Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP


| enthu iastic and Ingenious neighbour In these
| Its last moments. We, therefore, with pleas
ure answer its question of yesterday we
| did onnose the nomination of James buchanan
| earnes.Iv and increasingly until it was made
l ovar orr onnosition, and that Of thousands Of
otbers. who. like ourself, subsequently, voted
cbeerfulIy for him. That's way Democrats
have which is the secret Of their almost in
variable success, as a party. We all feel at
perfect liberty to struggle as manfully as wecan
4 ea b to secure the nomination of our choice.
| A nomination having been made, however,
we all wheel into line and work together in
the common cause Of cur principles, like a
band Of brothers. Thus we opposed Mr.. Bu-
chsnan's nomination as zealously rs we sup
ported him when nominated. We've a secret
for the ear Of our dying neighbor. Had the
. Cincinnati Convention put up Aud Homie
h mself, VII hoofs and horns, on the platform
adopted. We should have supported him with
quite as much zeal and earnestness as we mani
Tested for Mr.. Buchanan; for We do not know
D,en, hut principles only, in our politics. Nine
ty-nine in every hundred real Democrats
| would have done likewise under similar cir
cumstances. Hence the moral strength of the
Democratic party's discipline.
Our dying neighbor is Mortified at the idea
| that We should venture to show up in its true
colc1s the scene occurring after the meet
| ing Of the jackson Democratic Association on
) Monday night last, and what is more horrible
lin its es;imatioD) to stig Matte as blackguards
| those Democrats of Baltimore who corrupted
| by an evil Know Nothing example, retaliated
the blu: ming of Reverdy johnson in sfigy by
| paying like left hand compliment to Mayor
| Kinks. Therein is the secret Of our success
ard the So early and untimely approaching
death Of our dear neighbor- We have a way
of speaking the truth out boldly with little
thought OF where it may cut, We cannot for
| the life of Us see all perfection in our own
side-nO faults whateveI-and We have the
boldness and independence to deprecate wrong
doing on the part Of our friends as freely as
in the conduct IF our opponents. If our
neighbor will lay to heart the lesson to be
drawn from tho success of the Star and its
own approaching dissOlution-over which We
mourn as a fcnd II other over that Of her pre-
Gus baEtling 50 far as applicable to the
matter of making a newspaper pay, it may
essentially benefit its publisher in the CON
duo: of ths Weakly IL proposes to continue
to inHict on The Know Notaing cause.
-,
| Alas, Poor Bolts .-Thcre is no telling es
yet where the majority Of Buchanan in Vir.
! GINA is to stop Some where be:w co twenty
and thirty THOUSAND, however precisely
where, the deponent sayeth not In view of
this fact the extraordinary course, speeches
and letters of John Minor Bolts du ing the
recent canvass, are worthy Of remembrance
The National It,tsNtgsncer even went out Of
its way to endorse his views as eminsntly
bold ard wise, and their author as states.
man after Its own heart. The HerGld's boba-
dilish praises Of Bolts and his ism were mat
ter Of course, IS they were rowing in the same
boat Virginia, however, has expressed a
very different appreciation OF his political sen
timents; telling all the world in her vote upon
them tina. she utterly repudia'es his advice
and opinions Of things polite Il. Such ma
jority as she has given against them is rare
indeed in her annals.
The truth is, he is wrong hee led and self.
sufficient AN, and where best known has least
weight. Pids the vote of the city of Rich
mond, wherein Know No.hingism lost some.
thing like a thousand votes, through the splur-
gss of Bolts. We can nothing in the extrav.
agancies and ultraisms Of Mr.. Bolts save and
except determination to create sensation at
the North to make up for the entire loss Of his
former power Ofmaking 60 impression at home.
| He seems morbidly anxious 10 be in favor
somewhere, AID finding It utterly impossible
to regain his lost political standing in Virginia,
aimed to achieve standing with abolitionism
But Bolts, the chief Of S uthera Know Moth
ings, has hickered out just as Know Nothing
ism itself fickered out la the receut election.
That is, like the stump of nasty tallow cam
die, sputtering amid its own Offensive odor.
The Privateer Qaes. ion.-The AHgea.efns
Zettung Qcading continental German jour.
nall No. 298. October q, 1856, discussing
"War By Privateers ami the new Maritime
Law" says.
| 1.-The journal des Debat1 has a long ar
ticle by Xavier raymond, on the refusal of
the American Government to adopt and rccog.
| nize the princiI les III regard to the new mari.
time law as determined on at the Congress of
Paris, unless the decision or conclusion. az re.
spects privateering be so far extended that for
the future trading vessels shall also be secure
| or protected against vessels of war
| "When the Government Of the United States
made this condition or Sin> ora ROn, the
Secretary Of State, Mr. Marcy, remarked that
otherwise the mere REIMBURSEMENT, Of W rfare
by pr'vsteeIing would deprive the United
States Of their most powerful me ans Of defence
on the ocean for the American war marine
was, comparatively speaking, but subordinate
y, This argument Xavier Raymond attacks
| with exceedingly hollow grounds; so hollow
and Insignificant as, properly speaking, not to
be deserving o: a retaliation
Raymond thinks That because the French
privateeTs in the French maritime wars were
never able to change tho decisions brought
about by the sroa: battles on the ocean, the