Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-21
interests, which viii require great labor and
energy on his part.

The action of the House yesterday, in refer.
ring back to the Elections Committee of Mr..
Banks their resolution under which the very
ardent Abolitionists around us hoped TO get a
"snap Judgment on General Whitfield,
made many long faces in w ashington last eve
ming. The scheme Of these parties was capt.
tally devised, and only wanted a convenient
majority in the chamber to have given it a
triumph. Alas and alack !,--however, that
majority could not be drummed up. There are
within few hours notification by telegraph
at least fifty swift witnesses, to prove anything
against General Whitfield and the Misourians
that may be required. The New England
States have the honor Of entertaining most Of
these gentry just now. Their appeals for
arms, ammunition, fighting men, and their
wonderful roorbacks concerning the Nilsson
rians and the Territorial government are ia
miliar to every newspaper reader. /, - p.
There is no reason to doubt that many of
them stand ready to swear to the truth of the
wonderful stories they are nightly telling to
confding and sympathising audiences mostly
composed of spinsters and children. 1t was,
doubtless, intended by those who contrived
this persons nd-papers dodge 10 have sum-
moned them hither in trice and then to
have essayed to have the case decided on their
partisan statements. Besides, it was hoped
to pay them thus out of Uncle Sans pocket,
for their time and money so far spent in the
work of abolitionizing Kansas That game
is, however, blocked. Abolitionism has re.
ceived another check in connection with the
Kansas affair, which goes to prove that it
cannot lead the present House wherever it
Wills, with ring in its (the House's) nose
This whole Kansas case is in nut she'll
Ex-Governor Reeder comes here without the
shadow of legal testimony that he is entitled
to the seat he claims, and without even tho
pretence that he was elected in pursuance of
any law He asks that the election of General
Whitfield shall be set aside for two reasons:
First, because the legislature ordering the
election in which he was chosen had forfeited
its legal existence, by taking the liberty of
moving from his tReeder's) town site specula-
ton, without his gubernatorial advice and
consent; and, indeed, under his protest, as
the Governor Of the Territory.
His other allegation is, that the votes thrown
for Whitfield, were, for the most part, those
of Missouri border rufians, who had no legal
right to vote in the Territory.
As we explained yesterday, he ia here with
out any legal proof of the truth of his last
mentioned allegation.
With reference to the first, it is sufficient to
say that in his official acts performed subse-
qusnt to the act of the legislature under
which Whitfield was elected, he, himself, dis
tinctiy and unequivocally admitted its official
and al:existence; thus endorsing, not only
the validity Of the original election of its mem
bers, but of its act in sitting wherever its ma
jority pleased. He thus makes it evident that
his present plea, that his own official recogni-
ton Of the legislature should be set aside for
his own benefit, is an after.thought, devised
only to compass beyond, around, and above
lava partizan end.
He does not pretend that he was himself
elected under any law whatever. He claims
to have been chosen on day subsequent to
the legally constituted election day, by virtue
Of authority vested in the leaders Of the Abo.
lition party in the Territory to fix day bet
ter suited to their purposes than that on which
the Legislature provided that the election
should take place. The idea Of spiriting
to Washington, from their present duty of
vagrantizing over New England, the battalion
of Kansas abolition mock generals, colonies,
and judges who have come east to be on hand
ready to play their part in the game, and
deciding this contested election case on their
statements alone, is the baldest trick of the
times. 1t cannot positively win.
The Philadelphia Know Nothing Conven-
tion.-Our private accounts from Philadel-
phia say that the North and South, in the
National Know Nothing Council that assem-
bled there on tho 18th, are hopelessly divided,
though the senior of our talented, truthful,
and ingenious neighbor is again essaying his
two-horse act, backed by the Bottsites of the
South and some of the Northern delegates,
who entertain the hope of being able to con-
struct new platform, ignoring the slavery
issue, on which tho whole party can stand
Their National Convention composed mainly
of the members of the National Council) me cts
tomorrow. 1t is plain that the mass of the
Northern delegates will withdraw if the
twelfth section be not stricken out, and that
the mass of the Southern delegates will do
the same thing if that be accomplished Geo.
Laws strikers are Logging for an immediate
Presidential nomination, with little hope of
success. Tho senior of our neighbor is said to
be doing his best to carry for Law his point of
getting an immediate nomination.
1t is judged by many of the leaders that the
Louisiana view on the Catholic test will be 40.
cepted, and that all secresy in their future
proceedings will be abolished; which We do
not believe.
The Washington City Republican Asso-