The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-08
NO. So.
POLITICAL SUMMARY.

A great effort has been making for some
time past, by the New York oficeholders, to
obtain an expression Of public opinion against
the course of Hon. John B. Haskin, on the bill
for the admission of Kansas under the Lscomp.
ton Constitution, in his own district. Meetings
have been held, and it has been announced that
the Democracy of his district were united
against him. A few days since, an election for
supervisor and collector was held at the town
of West Farms, the residence of Mr.. Haskin,
and the result was Democratic snti-Lecomp-
ton victory. In order to secure success, the
Lecomptonites nominated and supported for the
principal Office the Know Nothing candidate,
John G. Morris; and the united strength of
these two factions, aided and supported by the
employees of the custom-house and United States
assay office, appears in the follow table:
John Bussing (Haskin and anti Lecomp-
David Milliks. Republican and anti-Le-
J. G. Morris (Administrasion and Know "
Nothing) 2l0
Majority against the Adm. candidate $40
Mr.. Duncan has declined the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Rhode Island, hav-
ing been nominated in his absence without his
knowledge or consent This was great liberty
to take with the name of q gentleman of char
acter, by Convention that had the face to
swallow the Lecompton swindle. Mr.. Potter,
who was nominated for Lieutenant Governor,
has been advanced to the head of the ticket,
and Ariel Bsllou, of Cumberland, takes his
place as Lieutenant Governor.
The New Orleans Crescent has been hereto
fore one of the most decided advocates for the
admission of Kansas under the Leeompton Con-
stitution; but, on the 22d ult, dispatches were
sent to the Crescent from Washington, stating
that "the bill, as amended, to admit Kansas
with the Lecompton Constitution, passed the
United States Senate by vote of twenty-five
yeas to thirtythree nays"
Since this vote, the Crescent opposes the Pugh
amendment and the bill as a fraud.
The Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia North American has The following
amusing picture of the Administration Demo
Gratis in their last Lecompton caucus:
The picture of fallen greatness was really
painful to contemplate. Stephens, Phelps,
Bocock, Houston, Letcher, and the like, the &C.
knowledged or appointed chiefs, stslked along
with funereal tread, no wonted echo resound
ing from their stately gait, and with visages
elongated like receding shadows. Not sound
of hilarity was heard. Every response was brief
and lachrymose. Even equable CLANCY Jones
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appropriation bill, containing their whole per
annum, had been lost, they could not have
shown ga exterior at all more downcast or dis
heartening. Some of us tried to console the
patriots, and with kindly solicitude sought the
cause of such general affection. But the grief
was too deep for utterance, and we had to be
content with pantomimic answers, pointing to
the south wing of the Capitol as the seat and
source of their sorrow"
The Journal of Commerce, IN. Y y day or
two before the vote upon the Senate bill in the
House, declared that if the Crittenden amend.
ment was passed, or if the Senate bill was lost,
the defeat would prove fatal to the Administra.
ton. The day after the defeat in the House,
the Journal says it anticipated the result, but
it by no means admits that the Administration
is injured
Gov. Walker has written another letter to
the Democracy Of New Jersey. 1t is spirited
and eloquent, and in it be exhorts them to re-
sst and oppose the Lecompton fraud.
The Union hopes to injure Mr.. Gilmer, of
N. c., by publishing the list of subscribers to
his speech. If the Union will publish the list
IF names subscribed for Gov. Hammond 3
slAech, it will show as badly in South Carolina
for that gentleman. His speech is an excellent
document for Republicans to circulate.