Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-12
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griPe tho republican party aWfuiy. An'y
suffer worse under the infection, evidently,
than they did under the defeat Of Fremont
That left them conscious Of great Strength
and in the hope that with another such ire
mendous effort Is they made in tho late Pros
idential canvass, they had reasonable
chance to clutch the Government. Emulation
over this far of prospect, rather than chsgrin
and despair because they had not already
succeeded, characterized their published re.
Elections on the result of that contest. In this
case, however, their tune is wonderfully
changed they snap and snarl, and rave over
what they realize Is likely to be the effect of
the decision on the Northern conservative
popular mind, and boldly call for revolution,
proclaiming their faith in the power of the
people" above all courts, all law, and all gov.
eminent.
They stand now where all true patriots de.
sire to have them-no longer pretending to
seek the accomplishment of their ends by law.
full means, as Of late, but precisely upon the
platform in that respect occupied by harrison,
Abbey Kelly 4 Co. Their main strength in
the late Presidential canvass was in their pro.
testations Of the purpose of working out their
ends only lawfully; as hollow as the well in
formed knew those protsstations to be. Shorn
Of that subterfuge, and calling on their fol-
lowers to put down the Government, the Con-
stitution, sad the Courts, as barriers that must
be swept away in the fulfllmsnt of their
" MISSION" they now stand before the world
confessed naked and unadulterated abolition
lists, as We have always contended that they
arc.
Keeping their Hands In.-The New York
Evening Post and Tribune, in their comments
on the personnel of the new Administration,
have evidently merely revamped their old
editorials Of four years concerning the gentle
men, individually, who composed the admin.
istration Of President Pierce 1t is really
amusing to note the entire identity between
The articles to which we recur, composed, as
they are, Of the same old epithets, slurs and
blackguardism. They made Lothing what
ever las tho result of the Presidential election
proved) by that ungentlemanly course; nor is
it possible, with tho experience which the
public have in their system, that they will be
able to persuade any man for whose respect
either member Of the present Cabinet should
reasonably care, that their dispsragement of
them is more true than of the Pierce Cabinet.
From Jeffsrson's day down to present times,
according to the earnest protestations of Just
such journals, every Democratic Chief Msgis-
trate and every member of every Democratic
Cabinet has been a scoundrel and a fool. Yet
strange to say, the obstinate people will con.
tinue to elevate them to power; and, even
more strange, the country will continue to
prosper in all respects far more satisfactorily
under their guidance than under that of any
whom the opposition by occasional streaks of
luck once in long time manage to install in
the Government. For our part, were the
Post, Tribune, ct al, to fail to BLACKBOARD
the present Cabinet without stint from the
start, We should dread least, after all, the PEG.
pie had not secured in the present administra.
ton another old-fashioned Jeffersonian-J ack.
son one.
How to get the Desired Relief The
Legislatures of New York and Massachusetts,
are tearing their hair and beating their breast,
over the wrongs Of the negroes involved
in the bred Scott case, and In the intensity of
their grief over the condition Of those parties,
put aside for the time being oil real business
before them, to devise means Of affording them
some relief from the effect of what their organs
as the base conspiracy between
the Supreme Court, the Executive, and the
United States Senate, to compass their en-
slavement. Now this Is all farce of the
broadsst kind, besides a shameful waste of
legislative time only for political effect.
We will furnish them gratuitously with
few facts through which, if properly acted on,
they can in q week cure all the terrible disa
bilities Of these negroes over which they are
whining. Viz: Their owner, according to the
plsadings, is no other than Mr.. SANFORD, q
wealthy New York city merchant, who pur-
chased them from the estate of the late DR..
Emerson for the use of Dr.. E.'s widow-his
(Sandford's) sister. Mrs. Emerson subsequent
ly married gentleman-a clergyman, We be.
lieve-of Springfield, Mas, where she now
resides. If the members of tho Legislatures
pity bred and the rest Of these NO
groes to tho extent of say, ten dollars apiece,
and if Mr.. Sanford and Mrs. Emerson or her
Massachusetts, clerical husband share the ago
mixed "phelinks" Of all Republican abolition
dom, the thing may be accomplished in q
trice.
But the truth is, the milk in this particular
cocoa nut is not tho fact that bred & Co. are
to continue in slavery; but that the law, as
sfirmed BY the highest judicial tribunal in
the land, forever puts an estoppel on the plea
that the principles of the Republican party
are in accordance with constitution and law.
The Rumors.-We advise tho distant pub.
Lie to place no confidence Whatever in the
and ono rumors from this city-of
which most of tho Washington (newspaper)