Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

! Central Committee have been scattering oroao
cast An abolition electioneering document,
,.,lsd a " Letter from Francis p. Blair, to my
ns;gbbors." 1t requires notice at our hands,
ems. the nretence under which it was writ
tan 1, to defend the author personally against
.u.. atoms embraced in . speech delivered
mot II M since by the editor Of this journal be.
for. a Democratic meeting of Mr.. Blair's i'm.
m.diats neighbors, wherein his (B's) politi.
cal eou rse was criticised as We believed to be
its due
Our space will not permit a review of the
DO ints which Mr.. Blair attempts to make in
the pamphlet before US not germaine to tho
real ssue, which is: EF How far he is en-
| titled t' the confidence, respect and regard Of
the people of Montgomery county, Maryland,
than wholu no others in the Union are more
vitality interested in its stability, which Mr.
Blair is laboling to undermine, though pro-
Tossing in this production to be engaged SIM
ply in the work OF arraying one class Of his
neighbors against another.
We said of him at that meeting that having
come to Washington out at the elbows and
with greasy hat in hs.nd, he was raised to i'm
mense wealth by tho favor of the Democratic
party. That on being thus elevated he illus
sEased tho eternal truth of the adage-" set
beggar ON horseback and he will ride to the
-"ky s,s edily becoming the most arrogant
man knoyn in connection with public affairs
at the seat Of Government. That when the
Democracy ceased to bow to the supremacy of
"a
vices in the position that poured into his lap
the immense viches growing out of his monop.
oily Of the Pub Tic printing, because he differed
widely from tn ,m On the oversh Allowing issue
of the times (I,e Texas question: and be-
cause he was a, owedly bitterly hostile per.
sOnaly to these ,,lected by them to manage
the affairs of the G overnmert, he became, as
he has on all conven lent subsequent occasions
proved himself to be, tho direst, most unscru.
pulous and most unr elenting enemy to the
Democratic party, kno wn to US at least.
We said, further, that he is now found in
lingame, Frederick Douglass, Joshua r. Cid
dings, Robert Purvis Il Co, advocating their
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dehcy, and strengthening tieir schemes Of dis
union and abOlitionism by the exertion, to that
end, of his every faculty and his personal in
fuence; the latter the result, for the most part,
of the wealth and prominence bestowed on
| him by the favor Of the Democratic party in
the mistaken belief that he was an honest
| hearted man as we'll as a man Ct great ability
as q partisan writer. We contended Ito be as
| brief as possible) that to obtain revenge on
the Democratic party he is now laboring in
| tepsely in a channel wherein he cannot posi-
| bly, labor-as no one knew better than him
| self-without thus weakening the tenure of
| such of his neighbors as may own slave prop
| erty, to that in the right to which they are
guaranteed by the laws Of Maryland as COM
pletely as he is to his property that cannot be
run off by his political friends and colaborers
for Fremont, who openly justify and secretly
work I" the underground railroad
We endesvored further to make il plain
that if Mr.. Blair and those acting with him
come into power, they will despite his soft
professions and polite disclaimers to the con-
trsry) seek to carry out the political views of
his political friends Seward, Giddings, Gree
| ley, Co. with reference to the future of
slavery in the States; and that the tenor of all
his late writings on the slavery question goes
to prove to reasoning men that no confidence
whatever is to be placed in his polite assevera-
tons that he has not become every whit as
| vehement an abolitionist as the blacklist free
negro among them all. We also endeavored
Il he HILL nr NJ ~
he aims but to secure " Kansas to freedom
for the benefit of the laboring white man: in
stancing among other arguments. the fact that
no one can be the honest friend of the labor
log man who, for the miserable and mean pur.
pose of getting revenge because his old politi-
cal friends had seen fit (after gorging him to
repletion with wealthy to substitute such an
able and faithful soldier in the cause as the
| late venerable Thomas Richie in his stead,
would strive to bring into power a party that
cesld not possibly attempt to WELD the gov
| eminent without bringing about a disruption
| of the Union, as he knew well; which, in turn,
would destroy more especially the pros
poets and the value of the property Of the la
boring white men by whom he Blair is sur.
rounded, who are so near the present scat Of
government and almost Immediately on non
slaveholding State border.
We said also, that arguments upon the ques.
ton Of slavery, such as he was industriously
disseminating,.a arc calculated not only to rem
der property, but life itself, insecure in Mary
land, because their tendency is to unsettle
society there, to render the slaves discon-
tented, to encourage them to run off and also
to play the game of murder and arson upon
the families Of their owners, to which they
are so earnestly invited by Wendell Phillips,
Fred Douglass, Bob Purvis, and tens of thou
sands Of Mr.. Blair'S brother Fremonters. We
said, finally, that Mr. Blair's political deeds
spoke louder than his anti-sbolition protssta-
i tina. nd that