Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-03
EVENING STAR.
THE WEEKLY STAR.
wASHIN TON CITY:
FRIDAY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. July 3, 1857.


Our issue for the current week has two thrill
ing tales g The Shadow of Hand, " and 4" The
Man-Trap at - also pleasing story emit
tied "Casts Diva" a rich sketch headed
q Getting Fits in Clothing Store ;" a discus
sion of the question % Did the Comet Strike the
Earth , number of pOetical articles, humor-
Gus and sentimental; thirteen or more columns
OF fresh Washington Gossip; q full budget of
local news; no end of general news, personal
and political news, and miscellaneous items
Price, as usual, three cents for single numbers
IN wrappers, or 81 p per year
Spirit OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The CHtoH argues to show the folly of striv-
ing to get rich in hurry; compliments Senator
Polk, of Missouri, Governor Medary, of Mime
sofa, Hon. III. c. Burnett, Of kentucky and
Hon. o. A. p. Nicholson, of Tennessee; and
publishes an abstract of the proceedings of the
recent Mississippi Democratic State Convention.
the largest ever held in the State, wherein res
olutions were passed pledging the party there
TO support the administration Of President Bu-
chanan, endorsing the Cincinnati platform, ex-
pressing their qualification at the appointment
of Hon Jacob Thompson to be Secretary of the
Interior, and eensuring Governor Walker
course in Kansas
The IntelifSe71cer commends, enforces and
endorses the views of the Richmond Enquircy
upon the present phase of the Kansas question,
which are ably explained, indeed in the follow.
ing extract from that paper (the ERqRirer3
- " hen Kansas comes into the Union as a free
stdte, what then? live have lost or gained !,
II the sense OF the people is fairly asccftained,
we snail consider the South the party profited by
the transaction; not so much however of course
as II 1T could be admitted by the same process as
slave State. But that great principle which is
TeathTmed. The right of the people North and
south and East and West, to decide upon slavery
fnr themselves. will have been boldly proclaim-
81. ~ IS true there may thus be an addition to
ihe BECK Republican representation in both
branches Of Congress. But as IRE hare before
eHdeGrCred 20 demonstrate, the existence OF the
hLoni ana me SAFETY Of the Eaion, depend not
sPon 'Ae HHMericGI strength Of either section IN
Lhe NdtiOnGI Legislature, eat upon the aIaints-
nance OF the tTKE principles of our Goreruu1sut
ana because Kansas comes in us free State
ineTe Is no reason that it should be recreant to
ihe Constitution of the United States in its par
nclpatlon in the national elections and legislation
Ch the contrary, with such nucleus of Southern
men, around whom the more conservative and
patriotic men of the North may gather we conf
IDENTITY expect Kansas to be true to the South and
10 me mon, and uncompromisingly opposed to
abolltionism. The people themselves hayinr
enjoyed the proud prerogative for which the
SIdveholding States contend in deciding upon
theiT own domestic institutions, must cherish
TIateiul remembrance and appreciation of the
democratic doctrine of popular Sovereignty ILL
nois, New Jersey, Indiana, and Pennsy wanna are
II ifee states, but they still stand by the South
i'll u1Ience OF our constitutional rights
III every free State added 10 the Union is To
ne regarded as an opponent of the South and
Irdyed IN antagOnism to US, from the fact that il
mas no slaves, 1t is idle TO talk of perpetuatinc
ane hloh. Ine Constitution is not vet repudi-
ated, and as long as there is confederacv Of the
sese!dI sovereign States, it must be respected as
The supreme law of the land ,,