The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-06-19
4 WELT,-MERITED CoMpLIMENr,

The Communications of the press and the praises
of men are for the most part bestowed ON persons
occupying official station, or to whom accident or
good fortune has given slight advantage in the
race of distinction 1t is that the jealous,
getc, wholesouled democrat who only works for the
success of his party and the advancement of his par
ty principles, receives any notice credit for his
efforts beyond the little neghborhood of his useful
ness. Yet it is impossible to estimate the aggre-
gate value Of the labors of such men Mr. Divine,
whose zeal never coos, whose abors never cease,
whose energies tire in their judicous efforts to
promote the success of the den4cratic party. We
Join most heartily therefore, III the following comp
ment which we extract from the Democratic Mirror,
Loudon county, Virginia, first because we know
that it is eminenty deserved and secondly, because
he is one of those private, unofficial, and effective
working men not often the subject Of public com
incubation
MAJ JAMES +. DrvISs-We are more than pleased to
find in the local columns of "The States " spirited dem
ocratc daily published in Washington cty-givng an ac-
count of an entertainment by Joseph IT, Brown esq,
recently elected councilman to his political endsthe
following just compliment to former spirited and
chivalrous feow-townsman, Maj. JAS f. Divine
After the feast at Mr.. Browns, the band which had
been engaged for the OCCASION with largo portion Of his
guests went and called and scrcnaded the President of
the United States several of the municipal
officers and Also it says Major James f. Divine of
whom prominent political adversary has said that in
electioncering he heaven earth and the Old
Dominion 7 "
We can fully testify to the Majors efficiency and power
elcctioneerer notwithstanding he has heretofore
lived in county where the odds against him were too
great to conquer yet he always went to battle though
victory certain, and feel fully persuaded that to
his ndomitable political perseverance to attribute
the regularly increasing vote of county His honest
zeal has always challenged the commcnation of his adj
versaries.
He deserves than he receives from his party
THE NEW YORK POLICE DIFFICULTY
The New York papers of yesterday morning, as
well as the day before, filed with accounts of
the unfortunate collision between the black republi-
and the regular municipal police of that city on
Tuesday last The Journal of Commerce, in its tenn
perate report of this longexpected occurrence, re-
marks:
The conduct of the police commissioners in send
ing force of their to arrest the mayor is in keeping
with the general folly and hardihood of their policy from
the outset They might have known well the re-
coer that in the present excited state of popular feel
ing popular disturbance would certainly ensue and
also the mayor and council do recognise
the authority Of the police, that the municipal
force would prevent them from arresting the mayor The
blame Of the unfortunate encounter rest on the re-
corder and the new commissioners, who were rash
enough to force such issue with the city authorities Mt
SO critical a juncture The commissioners must have
been what sort Of treatment would be served out
to their men, and it net of wanon cruelty to the
latter to expose them to pcrls from which il is fortunate
that they escaped with their lives