The Washington union., 1858-03-03
A nOrrN crrY--AND HOW rr IS MADE.

A ROTTEN cTTY--AND HOW III Is MADE.
The Tribune has discovered process OF putrefac-
ton which threatens the utter disntegration and de-
moralization Of the whole country. II says, "ThiS
city is rotten from centre to circumference" The
Tbunes theory is based upon the fact that the gen.
emen who are posted right in the middle of its cdi-
toral, with thirty-three hundred more have recently
signed call for public meeting at Tammany Hall
to sustain the administration in its efforts to procure
the admission of Kansas into the Union;
Henry Grinnell, Z. cayIus, Barclay 4 Livingston,
Charles o. 'Conor Robert j. Dillon, John A. DIX, Moses
Taylor Gardiner j. Rowland, August Belmont, Walls
sherman Samuel L. Post IT,. John Van Btiren, L. Del
monico Stewart Brown, Matthew Morgan, Charles Au-
gustus Davis Robert Oracle Gerard 6tuyvesant Isaac
Townsend. Richard Bnsteed james L1e' a. Eckhon'
James M Brown c. A. Secor, C. Mellctta, }. A Macha-
do Royal Phelps Gerard Hallock, Henry q. Sebbins.
It il thus seen how easy il is for a great city to
lose its character in the estimation Of one Of it's
men who made the call had only to run up the red
flag of treason to the government and assail half
the Union and set the other half on fire, and the Tr
bune would have chaunted to their praise after the
best fashion Of the republican service
TO be patriotic now-a -a-days is most rotten
business at best. No man is patriot who is not
traitor, and no is traitor who is not remem-
bered and applauded by that exquisite moralist the
New York Tribune.
II is the business Of the country, in the opinion OF
score or Of presses and republican,
10 devote all its time to quarrclling the adms
sion of Kansas TO ercumvent all efforts to effect that
end Now, have to say that for a great people
like ours with all their great interests in the pres
ent and future, on the whole earth there is to be
f,und no parallel to the folly which has been and
is being enacted in regard to this matter Of Kansas
The republicans claim that they have fve-sixths of
the peeple there with them. Is it possible, then
that the fve-sixths in any danger Of being sub
dued aud oppressed by the one-sixthy If they
are, we can only say they poor, graceless
towards, who deserve to be pinned to the block
and branded AZ livid sneaks and vagabonds. What
we want, and what Mr.. Henry Grnne and his
New York associates want, is to admit the
State into the Union, and thus compel its in
habitants to fight out their own battles. We don't
want to fight them any more than they want to
fight for MS New York claims the power to settle
her own concerns--why not let Kansas settle hers
When the general government encroaches, az it
sometimes does an inch two on State sovereignty,
we never fail to hear of most spnnky protest.
What is the case Of Kansas Int the assertion of the
right Of independent State action? Nothing else
Then what means this terrific howl about frauds and
usurpations, and swindles, and tricks and contri-
yances Are they enacted in Ohio, then let Ohio cor
rect them. If in New York, let New York apply
the remedy; if in Kansas why not let Kansas do the
same thing Now, we have no idea that there have
been half the frauds committed in the latter that
have been committed in the city of New York with
in the last two years. And feel equally certain
that Kansas viii he able to correct her Irregularities
infinitely sooner than metropolitan brothers will
correct theirs.