Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-24


the supplies would necessarily have to be sent
across the country in wagons Is, if the Nor
mons were willing to provision them for pay in
such case, the grasshoppers invariably put II
out of their power so to do. We believe that IL
is not contemplated to order Gen. Harvey there
with the heavy force soon to be concentrated in
Kansas: though the necessity for the presence
of considerable body of troops within striking
distance of Utah, we presume, formed q Chief
reason why they have been ordered to Fort
I,eayenworth and that vicinity. We repeat, we
have no fear that Mormonism will ever become
n much greater nuisance than at present, and
confidently look for n reaction in Utah after its
misguided and ignorant population shall be
somewhat Americanized. Our national system
is one of light and sound morals, and our faith
in it is so strong as to induce US to believe that
the darkness delusions and immoralitics of Nor
monism must fall before it of their own weight,
ere long
The INSANE LEGIsLATIoN.-We really can
not perceive with what pretence of justice our
friends Of the National I,eteiiigcncer can hold
the doctrines of the resolutions Of '9S and '99
responsible, as they intimated yesterday for
the crazy legislation Of the General Assembly
Of New York, just dcfunct. To be sure, those
under whose auspices it took place set up the
pretence that they were acting in the spirit of
those time-honorcd resolves, in their insane con-
duct Yet our respected friends of the Inteth
genccr must know that that pretenco is wholly
without justification or foundation in fact.
They cannot fail to be aware that the most con-
sentative public men who have graced our coun-
try's history are those who have been the sup
porters of those doctrines. Indeed, they 1.-THE
doctrines in question: are neither more nor less
than the denial of the right Of the General
Government to change the spirit or form in
which it was originally created, and protest
against any Interpolation into its 1.-THE General
Governments rights, duties or powers, by and
through which it may be made the tool of the
rsdicalism or new-lightism of any after period
of the public mind. Those doctrines are a
pointing to the bond whenever it may be pro-
posed to infringe its requirements, compromises
or obligations.
These truths arc so notorious, as that to find
the Inteiiigenecr proposing to give ear to the
impudent claim of Abolitionism to right under
the doctrines Of so and 49, to nullify by action
has re-affirmed the legal obligations of the
Constitution upon the slavery question-be-
cause it has declared that the power of the
General Government cannot constitutionally be
directed against the institution of African
slavery in this country-astounds US. The
South is the home of the doctrines of the reso-
lutions of '98 and '99; while the convention
framing the constitution of the Confederacy
was its birthplace. The South, and more es-
pecially those States wherein the authority of
those doctrines is most respected, is the section
where violent and frequent innovations by
legislative action are almost unknown. 1t is
the fundamental principle Of the resolutions of
'9S and '99 to, which she is indebted in the
main for her freedom from the madness of
radicalsm and its kindred evils
The South" most forcibly illustrates the
charlatanism and impudence Of the claim of
Abolitionsm to which the Inteliigencer in its
earnest abomination of Strict Construction lends
so willing ear. We regret our inability to pub
lsh its entire article on the subject, and recon-
mend to our friends Of the IntelIigeucer the
following so well put truths, which we extract
from it. If they can reconcile them with its
endorsement Of the position of New York Abo-
litionism referred to above, their powers of
logic are far more subtle land supple to booD
than ours.
. The opinion has been advanced by some in
telligent and sagacious observers that the people
Of the North are incompetent to the ifcuities Of
self-government; and that their social system
would soon be dissolved into anarchy, but for the
conservative influence of the slaveholdino States
This theory is cOrToborated by the action Of the
New York Legislature in its recent session. The
I'M fact i-tr L.
one hundred and three days, is itself. significant
OF temper OF mind quite Incompatible with the
steady and salutary operation Of government.
Why, If the Legislature had been under the ne
cessity OF pulling down a long standing system
of government, and demonstrating another in its
stead, much less legislation would have suficed
for the purpose. Without pretending to speak
from the book, we yet venture to affirm that so
many as eight hundred laws were not enacted in
Virginia within year after the overthrow of the
British dominion IL was excessive innovation
that caused the miscarriage of nearly eyery nm
successful experiment in popular government
On the other hand the English owe the stability
of their system to an invincible Tepuynance to
any change that is not imperatvely demanded by
an irresistible necessity. They abhoT radicalisiD
and never surrender themselves to the frenzy of
reform They work after the model of nature
which destroys nothing, but clears off corruption
without impairing the essential elements Of the
system.
90 The statesmen of New York-and the remark
is true of the North gencrally-fashion themselves
after the French habit of inconsderate and COM
plete demolition With them, to wipe out and
begin af. csh, Is the sum of political wisdom
The disposition betokens social distempcr which
must end in run.n
The NAVAL COURTS OF INoUIRY.-In Court
No. |, to-day, Commodore Stringham and Com
mander s. S. Lee were examined, the first on
behalf of Ex-Master Mclaughlin, and the latter
on that Of the Government The case of Mr..
Mel. was then closed, so far as the testimony
is concerned. His defence is to be presented to
the Court in writing on Monday, to which day
they adjourned.
In Court No. 2, the case of It. Chandler is
still on trial. Official documents from the De-
partment were being read in this case up to the
time the Star went to press.
In Court No. 3, the case of It. Baldwin is
still before them. Capt. Ringgold and Com
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