Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-24

assistance of the Emigrant Aid Societies, en-
terrain only such views with reference to
slavery as are entertained by the most of the
people of Illinois, and though preferring a
n-slaveholding constitution, have no dispo.
sition whatever to interfere with slavery in
Missouri, or to keep up the border war with
the citizens of that State.
The Abolition demagogues, however, will
listen to nothing of the sort, and are so bent
on making Kansas mere hating and blowing
ground for runaway negroes from Missouri,
and otherwise an ultra Abolition State, as
that to put them down, and thus prevent Kan
sas from being kept for years in hot water
with Missouri, they (the moderate free State
menl will, in the end, surely make common
cause with those who are for the adoption Of
slaveholding State constitution.
The late proceedings of the abolition lead
ers in their mock legislature, as detailed in
the Kansas correspondence of the New York
Tribune and Times show conclusively the
correc tness Of the judgment of the gentleman
to whom we refer above, as to their violence
and want of common sense in the management
of the affairs of the Territory, which they have
usurped. 1t strikes us that the intrigues of
James Ii. Lane, (who when in Congress, 1t
will be recollected, out-Heroded all other
abOlitionists of the North in his apparent de-
votion to the institutions of the South) are
ate and honest free state men disguised with
the idea of having the affairs of the Territory
eventually get lawfully into the hands of the
demagogues who seek power there under the
pretence of guarding Kansas from the infu-
ence Of slavery. Lane is in his element, evil
IDENTIFY; being surrounded by gang of per-
sonal adherents possessing as little character
as himself, and like him with about sufficient
courage to bully any peaceful brother free
statesman, who may cross his or their path :,
if not sufficient to bear him and them man
fully through affairs with men after the order
of the Honorable Theodore Hunt. Lane can
make mischief enough among a people dis
inclined to broils, in an hour, to keep such a
community at fever heat for month. We
are right glad that he has chosen Kansas for
the field of his current exploits. As, by so do
ing, he is fast teaching the sober-minded con-
siderats and really patriotic men from the
North that have gone into the Territory with
some other view than that Of making it an
abolition pandemonium, the danger to all
their real interests involved in submitting to
the dictation of those who seek position and
influence there only by " shrieking for free
DOM
The Rust and Greeley Affair.-The grand
jury for this county adjourned finally on the
day before yesterday. We have every reason
to believe that they did not find an indictment
against the Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas, on
account Of his fracas with the Hon. Horace
Greeley, of New York, ex M. c. and editor of
the Tribune. 1t is well known that Mr. G.
himself took no part in bringing the affair to
the notice of the local authorities of this Dis
trict. 1t has not been customary in this com
munity for the courts to notice little affairs"
of the sort, in which no bones are broken or
serious bodily damage done, unless the indi-
vidual feeling aggrieved himself asks that it
shall be done. Hence, we presume, the fail
ure of the grand jury to move in the case at
the request of some stranger in this commu-
nifty not personally involved in it. We think
that Mr.. Greeley exhibited excellent sense in
refraining from asking the indictment of hi.
assailant for an affair, which, we feel assured,
never would have transpired but from the
Interpretation of his reply when first ac-
costed by Mr.. Rust; which led the latter to
believe, in the heat of the moment, that he
tMr. Greeley stood ready to settle all such
matters pretty much as they are apt to be
settled throughout the South.
The Louisiana Democratic State Conr on.
tion.-The New Orleans True Delta, Ia Dem.
ocratic paper,) of the 18th inst, contains an
editorial descriptive of the action of the body
to which we refer, which (amid much parti.
zanship with reference to distinguished gen.
tlemen who have been named in connection
with the nomination Of the Cincinnati Con-
ventiOn and other leading Democrats of the
State, for which We confess to no relish,) en-
braces facts that are not uninteresting to the
Democratic public. There appears to be a
Misunderstanding as to what actually did &C.
cur then and there. telegraphic dispatch,
published on the day after the convention
closed its labors, it will be remembered, as.
serted that the name Of Hon. John Slidell
was used as the head of the defeated ticket
for delegates to the National Convention
n l. E Al
Saturday, published contrary statement
from the Baton Rouge Advocats.
The despatch We published having come
from private source in which we placed
confidence, We felt mortified by having pub
ished what we on Saturday deemed to be erro.
neous information in the premises. The True
Delta, however, bears out the correctness of
our despatch in its material points. 1t turns
out that though nominated at the head of the