The Washington union., 1858-02-27

H. Tosss, WILLIAM H. TnoMs Tnos JAMES and RICHARD Kkr
Receipts Of either win be good
THE WHOLESOME APATHY OF THE NORTH
The Tribune is alarmed at the ''apathy of the
North, and already foresees in il the hafbinger Of
the triumph of the administration:
''Ihe administration hus probably gained at Washing
ton by the apparent apathy of the North series Of
earnest animated anti Iecompton meetings In the free
States would be of priceless value gust of sound and
strong public opinion from the North would sink this pi
ratica craft "
Public quiet, order, apathy is hateful to the
blackrepublican leaders holy water is said to be
to Satan. II is charm which casts out devils from
the popular heart and leaves the public in its right
mind. The sober, second thought of the honest
of intelligent people is fearful exorciser
of the demons of faction and discord. Whom the
gods wish to destroy they first make mad, is the
heather maxim. 1t has been adopted by the dema
gogues four free country in their tactics with the
people. To carry out their policy of sectional discord
and alienation, they seek first to make the people
drunk with ianaticism Sharpers who would rifle gener
and unsuspectng heirs of their newly y-inherited
patrmones lead them by degrees into fdissi
patton and drunkenness, until their is upset
in phrensy of recklessness and folly You can read
the designs OF evil men in the agencies they employ
to effect them; and whenever systematic effort to
undermine the reason and to invoke the passions of
the people is discoverablc no further proof is
needed of sinister and factious conspiracy against
the public interests.
II the northern mind has become so obfuscated as
to have lost the power to detect the actious designs
of blackrepublican agitators by any other tests
it has an nfallibe talisman in this--that the de-
mocracy desire a calm, orderly, and quiet examna-
ton of the leading questions of the day, while their
adversaries employ every lever of morbid agitation
and put in requistion every artice of fasehood and
faction to accomplish their objects.
Every day furnishes proofs of the complete
failure of this last effort of northern agators to
piece out the Kansas agitation, by stcntoan out
cry against the Lecompton constitution. The huge
doses ofthis physc ofagitation which the country
made to swallow in the Of 1856 stirred up
its stomach to utter and disgust; SO that
the mere recollection of the thing sickens
the public to the last degree. The attempt to force
upon it new dose of agitation is like presenting
dish of fat pork to very sea-sick passenger The
people will have none of it. They are in acondtion
of the most profound and intense apathy in re-
gard to all sorts of dishes and their cooks to all
clamors and camorers, agitations and agitators
"A series Of earnest animated anti-Iecompton
meetings in the free States trooH be of priceless
value" to the black-repubcan cause; and they have
been called for most Justify and desperately for two
months by the black-republican Press, Tribune, and
lesser organs of agitation but, like Glcndowers spir
its, they have not come when they were called, from
the vastydeep The popular apathy is profound on
the subject, and imperturbable. The hand of rcsur-
rection will never fish up the Kansas agitation again
to fret and convulse the of the country.
In the same degree that the politicians are obstrep-
orousy active in vain endeavors to manufacture
northern hostility to the prompt settlement Of the
Kansas controversy on the plan recommended by
Mr.. Buchanan, the people pertinaciously sedate
and passive the subject. Nothing could be more
distingushabIe in this whole effort to revive the
Kansas agitation at the North than the noisy indus
try of the politicians from the provoking quiescence
of the people.
The newspapers which are the mere mouth-pieces
Of the politicians, have been frantic in their dennn-
Citations Of the Lecompton fraud aud as hyperbo
ica as dabolcal in their nvectves against the de-
mocracy and the administration; but the very ex-
travagance Of their conduct has proved that it
the harmless and amusing phrensy Of the politicians,
provoked and exaggerated by the cool Indifference
of the people
Political legislators here and there in State capi
tails, and back-repubican editors and disappointed
democrats in few large cities have invited the be-
headed Mr. Stanton to exhibit his decapitaed relics
amongst them, in the desperate hope Of exciting a
feeling. where their own arts unequal to the
task of getting it up; but the result in every case
has been funeral to the agitation instead of an ova-
ton. There has been no demonstration by the con-
trolling masses of voters anywhere at the North
against the pending proposition for an Immediate
settlement of this Kansas controversy. The demon
strations have all been confined to scheming wire
working politicians, partisan editors, managers agi-
tators and malcontents The masses have refused
to come out at their call. They have preferred to
repose in the silence of that mperturbablc zap
athy" in which the Tribune and Press read the
death-knell of their schemes and at which they
tremble as the harbinger ofthe approaching triumph
of the administration in the restoration Of peace to
the country.
When rccollect that all the political strife now
yexi the couury is in the North Tho JoJ