Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-11
SPIRIT or THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT or THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union denies the truth of the rumor
started in Washington letters for the distant
press that the pamphlet on Kansas affairs,
noticed by US day or two since as having been
published in this city is attributable to the Ad-
misunderstanding:
THE Administration is entirely free from the
slightest responsibility likely TO be attached to
the imputation of communicating to any portion
of the country their views on grave political ques-
tions through the extraordinary medium already
indicated"
Abiding to the senatorial contest in Tennes.
see, the Union takes it for granted that Gov
Andrew johnson will be elected to fill one of
the seats, and compliments the friends of Gen.
Gideon j. Pillow for the good temper and sense
they display in the manner in which they urge
the propriety Of choosing that distinguished
gentleman to the other. From an article pub
lished in the CLarksriIe (Tenn.) Jefersoniaa.
on the subject, republished in the Union, we
make the following extract, showing the capital
points of the canvass which Gen. p. is making
elf, then, il shall be decided to elect Mr. Bells
successor, as we have no doubt Il will be the
question will come up who shall his successor
De Our correspondent says Gen. Gideon J. Pill
low, and we must confess that the name sounds
well to US We are not prepared to saw nav 10
such proposition. So far from it, the election
OF the man who was bet a few wears since pur-
sueo win such merciiess and savage ferocity by
the enemies OF the democratic party, simply and
solely because he was a good democrat and the
bosom friend of James K. Polk would give us
unielgned satisfaction. Gen. PILLOW has. PEI
maps, suffered as much through his devotion 10
democratic principles as any man in The State ;
prooaoly more, and now that an occasion offers
10 reward his devotion and vindicate his fame,
wien we can place him in the United States SEN
ate, where, In the lace of the world, he will have
an opportunity TO exhibit the talents he does un-
douotedly possess, and thus at the same time
justify the lifetime attachment of President Polk
ior MIN, and cover his sldnderers with confusion
and shame why should il not be done, That
he Possesses fine abilities none who know him
Will deny. That he has been of great service to
our party all must admit; and that he has made
himself the target for the shafts of our enemies
when discretion would have counselled retire
ment from the field, is known to every democrat
IN Tennessee.
- Without wishing 10 decry the claims of any
other gentleman whose name may have been men
TONED in this connection, we cannot withhold the
expression OF the opinion that the election of
General Pillow would give universal satisfaction
10 the democracy thToughou the State"
BY the by, General Pillow has recently pub
lshed letter upon the subject of his connec-
ton with the Mexican war, wherein he reviews
at length much of its heretofore unwritien. or
at least unpublished history. 1t is full of in
terest to all who took part in that war, and in
deed to the whole country We have had it in
type for several days, having been prevented
from inserting it up to this time by its consider
able length. We will, however, find room for
1T in day or two.
We also find in the Union Of this morning an
account of new arrangement connected with
the transportation of the great mail between
Cairo, Ill, and New Orleans, whereby, hereaf
ter, 1t will not lay over, as heretofore, ON Sun
days. The Postmaster General has, it seems.
secured the services of two of the finest boats on
the river to make the Sunday trips each way ;
which secures the advantage of a through mail
over that most important route every day in the
year.
The IIfeAigencer deplores the increasing
disposition Of American public opinion to de-
spise the advantages which ripe age and expe
rience gives to counsel on public affairs, and
mourns over the consequent retirement from
public life Of many aged and well-trained
American statesmen who yet live.