Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-09
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union, discussing the plans Of the Re
publican party for the campaign, says with
much force:
60 They do not want the country to know
that Mr.. Senator Sumner was never seriously
Injured, or that he is now in the endowment OF
pending difficulties in Kansas settled in an
equitable and amicable manner. Without
the bleeding Senator or the bleeding Terri
tory, they feel persuaded that it would be
worse than folly to solicit the SURFACES of the
people, even in the northern States, in behalf
Of a candidate who, it is shrewdly suspected,
owes his nomination as much to successful
litigation as to successful exploration. Ac-
cordingly, an intim alton is given that the re-
marKsbfe brain of the distinguished Massa-
chusetts Senator has softened, or is about to
soften, and that it is absolutely necessary
and or what purpose we need not add-that
he should not be produced to his mourning and
sympathetic friends until after the first Tues
day in November next Until after the ex-
piration Of this day, Black Republlcanism
cannot and will not consent for Kansas to
repose in peace and security. Kansas paci-
ned, and the people in the full enjoyment
Of the rights which alone can be secured
by the enforcement of the great principle
imbOdied in the act which created the
AOAAhOly1 dHu WUulu Do al emu 10 the
manufacture Of Kansas horrors and Kansas
outrages-the gre at staple of abolition speeches
and abolition editorials would be withdrawn
from the market-the demand for Sbarpe s
rifles would cease-the purses of very rich and
very fanatical old gentlemen would close with
convulsiye clasp-elderly ladies might re-
turn to their knitting with decency and com
fort-their spiritual guides might be persuaded
to remember their sacred calling-and thou.
lQnda and taDl 0f thonsopIc nc Lol
might recover their reason in time to cast their
ballots at the presidential election in accord
ance with the dictates Of good sense and sound
patriotism.
Under no circumstances will the Black
Republican leaders consent to the pacifcation
Of Kansas before the presidential election ia es
place. The bill which they recently forced
through the House was forced with a knowl-
edge that its manifest injustice and absurdi-
ties would insure its defeat in the Senate
The kind of reception which will be extended
70 Mr.. loom s s bill-conceived as it is in the
largest spirit ofjustice, iberality, and conces-
sion-nsed not be foretold."
We know, of our own knowledge, that their
leaders have staked their all on the desperate
game of defeating any and every proposition
to quiet the Kansas matter. They design
moving heaven and earth, as it were, to pre-
vent Congress from consummating anything
Intended TO restore the Territory to its proper
condition, in the belief that the only possible
chance existing for Fremont's election is
looked up in the success of their design to
keep up the excitement about the slavery
question until November next. They will
vote to man to-day, in the House, to amend
the Senate's substitute for the Topeka adopted
constitution by adding to it a clause restoring
the Missouri restriction, though more than
half of them, in private conversation, scout
the idea Of its restoration, as involving the dc
feat Of their ultimate schemes against slavery
In the States. The question Of their success
depends on the northern friends of Fillmore
In the House. If they fail to keep the prom
Use Of Mr.. Fillmore's Albany and Rochester
spseches-thus proving that the sentiments
then and there uttured by him were designed
only for political effect in Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana-the action
Of the Senate will be defeated, not otherwise.
The Entelitgneer says Of the result of the
Brooks trial yesterday:
However decided our own feelings may
have been in the political and personal bear
ings Of the case, We could not. with our fixed
conceptions Of propriety and our habituaI rev.
erenee for the sanctity Of the place which was
the scene Of the violence, fail to partake
deeply Of the sentiment common to this whole
community. Yet, unwilling to add even the
weight Of our humble opionion to the nHamed
state Of the public mind, we cOntented our
selves with the simple expression of our pro-
found regret at so painful an occurrence, and
thsnssforth maintained q studied silence in
regard to it. But the minister Of the law
having now spoken, sentence been pronounced,
and the case RENTED to the public judgment
We think it due to ourselves and our readers
that We should express, with less restraint
than we imposed on ourselves in the first
tempest Of the excitement, our opinion of the
transaction. And touching the judgment of
the Court, we are bound to say that it has Ger.
tainly fallen short of the public Anticipation
not the anticipation, still less the wish, Of
partisans or zealOts, but of the calm and Judi.
cious-men who are capable Of respecting the
wounded sensibilities of high spirited gen
tleman, not less than public decorum and the
dignity and immunity of the Senator and the
Senate house"