Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-25

stitution Gov. Medary is wrongfully charged
with having appended the names Of ffty-one
members only.
Governor Medary put no construction whatever
upon the enabling act; on the contrary, the Ter
ritofiai Legislature alone had the power to con-
strue the act, which IL did in a law passed to
tnat erect, being an act to provide for the pay
ment OF the expenses Of the Convention to form
a constitution for the State Of Minnesota In ac-
sss Of
tonal act, declares that every council district
In this Territory shall elect two delegates for
every councillor il may be entitled to In the Leg
shall elect two delegates for every member they
may be entitled to in the House of Representa-
tives; Prorided, That whenever any district has
been subdivided In order to elect their represen-
tative in the Legislative assembly, the same sub
division shall govern in the election of delegates
to the constitutional convention
Here 1t is manifest that Governor Medary could
exercise none Of his gubernatoral functions to
construe any part of the enabling act, which the
Legislature, by law alone, thought proper to con-
strue and force upon the Executive
As to the charge that Gov Medary had ap-
pended the names of the fifty one members of the
Convention only to the Constitution Thereby in
sinuating that he had himself selected and wrote
the names of ffty-one members only to the Con-
stituton.) it is utterly false. The names were
signed by the members Of the Convention them
selves, and the Governor merely signed a certi-
ned copy of the original, which he was require ed
10 do bv the Constitution itself.
Ii is true, as the Times correspondent states
that there were two copies Of the Constitution
signed, purpoiting to be identicaly the same,
with the exception that one was signed by the
Democrats, and the other by the Republicans
This was brought about, as was understood, by
a committee of conference from the two Conven-
tions; aud although Governor Medary never de-
MED knowledge Of this fact, from common re-
port, yet he never has been officially informed of
IT. as no certificate was ever presented to him from
the commute of conference stating the facts
10 Is an incontrOvertible fact, however, that all
the DeUule i'm the 'rerrffOrv rats
publicans, with the exception of about 900 of
the latter) voted for this same identical Constitu-
ton; and the only question which now arises is,
whether the Democratic or Republican names
attached to this instrument shall have the honor
of descending with il to posteritv. Inasmuch AS
the popular vote Of the Territory was i'm favor of
the Democrats, il is bnt fair that they should
have this honor In preference to their, Republi-
can friends, on the principles Of popular sOver-
eighty.
Feeling assured that you intended no personal
reflection on Governor Medary by the extracts
made from the correspondence Of the two Repub-
iican journals alluded to, you will. as a simple
act OF justice to the Governor not refuse the cour-
tesy Of publishing this communication.
SOUND DoCrRINEs.-We commend to our
friends in Congress bitten with the ilibuster
mania, the following home truths, which We
find in the Charleston Mercury:
Inc spirit OF hiibusterism "a synonym with
rate, threatening to become chronic, unless by
some potent remedies and astrinyent caustic. il
can be burnt out and expelled from the soil
where IL has so unfortunately been seeded At
nome we witness its examinations with s.yiant',
growth, in the virgin soil of Kansas; limited
howeVtr, To one section of our happy Union,''
preylng on the numerical weaker, but richer i'm
spoil Abroad it is In holder relief in the I,o-
PEE and the successive buccaneer adventures of
walker, German, Mckinney and Co. Recurring
TO the disasters of these expedtions to the terri
ha al aAt-f oil
sands Of the deluded followers of more than de-
luded brigands and chieftains, Ii seems difficult
not to come to the conclusion of the President,
thatthese beligerent organizations in our country
against the peace and order of neig hboripg Re,
publcs, Is not only disgraceful to our federation
but calculated to impair the character Of its re.a.
lions with foreign powers IL is the more dis
honorable to the chieftains who originate them.
ana 10 our Government which seems to have toll
Grated them, that they have been all (but that of
Lopez against Cuba) have been directed against
weak and distracted communities They struck
for the spoil, without the hazard of the robberyn
MORE KICKS THAN COPPERs.-Mr. Henry
Winter Davis is 50 catching it, from the press
all around for his late so very SILLY on
slaught on the third estate Of this realm of ours.
When he made it, we did not regard it as being
worth the space in the Star a single comment
upon 1t would occupy as it was very clear that
Mr. Davis himself-not the press of the coun-
try-could be injured by it, only. We have
known him long for very bitter, prejudiced
and impracticable gentleman, and have won
dered that his connective with public affairs
had not, before, demonstrated that fact to IL Q
satisfaction of the country. That he has at
length exhibited the peculiarities of his crotch
ETY. politics to the cOmpre bens of all, and to
the disgust Of men of sense and true American
public spirit, is now, however, very evident in
the pen lashings he is getting daily from
thousand quarters; his own political friends
scoring him most severely
LABOR IN VAIN The Washington cores
pondent Of the New York Journal of Conn
meree can make nothing whatev yer for the cause
of Messrs. Walker and Douglas as against the
Democracy, by imagining, in his letters, changes
in the position of Southern Senators and Rep
Tesentatives upon the question Of the admis-
sion OF Kansas into the Union On the Lecomp-
ton Constitution. Knowing his political affini-
ties and associations we'll, we draw, from the
Pertinaeity with which he clings to the idea
that there is hope that Southern members of
Congress will abandon the position which all of
them now VIGOROUSLY occupy upon the Lecomp-
ton Constitution question the conclusion that
upon the probability Of some such changes are
based all the hopes Of the nominal Democrats
in that work, that they may eventually
succeed in securing for the policy of the Repub-
lican party triumph in this matter. Vain
hopes, indeed, all around
FACTS ARE STRONGER THAN FANCY.-If anti.
slavery politics in this country have any sure
end, they tend towards the accomplishment of
the abolition of African slavery throughout the
land Yet not one man in a hundred who adj.
vocates them has even an indistinct compre-
hension of the effects which would surely follow
their triumph here. These effects are 80 appo-
sitely stated in the following brief extract from
late editorial in the New York Herald, as
that we republish it in the hope that we may
thus be the means of bringing its common. sense
statements to the notice of some who will be
benefited by rejecting soberly upon them, who