Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-04
EVENING 8 STAR.
wAsHIN TON CITY:
TUESDAY August 4, 1851.
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union contends that David Wilmot, the
Republican party candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, has crawled through slime to his
present notoriety, and seeks to get Office through
the same avenue. We also find In the Union,
to-day able and interesting letters from Messrs.
Cas-, TOucey, Brown, "a. w and Thompson,
Jacob in response to invitations to attend the
dudley Mann Convention" at Old Point
Comfort In the course of his letter, the Post
master General says:
g SO important is IL to furnish every facility Of
interchange of productions that most governments
have given every incidental aid to commercial
enterprises like yours which they were able to
give: 1t was for this purpose that our govern,
ment instituted the Collins, the Bremen, and
Havre lines, paying considerable bonus or extra
compensation for carrying the mails of the United
States. On the expiration Of the two latter con-
tracts new policy has, however, been inaugu-
rated. OF paying them only the postages (sea and
1nland) for conveying our mails to France and
GerHsny Whatever patronage shall be given
by Congress, in its future legislation, to any of
the ocean steam lines, should, of course, be ex-
tended to the contemplated one between Norfolk
and Milford Haven. and indeed to all other SINH
lar projects, whether North South. III your
line should be started in advance of such legis-
lation. the greatest amount of patronage allowed
by existing law shall be freely bestowed upon it,"
In the course of his letter, the Secretary Of
the interior taxes occasion to say
England and France, under the guidance of a
mistaken philanthropy, abolished the system of
slave labor in their West Indian possessions by
which acts, as is no apparent to the world, they
have inflicted and entailed numberless evils upon
the slave, and sunk all their most fertile and
beautiful islands of the Antilles beneath the wave
of barrenness and barbarism, and TODAY thew are
considering with favor, and proposing with earn
estness, plans for the renewal of the African la
Dor system, in order to recover the pearl they
have thrown away in moment of misdirected
and infatuated benevolence; and in order to avoid
the penalty Of piracy, and yet secure the benefits
of African labor-for which no substitute of equal
efficiency for the production of the staples most
needed by the civilized world can be found-it is
proposed to Introduce the African upon their cot
ton plantations and sugar and coffee estates, I'M
der the milder and less popular name of appren-
tice- He is to be indentured or sold for term Of
wears, to be worked until he becomes incapable
of labor, and therefore worthless-with no claim
upon his master beyond the time for which he is
bound, and subject to be driven of when over
work and cruel usage shall have enfeebled his
constitution and RENDERED him unfit for labor, and
unable to obtain LIVELIHOOD system more bar
Darous and Inhuman than any ever before devised
by the cupidity of man.
Since, then, our rights are secure. and since our
products can only be raised in sufficient auanti-
ties in our climate, and by our system of labor
may we not hope TO have our own line of steam
ers established, and thus secure the advantage of
direct trade with the European nations -
The LntelIigsHcer repubIishes from the Prov
idence Journal, an able article against the prac-
tice of frequently changing the diplomatic rep
resentatives Of this Government, and takes
occasion to endorse its positions, holding that
they are Incompatible with their functions,
which can be derived only from long experience
IN the pursuit of any profession - and also that
they imply that our diplomatists are unable
to resist the seductiOns Of monarchieal power or
to escape the influence of despotic habitudes. y
Elsewhere the Intelligencer says 4
since Congress has given its full sanction TO
the construction of the Potomac Aqueduct by
9ldhtlhg successive appropriation for it, the Sec
rotary Of War, we understand is zealousIy en-
gagged In carrying out the intentions of Congress-
by vigorously prosecuting the great work With
thls view ne has, very judiciously we think ap-
proved the plan of the able experimenting oticer
OF letting out TO separate and reliable contractors
the different descriptions Of work required on
the aqueduct.n
We also find in the same journal brief note
from the flibuster Walker, contradicting some
of the statements in the letter from General
Wool, not long since published in that journal
We extract the material points of VS. rejoin-
der, as follows:
be- leave to say to YOU that one afternoon
as Cen Wool was leaving San Francisco for
Benicia-when he was on the wharf aid about
going aboard the steamer-I distinctly stated 10
MIN The nature Of my grant from Castilion, and
terprise.
:. As for what the General says about flibus-
terlng schemes and the formation of an inde-
pendent slave confederacy,' l blush that such
phrases have been published over the signature
OF Major General in the army of the United
III THEODORE l.. TOMPkINs, young man %
years Of age, was so badly beaten in brothel in
Mulberry street, New York, on Saturday night,
that he died the next morning