Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Course Of the Misso r.

saying to pass through their State on their
way to participate in the civil war in Kansas.
That way lie, simply, disarming them. With
in the last month, while no such bands have
essayed to 20 into the Territory from the South,
the military authorities of the United States
there having in obedience to the Presidents
proclamation disarmed and dispersed all such
bands of both parties falling in their way; and
the people Of the South having RETAINED from
efforts to 60 there under these circumstances
to take the side of their friends in their present
need. Not so with those of the North, however
Chicago, Worcester, Massachusetts,, and 70.
gion of Illinois, have each subsequently sent
thither companies of loafing fellows incapable
Of earning decent livelihood at home, or of
raising the means of paying for their own
transportation thither. They sent them out
with blessed Shapes rifles in their hands,
prayed over, Dragged over, and huzsaed over,
as usual. The avowed purpose of sending
them was that they might aid the abolition
lists of the Territory in resisting the law and
plundering, burning and numbering That
those who sent them thither on such an En-
rand should dream that the citizens of Mis-
souri, would permit them to pass over their
State in the present condition of the Terri
tory, is only evidence of the stark madness of
the anti-slaveryites. No armed bands trav-
cling for any purpose whatever in such times
have a legal right to pass over the territory
of Missouri without the consent of its authori-
ties.
The proclamation of the President makes it
morally the duty of Missouri to take due care
that no companies 60 from or through her ter
ritory to participate in the existing civil war
To US the wonder is, that the Missourians
have been able so to restrain themselves as to
do no personal injury to the members of the
three companies of abolition recruits they
have stopped on their way to the Territory:
whose Beecher-blesse rifles and revolvers
have been taken away from them, to be re-
stored at time and place agreed On, SO ar
choose to persevere in the effort to 20 to Kan
sas to fight rather than to till the soil or trans
act other peaceful business there, they must
take another route. All who desire to 20
through Missouri, whether from North or
South, and who go unarmed and with the
signs about them of the purpose of settling
and laboring as peaceful citizens, are, of
course, permitted to pass unmolested.
Above We present the Stars readers with
the true history of the very last adopted
theme for the Kansas roorbacks of the New
York Trt5une, Times, Herald, ct i'd omne
genus. -
The Prospect Our advices from all quar-
tiers satisfy us that, though everywhere the
opposition are contending with desperation and
with all the means they can possibly devise or
raise, they are to be overwhelmingly defeated.
The only slaveholding States in which the
Know Nothings have aught but a shadow of
effectiveness for making real battle when the
voting comes on in November, are Delaware
Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana and in
kentucky and Louisiana they are surely des-
tined to be overwhelmingly defeated. They
have hopes of carrying Delaware and Mary
land, and are therefore struggling desperately
there. In thirty days from the present wri-
ting, it will be plainly perceived in those
States that votes for their Fillmore electoral
tickets are merely votes to strengthen Ere.
mont; when thousands, who would gladly ad-
here to Fillmore under other circumstances,
will, of course, abandon him. The great mass
of the opposition in Maryland, however much
they may be attached to Mr.. Fillmore, will
pursue no course in the approaching election
likely to strengthen the hands and purposes
of abolitionism.
The difficulty in the Democratic party in
New York has been entirely settled. The
" Hard" masses have very unanimously sig.
nifed their determination to take the bit in
their mouths, scouting the advice and authori-
ty oftheir State central committee, and uniting
with those who have called State convention
in accordance with and obedience to the terms
indicated by the Cincinnati convention. It
is very evident that the Hard State conven.
ton soon to assemble in Syracuse will gladly
accept the arrangements to be made there at
the Same time by the regular Democratic
State convention, as it is well known that BY
that time they will not have an average of
ten constituents to each delegate present;
while from quite half the assembly districts
of the State there will not be single delegate
on the ground.
The Fillmore party of Connecticut will GER.
tainly have an electoral ticket of their own,
which will receive thousands of votes, though
the Republicans in Washington, for effect, are
pooh pooh-ing the idea that more than hand
full will support it.
As for California, Pennsylvania, and New
Jersey, the contest in each of these States is a
mere bagatelle, all Of them being certain for
Buchanan by majorities as overwhelming as
those which Virginia, Georgia. Alab ANA, and
Mississippi will give. Our friends in Tennessee
are calculating, certainly, on eight, if not
twelve thOu sand m a ioritv tbora