Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-11
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

have private dispatch to-day from St' Louis
from n gentleman in whose judgment We have
every confidence, who says to us: "Polk Is
certainly elected Governor. The States del
egstion in the next Congress stands four Dem
ocrats, two Know Nothings, and Blair"-who
will, of course, be craw6shing back to the
Democrats after November, if not sooner.
A haracter.-Among tho most amusing
circumstances of the present Presidential can
vsss is the fuss which the Republican news
papers are making over one Philip Dorshiemer.
OF Buffalo, N. Y, convert to their party, Of
course, or he would be, in common with others
OF his countrymen, the subject of the nnathe-
mas OF many Of them on account Of the land
Of his nativity, rather than, as at present, the
theme Of their unstinted praise Up to the
hour on which 1t became certain that the pres
emit Administration had determined not to re-
appoint him postmaster of Buffalo, from which
Office (under the Polk Administrations ap-
pointment) its predecessor removed him, he
IL
professions among the horde who swarmed to
Washington on the accession of Pierce. From
the stoop Of Wizards hotel he would preach,
by long hours, to any and every body, about
the importance of his services to the Democ.
racy In the last canvass and his remark able
influence over the Germans throughout the
Great West. The real English of the broken
English in which he was accustomed on such
occasions to deliver himself, to the annoyance
of those whom he held by the button hole and
the infinite amusement Of the constitutional,
wags about town, (who at length listened for
the delivery of bis daily half jeremiad and
half stump speech in gibberish regularly, as
the standing joke of the season. was, that he
was about the most important man west of the
Alleghanies; and that not to satisfy him would
be to throw of from the support of tho AID.
ministration the whole German born vote Of
the country. He was refused, perhaps more
than anything else on account of the impu.
dent staggering which at times characterized
his office begging, and the mean servility that
marked it at other times.
He has fairly kept his promise of undying
hostility to tho Democratic cause, unless {" de
Demogradic hardy" would give him office.
Hundreds now in Washington remember we'll
bis behavior when seeking Office here to have
be 'n just as we describe it; while, perhaps,
thousands in and about Buffalo are equally
we'll aware that the origin of his Republican.
ism is his disappointed solfshncss. The Re.
publican press of New York are Just now ma.
king great fuss over letter from his pen,
wherein he processes to have changed his
politics from honest, honorable, and patriotic
motives. Their lavish praises of this Swiss
bring forcibly to our mind the scenes to which
we refer above, on which we took occasion TO
comment when they occurred, to the infinite
amusement of our readers. His system of
ofice-see king was so sublimely impudent at
one moment, SO mean at another, and 30 dis.
gushing throughout all its phases, as to have
offered US about the very fairest mark for il.
Illustrating the ruling passion of the small beer
politicians of the day, which it has been our
fortune to point pen at since mounting tina
Stars tripod. He is essentially a poor devil,
politically, this honorable" Philip Dorshie.
ner, and will abuse the Republicans after thev
have used him, if they have anything what
ever to give, quite as roundly as he now
abuses the present Administration. For, we
take 1t for granted, they by this time know
him too we'll to take him at his own valuation
of himself; or, in other words, to bestow Office
on him.
The Sectional Candidate.-The most child.
ish subtereuge of the hour to avoid the point
Of the serious charge that the Republican
party is essentially sectional Organization,
and on that account is exceedingly dangerous
to the future pea,e of the Union, if not to its
much longer duration, is that both the Presi-
dent and Vice President have heretofore been
elected from the same section of the Union
without the generation Of consequences such
as are predicted from the election of Fremont
and Dayton. There never was before in the
field great party formed upon the single
principle Of warning on the guaranteed consti-
tutional rights and the interests of section of
the Confederacy; which is the real element of
the so great danger to the Union to Aow from
a triumph of the Republican party. 1t is not
because Mr.. Fremont is citizen of New York
and Mr.. Dayton citizen of New Jersey, that
such spprehensions grow out of the possibility
of their election; but because they bear aloft
a banner inscribed with death to the constitu.
tional rights and interests of the South; be.
cause their followers, without exception,
preach through the press and from the stump
vehement abuse Of, and bitter hatred to, all
things Southern, proclaiming that they seek to
elect them only that they may reduce the
South to system Of vassalage to the North,
wholly unknown to the principles of the Con-
stitution Of the United States, and to the pur.
poses for which the South came into the Con.
federacy.
To suppose that the South will remain in
the Union with its government in the hands