The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-30
CASTLES IN SPAIN.

Lie NOTtncTu newspapers nave ducduy HO-
ticed the formation of Republican Associa-
ton in Washington. We give their Platform
and Constitution, which we feel assured will
meet with general appreciation among the ma
iOrity of the A n,arioan rnnrl~ Our ---.i"io
ia this locality small at present, but we have
no fears of becoming smaller by degrees and
beautifully less,' now that the Republican party
have a majority in the House OF Representa-,
tves, with a fair prospect of the Presidency and
the control of the Federal Government after the
4th of March, S57."- Washington Era.
Among the dreams of the various isms
| which have been from time to time put forth
for the disturbance of the public tranquility or
| the qualification of a vitiated public taste, we
have seen nothing more ludicrousy absurd than
this assumption that the professed Abolitionists
will probably have majority in the next House
of Representatives, "with fair prospect of the
Presidency and the control of the Federal Gov
eminent after the 4th of March, 1857" We have
heard of counting chickens before they are
Matched, but this is reckoning them before the
eggs are laid. Republican is sort of India
rubber name, that is easily stretched to cover
multitude of sins; but we have been long enough
| citizens of Washington to be justified in doubt
ing whether it can even be successfully used
here to cloak the heresy of political Abolition
ism. Platforms and constitutions, sodalities and
associations, of every form and color, have be-
come so common as scarcely to excite the curl
osity even of the idle. We can smile at the pre-
dictions of enthusiasm, without being at all dis
turbed by the threatened consequences Of their
fulfment-National hatelligencer.
1t j. well understood in Washington that the
distinguished and able editor of the Intcigencer,
Mr.. GALES, has, in consequence of ill health,
ceased to take an active part in the manage
ment of the paper, while his intelligent and
= judicious associate, Mr.. SEAToN, is now on his
|. way to Europe. These facts will in some de-
!. gree apologize for the degree of supercilious
8 ignorance which the above paragraph from the
n editorial columns of that respectable journal
/ displays.
y The writer seems not to be aware that the
e whole North is now banding together in sole
v phaanx, under the Republican banner; tina
he the honest and earnest opponents of the Ne
braska bill have, almost without exception
g taken the name of Republican, and adopte'
platforms altogether similar to that of tn
- Association in this city. To be ignorant Q
events so important as those now taking plac
:, in the free States-the rout of Locofocoism
= the humiliation of Whigery, the disruption
Know Nothingism, and the fusion of the mas.
l. es of all old parties into one homogeneous part
of Republican freemen, betrays an utter unf
j, ness for the duties of journalism.
:. The writer, besides displaying gross ign,
:. rance of passing events, in the above par
graph, places the Iatelligencer in false posito
before the public. We believe that there is n
NO a plank in the platform of the Washingte
:. Association which has not been endorsed by Il
70 respectable editors of that paper. We kno
oh that they are opposed to the extension of 81
20 very; that they have always endorsed the vie,
ho of Messrs. Clay and Webster on this subjec
~ and it is well recollected that they oppose
a, with all their commanding talents, the repe
, i of the Missouri Compromise. AS to Slavery
he the District of Columbia, both those gentleme
- we Enthusiastically Mr.. Gales-have petite
r. ed Congress for its abolition.
- Can it be crime for American freemen
49, band together as a Republican Party, " for
o. king all Others" for the purpose of carryi
into effect these long-cherished views of I
-, editors of the Inteuigencers Are the princip
iin of those venerable gentlemen treason Sha
OF on their graceless substitute, or loeum tene
re- as the Star would say, for bringing repros
gis- nror their bonored names, q
,out
can The yellow fever still RACES at Norfolk I
nsti- Portsmouth with almost unparalleled fatal
p to Large contributions have been raised in
parts of the country, for the relief of the de
onal tute sufferers.