Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-05

form to guide ala posierity, nam-ly, to nominate
candidates for president and Vice President.
forsooth they age to control the government and
its policy from thenceforth forever. He had no
objection TO the Cincinnati platform; on the con-
trary, he believed II to be an admirable one; and
II recognized, in almost the language OF the Kan
domestic institutions In their own way. The
people of Kansas have exercised that right in
their own way-a way deemed legal-a way the
President deems Legal. Whatever opposition
there might be to that way, and whatever his
wishes might be as to any other way, he had
nothing TO do but look at the laws and their exc
cuton in due form. He only knew the will of
the people through their laws, and knew Of no
right, except 1t be an arbitrary one, authorizing
him or Congressto set aside or 60 behind their
laws IT sh& 70
Senate In support Of the administration and
against the position assumed by Judge Douglas
seems to have been as unanticipated as IL was
opportune. .-----..---.
TIE FILIDUsTER QUESTION IN THE House.
Throughout the past week the flibuster press
have been predicting great storm to have &C.
CURED yesterday in the House Hall, on account
of Commodore Pauldings extradition of the
flibuster Walker. The reader of the proceed
ipgs Of the day will perceive that notwithstand-
ing their blood and thunder representations,
it turned out to be " not much Of q shower
after all The most noteworthy feature of
the proceedings concerning the affair is the
very general confidence manifested in the Presi-
dents management Of the matter. No one ven.
tured hint even, of disapprobation of the doc
trines of the Message relative to flibustering,
upon which it is to be taken for granted Com
modore Paulding acted. Though all are evil
IDENTIFY burning with curiosity to know all the
President may be supposed to know on the sub
ject, the self-evident sentiment in the House
Hall, as the proceedings of the day proved, is,
that the President has not only been right upon
the flibuster- Walker question, but is destined
to manage it hereafter entirely to the satisfac-
ton of the country on the basis Of the doctrines
of the annual message in that connection.
The ondttis, that last evening there occurred
much crashing of teeth among the outsiders in
Washington sympathizing with the filibusters,
who for the first time realized how utterly un-
founded is their hope that the Southern mem-
bers Of Congress are disposed to risk the hope
of the acquisition of Cuba by compromising the
career Of murder, arson and plumber in Central
Americans evincing official sympathy on their
part would do, beyond all question.
The subject cannot come up in the House
again for week, unless ere then the President
may answer the moderate and reasonable re.o-
lutons so unanimously adopted yesterday. As
they embrace very wide range of questions or
subjects, we do not at present conceive how they
can be answered at snce.
In the mean while, Mr. VIM. Walker may be
expected to remain hanging around this city.
attracting little attention as any other of the
thousand and one folks invariably ''On hand
during session of Congress with axes to grind
before some branch Of the Government or other.
Notwithstanding the efforts Of the wonder.
mongers Of the press stationed here to invest
his shoulders with the lions skin Of distin-
guished notOriety, We have to assure the Stars
distant readers that already he and his case
attract so little attention in the Federal Me-
tropoIs, as that not one in fifty people here are
aware that he has not already taken his de-
parture for the North, South, East or West
The truth is, he is emphatically the hero of de-
feats,-surrenders-of death and disaster for
his followers; and all except chronic ilibusters,
who are cOnstitutiOnally as hopeless victims as
drunkards, some time since voted him as small
a pattern as a statesman and military COM
mander, as he is, physically, as a man
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