Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-24
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

- IN ob;ms,a ard its pretended power a
bumbug. The Richmond Examiner says
The triumph of the Democratic Party dis.
solves into thin air the popular deiuslon OF
the influence of the press OF the city OF New
Work upon the public sentiment even OF the
metropolis in which they are printed and pus
ished The Herald, Tribune and Times,
with a combined circulation Of heaven knows
how many hundreds of thousands, honestly
'parading their prosperity during the can
svass, laughed at the idea Of the Democratic
Party contending against such formidable
alliance.
"In the city of New York, against this
formidable array of editorial talent and en-
ergy, the Democracy triumphed by an over
whelming majority, electing Congressman
'and innumerable candidates for the local
Offices
"We are quite willing to take the result OF
last election as n test of the power OF the frex
in influencing public opinion. The heaviest
votes cast for Fremont were just in those dis
tricts where the largest number Of Republican
journals were circulated. New England, New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and even indi'
ana and Pennsylv ania, furnish the best evil
dence that could possibly be given OF the ell
cacy of the Press in enlightening the minds
of the people
"The laundering inference drawn by the
Examiner and kindred prints, grows out OF
the circulation and influence Of New YORK
journals are limited, like their own, by the
boundaries of the towns in which they are
published"
The New York Times, from which we quote
above, misstates, if il does not misapprehend
the point made by the Richmond Examiner,
which does not dispute the power of the press,
but that Of bold, reckless, Wholesale and ma.
lcious fslsehoods. Or, in other words, the
power Of the quintuple alliance Of the five
New York city dailics that combined on FIRE.
mont in the late election, Though upon nearly
every other public question they previously
stood as wide asunder as the poles. Their
canvas was ono continued series of misstate
ments of the truth-an unbroken stream of lies'
(speaking in ld-fashioned Epglish) that was
swollen into perfect torrent and cataract Of
falsehood ere the journals and orators idenii-
fed with the same cause had done mounting
over tho various wonders they told, in vain to
effect the result of the campaign.
The Tims, admits the entire want Of inau-
enee Of the quintuple newspaper alliance in
their own city, where they circulate an aggre
gate of perhaps six hundred thousand sheets
per week; ant as en- Offset claims the result Of
the election in VIGOROUSLY abolition quarters
Of the Union as having been brought about
by them. This claim is but poor dodge, in
deed. There, they were but the fly on the
wheel-bu. panderers to the prevailing mad
ness Of the yicinage. Wherever that madness
is pot constitutional with the people, which is
the case in southern Illinois, Indiana and
Pennsylvania, the influence of their false
hoods SO adroitly told, proved as slight as
in New York city. The truth is, they elm
ply pandered to the malice, passions and pre-
judices Of the Insufficient, over-righteous
and crazed portion of the Union, and now
claim that they are the authors Of all the mis-
chief of abolitionism that has been brewing
twice as long as either of them have been in
existence,
The RichmOnd ETamtmer is correct. In
regions of tho Union where the people are not
constitutionally self sufficient, over righteous,
and monomaniacs by whole communities, the
avalanche Of falsehoOds Of this quintuple al
lance Of newspapers CT immense circulation
had no mere effect on the popular mind, than
wkistling psalm tunes would have had Gu
dead horses
The Kansas Delegates Scat - Tho New
York Tribune appeals t. its party in the
House OF Representatives to reject General
Whitfield once more, On tho ground that, hav
ing once decided that the Legislature OF the
Territory under whose authority the election
for Delegate took place was invalid, the re
turn of W. at the subsequent election held un
der the same Territorial authority is an insult
to it, the House.
Such is the drift Of the Ir.bUne's argument
If, indeed, it has any point whatever. The
House, however, will not crafty the TrtJmSs's
conductors. The opponents of its views with
reference to Kansas affairs have, since W hit-
field was uDjustly deprived of his seat, gained
tby filling vacancies) one member in Virginia,
three in Illinois, and one in Missouri Be-
side, more or less of the Northern Know Moth.
ing members who voted with the Republicans
to Dust Whitfield, will now surely vote for hin :,
there being DO question with reference to the
entire fairness with which the last election
wa" SN-uoNbSuJ Ouo VI luom DUNG
supporters Of the right Of the abolitionists of
the Territory to set up q government or to
order elections to be held there in defiance of
or revolution against the authority Of the
United States; in furtherance Of which more
or less of them refused to participate in the last
action ofthe House On the subject We do not
believe that aboli,iOnsn in the House can pos
sibly bring up even nine -tenths Of its own prop
er force next month to vote Whitfield out of the
seat TO which he has recently been re elected
A Discovery New York Times has
found out, through an occasional correspond
ent from this city, that Governor Wise did not
visit Wheatiand recently on raid after o
place in the incoming Cabinet-that having
been the drift Of most Of the articles the Times
and other New York journals which assume
TO be the. custodians Of the President elect
have published on the subiect