Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-11

honest man, who cannot understand them, can
only safely vote ono" against concurrence with
the Senate. Then comes the reign Of the Lob
by, who have millions in hand. A Confer
ence Committee is agreed upon, to act for the
two Houses. The whole business il then taken
from Congress, and consigned to few mem
bers OF the House and Senate, in Conference
another Committee must be appointed eand
another, and another,-and, meanwhile night
rolls on, and morning comes,-and many,
WORKED 70 death, and weary, and worn into
!eeP, retire, while the sleepless Lobby per
sist IN their points, and, nine times out of ten,
carry all before them. The Conference Com.
mlttees report to the House, not in explicit
ana PLAIN English, but in Algrebraic numer.
ais, is, the Senate agrees to amendment
mo. ZO,"-but disagrees to '19,''-or the
House agrees to "44 and "45," and '46, -
but disagree to "47,"-so that, of the 29s
Members of Congress,-not SO of the whole
oody can possibly know what is going on. The
whole system has thus become so vicious and
corrupt,-that it would seem to be the very
invention of the Lobby outside to cheat and
defraud Congress within.
Thus, often in Congress, after midnight,
there 90 out of the Treasury ten or twelve
millions Of dollars,-upon these mere Algre-
upon"
The Kansas Question. that the con
troversy over the Spsakership is ended, the
Northern anti-slavery press has turned its
aptitude for villifcation and misrepresenta-
ton, (then devoted to maligning honorable
members of Congress supposed not to be
willing. to be driven under the bit, whip
and spur Of Messrs. Giddings and GreeleyJ
to the work Of infsming the northern popu
lar mind by the dissemination of all con-
cievable monstrous stories against the op-
ponents Of abolitionism in Kansas and Mis-.
souri,. Previously, this system of tactics was
fsebly carried out, in comparison to the
virulence with which and the extent to which
it is now essayed. Their purpose is, plainly,
to force ell the opposition members of Congress
from the non slaveholding States to disregard
law, right, truth, public justice, and even all
sense of self.respect and regard for their oaths
as representatives in the Congress Of the
United States, through fear of the conse-
quences to their own political future that might
result from going counter to the bastard and
unnatural state Of what they call public
opinion at the North on the slavery question.
1t is easy to see, already, that they are
vastly overriding the thing, and are creating
In minds Of the conservative members Of the
opposition from the North, the firm resolution
to expose the folly and criminality of the
trick on the first convenient op-
portunity. There are at least twenty gentle.
men who voted for Mr.. Banks on the last vote
for Speaker, who are no longer to be driven
aither and thither by the letters of Messrs.
iiddings, Wade, and Greeley, written for pub
ication.
The Working Men Of the south.-Our few
sentences in reply to the argument in the New |
York Iribnne's sneers and misrepresenta-
don of the condition of the working men
smong our fellow-citizens of the South, whom |
hat Journal stigmatiIed as the Poor whites |
If the South" seem to have aroused all abo-
itiondon; from which we judge that the force |
If the stubborn facts We took occasion to set
against its Misrepresentation, told with won.
ierful effect. We find the Star directly and
denounced for them in anti-slavery
papers, in all directions from which such publ
cations emanate, and column on column and |
page upon page Of the Tribune, itself, devoted |
o the task of rebutting them
We have neither the space nor the time in
which to attempt to answer the 1Lt6uns's
editorial and correspondence arguments in |
detail, more especially as that task is easily
in a few remarks.
Thus, its statistics are mere garblings Of the |
record, proving nothing, save that those who |
'ulled them seek only to lay before the pub
lie such items as, taken out Of their connec-
ion with the statistics of which they form a |
part only, will aid the writers in their pur-
pose of deceiving the public as to the true |
condition and sentiments Of the non-slaye-
holding citizens of the Southern States. As
airly might We throw ourself on the reports
II DR.. Pease to prove that all the city of New
ork is in the moral, social and industrial
condition of the field of his labors-the Five
Points; or on the police reports of the robbing
II shirt-sewers by dishonest and gripping en-
oloyers, and the newspaper accounts of the
abor and bread meetings that occurred many
months ago il the Park, to make good the
that all who live by the sweat Of |
heir brow north of Mason's and Dixon's line,
Ire the victims of infamous robbery and cru
lily on the part of the Northern employing
classes, and only exist in condition but a
Jingle remove from actual starvation.
One of the Tribnne's indignant correspon-
extraordinarily some lazy abolition lout who |
Ound that his propensity to abuse the frank |
hospitality of those lin the South on whom he |
attempted to live without working, by tam
pering with slaves-tells the following "whop.
per" In answer to US:
" The following wel-autksntic atsd fact has
recently been published A citizen Of Ten
nessee moved to Georgia, and purchased one
hundred acres Of land near the residence of
= wealthy stakeholder. He fenced his little
farm, and titled the ground himself with his |
sons; thus establishing system of free labsr |
In the midst of Shareholders, for this man |
owned no slaves. The rich planter, who was |