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Washingiom.
The Intelligent and clear. headed Wash
| tngton correspondent OF the New York
Euentng Post, SAYS:
The Buchanan men in Washington are at
last tho onghly frightened, and have aroused
! from their comfortable dream of party irwin
| c.bility by the reports of the late uprisinys
/ At the North for Fremont and at the South
/ for Fillmore. The tone of the Buchanan
| Congressional Caucus of last week was yery
Responding. Nearly all the speakers, am
told, conceded New England, the Northwest,
and all the Middle States, except Pennsylva-
mia, winch they admitted to be doubtful, to
Fremont, AMI approximations were expressed
| that Fillmore might carry four Southern
S,a es. A Democrat from the South tolls
the that Buchanan creates no enthusiasm in
thai section, and that hundreds Of men who
would, had Douglass been nominated, have
gone into the campaign in person and with
| money, ARE now holding back and passing
the season away from homo at the watering.
places.
Not a few Democrats in Congress confess
that the eh tnecs lie bctw sen Fremont's elec-
ton BY the people or Fillmore By the House.
they do not think Fillmore will carry very
heavy vote ut the North, and for the reason
!
reference to the questions ON which the Nor
thern people are now excited. Indeed, no
one -upPoses that they will be satisfied mere
! ~ with the declaration that he will stand by
the Union and the Constitution he will
be the President of the whole country and
not Of section--and the commonplace OF
| 1850, to which both Of the other candidates
will swear MS heartiyas himself.
Tng KANSAS ..TKAiToRs.o - Will Gov.
| Robinson, Editor Brown, and the Free State
| prisoners, SO long held in durance vile Lv
United State troops ~ Lecompton, under in
Iictments for treason against the bogus laws
enacted by Missonrians, be tried, convicted,
| and hung Tho iro-Slavcry Court Of Judge
Lccompse is to try the cases in September,
. and Gov. Shannon is reported to have said
- Ii charged, they must be tried-if tried,
convictcd--and if convicted, hung" Not
only shannon, S,ringfellow, Atchison, aud
The Border Rufians generally, thirst for the
blood Of Robinson anu the Free State prison.
ers, but even Senator Douglass, in the same
3pirit, says" THIS Government has shown
itself equal to foreign war or to domestic
defence-equal to any emergency that may
arise In the exercise Vt its high functions in
all things sexcept the power TO hang = trail
tor We intend to reduce to subsection
those whose resist tho laws and authorities,
and to punish rebellion and trcnson.''-
cleveland Herald, Goth.
Gov. CoRwiN's PosrricN. Cincinnati
Z olombinn estimates that Gov. Corwin IL
bout to come out for Fremont and DAYTON,
nj that on Saturday next hc will mount the
. ump for them, commencing in the town Of
Lebanon, where be resides. The ColumLi IN
adds, s. our informants state that when Gov
Corwin left the Cabinet of Mr.. Fillmore, he
made promise, either to himself or others,
not to participate actively in politics again
until certain period had elapsed, and that
this time will be on, on Friday next--the
day before his speech is to be made" This
reported abstinence from politics is rather
queer story, yet II derives coloring Of au-
thority from the Governors quiet life during
the past four years.
CHANCE or OrISiox.-The Washington
Union calls attention to the fact that the bill |
organizing the territory OF Washington,
which was signed BY Mr.. Fillmore, - Presi-
dent, contained exactly the Same provision
recognizing unnaturalizcd foreigners ~
legal voters, a. that in the Kansas Nebraska
mel, which some Of his friends are now stig-
Indeed the one provision i o.
legged to have been copied from the other. |