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one section of the country, without producing any
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one section of the country, without producing any
advantage TO the otter!n
To these admissions that treason stalks tri
umphant there, the New York Express returns
the following brief, but forcible and conclusive
replya
Suppose the South says, now, the common
tonnage regulations of the constitution are mex
cutable, South,-that British ships shall have the
Coastwise Southern trade, well as New Eng
| land and New York ships,-that, steamboats, from
south of Vicksburgh (Mss..) OF touch In Vir-
| ginia, or Kentucky,-what then, The Constitu-
| ton Is a compact as a whOle,-or, Ii Is no COM
pact at all: The public opinion against the
Fugitive Slave Law in the North is made by
journals like the Times and Tribune,-and here,
| advantage is taken Of their own wrong act to
| Justify violation of public faith,-as well as to
preach most dangerous and revolutionary doc
| trine,-that laws are not to be enforced in par
ticular sections where they are disliked."
| We need hardly add the self-evident hin:
that such positions on the part of the South as
the Express here sketches for her are quite as
aw-and-constitution-ab abiding as those which all
the world knew before the Times so concisely
stated it, to be the position triumphantly main
tanned in practice almost throughout the entire
North. That such disrespect for the obligation
|
can be practiced to the end of the chapter
without working out legitimate effect-tEe
dissatisfaction of the entire South with living
under government Of obligations on her part
and none on the part of her co-partners in the
Confederacy though the latter are equally
pledged with herself to observe them-is NOR
ally impossible.
WALKER, THE FILLIBUsTER.-The newspa-
pers are again redOlcnt with accounts Of the
preparations of Walker, the illibuster, and
some of his most noted followers, who were en-
abled, through the philanthropy of Capt. Davis,
to escape the tender mercies of the Costa Ricans,
to return to Nicaragua. All such stories are
bosh-stuf. True, he and they may be sol-
citing money under such plea, in various
parts of the South, and may be pocketiny such
donations in return for his Nicaragua scrip, for
which no sober man who could not be pei
suaded to buy scrip for land in the moon, if
offered at one cent in the dollar-and there are
such folks in the world, reader-would give a
chew OF tobacco per thousand acres. We have
no idea, however, that he entertains the slight
est intention Of trying to get back to Central
| America. He could not, for consistency's sake,
say less than Eyes, " when asked if he purposes
to return. Any other reply on his part would
involve an admission from his lips of the so nOto-
rious fact that his escape with his life was
wholly owing to the philanthropy of Capt.
Davis-and that to effect his escape thus, he
deliberately elected to sacrifice those of bis fol-
lowers be left behind him.
Those Of his late co-operators whose desire to
| Ok nv Iafio lad To nd
vance money to him were nearly all of them
cleaned out" BY the operation, and have no
more to expend in again seducing persons from
this country to place themselves in his power,
Ito be exercised towards them as it was exer-
cised towards so many of the Americans,O of his
brutality and their avarice. So there can be
no moro grog shop recruiting carried on for
him in the large cities, if but for the fact we
mention above--to say nothing of the effect
upon the probabilities Of obtaining men for an
other expedition under him, to result from his
conduct towards his followers, and the suffer
ings of those escaping alive from Central Amer
lea, spread broadcast by the latter.
No, Walker will not essay to trust his neck
again in Central America nor does he enter
tain the most remote idea of doing so, we care
not how much money guls may be paying for
Nicaragua scrip to enable him so to do.
An ASSOCIATE JUDGE FOR UTAH.-We hear
that Chas. L. Sinclair, Esq, has been appointed
to be an Associate Justice of the L. S. Court
for the Territory of Utah, vice Stiles, removed.
This selection (Which completes the Utah judi
ciary-Delana r. Eckles, of Indiana, CHEZ
Justice; Emery ID. Potter, of Ohio Associate
Justice, and the gentleman just appointed,) is
an admirable one. For some years past, Mr.
;. has represented the staunch Demo cratic
county of Prince William, in the Legislature of
| Virginia, with great credit to himself and for
the substantial benefit Of his constituents and
the interests of the State at large. Though a
seif-made man, and yet quite young, his ora
torical and substantial business talents have
justly earned for him high reputation. His
official presence and labors in Utah cannot fail
to prove OF great use to the speedy rendition OF
order out of the chaos Of public affairs in that
quarter.
The BROKERS.-We have seen of late in
Washington quite a number of individuals who
VIGOROUSLY follow the business of brokers to
obtain favOrs from the Government, rather than
that of agents TO establish the rights of parties
employing them; and also not few others who,
we have every reason to believe, are ambitious
of pursuing the same business. They always
flock hither when any considerable government
contract is to be let and by their presence un-
der such circumstances are sure to generate
dissatisfaction with any action of tie authori-
ties in such matters, whatever; for disappointed
bidders are sure to attribute, however unrea-
sonably and unjustly, their failure to succeed
in their objects, to the improper personal inilu
ence of this or that set of these " professional,
| gentlemen. Our own experience here teaches
that their employment rarely fails to defeat the
object to attain which they may be engaged, by
making the officers of the government suspi-
cious of the cause they may advocate, at the
button-hole, week after week, day after day,
and hour after hour.
DECLINED.-We learn that the President. on
| Friday last, rendered to Mr. John b. Meek, of