Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-22


time to make them laws as the three originals
were maze laws, if two-thirds votes can be OBJ
tanned for them. We, however, do not believe
that this will be so easily accomplished, now
that the opponents Of the system are aware
that it is proposed to initiate thus, the con.
struction of at least two hundred works of the
kind, ere the present Congress comes to an
end; which, ere they are completed, will prob.
ably cost the tax payers of the country at least
fifty millions of dollars.
The idea Of reducing the aggregate of duties
from customs just when such a system of in.
ternal improvements by the General Govern.
ment is being entered upon, is preposterous.
Why. on the contrary, the revenues of the
Government will in two years require to be
vastly increased, as a matter of course. If
the Government is thus to do everything by
way Of making harbors and navigable rivers
where Providence has made but muddy frog
ponds and pule-ing creeks and runs, to suit the
requirements of spectators in paper-town lots
in all quarters of the new States, the present
rates of duties on imports will soon prove
wholly inadequate to that end As for reve-
nue. from the remaining public lands, that is
an obsolete idea; as, going for the most part to
aid the construction of railroads made through
them, those disposed of after the old fashion
will hardly realise more for the national treas
ury than sufficient to pay the cost of keeping
up the paraphernalia of the present land Of
fee system of the United States.
If any fair and just conclusion may be
drawn from the existing determination of Con.
gress with reference to internal improvements
by the General Government, il is that we are
entering upon an era of magnifcence in the
conduct of American public affairs, which,
while it will doubtless astonish the Old World,
will gripe and grind those who earn with the
sweat Of their brows the money they will be
compelled to pay into the national treasury in
extra indirect taxation to furnish the means
to clear out the rivers and creeks, and pier
scoop and dam the frog ponds, bordering which
Messieurs, the spectators in Government
lands, have farm tracts and town lots await.
ing purchasers. So we go!
The Coalition We mentioned day or
two since that arrangements had been entered
into between the Fillmore and Fremont man
ayers of Pennsylvania to run but single OPP
positions electoral ticket in that State, as we'll
as single opposition ticket for State officers
1t is very certain that all the preliminaries
had been agreed on, and the New York Tri.
tune thereupon set up shout of joy. But,
alas. the slip has taken place between the
cup and the lip. Yesterday evening it be-.
came certain in this city that all their fat is
again in the fire. A disagreement has taken
place in the arrangement of the details of the
coalition, which has ended in a bitter quarrel
between the managing men of the two inter-
ests in Congress, leading them to denounce
each other without stint to-day. The coaii-
ton was to have embraced other States beside
Pennsylvania Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jer-
sey. The Fillmore leaders demanded that
the restoration Of the Missouri restriction
now the shibboleth Of Mr. Fillmore himself
should be the basis of the platform of their
united forces. To this the Fremonters de
INJURED; as they could not expect to prevail
on the ultra anti slavery men of their respec.
tive States to 60 with them unless agreeing to
60 further in their professions against the in.
stitution of slavery as it exists in this coun-
try. The Northern Fillmore leaders believe
that their brethren in Maryland, Kentucky,
Louisiana, and Tennessee, are willing to adopt
that position for the sake Of electing Mr. Fill
more. Or, in other words, to take ground in
favor of the restriction of slavery in the Ter
ritories of the United States; and tn at if asked
to swallow Mr.. Fillmore standing on plat
form which accedes any more than that to
abolitionism, they (of the South will proba-
bly, rebel. Thus, the proposed coalition has
suddenly come to an end; the difficulty being
altogether concerning the degree of abolition
ism to be manifested in the future position of
the united opposition.
Good News-We have very late private
advices from Maine, Iowa, and Indiana, which
satisfy Us that those who hope to defeat the
triumph of the Buchanan ticket in those States
are reckoning wide of the mark These let
tsrs were predicated on the expectation that
a single Opposition electoral ticket will be run
in the two States last named above If under
these circumstances there is no longer ques-
ton as to the result in them, how much more
certain is the triumph of Buchanan there with
the proposed coalition abandoned, as it was
formally yesterday, by the leaders here en-.
gagged in endeavoring to consummate it. Tho
plan of the two opposition parties in these
States, as throughout the whole North, will
be to head each other of by bidding each
higher than the other for free Kansas"
votes. To this complexion have they come at
last
The End OF the Session.-The proceedings
of the House yesterday upon the Senate's
to.pt -.