Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-14
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

THK WAY THE WIND Blows The Hon.
Charles Sumner has recently opened the cam
paign in New York on behalf Of the Republican
party by a speech in the Hall of the Cooper In
stitute. That Mr.. Sumner should have been ss-
lected by the Republican party managers to that
end, is in itself significant that they do not pro-
pose 10 mince the tenets Of their faith In the con-
duct Of their canvass. The attendance was i'm
mense, and the doctrines of the speech Were quite
up, in principle, to those of the recent celebra-
ton Of the Fourth Of July at North Elba over the
grave Of old John Brown. Wendell Phillips
himself never preached more unadulterated
abolitionism: nor did his followers ever cheer
such sentiments more enthusiastically than they
were cheered on the night of Wednesday last in
the Cooper Institute hall, when proceeding from
the lips Of Senator Sumner not by an irresponsi-
BILE rabble merely, but by nearly every man Of
PreiensiOn to position character and influence in
New York city, who processes to be identified
with the Republican party.
The condition Of the Democratic and Union
parties in the Empire State is, doubtless, at the
bottom of the abandon with which the cloven
foot Of hostility to the maintenance Of the Consti
tuition as the law Of the land, was there put for
ward. Greeley Co. have been arguing that be-
cause an effort is being made throughout the
South by the Douglas managers, to organize a
party In sympathy with the aims and ideas Of
thelr (RePublcan) party, therefore, Ii Is impossi
BILE that the South will unite In her own defense.
on the election of President proposing to ad-
minister the Government upon the principles-so
lar as the rights Of the slavehOlding States are
concerned-laid down in this speech Of MIR.
Sumner.
Up to this time the Sta, has been correct in
Hos
political future; and now it takes occasion to say
that il the friends of Lincoln at the North con-
tinue their canvass as thus begun by Mr. Sumner
they will positively insure the settlement of the
slavery question ere Lincoln wields the Govern
ment OF the United States as at present consti.
tuted, upon basis satisfactory to those whose
constitutional rights proposed to be dealt with
oy the Lincoln administration upon the doctrines
OF 'he Massachusetts Senators's Union splitting,
speech. He who persuades himself that the
enort 10 generate semi abolition party i'm the
south Tor the benefit of Mr.. Douglas will prevent
tne whole people Identified directly or indirectly
with the institution of African slavery In this
country, from uniting to defend the South and
the Union, at all hazards, from the agrantly pal
Paole revolution in the government which MIR
sumner virtually proposes as the result of Lin
COINS election, egregiously deceives himself
The question involved is not one of mere policy
or OF mere party interest; but rather that of an
entire subversion of the Government of the United
states as originally formed and the substitution
In It's stead of another government, by means of
construction" different from it as that of
Louis Napoleon. OF government to which the
south could give its consent about as safely as to
proposition to install William Lloyd Garrison
into dictatorship over the sovereign States of
the existing Confederacy, with the understanding
that he may administer such clauses Of the original
Constitution as h believes to be Of binding force,
according to has construction of them on the enc
hand-and may scout the obligations Of such Of
its clauses as he holds lin common with Senator
Sumner) to be but covenants with helI.u