Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

HoS. J. CLANCY JoSEs.-Ths Telegraph told
us, yesterday, that the appointments Of U. 3.
Minister to Austria has been rendered to the
Hon. j. CLANCY Jones, of Pennsylvania We
see no reason, whatever, to doubt the fact; in
asmuch As that no other member Of the present
House of Representatives has stronger or more
legitimate claims upon the Democratic party.
For adherence to its principles, Its policy and
its measures, he has been borne to the ground
ut home, under the accumulated weight of iron,
disappointment about Office, and the anthem
ocratic anti-slayery sentiment SO powerful
everywhere at the North. He fell fighting
CALAMITY and fearlessIy, struggling hand to
hand with the combined enemies of the De-
mocracy. Though his shield was emblazoned
with "The rights of the South under the guaran-
tees of the Constitution" the most deadly weap-
ons hurled at him in this memorable contest
were the speeches and articles of erratic and
unreliable or over ambitious Southern men and
newspapers, proclaiming that in his msnful de-
fence of the policy of the Democratic party last
winter, he did grievous wrong; insomuch as
in so doing he opposed Mr.. Stephen Arnold
Douglas, who they declare to be entitled to
Southern confidence and support. He fell q
victim to Southern weapons, aimed at him in
defence of the traitor Douglas. Such is the
explanation Of his defeat; and the masses of
the South who make and unmske Southern
public men, and have never yet failed to hold
them to strict accountability, should at once
comprehend to whom they are indebted for the
defeat of their most fearless and energetic
Northern friends CLANCY Jones Of Pa, and
Hughes of Indiana,) in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
But apropos of the political future of Mr.
Jones. Though it is highly probable that the
President promptly notified him that there was
nothing that he, as the organ of the true and
faithful Democracy could do for him, which he
would not gladly do, We regard it as question
able whether he will not prefer to remain at
home and attend to the vindication of the in
tegrity of the Democratic party in his own dis
trict and State, where the labOrs of Democrats
of his emphasis of character and experience in
public affairs are needed. Though the fact that
he may attribute the success Of factionists at
home in defeating him to the aid and comfort
they received in that work from Southern men
| on whom no reliance can reasonably be placed
by any body, is sufficient to dampen the ardor
of most men in any political cause, yet we know
j. Clancy Jone, well enough to justify us in
proclaimIng that his democratic labors will not
be RENTED for an instant under the discour-
aging influence of the recent election in his
State and district. The prompt manner in
which the President is understood to have ten
dered to him the Austrian mission, fairly illus
trates the depth of the indignation Of the Dem
ocratic party everywhere, that such Demo-
cratic statesman as himself should be Temporal
rily sacrificed by the assistance Of men and
newspapers protesting sympathy for the cause
of constitutional rights of the South