Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-12

ldCts ana trying 70 establish MS Individual
ignorance and innocence of SO prominent and
notorious q matter Nobody will easily be
convinced that the consulate here can have
| managed such an affair, or, to take the point
| last revealed, Can have paid over 81 500 to
the owners or consignees of the bark Loui-
siana, without the participation of the consul.
| Neither the Government nor the public are
| open to such a conviction 1t seems to be
| settled that Mr.. Barclay must fall, and we
woald prefer to see it consummated with dig
nifty. Least Of all would any wise adviser
| counsel him to engage in libel suits with
every journal that holds him guilty of having
served his own country by trying to procure
recruits in this Or if he must 20 to law on
that question: let him begin with Mr. Score.
tary Marcy, who has put the offensive impu-
tation in the most decided and injurious
forms After recovering swinging damages
from the Secretary he can take up the news.
papers with better hope of success ;"
The Letter Of Mr.. Brooks, Of South Caro-.
lina.-Our neighbor of the Sentinel finds
fault with Hon. Preston 8. Brooks, of South
Carolina, for the tenor Of his recently pub.
lished letter to his constituents urging South
Carolina to send delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention, if but to aid in bringing about
the denomination Of President Pierce, which.
the honorable gentleman contends, is a tribute
due from South Carolina to a Chief Magis.
trate who has been SO eminently faithful to all
his obligations as the guardian of coeouaIity
of the South under the Constit ution in these
days of the tendency of politicians to forget
guaranteed rights and the constitutional linn.
itations of power, &c
Whether the reader, if a member of the
Democratic party, is or is not an advocate of
the denomination of Franklin Pierce, he can
hardly fail to award to Mr.. Brooks, for the
letter in question, the praise of writing senti.
ments of honorable and manly gratitude, as
Southern statesman-hOuorabl to the integ.
rity of his heart
Our friend of the Sentinel. however. is
hardly fair judge Of the letter of Mr.. Brooks
because, as he proclaims in nearly every issue
of his journal, he is the uncompromising enc.
my of Pierce and his administration being
unable to see in their acts anything like real
fidelity to the rights of the States, as involved
in the Kansas question. He believes that all
those things done by Pierce for which the
State-rights men of the South and North are
praising him without stint, were done for sin.
lister ends only. He holds this opinion in
common with the Know Nothings Of the South
only. Not an individual of the whole South
claiming identity with the Democratic party
besides himself, is there, who stands side by
side with the opponents of the Democratic
party on this point. Under these circum-
stances, it is not to be supposed that our
friend of. the Sentinel can be a whit better
satisfied with the advice Mr.. Brooks gives to
South Carolina than our talented, ingenious,
andtruthful neighbor, the Washington Organ.
The Anti-slavery Caucus.-Drs. Gliding
and Greeley are again busy with their bottles
of backbone liniment. They collected the
weak as well as those strong in the back and
knees, last night, in caucus, at the Reprssen-
tatives hall, according toprevious notice given,
to the number Of some eighty-6ve. The pur-
pose was to organize the abolition opposition
to Willard Fillmore.
Nearly every man present, after all their
weeks drumming, was full member Of the
organization among the members known as
that Of the Cullud Bredren." Mr. Todd, of
Pennsylvania, and few others, who are not
quite prepared to swallow, without greasing,
Giddings for dinner, and Mr.. Greeley by way
of desert, were, however, on hand. Mr.. 7.
is said to have made lugubrious sort of
speech, wherein he pledged himself for anti.
slavery, though RETAINING from giving a
pledge to support any body the Republican
party abolitionists may nominate against
Fillmore.
Senator Foot was in the chair, and Mr..
Cumback officiated as secretary. The speak
ers besides Mr.. Todd, were Messrs. Wilson
of Mass, Banks, Seward Of N. Y, Durfee,
Granger, Collamer, Colfax, Cragin, Benson,
Howard, Billinghurst, Morrill, and Sabin who
all "shrieked" Justify "for freedom,' of
course, as might be expected from the list of
their names
The purpose of the caucus was to coax over
half dozen gentlemen of both Houses, who
while protesting yet to belong to the National
American party, so far refuse to swallow Fill.
more and Donelson. Nothing whatever was
accomplished, further than making it plain
that some members who voted for Banks do
not design joining the congressional cohort Of
"Culled Bredren I"
Hard Run.-The New York Tribune has at
length published the minority report of the
House Elections Committee on the Kansas
contested election case, but not in connection
with the majority report from the same COM
mittee in the same case, as it should have
done to preserve even q semblance of fairness
in dealing with the Kansas question. By
way of breaking the force Of the arguments
and facts embraced in the statements Of
Messrs. Stephens and Whitfield, letter from
the pen Of the aredoubtable philosopher him
self is found in the same issue of the TrtJvns.
arguing the case by the convenient method of
fictitious colloquy, in which, of course, DR..
Greeley only puts arguments in Gen. Whit.