Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-30
SPIRIT CT TEE MORNING PRESS.

The Union, In allusiou to the frank con-
fession. made by the New York Tribune Of
the waning prospects of its party, says:
"This same confession Of the Tribune fur
nishes q clue to some other signs that have
not been explained. We can now understand
the meaning of the moderation and conserva-
tism which Speaker Banks sought to infuse
into his harangue at the New York Exchange;
In that speech there was no word that orealneu
of the substitution Of military despotlsm LOT
the present constitutional Union-no inuma
ton OF the possibility Of contingency when
he would be willing to see the Union silde'-
but throughout there was marhe1 enort 70
represent to his party as arden'ly ana earnest
~ devoted to the Union.
The Union thinks thSt the doubts expressed
by the Tribune as to the prospects Of Fremont
furnish the key TO this wonderful revolution in
Speaker Banks. He saw, as Greeley did,
"the handwriting on the wall ~ he saw that
the UniOn-loving people of the North are be-
coming aroused, and he labored to appease the
wrath which he saw kindling in tho minds Of
the conservative portion Of the North.
The Union, in an article upon the Pennsyl-
yania election, estimates the vote in that State
at the November election as follows:
buchanan. ....'.'............. .....ZZ3, OOt
FllmOre.. .................... b5,00t
The InteEfieenesr has an elaborate article
upon "the union of the States" headed by
the significant quotation
SIN those things which are essential LEI
there be unity: in non essentials, liberty and
In all things charity. '-1ugHsttn.
In adverting to the great topics of the day
the IHtsiIigenesr, says:
without being, we trust, insepsible t.
danger, whenever it shall present itself in
forms sufficiently positive and actual to cal
not only for resistance, but for exposure and
warning, We may yet say that we have already
passed through SO many crises which were
thought by excited partisans or despondina
patriots to be big with the fate no less of some
political Caesar than of Rome itself
that We have ceased to have our apprehen.
sions unduly aroused by such periodical threat.
enings, the auguries more often of croakne
politicians, disappointed in their hopes, than
the weil-grounded fears Of an intelligent pa
trlotlsm. The ship Of State has already wealth
cred so many storms, not only by the skilful
Plotage OF her officers, but by the strength Of
her umbers and the fidelity and perseverance,
OF her crew, that we cannot easily bring our
selves to despair of her safety every time thai
sne may De tossed by pillows rougher thar
those OF summer sea, unless indeed, as i,
limited, we are now to apprehend, for the frs
time in her cruisings, that the crew is likely
to musiDy because of the steersman, and tn a.
too even before he has put his hand to the
helm, or at least given any practical proof o
his untrustworthjness as pilot
The intsL!tSeneer expresses surprise and re
greet that many from whose political creed
least, if rot from their partisan preferences, i
had right to expect an accomplishing &C
quiescenee in the choice of the people, upol
vhomsOever in their pleasure it may fall, hav
deemed it not unworthy of themselves to de
clare IN advance, and in the face of tn at creed
that the election of Mr.. Fremont, the Gre
publican" candidate for the Presidency, vii
be In itself sufficient cause for the immedi
ate dissolution of the National Union.