Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-28


aud have found them in Major Lee, until late.
" an officer of Engineers of the Army, and
now private citizen of the State Of Maryland
Skilled in works of construction, and used to
commanding bodies Of men, we wish his nomi-
nation all success.
The Board of Public Works will at least per-
ceivo that its action in this regard is at last like
ly to receive the attention of the public, and
We persuade ourselves that its individual mem.
bers will not reject the appeal which the par
ties first in interest so urgently and respect
ful'R press upon them, except for reasons
better than We can imagine to exist. Why
should they do so the interest of the bond
holders is at once the interest of the Canal, of
the community, and of the State of Maryland.
From the National Intelligencer
The Board Of Public Works OF the State of
Maryland is, we understand, to assemble in
this city on the first Monday in the coming
month Of June to appoint President Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and we
learn further that the holders of its bonds in
the cities of Richmond, Alexandria, and Wash
ington have, with great unanimity, joined in
pressing upon the notice of the Board the
name of a gentleman for that post whose ca
pability, both business-like and professional,
they deem essential to the good management
Of that noble work.
Their choice has fallen upon a gentleman of
Maryland, formerly of the Engineer Corps of
the Army, to whose credit it may be said, as
we learn from some of themselves, that il il
the bondholders who have sought him, not he
the post nor the bondholders
We doubt not that the recommendation of
parties so deeply interested in the success of
this great work will have all proper consider
alton with the Board, which can hardly fail to
receive with all the good feeling which the
case may seem to call for the earnest appeal
Of those. many of them widows and orphans,
whose little all has been locked up for years
past in the totally unproductive canal bonds
In referring to this matter, one of public
interest In this neighbOrhood, we are not to be
held as espousing the choice Of the bondhold-
ers as against any other candidate than their
own, II there be other candidate of which
indeed, We know nothing. We content our
selves with hoping that the Board may be
able to agree upon some person Of marked
ability for all the various duties of the canal
presidency-a post of so much importance to
the canal, to the bondholders, to the District
Of Columbia, and, lastly and mostly, to the
State of Maryland; for surely the canal,
served and administered with business capa-
olhty and professional skill, would in five
years be paying not only all that is due to its
bondholders, but in addition thereto small
but steadily increasing revenue to the Golfers
ut the State which owns it What it would
not do for the States finances in FIVE years
longer is point upon which it were safer not
to indulge in any prophecies-the New York
and Erie canal having repaid, to the surprise
alike OF its friends and its enemies, the whole
cost OF Its construction, more than twice over,
In the thirty years Of its existence.
The whole question is one of somewhat
pointed interest, not only to the holder of the
canal bonds, but to every property-holder in
the State, unless some one of the latter can
De found who supposes himself not to be suffi-
sientIy taxed already.
Mr.. 5uchanan's Texas Speech The Con.
sresstonaI Globe, part III, vol IL, of the Ap-
pendix, contains speech of Mr. Buchanan
on the admission of Texas, delivered in secret
session of the Senate On June s, 1874, which
as an item of history is not withou. interest
at this time. 1t is right and proper that the
political record Of Mr.. Buchanan, and that
of every candidate for the nomination at Gin.
cinnst, should be examined before the meet.
Ing OF the Cow .ntion, rather taa1 afterward,
when, should the record prove objection able
there is no opportunity to correct what may be
perhaps fatal error. The only portion of the
speech which is at present Of interest, lie that
which relates to the question of slavery. This
subject is first mentioned in the following ex
tract:
In arriving at the conclusion to support
this treaty, 1 had to encounter bit one serious
SLAVERY. Whilst 1 ever have maintained,
and ever shall maintain, in their full force
and Vlgor, the constitutional rights of the
SoutheIn States over their slave property, |
yet feel q strong repugnance by any &C. Of
mine to extend the limits Of the Union over a
new slaveholding territory. After mature re.
heetlon however, overcame these scrupIes
and now believe that the acquisition of Texas
VIII DO the means Of limiting not enlargine
the dominion Of slavery
In the government of the world, Provi.
dencc generally produces great changes by
gradual means. There is nothing rash in the
counsels of the Almighty. May not, then,
the acquisition of Texas be the means of
gradually drawing the slaves far to the South
to climate more cOngenial to their nature;
and may they not finally pass off into Mexico,
ana THERE hINGLE WITH RACE WHERE NO
PREJUDICE EXISTS AGAINST THEIR COLOR?
The Mexican nation is composed of Spaniards,
Indians and negroes, blended together in
every variety, who would receive our slaves
on terms OF perfect social equality. To this
condition they never can be admitted in the
United States
That the acquisition of Texas would, ere
long, convert Maryland, Virginia. Kentucky.
Missouri, and probably others of the more
Northern slave States into free States. l en-.
terrain not doubt
but should Texas be annexed to the Union,
causes will be brought into operation which
must inevitably remove slavery from what
may DC called the farming States. From the
best information, it is no longer profitable to
raise wheat, rye, and corn, by Slave labor
where these articles are the only staples of
agriculture, in the pointed and expressive
language Of Mr. Randolph, if the slave does
not run away from his master, the master
must run away from the slave The slave
Will naturally be removed from such coun-
try, where his labor is scarcely ADEQUATE to
bis own support, to a region where he can not
only maintain himself, but yield large profits