Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-09
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP


sfif"f'on0hst, a conservative, influential, and
always moderate and we'll balanced journal. TO
show the temper in which the South, one ar =
ALI view the current efforts to defeat the al
mission OF Kansas into the Union with the l. =
compton Constitution. We know not a single
newspaper published south of the Potomac that
fails to subscribe to the propriety of these views
With that unanimity on the part of the south
srn press of all parties, is it not clear to the
most obtuse comprehension that the defeat of
the Lecompton Constitution will instantly
arouse the South to measures of selfprotection
such as must suggest themselves to the minds
of all who comprehend tho Importance of the
material interests she seeks to protect against
the successive aggressions of the anti-slayerv
sentiment Of the times?
The following is the extract to which wa refer.
The people Of Kansas acting i'm strict con-
Iofmity with law of their Territorial JroisIa
.ure, Which Congress, the Executive and the
Federal onicers of the Territory have repeatedJv
recognized as regular and of binding force bays
held convention to frame a constitutions and
state government-have adopted a constitution
ana after submitting its most important feature
10 a popular vote, and obtaining for ii the popu
lar sanction, have presented this constitutfo, IN
congress, with an application for admission into
rne me-. Z mon N under IT. But the Black Republican
party OF the Territory denied the authority of the
laws under which these proceedings were taken
Tor the formation of a State Constitution and re
Iusea 10 participate in them, and the Black Re-
Puohcan party Of the Union resists the applica-
ZION OF Kansas for admission into the Union.
because, as they allege, the constitution IL pre-
ents docs NOT represent the will Of the people of
.1e Ierritory These are the facts of the case
Nobody contradicts them-nobody denies that
the i-ecompton Constitution is the will of the
people OF Kansas, legally ascertaine d-nobcdv
doubts but that the opposition To that Sonstitn,
ny
hoIthern section of this Union to the admission
OF any new slave State. No one doubts that sucb
- sne secret OF this opposition, and vet we are
!oia we must not meet ii, but quietly succumb
10 IL ana yield Kansas to preserve the Democ
party and perpetuate its lease of power that tbe
democracy Of the North will be -plit in twain
SY us admission, and the South abandoned Inv
mem, De LETT to the mercy Of a hostile majority
In Congress! NY
The reply to all this, which we cannot believe
~ II necessary TO suggest to Southern Democrats
in Congress, is that they are placed there m nc
tect the interests-not Of the Democratic party
0ut OF the South, Of the people of Kansas, and OF
tne who're countrY-that they cannot buy northern
support by abandoning southern ri hts or south
ern interests, or make the great prjnciples for
t naGh th-y are contending in this Kansas i'm
DDSio, subordinate TO the interests or necessi-
Ties OF party. The demand of the Soutb is the
unconditional admission Of Kansas under the L.
compton, Constitution, and upon IL must her Rep
Iesentatlves insist, whatever NAV be its effect
upon the fortunes of the Democratic party That
party Is an Observation-Disclosures to secure power
ana TO retain it, but to assert principles vital to
the existence OF the Union and the eouaIifv ~
the South in il, and carry out these princnles in
the practical administration of the goyerpment
~ becomes worthless to southern men when n
, sna.a rose the ability or the viii to carry out
nese principles"
A MISTAKEN PoLIer.-The policy of expell-
ing all the free negro population from Vir-
ginia Is again being agitated throughout the
State, now with far more earnestness than be-
fore We have never discovered its wisdom or
proprety. There is no reason why the laws Of
inc State should permit single free negro to
De vagrant, and therefore nuisance and DOS.
tive injury to the population in whose midst
nc Or sne dwells, as so many thousands of them
are In virginia. They should, one and all, be
compelled to labor steadily, systematically and
Pfonaoiy. The rigid execution of rigid Do
lice laws to that end, is all that is wanted 70
make them profitable to the industrial inter
ess OF the State We do not believe in the
Idea that they are not to he controlled easily
and probably. The extradition of those Of
them already driven North from virginia has
already done infinite mischief to the cause of
the rights Of the South in the Union. and
scarcely less to the interests of the States in
which they now dwell. In Virginia they can
Dc easily managed; as they cannot be in New
iork and Ohio, for instance, where Utopian no.
uons OF the rights of the black man SO uuiyer-
sally prevail among the whites
aALLoA-iNG BEFORE GETTING OCT OF THE
"ooDs--Ws are not little amused with the
s4uitation OF many Of the Republican n party
men In ashington over the vote of yesterday
IN the House, by which the reference of the Kan
sss message to the standing Committee ON Ter
Titories was defeated by one majority. Those
gentlemen evidently imagine that it involves
the rejection Of the Lecompton constitution by
the House. They deceive themselves amaz-
ingly, indeed. To us, and to those even of
'neir own side who are competent to judge in
such matters, 1t embraces assurance almost as
sLong as Holy Writ, that when the bill to adj
INIT Kansas as State On that constitution
comes down from the Senate, as it surely will |
not long hence, it will 90 through the House in |
Snort order. We are rarely deceived in sucb |
Ais' ana stake all our reputation for the |
0uiaey VI our prediction Of results in similar |
oh the correctness Of this intimation Of |
wnA' Is destined to be the result Of the eurrent
Kansas imbroglio IN the House. We have ah;9.
ing falth In the cObesIveness Of tho D.,.o..:
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HONE IRUrHs-we find in the New yo,L
HsraId Of the 9TH instant, an article unon 49,
tendency OF the agitation of the slavery ons.
ion as involved IN the present phase If the
Kansas imbrogho which deserves special at
ention, for it is replete with truthful state
nents Of facts, and sensible deductions from,
hem. In it, after republishing a paragraph
rom Washington letter to the New York Ti,
Hne, alleging that unnamed Southern Sena-
ors and representatives regard the Kansas
lmenity with favor, because tending to bring
o0ot a dissolution Of the CoRfederacy, the
Herald says -
-, IN IDS view OF the subject that the Sec
onal contest ~. upon this Lecompton constitution
ss ISL It's most alarming proportions. IL is I'm
ais VIE" thar The present crisis become. TIE
lost momentons OF any in the countries hi.,orv
nee our colonial revolution we LsIisva,S |
ie nnIk OF The Southern people are still attached
the Mon, as we know the bulk of ths ~, n
m people to be. But these Northern anti
ussdss OF thiry-Odd year. have been prodac.