Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-14
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Pennsylvania says the Fremont cleo
tioneers are buying votes with Mariposa scrip
The advice is, ago it strong, and this will be
good; if beaten, worthless"
The Welsh Democrat, paper recently start
| ed in New York, in the spousal of the Demo
cratic cause, is exerting a commanding in
fuorcs among our Welsh citizens, in this
campaign.
The Democrats of New Haven had another
grand torchlight procession on Thursday even
ing last, in celebration of tho late election re-
suits in Connecticut. 1t is represented as
having been two miles in length.
The Scranton Herald, the only Fillmore pa
per in northern Pennsylvania. has been sold
out to the Democrats, and is to be united with
the Spirit of the Valley, the Buchanan organ
of that place.
N. p. Willis and the Shakers have declared
for Fremont No other proof was needed in
addition to what the public have of Fremonts
total unftness for the Office, TO which fanatical
idolators have sought to elevate him by stu
pendous fraud and ialsehood.
Abiding to the New York Evening Posts
estimate Of the result in the State, the Pulaski
(os"egol Democrat says: We have all along
conceded this county to Fremont 1t was
largely Republican last year. If he can't
carry the Gerrit Smith district, what counties
In the State can he carry? And yet we say
to our friends abroad, that the Fremont ma
jority in this county-if any-wil be less hur-
dreds than they claim thousands
Almost all the clergy in this part of the
country are claimed for Fremont. The claim
is In good measure unfounded. We know
that number of our most distinguished cler-
gymen are in favor of Buchanan. A minister
of the Luthern church, also a pastor of Re-
formed Dutch church, have each, through
our columns, expressed belief that majori-
ty OF the clergy, in the case of the Lutherans,
a very large majority, are for Buchanan and
Breckinridge N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
The following is from q Charlottesville, IL.
diana, paper. Read it, and be astonished
" The doctrine that has been so boldly advo-
Gated by the leaders of the Abolition party
during the last year, 'hat q negro scas as
good as a White man. has become, with
majority of the members of that party, fixed
fact. No longer than last week man resd-
ing in the vicinity of Oberlin College, in the
State Of Ohio, gave his only daughter in mar
rage to sooty African who had been edu-
Gated at this Abolition institute. This man,
we understand, is a State elector on the Ere.
mont ticket, and regards the negro as his
equal The young lady is described as being
extremely beautiful, and but sixteen years Of
age, while her dusky lord is backer than the
darkest midnight"
Hon. Thomas Corwin spoke at Carthage,
Ky, on Saturday. He defended Mr.. Fill
more's administration, and denounced the
aoolltionists, who refused to support Mr.. Clay
against Mr. Polk in 1874 He maintained the
right Of Congress to legislate on slavery in the
territories; disclaimed the purpose of election
eering for any man He belonged to an old
party, now extinct. He was an orphan, and
spoke simply as citizen who desired to con-
fer with his fellow citizens as to their duty in
this emergency. He had no political aspira-
tons. He had had enough of involuntary
servitude and claimed the benefit of The ordi-
nance of 1897. The people themselves were
to blame for much of the trouble that the
country had been brought into. He believed
that Mr.. Fillmores views were the same as
his own concerning the power of Congress to
legislats on slavery in the territories.