Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-26
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS


The Union of yesterday, sees in Puoi'sneu
letters from the anti-Lecompton Democrats
nominees for treasurer and superintenue.' v,
public instruction better signs In i'i'no -,
In these letters the Union finds a"'"'"S ou-
ferent from that animating the Chcago speech
of Judge Douglas. Says the Union
..Tbs whole tone of these letters is catholic,
o,srative and loyal to the interests OF the pa rty
and tbs cause Their authors distinctly plant
Themselves upon grounds, not, indeed in accord
ance with what the nat onal Democrat and Ad-
InInistration could have desired, but which they
are not disposed to accept to but are willing to
meet their old cOmpatriots in Illi0Ois upon, in
the spirit OF compromise and concession we
accept the cordial and friendly expressions OF
these letters, as placing the authors of them and
their supporters at least in relations of friendship
and good will with the national democracy OF the
Union and the Administration"
The Union is glad to witness the spirit OF
good feeling and generosity that actuates the
friends of the candidates for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Virginia.
Commenting on " the recent verdict, " in the
Stops case the Union says:
90 1t is stated, upon what authority we know
not, that the verdict rendered was the result of a
compromise, as the jury previously stood ten for
murder In both cases, and two for a minor degree,
but none for acquittal. We are loath to believe
that any luTyman would violate his oath by
agreeing TO 4 verdict which he did not believe
was in accordance with the law and the evidence,
and still less that ten juTymen who believed the
prisoners guilty OF murder should consent to a
verdict that declared them not guilty OF murder.
Whether the prisoners were guilty or not guilty
of the murder charged, il is unnecessary at this
time for us TO express any opinion; motion has
been made for a new trial. and If il III Ill / e
granted, or if this verdict should be aside by
the court, the prisoners will have another trial
ny their peers, and we do not desire to fnrestall
their decision. We only wish to call the atten-
m
rendered cOnvcts the prisoners of crime that
was not only not committed on that occasion hut
that nobody pretends was committed. Neither
the counsel Tor the prosecution nor the defence
argued that the killing Of Stops was manslaugh L.
ter, but each and all admitted that IL was afro
cions and wanton murder. The prisoners were
either guilty or rot guilty OF that murder, and
should 50 have been found by the jury"
The InfeiIfgencer of to-day publishes the
speech Of Senator Hunter on the fifteen million
loan bill. 1t further treats of :" the new Edo
RADIO, quoting from g a Il a ling journal of the
Northwest" the discovery that if President
Polk had maintained our title up to "a deg.
AZ min, the region above 40 deg. would not
now be in possession of the Hudson Bay Com
pany. In that case, moreover, lit is intimated
from other quarters" that as the diggings would
be In the United States, our citizens could not
be feeced" by the Hudson Bay Company
The exactions of the company having been
made the subject of representation to the United
States Government, the Inteiligencer learns
that " the President has expressed the opinion,
after an examination of the subject, that there
is no remedy for these grievances. The powers
now claimed by the company have heretofore
been exerted, and, whether strictly legal or not,
have been recognised as legal blythe British Gov
eminent. The grievances, whatever they are,
will probably not be of long duration, or at least
will not form ground of complaint against the
Hudson's Bay Company. Their charter, it is
said, will expire in the month of May next en-
suing, and our readers have already been
Informed that the British Colonial Secretary,
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, has only recently intro
duced into Parliament bill providing for the
colonial government of the region which this
auriferous district is included"
The Iateihgencer also publishes, from the
Mobile Register, letter from General Walker
4 that the statement made by him in some of
his public speeches touching certain derogatory
counsel given to him in this city by member
of the Cabinet was made, not on his own knowl.
edge and authority, but on the information of
one of his officers; and, so far, the revelation
now made by the General goes to weaken the
evidence on which the story-never very prob
able-restel.''