Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Remarkable Diseoveries-Doctors Uisa-
greeting talented and amia6le neignoo',
instead of being engaged in praying on It's ioaa
Of sins in these, its last hours, is "bioWln2
over a discovery it has made. Viz That Mr.
Buchanan proposes in administering the Gov
eminent, to bring about the admission OF kan
sas az a non slayeholding State, being secretly
the most deter m med foe 70 the admission of a
State into the Union with slaveholding con-
stitution. The New York Tribune, per contra,
is daily showing him up in the character of
the most plant tool Of what it calls the slave
power. The latter journal conceives that he
will think Of rought else in administering the
Government, but Of carrying cut the most ultra
views on the slavery question of the most ultra
men of the South Thus, these two distinguish
ed doctors disagree. Both, however, doubtless
aim to administer to him the same course of
(newspapeD practice; for both undoubtedly
stand ready to tblister" his administration on
every passing occasion, it matters little indeed
what may be the policy of that on the slavery
question.
We are charitably inclined, very ; more es-
pecially as our present duty Of watching affec-
tionately over the dying bed of our talented,
enthusiastic and ingenious neighbor has of
course melted our heart. We therefore deem
it outright to help both the journals referred
to above out Of their respective dilemmas
Thus, we have to assure them that they may
safely calculate that the new administration
will, with reference to the slavery cues on,
know mono Us its friends, North, South, East
or West, who foil to stand by all the States
rights compromises of the Constitution so en-
phaticaliy re- affirmed in the Cincinnati Con-
vention's platform Whether in or out of
Office, be who even biinks at point involved
in the resolutions Of that convention on the
slavery question will stand precious little
chance, indeed, under The new administration;
moro especially because, Of all times, the
present Is hot the time for tsDporizng upon
that particular subject matter.
Our countrynen are divided into two greet
armies in hostile array. The one-the DEM
ocratic aImy-is In line for the cause Of the
compromises of the Constitution upon the sla-
very question while The other, tie Republi
can army with fixed bayonets, is in full charge
against those compromises
The great battle is yet to be fought, and
those who fancy that the chosen commander
O. the Democratic hest will play into the
hands Of their enemy In such contest, are
simply fSoIs. All meti &C common sense realize
that, rs matters now stand, the oniy hope of the
I, 6 iTp,n ~,
being able 10 keep the Government true to the
latter and spirit Of the Constitution 3 comprO-
mises; which is not 10 be done by tempOrizirg
n Tie slightest degree to propitiate those vino
for every inch granted to them for the sake of
s:Asing If the Enai struggle OF issue, have in
vaIiably essayei to take an ell. The new
al Illustration is the elect Of those who made
the Cincinnati platform what it is in order to
meet, and to do battle wi:h, the enemy, face
u face, upon the entirely undisguissa ISSUE of
the times
The wisdom Of that determination at Gin.
cinnati is evident in the fact, that while an
unanimous South sustains that platform, flor,
upon the slavery question, Maryland is almost
a unanimously for the policy Of the Democ-
racy as Virginia. in the North at the recent
election, where that was really the only polit-
zeal que 7tion III issue, the result has been an
addition Of s0Lne sixty votes to its strength in
the House Of Repre- sensatiyes Of the United
Ststes. lie who fancies that under such cir
cumstances TRADES in opposition newspapers
against the policy of the Democratic party on
the subject viii affect the course of the in
coming administration, is almost fit subject
fer Iunat;c asylum.
Cabinet Making The New York Reyaid,
IimsS, Ct I'd Omne, are having busy tue Of
it truly, their present task Of making up the
incoming administration apparently keeping
them quite as busy as tne;- task Of elccting
Fremont lover the left not long silce kept
them. One not up to spuf would imagine
that each of these newspapers keeps James
buchanan snugly ensconced in its back Office,
spoon feeding bin regularly three times a
day and also that all the distinguished men
of Mr.. Buehanan's party attend daily at the
ssnctum of the conductors of 81! these papers,
hat in hand, asking pufs and deprecatiaS anti
Democratic kicks and cuffs. Each such paper
daily disposcs Of the capacity, availability,
popularity, and claims" of half dozen of
the most desei sedly distinguished among all
who supported Buchanan and Breckinridse
in the recent election. Yet We mode8tIy ven
ture the prediction that all such opposition
efforts to prejudice the President elect for or
against this or that man will amount 20 labor
utterly thrown away; for it happens that that
gentleman knows G!l the Democratic party
public men of the times far better than those
who have patriotically imposed on themselves
tho Iabors of the position Of Mentor to him.
No one can possibly knqw better than Mr..
Buchanan the real qualifications and public
history Of every man whose services to the
State have been and whose position at homo
Is such as to admit of the possibiIitv that