Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-06
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

will be engaged in the great work Oh eieouns
a Prssidant and Vice p, esideDt for the con-
stitutional term. Although, with three sets OF
candidates in the field, the contest has already
vaxed VAIN, we may here express our earn
ss. hone in which we shall be joined BY mill
ions of our countrymen, that the political bat
~. NAV to fought only with the powerful
u..non Of the ballot-box-the mode legally
designated to settle the questions involved OF
the polls.
The right of self-government, so apprecia-
bic heretofore, and which has always been so
proudly exercised, affords quad epnial spec
tacle as distasteful to the despots of the old
world, as it is encouraging to the lovers Of
liberty and free institu ions throughout the
globe. The safety of the Government-the
stability of the Union-tho glory of the Con-
federacy, with sill its vast enterprises of what
soever kind-the happiness of the present, and
the hopes of the future--are ell 10 the keep
ing of the PEOPLE. 1t is for them to uphold
our political sysi ,m, sud, from time to time,
effect, by peaceful means, such reforms as the
wants Of the county may require.
The Union preserved-tho rights of the
States respectea-the principles which under
lie the Constitution sedulously guarded
should be the aim of every patriot.
Between this tine and the day of election
the politicians will continue to be actively
employed, each striving, Of course to make
the most he can for his own party; but it will
be for the PEOPLE to pronounce their judgment
at the polls. Once expressed, it cannot be re-
called in the choice of the two most important
officers Of stale
We cherish the hope that the result will re-
dOund to the increa ipg glory Of the Republic,
and to the advantage of the individual States
of which the CoDfederacy is com posed.
State Interference Certain State officers
of Michigan having, in June last, addressed
to Governor Wright, of Indiana, letter re-
commenting that he convoke the Legislature
with q view to take an effectual stand" and
to interfere in the affairs of Kansas-to uphold
the FREQ State acknowledgements Wright,
on the 9th ultimo, replied to tine letter, say
ing, among other things, if 'sthe States were
to assert the power and right Of such inter-
ference, it is easy to sec that conflict bet xeen
them and the Federal authority would i'm.
mediately ensue, which would lead to the most
disastrous consequence es to the whole country,
perhaps, if not inevitably, to blood shed and
revolution. But if this result should not be
brought about by collision between the gov.
ernmert of tho United States, and those ofthe
Sta IS, it would be produced in another way
equally fatP' to the public happiness and
peace If the Nol thern States should under.
take to determine whether the Southern
States had violated the Constitution and laws,
and should feel themselves called upon to
avenge such violation, as they night suppose
to list, the Southern States would, of course.
assert and exercise the same authority, and it
would require but short while, in the present
excited state of the public mind, to bring the
citizens of the two sections in deadly conflict
with each other. Such a conflict would be
civil war in its worst and most ruinous form
1t would necessarily destroy the Union, and
render its reformation impossible. If such
consequences, jC so awful calamity is to be
brought upon the country, it shall receive no
aid or countenance from me, either as an indi-
vidual, or as the Executive Of the State, whose
citizens have always been distinguished for
their patriotic devotion to the Union -
Land Office Decision Sioux city, Wood
bury county, Iowa, is situated on Sioux river,
atributsry Of the Missouri, in the northwest
ern part of the State, and about one thousand
miles above st Louis. The Land Department
has recently recognized the right Of the Judge
of Woodbury. county, Iowa, to enter. as Q
town sits," by the name of Sioux city,
the east fire. ;tional half Of section twenty nine
in tow nship eighty-riue north, of range forty
seven west, under the municipal presumption
act Of the 23i May, 1874 but has rejected the
application of the Judge to enter by the name
of East Sioux city" the west fractional half
Of Sc ction tw enty eight, in same township and
range, and also his application to enter " in
trust, by the name Of Middle Sioux city,n
tho south east quarter Of said ss ,tion twenty
eight. The municipal presumption act Of 23i
May, 1874, restricts town site entry to an
area not exec sding the hundred and twenty
acres. The portion Of the public lands laid
OF as the town site Of " Sioux city" is en-
braced in the above mentioned east fractional
half of sec :on twenty nine, aud the sabse d
quent applications for adjacent lands underJ
the style Of " Fast Sioux city, and middle
Sioux city, aye Ie gaIdc as merely ~ cxten-
sion Of the original ste, and consequently
unauthorized by the statute, and hence the
rejection Of the applications.
The Hon. &. II. T. Hunter, Of Virginia,
recently made great spec oh before an i'm
menss meeting of the Democracy, at Pough-
keepsie, New York, concluding as follows:
"FelloW citizens, will not permit myself TO
hsrbOr the fear of defeat place my trust
In the great conservative Democratic party of
the country-thst party which seems capable
OF elevating itself to q sufficient hei,ht to
take In the whole horizon of n 81 c,;onapnn.