Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

qua message. The JOURNALS oil all parties, pub
lished in all sections of the country, except the
few VIGOROUSLY bent on opposing surreptilious-
| ly everything emanatIng from the present Adj
ministration, and also the few afflicted with
chronic insanity in favor of murder. arson and
robbery where that can be perpetrated with
comparative IMMUNITY, unanimously hail the
positions of this great Slate paper as enforcing,
with signal power and effect, the true princi-
Piles that should guide the Government of the
United States in its intercourse with our weaker
neighhors. 80 unanimous and so earnest is this
manifestation of newspaper sentiment that as
it is already clear that the President declara-
tons and cOunsels in this connection are destined
to be received by American public sentiment at
once as the rule which must govern the policy
Of the Government SO long rs the principles
OF its founders on international issues shall con-
tinue to be respected by the country.
| The practical rebuke embraced in the mes
sage to the labors of those journals ut the South
which live on the piquancy of their vituperstive
olaekguardism and their false pretenSiOns of
peculiar devotion to the rights and interest of
the stakeholder and the slavcholding States,
| (the latter put forth merely as a blind behind
which they may, without disgusting all repu
table persons to the extent Of turning their
stomachs, crafty their pot-house tastes for
Drawing personalities, and yet not destroy
their subscription lists,) is a crushing one in
deed. Thus, it yindicatcs triumphantly the
wisdom well as the entire integrity of the
Nicaraguan policy of the President that has
been indirectly assailed by the few newspapers
i IS IL. r,atr-
as they have persistently labored since the last
| Presidential election to destroy public conf
| dence in the Administration some of them
helped to place in power, by attacking all
engaged in the discharge Of the eminent DOM
ocratic duty of sustaining it, while skulk-
ing from the dangerous experiment of throwing
off the mask Of pretended quasi Identification
with the political principles they seek to stab
in the back.
1t (the message) has as effcctually blocked
their game of rendering murder, arson and rob-
berry perpetrated against weak neighboring
people popular. as the Presidents letter to the
Connecticut clergymen blocked Their previous
| game of trying to get up an ant-administration
democratic organization at the South, on the
Kansas question. Such newspapers labor SO
! plainly for the individual advancement Of the
desperate political and personal fortunes of
persons identified with them-evidently using
what they foolishly believe to be popular cries
with the bone and sinew of the Southern States
only to that end-as that the message has ST.
ready as completely tripped up their heels and
laid them fiat on their backs in the flibuster
| imbrogliO, as they found themselves after the
| PRONUNCIATION OF Mr.. Buchanans letter above
mentioned, when essaying. though proclaiming
| friendship for his Administration, to destroy
| the confidence of the South inits Kansas policy
| The true interest Of the South as involved in
this filihuster question is conservative az her
| interest in the slavery question. Arguments
which justify the right of the stronger to muir
der, burn and rob in Nicaragua, hold equally
good in justification Of the theft Of negro prop
erty under the plea of higher law than the
| Constitution and statutes of the United States,
and the PretensiOn OF 4 more elevated morality
and phIlantbIophy, and more desirable CON
ditlon OF civilization and society than exists ut
the South. Those newspapers uttering them.
II pubii.hed north OF Mason and Dixon : line,
| would of course be found laborng cheek by
| jOwl with Garrison. Fred Douglass d Co.
| HE NEW YORK UERALD's LAST MARE
| NEST, Is "A story that some Of the Southern
| members al the Senate desire to draw Senator
Douglas into a personal controversy. and ill.,
deed, to get up personal difficulties with him
| This story is founded on silly and blackgunrI
| publications concerning Senator ID Ia a few
such Southern journals as we describe else
where. In all his personal relations Mr. Doug
| las Is eninently gentleman, and gives no
cause To any one TO assal him personally
However emphatically his recent politica al
| course may be condemned by the South in
Congress, as We believe il 10 be unanimously, }
no Southern Senator or Representative dreams
OF seeking personal collision with him, as the
| HsF"Id falsely alleges, upon the very poor and
VIGOROUSLY unreliable authority we mention.
| The South in Congress, one and all, dcprecate
most sigEally the personal assaults OH him which
have been made by those who can write Of
nothing without injuring the cause they pro-
fees to have ut heart, by INDUCING their pro-
| pensity for Eitupcratiye personalities His
cause is very weak one, and there exists 10
danger whatever that it will be strengthened
as the Heyaid intmates
| hEN. DKNYER.-IhOse here who know this
gentleman well personally, place no confidence
whatever in the stories from Kansas attrbuting
to him virtual opposition to the policy of the
Democracy and President buchanan upon the
Kansas question. He is man Of very few
words, the import of which he always weighs
carefully. lie was intrusted with the duties o;
his present position without the slightest fore
knowledge on his part, and has no ambition
whatever in connection with their discharge
further than to discharge them faithfully
There was no gentleman here who last summer
and fall condemned the foolish points in the
| speeches of Governor Walker and his Terrific
rial Secretary more emphatically and warmly
than did Gen. Denver. Our thorough knowI-
cige of his character rs man and of his antece.
dents upon the Kansas question satisfy US that
his friends here are surely correct in regarding