Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-08
WASHINGTON NEWS AND.GOSSLP.


bill, it will be legally possible hereafter tnat
slavery may be extended to any Territory OF the \
Union, however far north, and at the proper
time the people of such Territories may perpetu
ate the institution Considering that the Ter
ritories are the common property of the whole
Union, and that the South through her JefIer-
SON and Monroe, her Tyler and her Polk, her
TAYLOR and her Scott, and her tens of thousands
of brave volunteers, has been actively and eff
fciently instrumental in the acquisition of these
-considering moreover, that the
mighty Northwestern Territory was also chiefly
a donation from the South, and that she is
already excluded from that, or at least from
equal participation in it Considering all this,
it would seem but an equitable solution of the
imbrogio to give her hereafter an equal chance
in the remaining Territories. What would the
North think and say if a numerous and respect
able portion of her citizens, were, by act Of
Congress, directly or indirectly, excluded from
settling in the common Territory? Let those
of the North who would exclude from such set
Element a numerous and respectable class at
the South take the case home to themselves,
and consider how they would feel and act if
like the South. Let them recol
lect, too that insult is added to injury, for the
South is bitterly denounced for gross immOrali-
ty in holding slaves, and this charge of i'm
is most distinctly and loudly asserted
by that portion of the population, who, or their
sires, opposed the acquisition of each foot of
territory. The South feels as poor old Lear
felt after he had given up his kingdom to his
boy 70 Sfrir Of
his suite of attendants-and is almost ready to
exclaim with him, 81 gave you all! !" At
least, aided by the Democracy of the North
she helped to acquire all. The Democracy,
North and South, have always advocated the
fair acquisition of territory, whilst the opposi-
ton of each section, no matter what their name,
have always opposed it.
Let the Republican party of the North, 1--WE
address them only; for the true Democracy Of
the North has been true as steel to the equal
rights of the South, to justice and to Union,)
let them, we say, take the case home to them
selves. With similar claims, how would they
bear to be excluded? Similarly circumstanced,
how many Northern hotspurs would be ready
to unsheathe the sword to assert their equal
rights and to punish the foul aspersions on their
social and domestic habitudes? Let the shades
OF the heroes who fought at Lexington, Bunker
Hill, and Tieonderoga answer.
We want the re-establishment of harmony and
friendship between North and South, and think
it would be a salutary thing for the conscion-
tous among the Republicans to retire into the
recess of their closets and consider we'll whether
In this matter they are doing as they would be
done by. We know the North is equally pa
triotic and equally chivalrous with the South :;
equally ambitious to extend our dominion, and
equally active in doing so, when the opportu-
nifty occurs. The South has been more promi-
nent actor in the acquisition of territory simply
because there was more to be acquired that
adjoined her.
The SEAsON.-The absence Of the President
from Washington Of course snakes dearth Of
Office seekers here just now. There is very little
travelling through Washington, too, US the plea
sure and health-seekers arc al, domiciled at
the watering places, and it is yet too early for
the Southern merchants to be passing along in
this direction for their fall supplies. Few have
been here in the last fortnight from distance
the Executive Departments, who are few in
number when compared with those usually
among US attracted hither by other causes.
Trade in Washington is, therefore dull, in all
branches OF business, it being too early for our
own folks and neighbors to lay in fall supplies
of any description.
Nevertheless, we are destined to have in
Washington n very brisk fall. Year by year
the amount OF Government business necessarily
transacted at the Federal metropolis increases
so rapidly, and the railroad facilities for reach
ing this point improve so rapidly in all quarters
OF the country, as that our transient population
increases upon US astonishingly. We rccollect
well when to come from Baltimore to Washing
ton by public conveyance required almost q
day 8 time-certainly from six to nine hours,
depending upon the state of the roads Now,
In that time, one may reach here from what
was then " the Western country" and at about
the cost Of the journey from Baltimore IN those
days.
since then, too, there have been accumulated
by the Government at this point. moro interest
Ing works Of art, and other things of interest to
oil intelligent persons, than arc to be found in
any other city In the Union, not excepting New
York; all Of which may be enjoyed by any and
everybody, free Of any cost whatever. The ac-
eommodation for strangers here have grown
pan pnSsu with the demands on them. until.
Tor the size OF the city, there are probably more
and better arrangements of the sort than in
any other city in the world Persons are prone
to compare them with those of the half-million
city OF New York, and to growl, in inauguration
times, for instance, because they arc not suffi-
cient for the comfortable accommodation of
OF such an avalanche of visitors as would strain
the hotels Of that metropolis if suddenly osming
upon them in addition to their ordinary num-
Der OF visitors. There is no sense in so doing :;
but the world is prone to be extremely foolish
in such matters.
HE Murder AT LEavESwORrH.-Ve have
the following in relation to the late tragedy at
LeavenwOrth, Kansas:
LEAvENwORTH CITY, K T., Aug / NJ,
Editor Star Our town was thrown into great
last night, In consequence of the muir