Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


night glad are we that the Hon. Robert j.
walker Is on his way to Kansas, where his
presence is greatly needed storm is evil
IDENTIFY brewing there which BODIES not the re-
neWal of the late civil war in that quarter, bat
avery heated, and, in its consequences, very
dangerous war of words With due Difference
70 his Excellency and the Territorial Secretary.
,va h.,,. 20 say that they have not increased the
chances that hey viii be able to assuage the
storm they must enc,' lnter, by their late speech
es They have before In em, at best, a most diff
fcult task, wherein to succeed, Sreas discretion
on their part will surely be necessary. They
must be guided, first, by law, and next, by cir
cumstances; and it seems to us that had they
refrained from laying down platform or plat
forms with reference to their policy. they would
not only have been frecr to have taken advan-
tage of everything transpiriDg that they might
lawfully make available in the way of securing
for the policy (purpOse) of the Kansas-N Nebraska
bill 4 complete triumph, but they would also
have avoided affOrding unnecessary opportuni-
ties for those disposed to find fault with their
acts, to pick holes in that policy-tO eavil at it.
IN these times, when professions are so album
dant and so few of them are realized, the world
will judge them by their acts-not their words;
and words needeSsiy uttered that may be even
indirectly calculated to commit them to do
aught but to administer the law fearlessly and
IT, the end of securing all citizens of the Terri
tory in the enjoyment of their rights affirmed
in the kansas-N ebraska act as expounded in
the inaugural of President Buchanan and by
the Supreme Court of the United States, are
more likely to cmbarrass than to facilitate their
thpro hero nd in no To-
ritory, and hundreds Of thousands out of it
eager for excuses and opportunities to enable
them to oppose the policy of the Territorial
Government ns that is to be. From the New
York Tri5DHe down to the most insignificant
abolition paper they already in full cry of
objection 10 more or less of the positions taken
IN the speeches of Messrs. Walker and Stanton
20 which we refer. These journals are mar
shaiing their forces in line for another 80 bleed
ing kan'as onslaught upon the Democracy
and make their points upon the more or less of
those positions.
Ii would have been wiser, far wiser we i'm
agine. not to have thus marked out for them in
advance OF the contest, plan of battle as il
were. which they evidently regard as advan-
tage0us to themselves or they would not thus
So soon have sprung forward to avail themselves
at 1T Prudence should have dictated the wis
dom of doing as little possible in the way of
afordiHS the enemy such opportunity of or
ganlzing in advance and concentrating and con-
solidating their means of opposition Better
would 1t have been had Messrs. Walker and
stanton kept their own counsel, and left the
Abolition party to organize against them ONLY
upon eatures in their actual administration of
the Territory's affairs. Their counsels would
then necessarily have been embarrassed and
divided, and their schemes of opposition by no
means as thoroughly matured months hence, a.
at this time through the opportunities of the
numerous speeches to which we refer
Long since took occasion to explain the
reasons for our belief that upon the result of
the contest in Kansas the fate of the Union in a
great measure hangs Entertaining the same
opinion still, we deeplyfegret the occurrence of
anything likely to initiate even indirectly
against the eventual success of the cause there
to which We are sincerely attached
The Position OF WOMEN IN SOCIErY-After
all Woman s-Rightism has DONE and it has
written with talented and very sharp pen
enough TO have revolutiOnized the world if
written in almost any other cause, and has
spoken with an oily and perseyering tongue in
deceive cannot perceive that il has advanced
the cause Of d" w0man'S disinthralIment'' from
the tyranny of man, peg, in this country In
the sections where there exist Woman Rights
organizations the laws continue TO be most
stringent against their civil coequality The
IeHHSyiraH'qR. recently discussing the reasons
why their civil status in society fails TO be
changed notwithstanding the efforts TO which
refer saws:
so lar the civil relations between the sexes
nave undergone no change. but all others have
Welded 10 the force Of numbers until nan ,I,o
nopolizes but the single calling of policeman
women are our merchants. our merch ants, clerks
ana our RUNNERS about hotels and Fashionable
bodfdlng- houses. They sew with the needle
and still more with the sewing machine: thew
make pulls, manufacture segars. work in facto-
ne. practice medicine, preach the gospel act az
vestrymen. hold office, build houses shave note
WiIle novels, edit newspapers, lecture on politics
G cniek ehS. cultivate vegetables, speculate i'm
real estate. make matches. sell rum sino dane
iIne wild horses, act. teach school, keep board
IHS- houses and. in fact, do everything and more
"ltVeiythlng than is done by the men, and attend
M, M own peculiar offices besides. Now what
10 DE The result Of this we cannot possiblv tell
ns woman rules and governs England bet ali
AP'.Ithre proves that one woman can do a great
many things that greater number couId NOT do
tIt y would not be Just to urge a com pIaiut
against the manner ia which our affairs are man
%S'u uhdeF their suPeTintendence A indicious
ststeIi Oh colonization might work we'll il il
- not IoI some Of her leading characteristics
""HIdh' Tor instance. will not move an inch
LON where she finds herself unless She Is led
Pio1mately or remotely. by a man: and
he VIII not be led by man. unless she has a
Idhcy Tor hIm This, of course would ernlr,rrass
any steps towards a gradual depletion for n
Nould require just many men TO lead them
."dE az IL would to balance accounts here TIL.
thihS presents many difficulties, and the future
promises but little relief
another thing. the women take care of us
,i hu unless we possessed larger proportion of
'he available proportion of the city we shouId
'htet upon any plan of separation with becoming
.au,ion- IL has always been argued, and zeal,
ou>iy by DIR. Franklin, that obstacles to marriage
operated against the plication of our species
80 ndS Deen more satisfactorily proved that state
Udcy operated unequally towards the male,
~ IN The matter of reduction: for the reason
,i women after they relinquish the idea of get
ainS married hardly ever died As tLinos are