Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-19
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union replies to the charge of "igno
rance and duplicity," made by the Pennsyl
vanian because it 1.-THE Unton) demurred te
the Pennsykran fan's statement that Mr.. Blu
chanan is far stronger in "Pennsylvania, New
jersey, New Hampshire or Maine" than
either President Pierce or Senator Douglas
saying:
aft the assertion of the Pennsylvania is
anything more than the game of brag, il
means that in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, and Maine, the true national
Democrats are in n minority; and, therefore,
that whilst neither Pierce nor Douglas could
carry them-ss they could get no other votes
than those of true democrats-Mr. Buchanan
could carry them, because, in addition to the
true democrats, he could get an outside sup
port. We frankly confess that, if such is the
state of the public sentiment at the North ~
the democrats in that section on whose judy
ment We have relied are egregiously deceived
Our information is, that any sound national
democrat who may be nominated will receive
the entire democratic vote of the northern
States, and that in the several States emu
merated by us our triumph will be equally
certain, whether Mr. Buchanan, Gen. Pierce,
Judge Douglas, or any other nominee standing
equally unexceptionable on the democratic
platform, be the nominee. If this is a mis-
take, or in the polite language of the Penn
sylvanian, " nnronted ignorance or unpar-
donabIe dupl,erty," on the part of the leading
northern democrats on whose opinions we
rely; and if it be true, as Pennsylvania as
serts, that the contest would be more than
doubtful in those States with any other can
didate than Mr.. Buchanan, the necessary
result is, that our party is forced either to
submit to defeat on sts principles or to secure
n NV lO0k for al 0,1fsi do Of ifo
own ranks"
The Union also contains q very earnest
letter, signed by Mr.. VIM. Carey Jones, on the
Nicaragua question, wherein that gentle
man, Of so greet experience in tho con-
duct Of American public affairs, expounds
the law and the prophets" to Mr.. Critten-
den, mere -tyro in craftsmanship without
any reputation to speak of earned in the
course OF his brief service as an American
legislative statesman. Never did venerable
pedagogue assume to instruct unbreeched ur-
chin in his A-B-Cs in more apparent dogmatic
style, than does the learned and experienced
writer of this remarkable letter, the Kentucky
ignoramus. HisintrOductory paragraph, which
is fair specimen Of the whole, is as follows:
with all Difference to gentlemen of the
experience and reputation in public life of
Mr. Senator Crittenden, it seems to me not
unjust towards him to say, that in the discus.
sion of paper of so much immediate impor-
lance as the Presidents message of the 18th
inst better acquaintance with the facts and
the law, and a better apprehension Of the real
question, ought to have been expected"
Lord Mansfield himself could hardly feel
moro sure that bis opinion is right and that
of bis antagonist wrong.
Referring to the Nicaragua question, the
Union says CT the letter on which we COM
ment above:
"lf anything more were necessary, we
might also call attention to a communication
in this evenings Union, in which Mr.. Crit.
tenden's positions are fully refuted."
Really, we know not which most to admire,
the mastery (schOoD style in which Mr. Jones
undertakes to instruct Mr.. Crittenden in the
Tudiments Of legislative craftsmanship, or the
Pickrickian gravity with which the Union
announces that in this remarkable letter Mr..
J. has knocked his antagonist into the middle
Of next week,
The Hutelltgenesr announces the receipt Of
despatch conveying intelligence of the death
of the Hon. John G. Miller, late member Of
the House Of Representatives from the fifth
district of Missouri, who on account of illness
did not take his seat in this Congress The
Lntelttgeneer'S New York correspondent writes
synopsis of the explanation given by the
Courier des Etats INNS Of the alleged rude
ness Of Marshal Valiant lin Paris to the
American military commission of observation
(sent to the Crirea); explaining the origin Of
the popular version Of the story he says:
The following incident is given as the key
to the statement that Marshal valiant had
spoken Of meeting the Americans cat the
cannon's mouth" On visiting one of the
French arsenals, believed to be Vincennes,
one Of the Americans wished to extend the
circle of examination beyond the limits as
signed to the curiosity Of Strangers The
French officer who accompanied them declared
that his Instructions did not permit him to 20
further, and as the American expressed bis
surprise at this, the French officer replied
" We are no longer, sir, at that degree of eour-
tesy The attitude of your country towards
ours has putour relations upon new footing. :"