Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-24
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
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Those public men who have left the Democrat
ic party organization on the present phase of
the Kansas question appear to US, at length, to
realize that they have gone 'clean Off" We
draw that conclusion from the fact that. after
having based their disqualification upon their
duty to the Free State sentiment, or men of the
North, theJ are now encouraging a few South
ern newspapers affiliated with them to plead
that the admission of Kansas as a State upon
the Lecompton Constitution is opposed by NOM
lnal Democrats only because likely to resultin
the election Of Jim Lane and Dr. Robinson to
the Senate of the United States
Upon that particular point argument, we
have to say that there is nothing whatever in
1T Even ii Kansas should change her consti-
tuition after her admission into the Union as
State, which we do not think likely to occur,
we feel assured that Lane and Robinson will
not be elected to the Senate Of the United
States. We are in constant Communication
with, what experience teaches US, are the best
sources of information from Kansas, ana we
have yet to find the first pro-slavery man of
the Territory in whose judgment we rely, who
entertains the opinion that either Lane or
Robinson may possibly succeed in achieving a
seat in the United States Senate
But while the few Southern journal referred
to above adopt the line of argument to which
we allude, the Northern papers we'll known to
speak the immediate sentiment of the Con-
gressional abSquatulators hold line of argu-
ment totally diSsimlar. They boldly proclaim
that they and their principals are struggling to
make Kansas a non slavehOding State Such
Is the tenor of all appearing in the Chicago
Times and Philadelphia Press in justification
of the course of Messrs. Douglas, Harris, & Co.,
accompanied, of course, by liberal denuncia-
tons of the Southern statesmen, one and all,
who are most conspicuous supporters of the
Lecompton Constitution, on the ground that
the latter, in their present course, are trying
to force Messrs. Douglas 4 Co., to sacrifice the
North for the interests Of the South
So, too, do Messrs. Seward, Hale, Wilson &
Co, oppose the admission of Kansas on the Lee
compton Constitution, on the ground that to do
30 will be but to play into the hands of the
South upon the question. Every abolition and
and anti-slavery newspaper and politician in
the land also opposes the admission of Kansas
on the Lecompton Cons titution as being mea-
sure for the benefit OF the South
In the face of these notorious facts, it strikes
as as requiring no little check for newspa-
pers to defend the course of Mr.. Douglas and
bis ex-Democratic co-laborers on the ground
that they are merely laboring to save Southern
interests from the inf1iction of Jim Lane and
DIR. Robinson in the Senate of the United States
HE MEXICAN IMBROGLIo-The Hon Caleb
Gushing, in recent lecture, has done more 10
clear up the mysteries of the present state of
political affairs in Mexico, than all the news.
paper writers Of the times have been able to
accomplish. We make two brief quotations
from the lecture in question, which embrace a
key to the proper comprehension of the civil
disabilities in Mexico, and also of the part
which the church has been compelled to play
in them.
"Mr. Cushing maintained the cause of the
desolation and anarchy witnessed in Mexico
ana SO stTlkingly in contrast to the condition OF
the united states and Brazil, TO be the recogni-
lion OF the equality of the races i'm that country
and which has resulted in her having half breed
Indians as often as any for rulers. In Brazil and
me nnsd States the civil and social superiority
OF the dominant race has been preserved, and
hence the vast contrast which these countries
present to the condition Of unhappy and dis
traeted Mexico He maintained that no other
Posslo 1planalon solution of this fact could
be given than the one named, and argued hence
fhe Importance Of preserving the purity of our
own race in the United States as Indispensable to
0ai own PERMANENT growth and success"
az most erroneous idea exists in the United
States that the troubles in Mexico are attributable
erty from confiscation IT is true thev do sfrUp
gle Tor this What clergy of any country Catho-
lie or Protestant, would not Would the Protes-
tants OF the United States be content that ali
their funds OF education, religion and Charity.
should be seized upon by desperate factions and
mar their churches and hospitals should be
turned into barracks and stables for the occuna
tOn OF the soldiery Of the contending armies of
chronic civil or servile war Let any of the
great religious establishments of the Protestant
byterlan. Unitarian, Methodist BAPTIST consider
how they would feel and what they would saw
u we had In the United States new half breed
PRESIDENT, or any other sort of President every
we've or six months, and sometimes two q,
three IN month, put in the White House bv in
suiseht bands OF troops without pretence of con
stltutlonal night, and betaking himself at once
as the means OF satisfying his rapaeious cohorts
20 the coDfscatiOD and plumber Of all the nuInsr'
Gus pious funds for the support Of colleges and
churches which We ourselves have in every State
In the Union suppose that would not be verv
agreeable to the Professionals cannot conceive
bow II could be imagined that the same thi NJ can
lics.n VI Na'n"
What Mr.. c. says above of the FOLLY of at.
tempting to administer a government based on
the civil equality of the different races in Ms,.
,'o hoias good as sound political philosophy
very nere' and may be laid to heart by our
osnisiio"-citi1ens. Were the utopian theorie.
aooh''on,sm ever to prevail here our govern
ment wouia go to the ID under their one,a.
.'on even raster than that of Mexico has bee n
uaselns tnat road since she came out from
unoer the IRON rule of old Spain, under which
property, life and individual rights-psv MI
the true Interests of society-were much ~.
secure and fairly dealt by than at anv n.riaS
since she has enjoyed her boas ed freedom f,",',
European rule. Jill
A PREGNANT LEssOS.-The pkilad.lnh;,
Press has been threatening the member, from
the North who sustain the policy of the Demo
cratic party on the Kansas question with the
vengeance of their Democratic constituents