Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-05
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
AN EXECUTIVE RECEPfION.-fhere
Will be Public Reception at the Execu.
i've Mansion Tomorrow Evening, during
the ussal hsurs-frsm to 10 p. m.

The Inaugural Addressed James Buch.
anan-will be found in our issue of to day.
We were compelled to 90 to press yesterday
without it Had We attempted then to have
furnished it to the Stars readers, we should
have lost the afternoon mails and thrown our
city delivery into the night, perhaps; besides
depriving the numerous employees in the Star
Office of all possible chance of participating in
the glorious festivities Of the day, which We
had not the heart to do.
Of the document itself we have to say that
from beginning to end it breathes an emphatic
Democratic spirit. It'll a matter of congratuls.
ton to the whole country, as We MT long since
took occasion to explain, that Congress has
recently carried out to the letter what strikes
Us az being the views of the strict construc.
tionists Of Congress with whom the Star sym.
pathises. and whom it aims to represent in all
questions whore constitutional principles are
concernedO upon the ve1ed question Of pro
viding the means for that defence of C. At.
ifornia, Utah, Washington and Oregon Ter
ritories which they have the right, under
the constitution, to expect from the General
government in case Of need. Thus Con-
gress has appropriated for the construc-
ton Of military roads from the north, middle
and southern portions of the Atlantic States to
california, eonverging, midway, into a single
road leading to the eastern settlements of
California.
Upon the yeIcd question Of slavery in the
Territories, the Inaugural will be hailed with
urfeigned pleasure; because it explains and
enforces with clearness and effectiveness some
of the doctrines for which the Democracy con.
tended IN the last Presidential canvass with an
unanimity unparalleled in the history of the
party. As Southern man, Jealous of the
rights OF our own section of the Confederacy
under the Constitution, we have to say that
With the exception of the inference Of the
ngnt Of the Supreme Court to settle questions
Oh states rights, (Which doctrine has few sup.
Pof'efs among Southern Democrats the il.
sosurai IN this connection will be frankly and
gracefully accepted by the South as a pledee
Una. lne true principles and policy of the Kan.
sas Nebraska act will be enfo,csd N -. -.
IN whatever the new Administration NAV h.
called on to do with reference to sIav.rv N
the Territories. On the scarcsIv Ia.
question Of tie tariff, too the Ipauyn,,I "a
heres with fidelity to the time-bonor.d n.;s
ciple Of the party; enforcing, as it does N.
duty on the part of the General Government,
OF abstainipg from casting the weight of il,
influence and policy for any particular inter
est, at the expense Ofjustice to the rest Tn,
great political evil Of the day is tho tendenc,
of the Government to consolidation. That cal
only be effected in this connection through tn
sacrifice Of the rights Of individual States
and, indeed, of all the people of the Unite,
States who may not be directly interested a
owners Of stock in manufacturing companies
ihesovernment Water Works coul.
n'' express, yesterday. for want of space, tn
gratitude Of our fellow. citizens to the Thirty
fourth Congress for the manner in which The,
made the a"rende honorable uDon III. suh;..
OF the Water Works, which ara nov . s,.i
fact. The appropriation of a m;llio, os a..
lars for the prosecution Of their oon,,,n,,;o,
svinssd that, after ell, those who hsvs =.