Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-07


Scott with Lane, pnd had hand in the resist
ance tothe United States Marshal and his posse,
was put upon the stand. and made the very sig
nifcant declaration hat "the question whether
United states officials shall be resisted to
bloody issue, is no longer open for a federal OF
fcer has been resisted and shot, while attempt
ing to, make arrests under the Rebellion Law .
This announcement, we are assured. was received
with applause. and we are led to infer that the
men there assembled were delighted with the in
formation that "a federal officer had been shotr
while engaged In the discharge of his Official du
ties.
The patriots In Kansas are quite as unable to
agree upon the best mode OF resisting the Gov
e.nment, as their Republican prototypes in the
States We are told, by the CORES pondent from
whom we have quoted. that the debate was per-
sonal and violent He says -..-- Go.
"The heated discussions to-day assumed per-
sonal character more than once. Some rather
we're passages at arms occurred between Governor
Robinson and Messls. Thatcher, w alden, Whit
nan, and Phillips
IL is not strange that men who have been
prompted to violent measures and action against
others, and whose arts have been characterized
~ resistance to all lawful authority, should be-
come impatient of restraint even from their own
political friends, and resort to conduct unbecom-
ing and disreputable on all occasions.
There Is a considerable touch Of chivalry
among these lovers of freedom in Kansas. For
instance, one Stratton, who came into the Con-
ventiOn fresh from the foray at Fort Scott and
the killing of a United States Marshal (Mr Ly-
tles,) delivered the following precious bit of gas
cOnade:
"Wehave resolved long enough; the time has
come for action. The time has come when, like
Texas, we must run up the lone star; and as We
can no longer get our rights in the Union. main
tain and defend them as a sovereign State out of
the Union. (Great sensation, and applause from
some parts of the hall
ga sovereign State ont of the Union" then,
seems 10 be the idea of the Lawrence Conven-
tionists, comprising, as we suppose, the flower
of the Black Republicans of that Territory
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE NORTH Yesterday
we took occasion briefly to mention the fact
that an effort to pledge caucus of the Demo-
cracy Of the Legislature of Ohio against the
policy of the President on the subject of the
admission of Kansas into the Union upon the
Lecompton Constitution, had proved sigma!
failure. To-day we find, from the PennsyI-
Uanian, that the corresponding efforts to de.
bauch the political integrity of the Democracy
of Pennsylvania have also quite as signaIly
failed. That journal says in that connection
The Democratic papers Of this State are not
only warm and ZealOus I'm the support of the AN
sas platform laid down bv Mr.. Buchanan in his
message, but they are discussing the principles
enunciated In that document with mental force
and ability, which must end in most thorough
and complete victory for the Democratic party in
this State, if the opposition dare to make the
support or rejection of the Presidents Kansas
policy an issue before the people. The attempt
made by certain disappointed men to mslead
and debauch the Democracy of Pennsylvania, to
aboiitionize the party and hand it over to the
Black Republicans, has most .'sgnaly and sig
nifcantly" failed. The mine was sprung too
soon, and as conseq uence the plotters have been
blown into the camp of the enemy with black
ened and damaged regulations, and political
characters that serve as warning TO all over
ambitious aspirants in the future -
NONINATED.-We have every reason to be-
lieve that the President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Captain Reynolds, for resto-
ration to his former position Of paymaster in
the army Of the United States, from which he
was dropped some time since under the i'm
preston that he was defaulter, declared to
be unfounded in the result of a long trial at
law whereby he was adjudged to be the credit
Or-nOt the debtor-Of the Government. Some
months ago, We explained.all these facts in de-
tail taking occasion 10 show. mt the same time,
that the President and Secretary Of War in
their action upon Captain IS ease had fairly
earned the gratitude Of all who desire to see
the principle of strict justice invariably ad-
ministered in the affairs of the General Gov
eminent. But for the fact that there has been
no vacancy in the list of the paymasters in the
service, the contamination Of this measure of
reparation-Capt. Rs denomination to TIE
Senate-would not have been so long postponed.
evidently.
A PRESSING NECESSITY necessity for
the prompt enactment of the proposed increase
Of the Army Of the United States is quite as
pressing. so far as the public interest is con-
cerned, ut this moment, as that for the issue of
Treasury Notes. The exigeucies of the state of
affairs in Utah make it imperativeIy necessary
whole of them, shall proceed to the reinforce
ment OF Col. johnson command, with as little
delay as possible which, unless the proposed
new regiments are Immediately ordered by
Congress to he raised, will leave that Territory
entirely without effective military protectio :;
at time, too, when the necessity for the pres-
ence Of a considerable body Of troops there was
never before so great.
The ARMY IN uTAH.-The Secretary Of War
Is understood TO have been very busy of late
with the contamination of preparations to re-
inforce the army in Utah at the earliest posi-
BILE moment after the spring shall have opened
His plans to that end were finally and fully con
lHdt tHct Will prove
entirely effective, may be concluded from the
success Of his measures for the repression Of
the threatened Indian hOstilties in the vicinity
OF Silver Lake Minnesota Territory, and the
completeness of the necessary arrangements
for the present Utah campaign. as originally
designed.
An ABLE AND INTERESTING SpEEcH.-We
had intended to republish IN eetenso the speech
delivered by Mr.. Robert Tyler, at the late
meeting of the Democracy of Philadelphia, lin
Jnynes's Hall) called to respond to the Presi-
dents annual message. But ii turns out that
our space at command will barely suffice to en-
able US thus to call attention to it, ms embracing
one Of the most forcibe defences of the posi-
ton Of the President and the Democracy, upon
the question Of the admittance of Kansas into
the Union on the Lecompton Constitution, 50
far called out by the extraordinary attitude