Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WAedlN6TUN NEW6 AMI UUabkf.
The Hon. Mr.. Meacham.-Our fellow citi-
zens of this District unite with US, we know,
in thanking Speaker Banks for his kindness
in selecting from among those who honored
him with their votes for the speakership, the
Hon. Mr.. Meacham of Vermont, to be the
Chairman Of the Committee on the District Of
Columbia. The act proves, incontestibly, the
kindness of the personal sentiments of the
Speaker himself towards this District with
which so many important interests of the
general government are indissolubly connect
ed. Gould we have ourself chosen from
among all who supported Mr.. Banks a chair
man OF the District Committee, our choice
would instantly have fallen on the gentleman
who has been named for the position. Mr..
Meacham 10 the scholar Of the House, besides
being man Of conservative views. From our
personal knowledge of him, we feel very GER
tain that he does not sympathize with ultra
ism of any sort on any question. Possessing
excellent judgment and great frmness of
character and purpose, he is, nevertheless, a
public man endowed with proper liberality of
views on all things touching the public inter
est. His long experience in Congress has
thoroughly instructed him as to the true char
acter Of the community of interests between
the general government and the District Of
Columbia; while his varied and profound &C
complishments as literary and scientific
man, must necessarily lead him to take proper
pride in identifying his namo and reputation
with the progress of the District of Columbia,
now held in the hollow of his hand, as it
were. We predict for him the most enIight-
ened and popular administration Of the i'm
pOrtant Craftsmanship to which he has been
assigned, so far known to the history of Con
gress.
Badly Treated We know of no more sour
Willy treated folks than our fellow citizens of
the District of Columbia who left the Demo.
cratic party to become intensely patriotic
know Nothings for the chances These en-
thusiastic gentlemen have spent all they could
possibly spare IL politics, in the course of the
past year. Many of them have spoken their
Jugs almost out On the stump, or shouted
them out around tue stump, or burned them
out in doirg the ardent patriots share of the
bibifcatiOn Of the past years most active and
laborious canvaSs-for with them the canvass
has lasted quite year, without cessation
They get, for ali their sacrifices of health, time,
money, and conscience, among them and be-
tween them, in the distribution of the patron
age of the House, with its nominal handsome
g American" majority, hardly enough to
amount, on a fair division all around, to--a
red cent apiece.
We are deeply mortified and chagrined at
the way in which they have been treated for the
benefit of persons who, in addition to the patent
Ofpolitcsl nativism, have based their 'sclaims"
on the now evidently so much stronger patent
of swearing by the God of anti-slavery.
In time and money, we presume that 500 600
will be low estimate of the cash value of the
sacrifices made by those whose case we have
been pleading go piteously above, for the ben
eft of their political cause. The dividend
upon that investment cannot reach more than
a single red cent all around. In this estimate
we do not take into consideration the pecunia.
ry sacrifices made by our talented enthusias-
tic, truthful, and ingenious neighbor; as they
have been duly set forth and eloquently urged
throughout the contest for House officers, ad
,lauSsam.
p. S.-SOme Of the Democrats around us
ask US respectfully and kindly to remind such
of our AmeIican-party friends as are now
soberly philosophizing over the iDgratitude
of human nature and the vanity and folly Of
the things of this sublunary world, that the
Loco Foco books still remain open, upon which
the names Of all who desire to return into the
bosom of the political mother church may vet
be inscribed. They are singing, for the en-
couragement Of the disconsolate to whom we
refer above, that venerated psalm
"While the lamp holds out to burn"
The House Printing We never saw disan.