Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-27

bonds when legally forfeited. The only reason
why that system is objected to, is the allegation
| that If the bonds be enforced Congress will be
sure to turn favorable ear to any Subseq uent ap-
| plications for relief from the penalties 1t not
unfrequently happens that Congress throws ex-
Penses Oh contractors not provided for in their
| agreements and in such cases they should GER
| tainly indemnify them. But there is no valid
reason why they should deal with a contractor
| otherwise than an individual would deal with
| him When the members learn the Importance
Of holding public contractors to as rigid fulfil
| Hent Of their obligation, as to a man, they would
| hold them were the contracts with themselves
individually, this proper system will be adopted
with success. The increasing glaring abuses Of
| the current system in the hands of all parties
should prove sufficient to work the requisite
| change, it seems to Us
| THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAuCrs-The
result of Saturdays deliberations of this BODY,
which were prOtracted until late hour, was all
agreement that series Of resolutions should be
supported in open Senate. identical in purport
| Though slightly modified in language with those
| OF Senator Davis, with which all newspaper read
| ers arc by this time familiar On but one of them
is 1t probable that there will be the least division
OF sentiment in the Senate chamber, when they
come to he considered thereon the ff.h-which
| In substance, declares that when the Executive or
Judiciary powers Of the Government fail to accord
ade4u or necessary protection to any description
Of property In the Territories it then becomes the
duty of Congress to intervene to that end The
rest (of the series of seven) solutions we repeat
announce and enforce principles upon which at
this time no difference of sentiment exists among
all claiming Identification with the Democratic
party. There are thirty-eight Democrats in the
Senate, CT whom four only are understood to be
likely TO vote against these resolutions viz Messrs
Douglas and Pugh, who commended in the caucus,
as elsewhere, for the right Of territorial lepi
lures to exclude slavery from United States Terri
tories and Messrs. Brown and Clingman who
are understood to auege that the fifth resolution
does not go far enoug in the matter of protecting
the right Of shareholders.
The series will doubtless soon become the sub
ect of ella borate and able discussion in the Senate
Chamber Yet it is questionable whether they
will be adopted by the body with the four votes
mentioned above against them in addition to an
united opposition. Though it is generally thong ht
that effort will be made by any Senator to have
them pressed on the Charleston Convention the
South there will be very likely seek their adop-
ton by that body, whose duty it is simply to re-
adopt the Cincinnati platform. We may further
add, however. that it is already regarded by the
best-informed persons here as being imposs BILE
that any one can be nominated at Charleston who
fails to subscribe to them for they embotly the
unanimous sentiment upon the Territorial sa very
question Of the Democracy Of every State tina, MAJ
he relied on surely to vote for the Democratic
national nominees In this matter affairs are wotk
ing according to our frequent prediction, that ere
the meeting Of the Charleston Convention it will
soon he found that gentleman holding the view
OF Mr. Douglas has little prospect of being ac-
copied by the Democracy Of the South rs their
candidate, than Mr.. Seward himself
How Not To Do THE Douglas Committee
la this city aye evidently most indefatigable GEN
ternen, and are bent on leaving no stones un
turned TO secure DIS nomination at Charles n
They even go far actually to pelt a slave.
holding State with abolition stones thick ard hot
as will be seen from the following letter from a
gentleman Of high character:
VIENNA, Md, Feb 20. 1860.
Dear Slf: enclose you a pamphlet, hundreds f
which have been circulated within few DAYS
past in this county, and addressed to Democrats,
under the frank of Foake of Illinois
The object Is apparent upon its face-to present
Douglas, oy parity of reason, the friend of the
Souih, and to influence the action Of the STATE.
Convention in the nomination of delegates to the
Charleston Convention. Independent Of its I'M
disseminating abolition documents in our MIDST
The attention of our Representa- yes ha We been
called to H. rrssuming tina, it should be generally
Very respectfully. yours, &c.
The pamphlet referred to Is beaded "a follou.s.
Douglas an enemy to the Nor.h-Reasons wbv
ihe Norm should oppose Judge Uouglas-His
dupllcliy exposed Speech Of the Hon Abraham
Lincoln, If Illinois: delivered at Cincinnati.
sept 10, 1859 Printed by Lemuel Towers
A aholi
ment than this same was never essayed to be scat.
tered broadcast throug bout a slaveholding State
aud it is therefore not wonderful that the estima
bic writer Of the letter is Indignant at the system
OF elecdoneering at the expense Of future peace
throughout the South thus resorted to for the ben
eht Of Mr. Douglas. While bitterly denying and
earnestly combating every assertion relative to
Mt Douglas In this pamphlet, at the North, thus
MS committee strive to create the impression i'm the
coutn l. al they are all true. In eSsayny to carry
wafer on both shoulders after this fashion they of
course aim to deceive one section or the other Tie
game, to say the least of it, is very reDrebensib
one, and cannot fail to meet the condemnation of
all honest men throug hout the South where really
no better means to defeat its own object could pos
sibly have been resorted to.
The CNRuLY ScHooL.-rhe scene OF turbulence
In the House to-day while various members we,e
struggling for the floor on questio ms Of privi-
lege" or in objection thereto, must have broug ht
up school-day "reminiscences to every spectator,
when some venerable, easy-tempered pedapopue
was fiirly at his wits end in the midst Of his
room foil Of boisterous boys.
1t really seemed as if the members, like the said
school boys, were disposed to take the largest
Liberties with the venerable Speaker.
'oekT-MARrIAL OF LIEUTENANr.-A Gen.
r,al court-Martial has been appointed to meet It
Fort Leavenworth, X. T.. on the 5th dav Of
iarcn, 1860, for the trial OF Second Lieutenant
" " naiiey, Second Artillery, and such other
persons As may be brought before them.
DEATH or A NAVY Orv,r., -. an ~