Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-09
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


like q stuck pig over the passage of the
Toombs Kansas bill by the Senate. Less than
q week ago, "H. g." Horace Greedy wrote
to his journal from this point an elaborate
exposition of what he {" we'O demanded and
required in the settlement of the Kansas affair.
Never did planter lord it in his demands
and orders more dogmatically over his gang of
tasked cotton-picking hands, than did Hor-
ace in that letter over his forces in the House.
We demand this, and we require that, to be
done by the Congress of the United States
was the style in which he announced his ulti-
matum. If he had held a bill Of sale on
every mothers son In Congress, and a fee
simple title for every acre of land in Kansas,
he could not have essayed more coolly to ex-
plain precisely how he had determined the
thing should be done, under pain of his dis
pleasure and instant vengeance if not so done
in all particulars.
But the closeness of the vote by which the
House passed his Topeka constitution-for it
is understood to have been framed principally
by himself and dozen just such politici ans
and sent out from this city to be swallowed by
the Kansas abolition convention as nearly
whole as would comport with the purpose of
Disgusting its paternity-and the now evident
fact that half dozen of those who voted for
it will also vote for the Senate's Kansas paci-
fcation bill, have had tho effect of changing
the tone Of the Tribune on the subject, not a
little. That journal now begs hard. 1t, in
effect, beseeches the northern members for
Gods sake not to deprive Fremont and Day.
ton Of the political capital involved in keep
ing open the Kansas question until after the
Presidential election. Admitting that the
provisions of the Senate's bill are all wise,
fair and proper, it vehemently insists that
those to be called on to execute them, will be.
to man, perjurers, ballot-box suffers, ruff
fans and traitors to their obligations. Yes,
every man Of them and will be aided by a
conspiracy, to which everybody on the Mis-
souri, river, in Missouri, will be parties! The
President, according to the Tribune, will de-
iberately seek to nullify the intent of the
law, and every man to be appointed to carry
1t into effect will of course follow his example
Or, In other words, it argues that everybody
but its own immaculate coterie are periurers,
traitors, cut-throats and seoundrels-not fit to
be trusted in any way.
1t plumply is in affirming that it has
news that the Missourians are already again
pouring into Kansas. This story is of piece
with its last from its great mandatory of
Kansas affairs roorback, which AYERS that the
border Missourians had forcibly broken up a
Methodist conference, and tarred and feath-
cred its venerable president; and also with its
last Washington rOorback, saying that some
southern member had threatened the Hon.
Mr.. Brenton of Indiana, "a gentleman who is
parali'ed in part,) with personal violence, if
daring to deliver his prepared speech on the
Kansas question. But it will require longer
and lOude- shrieks for freedom" than the
mild and gentle Tribune can squeal from this
hour until dOomsday, we fancy, to preven Mt
the enactment of the Senate's bill by the
House; or the signs are deceptive.
The only serious doubt arises from the IN
mistakable disinclination towards it enter
tanned by the delegate from Kansas and some
OF the Missouri members, to whom, so far, it
appears to be almost as distasteful as the To-.
peka- adopted constitution itself
Taken Water. THE disqualification of
Senator Sumner, on the day before the trial
Of Mr.. Brooks came off before the Criminal
Court, has generated hearty laugh over
Washington. The truth is, it would never
have done for the Republican cause to have
submitted him to cross examination upon
the witness stand; as it was well understood
around the courthouse that such an event
would as surely have exploded the peculiar
statements of his remarkable testimony given
before the Housed Investigate Committee, as
his appearance under the gaze of the public
would have exploded the trick of making him
out, for political effect, dreadfully injured
man Gentlemen who saw him on the morn
ing of the day before yesterday, as he was
about leaving Washington in the cars, con-
eeIve that he never looked in better condition.
Yet, as it seems that those who have him in
custody are determined to play out to the end
the game Of public deception with reference to
bis condition, we shall not be surprised to learn
that he enters Boston on crutches, with head
shaved and bound up, and limbs trembling as
though bending under the weight of a half
century Of premature years.
The distant reader may rely on it, that If
his appearance in the court house at the recent
trial would not have exploded the humbug,
he would surely have been there to confront
his assailant. The act Of running him off at
such time, pretty much as the thing is done
On the underground railroad, involves posi-
tive proof of the false pretences and humbug-
gerry of the current Republican-party repre-
sensations concerning his condition and it is
so appreciated in this city.
Internal Improvemenrs.-In consumma-
ting the action of the Senate upon the vetoed
internal improvement bills, the House have
not surprised US, as dstasteful as that action is