Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-18

pathy, countenance, &C., for all which the pub
lie have no better authority than the letters to
which. wesrefer which, experience teaches
clearly enough is lamentably deficient proof
on which to rely
We state these facts because our readers
should know them. Many thousands of them
are as anxious as ourselt to find Senator Doug
las again acting in harmony with the Democra-
cy. If he is disposed SO 70 do, it is very clear
that he must begin by cutting of the writers to
whom we refer above from their apparent pre-
ssnt facilities for manufacturing statements
concerning his sayings and doings, which hold
him up to public view as being, at this moment,
as bitterly hostile to the Democracy as Senator
Hale himself.
The PRoyUNcIAMENro. Governor Walkers
pronunciamento against the Kansas policy of
President Buchanan, appears in some of the
distant newspapers this morning, having been
furnished to their respective correspondents in
print. by way of insuring il early publication
throughout the North. Though written with
all the skill for which its author is justly re-
nowned, we can make nothing more of it than
an argument to prove that every Territory adj
mitted into the Union as State without the
previous submission of its constitution to q pop
ular vOte-sOme eight or ten in all-have been
unconstitutionally admitted 1t must strike
all readers at glance that after all tie Re-
publican party fiourishes over his thunder. in
advance Of its appearance. it is lame and
weak conclusion; insomuch rs its main, if not
only point, is the absurd corollary mentioned
above.
After the admission of eight or ten States
into the Union without the previous submis-
sion Of their respective constitutions to a popu-
lar vote, we submit that to denounce that course
as being per Sc unconstitutional, by way of af
fording the only possible justification for the
present course of the doughty Governor and
his cOlabOrers in and out of the Territory,
proves incontestibly that their position of hos
tility to the Kansas policy of President Buch-
anan and the Democracy is fast becoming ridic-
ulous only. His effusion is profusely inter-
larded with compliments to the speech of Sen
atOr Douglas, from which much of it is Dor
rOwcd and skilfully worked over.
ALETTER FROM SENATOR DAvIs.-The pub
LEGATION of the very last letter of General w DOL,
concerning his controversy with Gen. Jefferson
Davis. has drawn from the latter the pithy and
appropriate reply which we publish below
General Wool is certainly one of the most I'M
fortunate men living, with the pen. His mani
festoes are all hasty plates of soup affairs,
each succeeding one burning his mouth (repu-
tation) more severely than the last. The
official correspondence to which Senator
Davis alludes, SO completely places his antago-
mist in the wrong of the controversy, from be.
ginning to end, as that he Senator D. has but
to again direct public attention to it to thus re-
flute all that the evident malice of his assail-
ant can invent against him
WASHINGTON, ID. C, Dec u, 1861
Editors Of The Nsr York DAY Book.
My attention has been called to a letter signed
John + Wool, L = Army. headed Troy, n Y ,
Nov. % 1857, addressed to the editor OF the FLAG
OF the Union, jackson. Miss, and published in
a New ork paper OF December :. 1857. IL pur-
ports TO be a reply to an exposition which I
deemed ii proper to make some time in the las
summer, to the nnfounded ISLANDERS which the
said w DOL had covertly. through the newspapers
and in official correspondence with the Secre,ar y
Of War, uttered against me The allegations
which are repeated in his recent public alton
having been then sufficiently refuted, and his
purpose willfully and maliciously to misrepre-
sent my acts having been then cOnclusively es
| tablished by the Records of the War Office 4
deem unnecessary further to refute his ISLANDERS,
whether they be- old ones re -vamped, new one :
concocted
When the exposition above referred to " as
made, nv official relations to Gen Wool had
Terminated, and ! closed the proof Of his gross
misrepresentation by denouncing him as the
preparation of - palpable and ptable false
hood He now seeks To redress himself by the
publication OF recrimnating epith-ts-a remedy
not recognized among gentlemen and one 10 the
enjoyment Of which ] now dismiss him
Very respectfully, yours, &c,
JEFF'N DAVIS.
The NAVAL COURTs OF IyorIBy -Refo, q