The Washington union., 1857-08-29


columns this evening from able correspondent in
Santa Fe, New Mexico His sketches of Kit Carson
and Col Collins are admirably portrayed.
SOUTHERN KNow-NoTHINGS LOOKING AND
FIGHTING BOTH WAYS.
The position occupied by the southern know
nothing press ON the subject of Kansas, Governor
Walker and the administration, is certainly pecu-
liar one We have before us an illustration of this
fact in the columns of the Georgia Chronicle and Sen
tinel as striking as il should be humiliatng to the
party of which this paper is a leading organ. In
that paper Of the 26th inst. we find a statement in
its editorial columns of the position of the editor in
these words SO far from il, denounced the Kan
sas bill the moment read it, because believed,
under the operations of the squaer sovereignty and
aliensufrage features of that BILL Kansas icoud be
free State In fact te neyer entertained doubt the
subject" In the same number of his paper he pub
fishes letter from brother knolo-nothing (Hon.
Joseph A. Woodward, of South Carolina and APP
provngly calls the attention of his readers to the
following clause of it,:
'.An he had said the subject was the 'bH-nakas'
had right to complain of Walker They made the bill
uit dssiga make FREE State Of Kansas aud Walker
swindled and outraged and had just ground of compliant
but the bill-makers had none
The charge is here distinctly made by this pair of
know -nothiags that Kansas has been lost to the
South by the iigitimaie operations Of the principles Of the
Kansas bN--a fact which was foreseen and foretold
by those keen-wtted prophets. So earnest is Mr..
Woodward in his anxiety to realize the truth of his
former prophecies that he becomes the defender of
Gov. Walker against the charges made by his know
nothing allies, and goes into argument to show
that Governor Walker has only carried out the
policy of the Kansas bill. To this extent has Mr..
Woodward preserved his consistency, But how
different the case with the Chronicle and Senti-
mel, and its party in Georgia! They have been un-
ceasing and unsparing in their denunciations Of
Gov Walker for his alleged betrayal of the rights of
the South in Kansas In every know-nothing paper
in the State, and from every stump where know
nothing speaker has been reported to address the
people, we hear the charge made and repeated, and
reiterated that the South has been basey betrayed
in the person of Gov Walker; and with holy indg-
nation that would do credit to worthy and conscien-
tious men they call upon the people to rebuke Gov.
Walker and abandon Mr. Buchanan and his admins
tration As evidence Of this, we make room for the
following extract from recent speech of Hon t. w.
Miller, the know-nothing candidate for Congress in
the Augusta district, published in a late number of
the Chronicle and Sentinel and which unquestionably
met the hearty approval of the editor Of that paper
before its insertion
.sMr Miller then alluded briefly to his past votes
announced himself uhqua,hadiy oppQsed to MIR. Bu
chanans administration his course Ii Kan
sasdenouncing him traitor to the South for having
turned upon the interests of the section of country that
placed him in power He took up the Kansas bill and
pointed with strength and force its violations by the
administration "
We might fill whole columns of the Union with
extracts even stronger than the above from the
speeches and writings Of tho know-nothng orators
and journalists of Georgia. But this is enough for
present purpose. Now, we put ii to all candid
and fair-mnded men say whether such dupcity and
doube-dealing is not unworthy Of the kno,c-noth
ing pary2 There are two separate and distinct
charges made against Governor Walker, Mr. Bu-
chanan, and the democratic party lst. That Kan
sas lost to the South by the legitimate opera
tons of the Kansas bill and therefore the people of
the South ought TO abandon the administration and
the democratic party. ~
3D. That Kansas has been lost to the South because
bOVelEnG anu inter-
es by not faithfully carrying ont the principles Of
the Kansas bill for, If he had done So then there
could be no just cause for complaint against him
and the administration. The two charges are
wholly inconsistent with each other. Both cam
not be true and yet both are urged with equal
earnestness by the southern know-nothing party.
The position occupied by the southern know-noth-
ngs upon this question is Illustrative of the charsc-
ter course, and policy Of that party from Its incep-
tion. II is a combination Of bhmders, follcs, and
magnities. Reckless Of principle and regardless Of
truth it strikee Kindly from an instructive feeling of
hatred to its opponent. ls such party and such
mon worthy of the confidence Of the people? Let
the late elections in Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee,
North Carolina Texas, and Missouri answer the qucs
ton--an answer which viii soon be responded to
and re-echoed from Georgia. Louisiana, and Missis-
sippi, and we hope and trust from Maryland, too.
RUSSIAN PRIZES DURING THE LATE WAR
There were captured by British cruisers during
the late 206 vessels, against which proceedings
were taken in the High Court of the Admiralty. OF
these, 70 were Russian, 3 IIanoverian, Swedish
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