 on deposite, not one dollar of that large
amount was lost or even endangered in the
late financial crash in San Francisco Up to
the appointment of Secretary Guthrie, the
Government officers in California were in the
habi! Of keeping their funds with private
bankers. We also find in the Union letter
f,om Judge George B. Loring, of Massachu-
setts,-him who was turned ont of the law de-
psrtEent of Harvard University by the board
of managers elected by the present Lcgisla
ture Of Massachusetts, because of his faithful
exectiOn of the fugitive slave law-addressed
to Henry :. Wise, explanatory of what he
conceives to be the present political condition
Of Massachusetts,, which concludes as follows
g. Ii Is entirely unnecessary for me 10 occupy
your time with delinestion of the practical
working OF Know NOTTINGHAM here. You have
learned its political designs already, and you
can easily conceive of the political debauchery
which goes with it Questions which were
formerly settled By free and open discussion
are now decided by the iron rule of council
Capacity and intelligence, which, however
much mistaken, once controlled the acts of
the old Bay State, are now banished from an
arena which is occupied by the fruits of secret
intrigue. Tho path to prefermsnt, which
formerly lei over the SUBMITS of the eyerlast-
Ing nils OF knowledge, now lies among the
low and swanpy abodes where nothing noble
dWells. ibe mass of the people are excluded
from 81 participation In those matters upon
Whlch depend their social and civil privileges
The voice of tie people is dumb. The elect
point out the way, and under threats Of OBJ
preston, and prescription and persecution in
every walk in life, men who call themselves
american freenen submit to the dictation of
tins last and most ingenious form of worse than
fabied Jesuitism This is the operation of the
thing here. Ii Virginia hopes for honor and
prosperity, she had better drive it from her
borders with scern and contempt
When / remember that Washington. and
Jefferson, and Madison, have left the glory of
'nelF great names as legacy to Virginia,
and remember, too, that the party which now
Claims to be the American would have pro.
scrted these heroes had they not submitted
to the iron rule of this order, which every
statesman must despise, / am astonished that
IL should have found for q moment q foothold
OF power n our country, or even have threat
ened your State. As Virginians value the
PRIDE Of their State, let them reject il. Let
the Blue Ridge be the barrier beyond which
s1s sI We o. lnls PoltlcaI mania can pass on
anu IeI the present condition Of Massachu.
setts prove as warning to that State whicb
was t1e hrst to consolidate the Union. and
snould De the last to strike blow AZ its ex.
isteree'' ' GA
lne I"tsl(tgenesT, discussing the Ell Dorado
outrage With the Union, says:
:" There is wide difference. in chr a,,;,,,.
ton, whatever il may suit the policy of d;nIo.
nailsts to argue 70 the contrary, between the
night Of search or visit and the ricbt of |
hslilng vessel making directly for a nort
threatened with hostile invasion. to Ascertain
her character. Notwithstanding the proola.
marion OF the President forbidding the fitting
GUY oil expeditions within the United States
against Cuba, 1t is well known that rumors
existed, and were from time TO time repeated
IN the pabiic journals, that hosti q Gescent
upon the island would be made so soen as In
was Eno"n that the proposition to purchase II |
IRON spain had failed. This rumorei inten-
''n We Ct course as well known in Havana
ss IN the United States, and there 81 vas e rmIv
believed and the island put in O state of armed
PREPARATION for repelling the expected inya.
der Sef-preSerEatiOn required of the au. |
IboTlues ever precautiOn against invasion
Troops were az their posts and cruiser, wsre
On the lock cut. large steamer, well adapted /
Tor the Conveyance Of troops, is seen at nteht
making directly for the threatened port. A
SPanlsh ship, placed as a sentinel 10 guard
2EDTO3CbeS rnt baip
hail tee strange steamer, adopts the naval
usage OF hiring gun to get an opportnn;tv of
speaking her. The steamer, instead Of
gardipS this signal and haltipg, turned he,
bows head on and advanced upsn tie sbin
thus strengthening the suspicion, if any eT,
is'ed, OF giving rise to 1t if it did not, that
there was EOmethirg hostile in her designs
Another gun is fired, the steamer stops, and il
spoken and visited no search ia mads b.,l
character il ascertained, the word of the stes.
mer Is enough, and she is suffered quietly to
proceed.
Now we said, and We say it again, th at this
was nothing more than the universally ac-
EuoWledged right Of a sentinel on duty at a
nill.ary post, or Of a national guard shin. TO
challenge every new conner; and we repeat
'h2t we do not believe that there is an eplight-
eEed Government under the sun that could
ever any thing in il bearing the slightest
Auiealon Of intended national insult But
SsuPpOse II 70 have been designed az an insult,
na'e We night to assume that the Govern
Ia 81 pain viii ayow it? Il ii not our du-
y, before we talk Of toar and all its attendant
H ~ 70 ascertain whether Spain will iusti.
~, ~ taxing upon herself, the act of her of
9acn a. least was the opinion oil
LsOYaJa and the Chesapeake, which occn, Ia
during bis administration. 'ieo
:" 1t is always fair way of looking at such
~ N nj -,
the supposed wrong-doer. Suppose that
had proof that the citizens or subjects of a sar
eign Power had taken a fancy to the Keys If
Florida; that they had once landed in force
and made an unsuccessful attempt to gain pos
session of them; that such an irruption was
threatened second time, and, to guard
against it, We had ordered some Of our ships
OF war to cruise in the neigh borhood, should
We think they committed an objectionable Of
fence By bringing to" and speaking every
foreign vessel found steering directly, particu-
Iarly in the night, for Key West pr