Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-16

Republican party, to put the power and infu-
ence Of the Government of the United States!
The Last Resort.-It will be perceived
from reading the record of yesterdays pro-
ceedings in the House hall, that they are ap-
parently getting dailys farther and farther
from effecting the object in which they are
nominally engaged. All conceivable schemes
for efecting compromise of their difficulties
have been tried in vain, except that of stop
ping their ratiOns. Ever since the first Mon
day Of December last, the Sergeant Arms
has been cashing, On his own account, their
receipts for mileage and per diem due to such
Of them as required money. The funds to do
that must have come from some bank or banks
or individual bankers in this city, as it is to
be presumed that the Sergeant-at-Arms had
not the means of making such heavy advance
ment of his own private funds. Thus, while
Rome has been burning-the public interest
sufering-it is through the action of the Ser
geant- alarms above referred 10 that they
have gotten the wherewithal to enable them
to fiddle" away, as it were, the lifetime of
the session. We respectfully suggest to that
functiOnary that it is about time that he
brings his advances to a close; and to those
capitalists in our midst whose means he may
be employing in making them, that they are
doing the country serious injury by furnish.
ing the wherewithal to keep the House disor-
ganized. As yet no member has felt in his
immediate affairs embarrassment from their
disOrganized condition. They alone have
failed to suffer from the present state Of things
Our remedy is to have them take their legti-
mate share, each one Of them, of the vexation
of longe r-cOntinued disorganisation.
The Social and Political Equality Of the
Races, and their Amslgamation.-Mr.
Banks, yesterday, denied that he had avowed
the sentiments upon the latest Republican
party pas attributed to him by Mr.. Clingman,
in the course of the debate. Having eontented
himself with a simple denial, as above men
toned, Mr.. Orr quoted, upon him, his de-
claration made on Saturday in the course of
|" the Interpolation, on which we CON-
mented on the day before yesterday, as fol-
lows:
"I have to say in this matter that accept
the doctrine of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, that all men are created equal. In
regard to the superiority of races. L am i'm
pressed with the conviction that it is to be de-
termlned only by capacity for endurance. So
far as have studied the subject it seems To
me to be the universal law that the weaker is
always absorbed and disappears in the stronger
race. Whether the black race of this CONT
N SYt NJ NV Of har - Of h.
to the white race can only be determined by
the absorption and disappearance of the one
or the other; and L propose to wait until the
respective races can be properly subjected to
this philosophical test before L give decisive
answer"
This explanation Of his position will be read
with great interest by the country, as it is very
clear that the next formal aim of the Repub-
lican party, will be to carry out every where
throughout the non-slaveholdng States the
black laws of Massachusetts, Those, we mean,
that have existed in that State for some years
past. They give the blacks of that Common
wealth every legal and political right enjoyed
BY the whites, except that of bearing arms in
the Militia; and include the right to vote with
out any restriction whatever; tho right of CO.
equality in all the public schools; the right to
sit on juries, &c; and last, though by no means
least, Massachusetts, has long since formally
legalired marriage between blacks and whites,
if We remember correctly, on the petition of
numerous white unmarried females Of that
Commonwealth, of marriageble ages
We were incidentally told yesterday by
distinguished gentleman Of that State, that
these laws had been found to work admirably
That society had by no means deteriorated
through their effect; that the negro there had
proved himself worthy Of that sort of eleva-
ton; that the principle should be carried out
elsewhere, &c, &c. Our distinguished infor-
mant was, of course, very intense Republi-
can-party man in his politics. We mention
these facts that the constituents Of honorable
members of the Republican party, represent
ing other States, may realize, as soon as pos
sible, the progress" that is not long hence to
be initiated in their midst by the ruling spirits
of the Republican party organization. So
they go.
Lieut.. Hartsuf, U. s. A,-The War De-
partment have adyices from Fort Myers,
Tampa Bay, Florida, saying that First Lieut.
George l.. Hartsuff, second artillery, reported
killed in the late enga gemen Mt with the Florida
Indians had come into Fort Simon Drum. |
His wounds, which were very bad, caused his
delay in getting in and the consequent belief
that he had been killed Four men were
killed and three wounded in the engagement
in question.
Mr. Crampton.-The Washington CORE
spondent Of the Boston Daily Journal gives
the following interesting sketch Of the public |
career and social position of this prominent
diplomatist
John Fiennes Champion, the representa-
tive of Great Britain here, has been much
talked of recently, and yet but few are ac-
quaintsd with his social position or his dipIo.
h1at,e history He is the only child, believe,
Of Sir Phillip Champion, M D., z. R. S,
celebrated old surgeon who resides in Merton |
square Dublin, and who was created a Baro-