The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17


( the denunciation of national plumber schemes
we shall doubtless have a series of crushing
articles on the sale of Fort Smelling, the Dick
Thompson claim, aud the numerous large al
! lowarces in State cases that have been made
from the Treasury since March 4, 1851"
A treaty between the United States and New
, Granada has been signed at the State Depart
ment. The Star says:
1t is understood not to cover al points in
issue between the two Governments, but enough
of them to remove most of the causes of the i'll
feeling between the two Powers which has of
late existed"
Secretary Cobb has just made decision in
his Department that no duties are illegally paid
unless paid under protest. This decree, it is
said, cuts eff many claims upon the Treasury.
The President was invited to spend the ami
versary of the Battle of North Point at Balti-
more, but declined. His plea was public en-.
gagements.
The Secretary of the Interior decides that he
has no power to entertain an appeal from the
accounting officers of the Treasury.
THE WISCONSIN PLArFoRM.-The Republ-
cans of Wisconsin passed the following fesolu-
tons, among other excellent ones, at their re.
cent State Convention:
" ReSOlUed That we as Republicans accept
this issue, forced upon US by the Slave Power,
and in the defence of Freedom will cooperate
and stand pledged to the accomplishment of
the following purposes:
" /. To bring the Administration of the Gov
err ont oh 10 loc G-oF
90. To restore Nebraska and Kansas to the
position of free Territories.
"3. To the repeal and entire abrogation of
the Fugitive Slave Act.
"a. To restrict Slavery to the States in which
it exists.
IS. To prohibit the admission of any more
slave States into the Union.
sc. To exclude Slavery from all the Terri
tories over which the General Government has
exclusive jurisdiction, and to resist the acquisi-
ton of any more territory, unless the prohibi-
ton of Slavery therein forever shall have been
first provided for"
"Abolition politics killed Putnan's MONTHLY
Magazine, always the stupideet among the
most stupid periodicals of the country. In its
failing moments, it passed through the hands
OF four different sets of proprietors, becoming
more intensely aboitionized by each, and
month by month poorer, so far as its literary
merits are concerned. Nevertheless, It's fate
does not amount to sufficient warning to North
ern LtterdtC,trS who cannot comprehend that
the class who patrorize Abolition newspapers
are people who will stomach naught but Abo-
htion literature-that is to say, people who will
not support publication unless it be devoted
wholly to the cause of Abolitionism." Pro Sta
Gerry Exchange.
In answer to statements similar to the above,
s. P. Putnam announces that Putndns's Month
ly, when he sold it, was paying a handsome
profit. We understand that there has never
been a moment when it has not paid hand
same proGt-near $4,000 per annum-and the
failure of its proprietors has been owing to their
book publishing, and not at all to the Monthly.
Would it not be quite as we'll for those editors,
who are making text out of the history of
Putnam, from which to preach Pro-Slavery
sermons, to first get at the tacts Of the matter
Or would that spoil the sermons?
" Besides, Kansas will be a State of tho
Union in few mouths; and then, if all else
tails, the real majority, whether for or against
Slavery, will be ascertsined, and will be exer-
ciaed, in defiance of all outsiders. This fact
ought to have some influence upon the Ex-
tremists. 1t is already producing its natural
consequences upon the great body of the peo-
ple."-Phuddelphia Press.
How does the Press feel so certain of this
fact?" If Kansas by fraud comes into the
Union as slave State, is it not very probable
that by the same fraud her Constitution will
contain provision preventing majority" of
her citizens from prohibiting Slavery in Kan.
sas ? The very fact that the Pro Slavery in
habitants of Kansas and the slave States are
unwilling to allow perfectly fair election in
Kansas, is enough to excite suspicion of their
object and it is not at all probable, if they at
tain their ends by irjustice-we mean the ad.
mission Of Kansas as slave S!ate-that thew
will hesitate at perpetuating their power by the
same means.
The Worcester (Mass.) Palladium suggests
that the cause of Judge Curtis's resignation was
the political character which the Court now
has, as the consequence of its decision in the
bred Scott case must render it undesirable for
Judge Curtis to continue the relation with fell. |
wjudges in whose opinions he cannot coin
eide, and whose decisions he can scarcely re-
spect, if like that one, they are founded upon
usurpstion."
This reason is certainly not sufficient to as
count for a resignation, and we presume that it
is not the real one.
Governor Gardner having accepted the nom.
ination of the National Americans of Massa-
chusetts, ard planted himself upon the Spring
field Platform of 1855, takes the field as a for.
midable competitor of Mr.. Banks Associated
with Governor Gardner are Alexander De Witt
for Lieutenant Governor, and John II. Clifford
for Attorney General.
The following is the ticket nominated by the
Democrats of the State of New York: For
Secretary of State, Gideon J. Tucker, of New
York for State Treasurer, Isaac V. Wander.
poel, of Buffalo, for Comptroller, Sanford E.
Church, of Orleans; for Attorney General,
Lyman Tremain, of Albany for Canal Com
missioner, William R. Richmond, of Wayne
for State Prison Inspector, William G. Rhodes,
Of Elmira; for Judge of the Court of Appeals,
Hiram DEMO.
The South Side Democrat condemns the
Colonization movement as a humbug. This
will, we presume, be soon the opinion of all
Southern papers. If they advocate the revival
of the slave trade, they cannot encourage emf
grafton to Africa from the United States.