Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-15
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

in the house of his employer, and forced to de-
fend himself with deadly weapons, to prevent
his being carried TO hopeless and cruel bondage
Another of our prejudfces is a preiudice AGAINST
the arrest OF free citizens under cover of law for
atording aid and protection to wretched fuei.
lives, flying from labor without wages, from pun
ishment without trial, from suffering without
hope: Our Southern neighbors know perfectly
well how sensitive we are on these points. and
how apt we are to lose our temper and commit
acts OF violence when our foolish passion for
liberty and equal rights is reused. Why not deal
tenderly with us? Why not respect our weak
ness! Why does not the South, for the sake of
that peace and harmony for which she asks us to
sacrifice SO much make some little sacrifice her.
self, Why not collect among the sons of chiv.
airy enough money from time to time to compen
safe the owners of fugitive slaves. and thus avoid
rouslng the hercest enmities, and convulsng
whole States from border to border by ATTEMPT.
ing to enforce law which every Northern mo-
ther who has ever read the story of the Good
samaritan, or ever felt generous impulse rise in
and abhor Why for the sake of a paltry ST 500
worth Of damaged goods, bring about such dis
orders as have recently occurred in Ohio and
place the Federal and United States officers in
deadly collision? The Fugitve-slave law is
law. but so long as all that is best and noblest
amongst the white population of the North rises
up against it In bitter hostility, the man who at
Irmpts TO enforce il, is the sworn foe of the
Union" -Ns,o York Times, June H.
The above Is the language Of the New York
city journal that, having not long since been a
Republican party organ, is now Justify pro-
claiming its independence of the idiosyncrasies
of that organization, and claiming popular an
plause on the ground that it has turned over n
new leaf-has become a national journal-in
the sentiments and views it inculcates.
We have to say that if such are the views of
the national portion of the North, they are in
principle every whit as repulsive to the South
as those of Garrison and his followers. who
claim the right to force our section of the Con-
federacy to do that which this journal thus
essays to coax US to do. That is, for The sake
OF propitiating Northern anti-slavery senti.
ment of the era, to surrender our rights under
the Constitution so plainly guaranteed that the
conductors of the Times make no pretence to
the contrary. We are asked to surrender that
right because, forsooth, the North is "sensi-
tive" on the point of complying with the guar
antees 1t came under to us to induce the South
ern sovereigns of the Confederacy to consent to
political union with it,
We. too, are - sensitive, - extremely so. upon
the subject of the existence of customs taxes
which accord protection" (bonuses) to north
ern manufacturingcap capitalists out of our pockets;
for which, we hold, there is no warrant in the
constitution. Were the South to claim the
right to nullify the tariff law-to supply herself
with imported goods such as the North lives by
manufacturing-without paying duties upon
them, we should at once find every such coaxing
journal as the Times engaged in exploding.
rather than bolstering this right to nullify on
account of the g sensitiveness'' of public opin-
ion. In the case stated by the Times there is
no question as to the existence of a solemn
guarantee on the part of iue North to do what
it now processes so greatly to abhor to do In
the case We state, few at the South believe and
admit that we are under the slightest constitu-
uonal obligation to submit to an exaction of a
penny from us by the general Government d.
rectly or indirectly save for its immediate SUP.
port.
But the Times, rs the price of cessation of
the Abolition war upon US, not only demands
that we shall quietly surrender the guaranteed
right to the return Of our fugitive slaves, but
that we shall tax ourselves collectively, with the
value Of each fugitive slave enticed off by the
North, to be paid to the individuals among US
thus losing their property by way of stopping
their mouths. If such is to be the new theory
OF the continuance of the Union-and it is but
a natural step forward in the doctrine upon
which the policy Of compromising the plainly
written rights of the South is based-we an
prehend that the Times will find the unani-
nous South the sworn foe of the Union essayed
to be administered on any such principles. It
Is not " the Union" made by our fathers-the
only Union We are under the slightest obliga-
ton to maintain. First, we were called on to
surrender rights of co-equality in the results to
be derived from the legislation (taxation) of the
General Government, for the pecuniary adyap-
tage of the North. Having, for the sake of
. peace and harmony" submitted to that ex-
action, we are now called on to surrender our
right under the constitution to the return of our
fugitive slaves, because the Northern popular
mind has become of late Z" sensitive upon the
point of complying with their obligation to that
end
U. ;. MAILS TO CALIFORyIA.-The following
are the bids for carrying the United States
mails overland to California:
S. Howell and A. T. Pace from Gaines,.
Landing, on the Mississippi, to San Francisco.
to commence at Vicksburg if Preferred
weekly, Sl,O00,O00 for the first year, $500, 900
for the second, 100000 for the third, and
$500, 900 for the fourth year.
James Z. Birch; from Memphis to San Fran
cisco-semi-weekly, $500, 600
James Glover from Memphis or Vicksburu-
semi-monthly. 100000; weekly, $3.50. 900
semi-weekly, 100000.
John Rutherford, VIM. B. Dinsmore, VIM. G..
Fargo, James V. P. Gardner, Marcus L. Kin
yon, Hamilton Spence, and Alexander Holland;
from st. Louis-weekly, $3.50, 900; semi-week
ly, 100000.
David ID. Mitchell, Samuel B. Churchill,
Robert Campbell, VIM. Gilpin, and others
semi-weekly, $500, 900.
John Rutherford, VIM. d. Dinsmore, VIM. G.
Fargo, and others from Memphis+semi.
monthly, 100000; weekly, S45O, 900; semi.
weekly, 1896, 600
John Butterfeld and others; from ST. Louis
-semi-monthly, $685. weekly, $3.50, 900;
semi-weekly, $685.
James Johnston, jr., and Joseph Clark from