Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-09

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hundred to three hundred feet in length. Con-
tracts have, therefore, been made with responsi-
pie and largely interested parties, stoc
The company, for the construction OF these oflag-
es, and the utmost limit of time within winch
they are to be completed, is the first OF October
next 1t is expected, however, that they VIII De
hundred feet long, to be constructed near the
town of Tehuantepec, about twenty miles this
side of the Pacific terminus, which will not he
built by that time but il is proposed to cross the
stream by ferry boats till the work shall lie CON-
pleted.
:. The company, months ago, contracted for the |
stages, teams, &c :, to be placed upon the road
soon as il should be ready for them and the con-
tract has already been fulfilled, the teams being
ready, and stables, &c in process of building or
finished. The company has also made the neces-
sary arrangements for steam communication be-
tween this city and Minititlan to be brought into
requisiton upon four weeks notice. The mo.
ment, therefore, the bridges are built the bust
ness Of transit will practically commence
Upon this exposition, the Philadelphia North
American remarks
Nothing was said about all these defects, and
unbuilt bridges, when the announcement was
made that the road was ready for travel. The
object of this concealnent Is apparent enough.
BY the terms of the contract with the Mexican
government, the company was obliged to have
the road ready for by the first of April, for
felt it's franchises. The feint of completion and
opening was made in order to secure the contract
but as it was not ready at the time fixed by law,
the contract is null and void, whenever the Mexi-
can government chooses to declare it sou
1t is sincerely to be hoped that it may be
duly finished, with as little delay as possible;
and, further, that by the time it shall have been
finished, this Government may bring Mexico to
her senses about this Tehuantepec transit ques-
dominating, past peradventure, such an ar
rangement with her concerning it as will assure
Its use for all time, unmo,ested, to our fellow
citizens. No other foreign question is at this
moment of greater national Importance, and,
we are persuaded, none other is receiving more
earnest and patriotic attention from the Gov.
eminent of the United States.
| The STIRRING OF THE Hornets NEsr.-
Verify the Newburyport speech of Caleb Cush
ing is already accomplishing an infinity of good.
1t has impelled all abolitiondom that seeks the
accomplishment of its unrighteous ends over,
around, above and in fragrant defiance of all
| right-legal and really moral-to fiaunt in the
faces of the respectorS of the constitution and
law its purpose of progress according to the
within of the moment actuating the minds Of
those who acknowledge no responsibility except
to their own passions; and it is also inducing
those who speak for them through the press to
essay to justify their objections toits doctrines
upon pretences 20 fimsy as that all the rational
and right principled world must comprehend on
slight reflection, how little ground the fast 'uns
have to stand on.
Thus, the New York Times takes up the
| cudgels against the Hon. Caebs idea that the
South, as portion of the North American Con-
federacy has done its share in working out the
grand destiny of the European races as conf
mingled here-on this Continent-saying:
1.-The brutalties, the uncertainties and the
speculative passions which domneer over the
present, and darken the future of such nulifying
| and rePudating States as South Carolina and
Mississippi. afford no guarantee of stability and
power. such States may flourish to-day, like
Cuba, only to disappear and waste away, like
Mexico. Within the fatal circle of their institu-
| tions neither honest industry nor high ambition
can live and thrive. They breed at once the in
stinctive loves and hates of barbarism the love
of unlicensed power and unlawful display; the
hate Of legalized rights and limited responsible
| ity.''
A refute of these foolish and insustanable de-
fractions rose up instantly in the New York
Express, which pricked the inflated bubble of
Free Soil self-suficiency in the following so con-
elusive reply:
| Most of this is an error, and utterly unjust
As many brutalities and bad passions daily darken
| the streets OF our church-steeped free city as
daTken any of the slave States of the Union The
barbarism of the Five Points is in close contigui-
ty with the silks, satRs, tapestries laces of the
| palace OF Stewart in Broadway. Trinity church
and wall street are in the very bosom of the ter
restrial hell The assumption that all sin is else
| where than by our own doors only reminds one of
the exclamation. Here are the Greeks-the Greeks
| are by our own doors - when we thus peneralize
brutality and passion, and paint them as ONLY "A
| thousand miles off. In st. Giles. London within
| sound OF the St Paul church bell, and i'm the
sailor streets of Liverpool. more frightful crime
| ana disgusting misery are daily to be seen in
| summer, every day. from or O'Clock a. H. to
a. m, than can be seen in year from the Poto-
mac to the Mississippi. Neither freedom nor
| slavery secures civilization or christianity God
and the Bible alone bring these blessings upon
mankind, and they bring them to the slave region
| as Well as TO the region of the free.
| Again: the Times is unjust and ef-deludinp
when it exhibits such States as South Carolina
MISSISSIPPI, and Cuba, in the way and manner
here dressed up. The States of South Carolina
and MISUNDERSTANDING everything the Times
| says Of then-are far, far ahead, in everything of
the free non- slavehOlding States Of Central
Amerlca-New Granada, Venezuela, or Mexico
Mexico free Mexico-has fallen to such
state of degradation, that the Indian, the savage
over-runs the white or mixed races of several of
| the states of Mexico, depopulates these states
and reduces the people taken away to saragsTuof2
| slavery, Then Cuba (slave) is i'm the same great
sea with Hayti freel and Jamaica (free) and
| the elements that make State, hundred wears
ahead Of IIayti or Jamaica Hayti is revertinp to
barbarism under her black institutions, and ia
| maica is doing but little better
| Now, we do not mean to say free institutions
are not better than slave institutions-for that il
| not our creed, inasmuch as freedom whenever
| possible, must and should extinguish Slavery
but we do mean to say, that freedom, suddenly
given to the African slave, to mixture of races
whlte, black and Indian, creates "a Peoplen and
breed OF men to whom ''Freedomn is curse,
| not a blessing '
| the Indians and the Africans have never
,hown themselves to be fit to enjoy the free insti
| tutiohS OF our Anglo Saxon forefdthers Wherever
and whenever this Freedom is given them il
put returns taern to that saragery and barbarism
| from which even slavery rescued them. Cub,
and Hayt, side by side, almost illustrate this and
50 do Texas (slave) and the border (free) States
OF Mexico. Freedom is not white, black and vel
low men, mixed in ali classes and colors-but a
Dressing for our own breed, our own race our own
color. Whoever attempts to mix up races or to
impose upon races institutions unfit for them but
makes Haytis, and Jamaicas, and Mexicos of
them "a
HE WEArHER.-The following report of the
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