Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-07
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

have read attentively the majority and mi.
nority reports Of the House Election Commit.
tee, accompanying the resolution (of the ma.
jority thereby to accord to them power to send
to Kansas and elsewhere for persons and
papers. We have to repeat the declaration
made in yesterdays Star, that those who
hold that General Whitfield is entitled 70 the
seat In dispute, are perfectly willing to be
bound by the country's verdict in the case
after 1t shall have mastered the contents of
tnese Two papers. They bear out to the letter,
with irresistible force, the truth of our re-
pested declarations that Governor Reeder is
asking Congress to adjudge for his own bene-
ut, that his official statements, made while
Governor of the Territory, are false that he
makes no pretension to have been himself
elected in pursuance of any law; and fur
Their, that he is here claiming the seat without
the scratch of a pen (other than his own
wholly unsupported allegations) in the shape
Of testimony sustaining his foolish demand to
be received as the rightful delegate from
Kansas.
The report of the majority-all friends of
freedom" in the modern sense of the term
is simply a compilation of the sweeping mis-
statements Of the truth concerning Kansas
matters that have appeared from time to time
in such journals as the New York Tribune
and Times, deliberate and earnest endorse.
ment Of their truth on the unsustainsd allega-
tion of Governor Reeder, and plea that no
weight shall be accorded to his official state
ments and acts az Governor Of the Territory
where they bear on the merits of the contro-
versy, because, as they assume, he now acts for
the people of Kansas rather than for himself
This is position proving one of two things
viz Either that they have deliberately de.
termined to cast all law and common sense to
the winds to accomplish partizan end or
that their minds have become so warped by
the intensity Of their political prejudices, as
that they have lest all capacity to remember
that they were sent to Washington to aid in
governing the country by law, and under
constitutional limitations
Abolitionism, intense and unadulterated,
runs through every paragraph of their paper,
the legal positions of which are so absurd as
that one might easily imagine it to be the
production Of the pen of some such publicist
as William Lloyd Garrison, Parker Pillsbury,
or Abby Kelley. Indeed, they argue as ear
nestly and openly in favor of setting all law
and rules growing out of legal principles at
defiance, and for being governed by the high
Ia Of THAR to- e
necessities of their own case, as ever was ar
gued in an official report of "the American
anti-slavery Society" penned by Garrison
himself.
Some time since we took occasion to explain
that this scheme of sending for persons and
papers was merely dodge designed to pay
wages to large number of Abolition agita.
tors who have devoted themselves for the past
year to the work of abolitionizing Kansas.
These are the parties who are intended by Gov.
Reeder and his abolition co-laborers to be
brought hither at the cost of the Treasury of
the United States. large number of them
are already in northern Atlantic States, beg
ging for money and arms with which to resist
Ka- sas. Some of them are now in Washing.
ton; while it is designed evidently to import
direct from the Territory the strongest swear
ers among those of them left there.
1t is clearly evident from this report that
the IN ajority Of the committee intend, if pos.
sible, to throw the decision of the case over
until after the next approaching Presidential
election. Or, in other words, that their aim
is to make Republican party capital in that
election, by and through the expenditure of
money from the United States Treasury to
pay the cost of flooding the non .slaveholding
States with abolition falsehoods written by
the parties they aim to collect here, to the
thousand abolition newspapers; and by pay
ing them each an aggregate sufficient to en-.
able each of them to play the Republican
party missionary over the nom slaveholdiny
States for months before the 9th of November
next. There can be no doubt that the Re.
publican-party managers now here have ar
ranged this plan in detail Hence the de-.
mand for power to send for persons and pa
pers. The scheme is a vast one, and cunning.
ly contrived, indeed. The Kansas contested
election case, already shown in the two re-
ports in question to be the boldest pretense
for an election contest ever conceived by
specious and INSCRIPTIONS men, is, indeed,
simply "a good enough (Republican.party)
Morgan until after the election"
Our belief is, that honorable members who,
while they are anxious that slavery shall not
exist in Kansas are not sympathizers with
the general politics Of the Republican party,
will hardly be caught in the trap set for them
1t is designed to drive them into it, however,
if brow-beating and personal abuse Of them
by the pens Of persons writing from this city
to Republican party newspapers in their re-
spective districts can effect that end.
The Washington Monument.-If anything
were needed to show the insincerity of Know
Nothingism, it may be found in the course Of
the gentlemen who were snsaked into the