Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-30
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


KANSAS IN WAsHINGToS-The Washington
correspondents, inimiesl 10 the true principle
Of the kansas-N ebraska bill as interpreted ny
the Executive, and hostile, of course, to the ac-
ton of the late Convention to frame the State
Constitution for the Territory, are exceedingly
busy just now with efforts TO Prejudice the pub
lie mind against the policy in the premises I'M
derstood to meet the warm approval Of President
Buchanan and his Administration. Though
comparatively few in number, as they are, like
all the rest of the fraternity, exceedingly in
dustrious. the extent of their professional en-
gagements enable them to make it appear to
the public that their individual sentiments are
almost universally entertained here.
Thus, we find in the Intelhgemcer of this
morning two Washington letters to different
journals republishcd, the gist of which is
Misrepresentation of the true issue-uninten-
tional it may be--in which gross injustice is
done to the action Of the Cow ention, and, as
consequence to that of the National Admins
tratiOn, which sustains that action with all the
moral force at its command. ...
Now it happens that both Of them. as we'll as
similar misrepresentation of them pub
lished nearer home on Friday last-are from
the pen Of the gentleman who writes over the
signature of "Ion," in the Baltimore San,
whose personal proclivities and associations are
we'll known to be such as that In this contro-
versy, as it now stands, he can be nought but
the echo of Governor Walker, as against the
views Of the Administration.
In this way it happens that a single individ-
ual may appear to the distant public to be a
whole community. By way of illustrating how
entirely wrong it will be to credit the idea that
this single writer in many newspapers, is ex-
pressing the opinion of more than Governor
Walker and his few immediate adherents, as
against the position of the Administration on
the Kansas question we have to say that of all
the Democratic members of both Houses that
have 80 far reached the Federal Metropolis,
but single one is even inclined to sympathze
in Gov. VS. positions and views as to the pol
icy that should be pursued by Congress in act
ing upon the State Constitution of Kansas.
CNsoUND POsIrIONs.-The Chicago Times
rejoices in the success of Walkers attempt to
escape surreptitiously from this country, be-
cause, forsooth, it relieves our cities and largo
to xns from the presence of the sort of people
who necessarily, though unwillingly, patronize
familiar institution known as the calaboose
The Times seems to think that the fact that
these parties have escaped the vigilance of the
officers of the Government relieves the United
States from all further responsibility for them,
as it has no legal right to restrain its citizens
from emigrating and from making war on whom
they will after passing beyond the jurisdiction
Of United States authority.
This is all pretty CANNON in its way, but it
is reasoning that will not hold water
In the first place, there is no commendable
morality in the idea of rejoicing because we
may be able to throw on a weak and defence
less neighbor, the burden of protecting itself
against population from our cities whose most
frequently patronized home may be the Gala
Understanding to the Times A serious cause
OF American complaint against certain Euro
pean governments has been, that they have
encouraged the shipment of pretty much such
Dsanraiss snets to this country, Is in great part
make up the forces" Of the flibuster When
Europe Is flooding US with such undesirable
persons we all feel keenly enough the injustice
OF the practice Of getting rid Of the criminal
and vicious by quietly thrusting them upon
ones neishbors, instead of by casing them be
tween stone walls and forcing them to work,
as We propose to manage their case.
But the second proposition of the Timrs i.
quite as untenable-thato Of the responsibility
OF this Government for the acts of American
nih6usters abroad, who have left our territory
organized, armed, equipped, DC, avowedIy to
make war on a nation with whom we are at
peace. and to whom we are under treaty. obli-
cations Of amity, &c. The Times carefully
keeps out of view the fact that Walkers expo
ditions have been deliberately prepared lirati-
cal attempts against neighboring and friendly
nations, in the estimation Of the law as well
as in that of most persons Of weII.balanced
minds and characters. The pretences that his
followers are peaeeable emiyrants, and their
errands peaceable ones, are falsehoods 80 well
understood by the American public 10 be such,
as that in giving them currency through their
custom house Oaths and pleas in defence of
themselves from prosecutions for violating the
law, &c, &c, all the world knows we'll. thew
are but perjuring themselves
If the doctrine Of the Times il n sound one
then the neutrality law is unconstitutional,
and our ports are OF right but lawful harbors
for robbers, cut-throats and pirates. If the
Government Of the United States entertained
views Of the law similar to those actuatipe the
Times man, it is very sure not only that Cuba
would never be ours, but all the civilized world
would sooner or later be compelled in self-de-
fence to treat US, as q nation, as an immense
band Of desperate robbers, whose determination
would alone secure to the civilized world the
peace and enjoyment of the immunities secured
to all nations under the universally received
principles Of international law
The Borrow K.OCKED OUr.-The pseudo
Democratic presses Of the North, now 30 busiIy
engaged in doing the work Of the New York
Tribune and Garrison's Libsrator, in the mat
ter Of the Kansas imbroglio, have been quoting
the Richmond Enquirer at q great rate, to prove
the existence Of the myth on which thew base