Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-27
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

renee. Itholds that in United States Territories
society is reduced to first principles Or, in
other words, that each little community in them
may adopt what government it pleases, of course
cortemning any higher authority in its midst,
than its own will for the time being. Because
the General Government did not interfere
against the vigilance committee of San Fran
cisco year ago, therefore, the Tribune holds,
the people of Lawrence have right to assume
that it may not exercise legal authority over
them. To maintain that authority, that journal
argues, will be rank and naked despotism.
Nevertheless, it shrewdly advises its friends
there to bow to it, if the General Government
essays to sustain it by the application of the
means provided by law to suppress insurrec-
tions-the army Of the United States.
We have seen the Tribune previously mani
fest evidence that its conductors were aware
that they were defending bad cause but in
all they said in their elaborate article of Fri
day last on the current Lawrence imbroglio,
there ran vein of consciousness that they
were defending what they knew to be wrong
such as we never before knew them to exhibit
to the public eye. Thus, they are compelled to
scout the idea that it is best for society that
there should be any government whatever, any
where, except the will of the strongest in each
locality for the time being. They would re-
duce society to its original elements and have
no government. In fact, they would have
anarchy, mob rule-and, above all, Massachu-
sets rule-in the Territory, rather than the
rule Of its own people under the restraints of
laws made by the whole of them for the govern
ment of the whole.
We cannot conceive Of better illustration of
the fact that the doctrines of Republican party
ism scout the authority of all law that might
restrain the prejudices of any little community
or check the qualification of the bad passions of
any individual, than is involved in the subter-
fuges and bold declarations of the Tibnac, in
essaying to justify the inhabitants of Lawrence
in assuming to set aside the charter granted to
their town by the Territorial Legislature, and
to make different one for themselves. Under
the influence of such teaching as that of the
Tribune on Friday last, it is not wonderful
that the laws of the United States are not re-
spected and human life is not regarded as worth
a second thought, where the violation of the
former and the sacrifice of the latter may min.
lister to the momentary qualification of the preju-
dices of the abolitionized communities at the
North.
The state of the city of New York of late-its
condition of anarchy-is a fair sequence to the
doctrines taught by journalists of the Tribune
school. To be sure, they urge them for the
benefit of abolitionism only, and are intense
sticklers for the supremacy of law when out
ragged communities transgress it by way of re-
Polling attacks upon their virtual rights and
the principles of the Government of the United
States, enacted into laws by abolition legisla-
tors for the benefit of abolitionism. But such
outbreaks are legitimate consequences of their
conduct in instilling into the popular mind that
laws which fail to please its taste for the time
being, and officers Of the law who may not be
popular, may be set at Defiance at will
The CONTEST IN ALABAMA.-We are extreme
ly glad to perceive that the Know N othing party
in Alabama have cast all their hopes of success
IN the election about to come off in that State
upon abuse of the Administration On account
Of its Kansas policy-of course, the while, be.
laboring Governor Walker with intense earnest
ness-that very devil, with hoofs, horns and
tail We rejoice that that partys journals in
that State are assuming to be the opponents
and defenders Of the opposition to the Admins
tration's conduct and policy in this case; be-
cause, that they do so, will assure the Demo-
Gratis of Alabama, all of whom, with few and
Insignificant exceptions, indeed, are ultra States
Rights men, that the pretence that the rights
and interests of the South are assaied by the
Administration in this case, is not worth pinch
of snuff. They know that in the last quarter of
a century not an occasion has arisen wherein it
was possible for Southern politicians to oppose
the rights and interests of the South, that those
who now assume to be her chief and chosen de-
tenders in Alabama have not labored with zeal
against them. They will comprehend at a
glance the utter hollowncss of all this hue and
cry in their State against the policy of carrying
out in Kansas, to the letter, the great principle
of the kansas-NebraSka act, from the fact that
those Directing to it so strenuously in their
midst as involving sacrifice of the South, have
never been known to fail to take ground against
the South when she has really been assailed.
The Montgomery Nati, the regular opposi.
ton organ at Montgomery, the State seat of gov
eminent, comes to us full of mock warnings to its
readers against the efforts of the Administra-
ton the Democracy of Alabama and the Hon
Mr.. Dowdell to betray the South in this Kan
sas matter Those who know the course of the
AlaH and its supporters upon Southern rights
questions, will well nigh split their sides with
laughter over the utter humbuggery of the pre-
tence that the cause of the South is about to be
sacrificed in Kansas, as made plain by that
journals turning Southern champion so sud.
denly. Verify, no better proof that the present
Kansas muss throughout the South is simply |
. Good enough Morgan" could be conceived.
The Truth Fifty SPOKES-The Raleigh |
On. c. Standard, having been misinformed |
originally, was among the first Southern Demo. |
cratic journals to take ground against the |
course Of Governor Walker in Kansas Now, it |
is earnestly engaged in exposing the fact that
the current war in the South on him and on the
policy Of the Administration in the Territory, is