Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-27
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

the soreheaded (nominal) Democratic newspa-
pers are Growing over a recent speech Of SEN
stor Browns, wherein that distinguished gen
tlemsn pins bis political faith to the sleeve of
Senator Douglas. Senator Brown is genuine
hearted gentleman, with whom the argument
OF personal association and sympathy as man,
is as strong as with any other living American.
liz Is an honest-agenuine and honorable-.en-
timent, for the possession Of which he deserves
infinite credit for though young in years, he
has had sufficient experience in politics to per-
vert the genial nature of almost anybody else
In practically endorsing the course of Douglas,
as Northern Democrat whose political con-
duct entities him to the confidence Of the South,
Senator Brown has simply permitted the gen.
erusity of his character to induce him to act
without due knowledge of the facts and cir
cumstances in the recent course of Mr.. Doug
las for, if after his notorious coalition of last
winter with Seward, Hale, Wilson Il Co.-his
conspiracy with them against the rights of the
South and the Democratic party-and his sub
sequent arraignment of the Democracy of Con.
gress and the National Administration for
treachery to the constitution and the cause of
free principles for standing by Southern rights
and his still later reputation Cat FreeporD of
the only point in the bred Scott decision worth
q button to the cause Of the South, Senator
Brown prefers such a candidate as Stephen
arnold Douglas to Judge Breese, for the Sem
ate Of the United States, then Senator Brown,
of Mississippi, stands ready to embrace Chase,
Seward, Hale, or Wilson, if either of them
happened to be his personal friend, rs Douglas
has been for years past. Now we know we'll
that he would not Willingly affiliate with an
abolitionist, and therefore feel very certain
that in endorsing Douglass in his late after
dinner speech, the Senator FROM Mississippi
was impelled by a rush Of generous recollec-
tons of what Douglas has been in his time,
politically, rather than by appreciation of his
late course and confidence in his future inten-
tions, which the soreheaded press allege.
CALEB CUSHING is designated as the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress from the New
buryport district of Massachusetts, with fair
prospect of election, we are happy to be able to
assure the readers of the Star, most of whom
know him not only as being the man of most
general and valuable information now on the
stage Of American public life, but as also being
more practically national and American in his
political views than almost any other states
man who may possibly be returned to the next
House OF Representatives. There, his erudite
mind, great ability as a debater, vast expert
ence in our own public affairs, and thorough
k knowledge of the public history of other peo-
pies, past and present, cannot fail to make him
perhaps of more utility to his country than any
Of his compeers. We therefore earnestly hopo
to be able to welcome him back to Washington
in that capacity.
AprOpOs:-He addressed letter recently to
meeting at Craytonville, South Carolina,
convened in honor of that distinguished states
man, James L. Orr, wherein be took occasion
not only to disabuse the public mind of Massa-
chusetts of some Of its erroneous conceptions
the past history of South Carolina,
incuicated by such gentlemen as Mr.. Charles
Sumner and his class and relative to the duty
and interest of Massachusetts,, in connection
with the Palmetto State, but also to dsabuse
the public mind of South Carolina concerning
the status of Massachusetts, opinion with ref
ercncs to her rights and the latter's duty to-
wards her il the Union.
In this admirable letter General Cushing ut
tiers important truths, apparently without the
slightest thought as to where they may cut
deep into the gristlo Of erroneous popular pre-
judices. With SO much perspicuity and force
does he do that thing as to justify the hope that
his cOunsels will have due weight in restoring
that community Of American sentiment on the
part Of Massachusetts, and South Carolina, SO
necessary to at least the happiness of both as
members of q common sisterhood of independ-
ent commonwealth.
With reference to the condition and current
phase of the crazineSs of which we at times take
occasion to write, he says, in this memorable
letter:
That exaggerated negro philanthropism at the
distemper was at its acme, operated as the i'm
pulse Of angry and aggressive attacks by the
Northern states, or their citizens the political
rights OF the southern States, or the citizens has
no@ Passed into an equally exaggerated morbid
and quixotic sentiment of passionate zeal for the
visionary and idle abstraction of the elevation of
the handful of misplaced and Dewildered Afri-
cans az the north into the degree Of political and
social equality with white Americans These
Africans are In circumstances, here, physical and
moral, so uncongenial to their nature, that with
all the gratuitous petting bestow upon them,
and all their accessiOns from runaways, they are
unable to keep pace with the natural prog ess Of
population they do not make themselves place
in the community by ave age general capable
ness ) and they have not sufficient force Of char
acter or Intelligence to betake themselves, az
they should, somewhere else, to try their hands
In the responsible business of life among men of
their own race, and to rise fall according to
their deserts, in the British West Indies In Havti
or In Liberia. And yet we, in Massachusetts
are now especially unhappy, because we have
just learned that, In certain cases these persons
cannot bring suits in the federal courts az ainst
the citizens of other States Hence notwith.
standing that we have been for some time busy
In the attempt to disfranchise white men who
are citizens OF the United States, we have now
undertaken to -enfranchise black men who are
not. Our humanity demands the concurrent ele-
walton OF the one rsce aud degradation Of the
other Thus, not the character only, but the local
relation OF the controversy has changed Thew
who had heretofore labored and not without sue,
cess, to counteract plans Of encroac hment on the
rights of other States, or Of direct overthrow of
the constitution, have now to tend for the de-
fence OF their own rights, and for those of the
men Of their own race, within their respective
States.
Meanwhile, the fact, that the negrophilist agi-
tation at the Worth has taken the direction of the
simultaneous enffahchisement Of the black man
ana ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the white ones, offers to
the friends OF good nj md Of