Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-26


many years, and is well remembered, espe-
cially on account of General Jackson's men,
orable saying, that Every body had his pest;
for his part, if it were not for Donelson, he
should have nothing in the world to trouble
him. The truth is, Donelson was his Mon
s,eur Malapropos. Being family connec.
ton Of his wife, the General was forced to
tolerate him about him, and to grin and bear
with all the philosophy he could muster, the
'scapes and difficulties into which Donelson
was constantly getting him. Donelson's most
remarkable trait is an abiding want of COM
mon sense, which has prevented him, notwith-
standing the prestige Of his relationship to the
wife of jackson, from having the least politica
weight where personally known. r..
He rated from the Democratic party be-
cause President Pierce refused to take him
and certain members of his family, for Office,
at his own valuation. For months before he
turned up Know Nothing, the locotocos of
Nashville were cracking jokes about his la.
mentations over his failure to get what he
asked of the Administration and the undigni.
fed and impotent personal abuse showered
by him at the street corners for the benefit of
street corner audiences, on the President.
His nomination is worth to the Know Nothing
cause in Tennessee, at least clear loss Of
some $500 votes; for the mental and political
calibre of Major Andrew jackson Donelson,
is well known throughout portions Of that
State.
Vive La Humbug There never was n
richer p" sell'' than the alleged attempt Of F.
P. Blair to stuff his brother Free Sellers at
Pittsburg with the idea that their political
notions are gaining ground among the people
of the South, who according to newspaper
of his remarks) have only to
be reasoned with in the right way on the
slavery question, soon to 60 over, body and
breeches, to abolitionism That Blair should,
at his time of life and with his knowledge Ct
the world, venture to palm off On his abol-
ton brethren such roorback, is evidence
merely of the desperation of his determination
to die striving to get revenge for his loss of
the national ORGANISING of the Democratic 1
party. 1t seems, however, that he had CO.
laborers in the work Of tickling the "Culled
Bredren" with whom he was in council, with
the southern-favor straw. We quote a tele-
graphic dispatch to the New York Express,
from Pittsburg:
1.-THE friends Of freedom here are caucus
ing, and concerning to palm off upon the pub
lie the false representation, that the South is,
in part, represented in this their one-legged
F. P. Blair, the old editor of the Globe
who abused Henry Clay and Daniel Webster,
the latter as q drunkard'-is the only bona
fae Southern man here, and he is a slave
holder on the borders of Maryland.
. Rcdpath, Of Missouri, is your we'll known
Tribune editor, James NJ Redpath He now
does up the horrible in Kansas for the Tr-
bune, as its correspondent there. He is an
Englisbman, who did up the Pease business in
New York, and has only been in Missouri to
run through it.
g, Farley, Of Virginia, believe is Yam
g. Bailey, Of Kentucky is an editor of an
abolition journal not in Kentucky. He may
have been there-but he left soon.
Your New York friends of freedom
however, know how to do up this sort of con-
vention business. Redpath. and Farley, and
Bailey, are good enough Morgans till after
election 1t is 80 important to have a shrek
for freedom from the South, that, as in the
This dispatch exposes the bald Tricks by
which it was attempted to cheat honest pee
pie at the North into the foolish notion that
their cause is gaining ground at the South.
But there was one other Southern dele
gate" in that concern; young Mr.. Clephans,
clerk in the National Era Office in this city.
The idea of an effort on the part Of the Abo-
lition newspaper writer to palm him off as a
person in any way identified with the South, is
in fair keeping, indeed, with Blair's assurance
of the coming ardent sympathy with the
South in the political cause of the Republican
party. By.the-by: will the Baltimore Su,,
do the Southern customers of Baltimore the
favor to specify who are the merchants of that
city, of whose identity with the Free Soil
party Blair boasted' By so doing, it will
doubtless save to its city much custom which
its Odd good natured" representative at
Pittsburg seemed solicitous to drive of.
The Excitement.-The able debate in the
Senate yesterday on the emil stment question
between Britain and the United States, has
increased rather than diminished the war-ex-
citement among public men-and, indeed, all
others around us. Whatever others may
think, We are not of those who anticipate the
occurrence Of war between the United States
and Great Britain in our generation; the great
interests Of the two countries being so locked
up in the continuance of friendly rela-
tions between them, as to make it a matter of
impossibility that the current misunderstand-
ing can grow so grave as that counsel, rather
than cannon, will not eventually settle it.
We sincerely believe that the foreign affairs
Of England are in the hands of men head
strong enough to venture aught on question
of pride with reference to themselves individ.
ually; that is, on a point in which their own
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