Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-11
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The InfeiIigencer says

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Hnfeiiigencer says:
"It is true the contest for the Presidency
has never before assumed an aspect 30 sec
tional as at present, but there have been dan
gers heretofore, and the ship of State ha:
safely ridden the pillows and stunned the
breakers. Notwithstanding the apparent in
tricacy of cur political system to those nc
have not studied its philosophy, it is sstisfac-
tory 10 the friends Of good government 70
know that there are balance wheels capable
Of correcting and regulating all the cratic
tendencies of the great machine. The very
fact that there are diversltles OF interests IN
country so large gives assurance that there
can never be combinations In the three
branches of the Government Of sufficient
strength and durability to work ruin to the
system. In the most violent party times we
have ever known there was an element OF
safety in one or the other House Of Congress
So IL Is now, and so will it ever be- To use a
geological illustration, we may be allowed to
say hat there is great substratum of strength
and power at the base Of our institutions,
which insures an ultimate adhesion and cohe-
sion of the centre and of the extremes The
deep-rooted affection and reverence for the
work of our fathers, now become part Of our
education and combined with all the sui stan-
tial interests Of society, will always subdue
and eventually overcome all the suggestions
Of passion and the madness of the hour. Poll
teal pbrensy, like every other mania, must
have Its eliminating point, its process of sub.
sidence, and its period of absolute rest There
is in this yet young and thrifty country a re-
Operative quality that needs but a moment o
pause to set all its active elements into vigor-
Gus and irrepressible motion"
1t is well known that the Mteilt geneer is a
strong believer in the propriety of continuing
the existing government under any change Of
it's character that may be successfully essayed
by the majority, however much that may diff
fer in vital essentials from the government
under which the slaveholding States consented
to the union with the rest OF the sovereigns of
the present COnfederacy. Indeed, we believe
we Will not be going too far in saying that our
respected friends of that journal, would pre-.
fer the connection Of the tdirty-one States
under change that would avowedly abolish
the federatiye character Of our system and
lodge all power in the hands of whoever may
be in authority at this point to a separation.
Under these circumstances the wish Of the
bateHigeneer is father to its views of the utter
impossibility of q dismemberment of the con
fsderacy Of the United States of the North
Its conductors are grievously mistaken. The
idea Of the continuation of the Union with its
destinies in the hsnds of men who preach the
political doctrines of the powers, rights and
duties of the Federal Government which mark
every thing without exception written, spoken
and done with reference to the slavery aues-
ton by the Republicans, is simply preposter-
Gus. There may be three Southern Senators
and six Representatives in Congress who think
diferently-men well known here as unavowed
symPathizers with the anti slavery cause All
the rest, with all the Senators and Representa-.
tives from the North who are we'll informed as
to the real condition Of the Southern public
sentiment are well aware that in six months
after John c Fremont should be declared
elected President Of the Uni ed States, the
United States Of America would be among the
things Of the past. We know the sentiments of
self preservation by that means, to be universal
among the Southern people of all parties, how
ever much Northern men in the South, the New
York Herald ct al may pooh pooh the idea.
Our purpose is not at this time to argue the pro-
priety Of such action on the part Of the South.
but simply to state the fact that such action
on its part, and only such action, is to be an.
tieipated as the grand result of the possible
installation Of the principles and doctrines of
Republican partyism in the conduct of the
feoeral affairs Of the North American confed-
ersey.
Inc UH'on, upon Kansas affairs, says:
II we may rely upon the rumors which
reach US, the axiom which has obtained in the
snort nghted conduct Of human affairs. that
S7ong bsgetS 1crOng, would seem to have
I0und mournful illustration in this TERRITORY.
me report Is that armed bodies of men, on
the determined purpose of reyepging f6a IN
luries which their friends have suffered from
those traltprous fanatics; that their purnose
now Is osy0nd that Of repelling aggression
ana OF the defence Of their friends If this
prove 10 &c true, We entertain the hone and
tne most perfect confidence that both parties
DC &nKe repressed and punished. Both
been guilty Of what we termed in our FIRST ar.
ucle upon Kansas invasive aggression and
we trust that both, az invaders, will be impar-
TALLY dealt with - -P1i
Ihe Union entertains no fears "tbat the
influence Of the Maine election will nrodncs
any Injurious effects against the Democracy in
any OF the other States. In every Presiden-
naI election incidents of this kind have ~.
CURED In 1910, with surroundings like that
nom every quarter, New Hampshire showed
ne her.eII Enacted upon in any way, except to
~ sIIn ulated with greater zeal, and to double
. .S Democratle majority This EXAMPLE NJ
.he noDle old Granite State of that year u;iI
DC Followed now everywhere. The Democra.
~ wiz De aroused to more intense effort and
VII VIZ triumph for the cause of the IIn;1
WHICH VIII De memorable in all time to con- IN