Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-12-19

X, IL
occasion to strike back-handed blow at the Star;
this journal being the only one In the Federal |
Metropolis that has spoken Of Mr.. Cobbs conduct |
In terms rejecting the opinion of all here bat the
disunionists per Sc, who however they may rejoice
that he, among others, 10 laboring to,destrov the
Government Of the United States, hang their |
heads In very shame on hearing the circumstances
Of his betrayal Of his trust discussed. The para
graph to which we refer Is as follows:
''The black republican journals and their allied
contemporaries of every stripe, here and elsewhere
seem to have drawn with more than ordinary |
recklessness on their stock Of slander vitupera-
ton, and mendacity, in order to assail the late
Secretary Of the Treasury, Hon. Howell Cobb.
not be heard yelping at the heels Of the Score
tary and the Of fksSs those oao, harsng
got all they can from the democratic party, are
noU hoping, BY their d''gHsting redd,..S to ottt
tia hand that fed thsni, to cara a ftw crumbs
from tie party that riH soon hdre some Ioarss TO
divide (The italics are ours.)
2 We say that this courteous paragraph In leveled
at the Star, because on former occasion, when
smarting under its 1.-THE Star's) rebuke Of the
reckless mendacity with which 1t sought to
strengthen the hands Of those who would destroy
the Government Of the United States for the sake
Of its destruction, 1t threw out similar false In
situations: First, that the Star had received
pecuniary favors from the Democratic party; and,
the Republican party.
With reference to the frst we have to say that,
knowing a. well the Constitutions does, that IL,
itself, has enjoyed al the favon which the pre-
sent and last Democratic administration have had
to bestow lawfully, Its intimation that the Star
has received a share Of them. amounts simply to
an aspersion upon their honor Upon the integrity
with which they have administered their trust.
Those who conduct the Cosstitption know wen
that the Star has never received sixpence on ac-
count Of any public printing, and has published
the public advertisements only I'm pursuance of the
law obliging the Government here to have them
printed in the two papers Of largest permanent
| subscri ption; which law has received no other
Interpretation since the Star has been In existence,
than that given to 1t by the previous administra-
tons Of Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, and
Polk. That Is to say, no new Interpretation for
the Stars benefit
Its second insinuaton, that the Star, In seeking
| to preserve the Government and the interests
Of the people of this immediate section of
country from the wanton destruction 1t 1.-THE
| ConstitutioH) is now striving to bring on both.
is endeavoring to obtain patronage from the in
coming Republican Administration, (Which has
/ literally none to give, IL well knows,) 10
| simply worthy Of Its own history. Thus, IL has
| notoriously lived, moved, and had its being,
from its birth, wholly upon Government pat
| ronage-which in its case has been little more
than plumber for the record Of the legislation of
/ Congress and Of the frequent outside and Inside
bargains concerning the public printing patron
age made for Its benefit as developed by the late
investigating committees, have, happily, 80 dis
gusted all upright men Of all parties in public
life, as to bring about the obliteration from the
statute-book, by joint action Of the Executive and
| Congress, Of any opportunity by which money In
the Treasury Of the United States may hereaftel
be used Tor the utterly shameless demoraliz
of American public affairs. Knowing no other
means Of existence in its own than by the en-
joyment Of Government patronage, Its perceptions
| Of influences by which a journals position may
be induced or regulated, induce 1t, in this in
| situation, simply to measure our corn in its owr
bushel. so much for its attack upon the Stay
Now, brief word further, In It's ear Does Il
still fall to realize that its open abors to desro,
the Government on whose bounty 1t has lived, ar,
FAST bringing all believe I'm the truth Of the fol
lowing paragraph from the letter Of Secretar,
Floyd, which we fnd published In its Issue EN-
bracing It's attack upon u.s.
1T 10 fatal error to suppose that the Interest
Of England would prompt her to foster the plant
sort, who sat silently by and witnessed the delib
| crate insult Of an American minister by Britt 81
peer before the congregated Intelligence of al
Christendom, simply because slavery existed In
| the United States down to the tcTstehsd cock1sy
himself forty times the slave 10 suffering and cir
cumstances beyond what any negro Is to law-
1 there 10 not an Englishman who does not IN hi
heart aonor slavery, " he does not also abhor tn
toHntry iehers tt szi,ts." (italics again ours)
Though said to have been naturalized a yea
| or two since, that the conductor Of the Con
sfitxtios 10 by means ationalized -Ameri
canized-is evident In the intensity with whicl
his journal seeks TO foment division Of tn
Union and conseq uent civil war among US. Lon,
since IL secured all the present admi nstratiol
had to accord in the way Of money during tn
balance Of its existence, in the bargain unde
which Its conduct wac relinquished by its lat
owner, on the pledge that the departments
printing, &C, should be appropriated for its sup
port Having no possible opportunity to wiring
s'another red' out Of the present administratio on
and no hope Of making is salt out Of the Demo
cratic which have steadily refused 1t aid an
succor, II turned upon President Buchanan In thi
matter Of DiSUNlON, the moment il fancied th
disunionists seemed likely to grow mad enoug
to attempt to make by largesses, in Its case, sill
purse ont of sow's ear-a Journal commandin n,
some share Of popular confidence and respect; s
- often and always so unsucceafully tried, wit
large expenditures of the public funds, by thos
managing Democratic-party affairs. We repeat
there being no more plumber for 1t here its labor
have Of late been directed to the task Of securin
patronage from those who hold this Union of our
, to be can accursed thing" IT now unmistakabl
scents, In the far-off South, the carton on whic
II has alone fed. Hence the readiness with whic
Its columns have of late been prostitated to do MI
E1-secretsry cobbs work. That il; the wor
4 Of defeating the honest exertions Of Presided
Buc hanan and his administration to secure to tb
country atlarge the continuance Of the blessings
q peace, progress and individual prosperity, Will
: | At the same time striving no less earnestly
remove all just cause Of future sectional strih
l by obtaining for the South, In the Union, tn
new constitutional guarantees her exigencles rer
y der sine qHa son. r=. .ss. .aa.