The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-21
HOW TO SUCCEED.
From the New York Evening Pos

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lican party which institute its strength. They
are what the cold as to the Russian Empress
famous palace of ice. We are bound together
| by no party traditions, by no Federal patron
age, not even by habits of early and protracted
political associations. In all these respects, and
in these only, the Administration party has the
advantage of US. But so long as we adhere to
our principles, we have an advantage over them
which is tower of strength, and by the aid of
which We must ultimately conquer. The Amer.
leans, if they feel the discomfort with the pres
ent Administration which they profess, are as
much interested as we in keeping the Republi.
can flag "full high advanced" If Mr.. Critten
| den wishes to act with the Republican party, it
is becaues it has power He does not wish to
make the destruction of that power condition
of his uniting with the party which exerts it.
But that would be the precise and Immediate
consequence of dwelling the Republican plat
form to the feet of Mr.. Crittenden and his
| friends.
Suppose we did make it ever so acceptable
| to those gentlemen, what benefit would it be to
him or to the party? We should certainly
ALLEVIATE all the New England and Northwest.
srn States. What single State in the South
would we win by it? Not one; not even Ken
lucky, where Mr.. Crittenden and his colleagues
are in hopeless minority. 1t is not with such
men, not with a timid and timeserving policy,
| that the Republican party is to be built up at
| the South. 1t is not to men who assist in stab.
| bling heroes like Blair and Lincoln, while bat
ting with their common enemy, that the hope.
| full eyes of the stricken white laborer of the
| slave States are raised. What the South wants
| to see 10 strong, resolute, incorporating
Anti-Slavery power moving towards them from
the North, giving evidence of sufficient courage
: and strength to protect the deserters from the
Pro-Slavery ranks. But they will never trust
men who make it their whole task to weaken
and discourage the army which is coming to
| their relief
If Mr.. Crittendep, and those who encourage
his aspirations, desire to profit by union with
| the Samson CT the North, they should not at.
tempt, like Delilah. to take a treacherous ad-
| vantage OF his confidence to strip him of his
| strength. The course for him and all the Amer.
leans to take obviously is, to come forward and
| do all they can to build up the Republican
party, and strengthen it for the great battle of
1860. In that triumph, if we succeed, all will
naturally participate who participate in the toll
and the danger and he is but a short-sighted
| politician who thinks his own or the country's
prospects can possibly be improved by his as
sisting to defeat, this fall, the party which he
| thinks ought then TO succeed.
Csssius M. Clay addressed the citizens of
Wheeling, Va, in behalf of Free as against
Slave Labor, on the I'd inst. The Intelligeacer
says;
sembled, within our recollection, at Washing.
ton Hall, was convened last Saturday evening
to hear Cassius N. Clay. 1t was such an au.
dience as any man might we'll be proud Of
"The responsibility of the city, in its essence,
bone, and sinew, was there, and ready on his
appearance to greet him with burst of ap.
plause. He spoke nearly two hours, and to
people who listened with rapt attention Thew
greeted every point he made in his review of
| the struggles which Free Labor had made and
| maintained against Slave Labor with enthusi.
| asn.
"a sentiment in this community was devel.
| oped, which politicians and demagogues have
affected heretofore to disregard as insignificant.
| AS he traced the history of their struggles, as
he contrasted the benefits of the one system
with the evils of the other, as he weighed our
condition here in the west against that of those
who control US and subordinate Us in the east
part of the State, the sympathies of the people
| gathered more intently upon his kindling words,
| and at last gave vent in q most hearty and un.
mistakable endorsement.
He told our people what he had suffered
| and lost IN this struggle. He told them of the
prescription with which he had been visited for
his attachment to his principles; and he told
them how that, live or die, in every place and
under all circumstances, he has determined to
indicate those principles, because he felt they
were right And his audience said amen in
the applauding stamps with which they greeted
these words.
"Cassius Clay has many things to be proud
| of. His life has been a series of hard. fought
struggles, but always victorious-but he may
we'll rank the emphatic greeting which he re-
ceived at Washington Hall last Saturday night
as among the chief glories of wellspent life"
TESTIMONY OF NEGROES HELD GooD.-The
statutes of California provide that " no black or
mulatto person or Indian shall be permitted to
| give evidence in favor or against any white per.
son, In either civil or criminal proceedings
pending in the courts" Ever since the pas.
sage of this lsw-and it was one of the first en-
acted-the testimony of this class of people was
rigidly excluded. Fair.thinking men have al.
ways considered it oppressive, and productive of
cruel wrong to thousands of the people thus de-
graded. All attempts to procure modification
of the law have faied-the latest being to al.
NIT such testimony, leaving to the Jury the
right of attaching what weight they thought
proper to it. The proposition was defeated.
| Unexpectedly, about week since, in a case
| where colored man had been assaulted by a
Mexican, he was allowed to testify before the
Grand Jury. A motion was made to set aside
the indictment on that ground Judge Blake.
who presides in the Court of Sessions. denied
the application, holding that where one of the
prescribed classes is the injured party, under
our statutes his testimony is admissible There
are two laws on the suhject-one providing
that the party or parties injured shall in ali
cases be competent witnesses, the other as
| quoted in the commencement of this paragraph.
The court held that the act giving the right to
all persons injured to testify, having been re.en.
acted five years after the other, the indictment
was held good. In addition, Judge Blake says
:" The policy of the law is, that crime should be
| punished, and when there are two sections of q
statute in conflict with each other, one in &C.
cordance with, the other in violation of this
policy, the latter ought to yield. This court
will 80 hold; but, if the position is erroneous,
there is proper tribunal for its correction, and
80 no great harm can come to the defendants.
The accused was afterwards tried, and found
| guilty on the negros testimony. Since the de.
cision, colored evidence is admitted in the DO.
lice court.
| An old Dutch farmer, just arrived at the dig
nifty of Justice of the Peace, had his first mar.
riage case. He did it up in this way. He first
| said to the man:
SWELL, you wants to be marrit, to you 2 Veil,
you lovesh dis woman so goot as any woman you
| have ever SEEM"
EYES," answered the man.
Then to the woman:
| "Vell, do you love dis man 80 better as any
man you have ever SEEM"
| She hesitated a little and he reneated.