Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-10

Bat who Mr.. Breckenridge, very respecta-
bic man no doubt, and Of very fair abilities And
ment In the mattel Of politics Not long since,
when IL wes for the Interests Of lis party, and IN
The w OF bis own Advancement, be proclaimed
that be belonged 70 no party that desired the ex-
tension Of the Institution OF slavery. When non
Intervention was supposed TO serve a party turn.
he was al thorough az Nh. Douglas In support Of
o e. ne elected ted yss Pss
sstup on bis own hook upon the Charles ton plat
form This facility of accommodating himself to
party INCLINATION may be deemed reconmenda-
brothers Of the other part, tell 'they are bent
on theory which the South can never apply IL 1t
were asserted in ten thousand platforms and thst
"they are under the lead Of men who preach war,
need not say we cannot take Mr.. Lincoln He
comes presented by party that partakes Of the
worst vices that deform the demccracy-partyism
and sectionalism; a party that owes its birth, its
so many years in the past sustained the fortunes
Of the democracy-the agitation of the question
OF slavery. The democrats and republicans are
essentially alike, both are SECTIONAL they agiate
the same topics, they stir up alike in opposite
sections sectional animosties among the people
of the country; possessed of the same spirit. they
are pulling at opposite ends Of the same string;
each is bent on the possession of the spoils ON
the one side or the other are 70 be found every
hibuster in the land, every disunionist, every
consPfrator against the country's peace and its
fraught with the same evil. The country wants
repose from sectional strife, and the Government
wants the Inauguration Of enlarged statesman
SHIP we cannot, therefore, take Mr.. Douglas,
nor Mr.. Breckenridge, nor Mr.. Lincoln; we must
have man who can rise to the proportion of the
high office, who will be in fact what the Consti-
tuition makes him in theory, the Chief Magis-
trate OF the nation; who will exert the great in
fuence Of his position to compose not exas perate
sectional strife, and restore the of fraternity
and peace; who will reform abuses, and practise
economy, not extravagance-inte9rity not cor
ruPtion; who will regard with 60 ual favor all Of
the great interests OF the country, in whatever
section they arise, whether they spring from the
system OF free or from the system Of slave labor.
Such man is John Bell and such a man is Ed
ward Everett ! shall pronounce no eulogium
upon either. The platform which they stand
is broad as the country, strong as the Union high
as the Constitution. They need no individual
pledges nor resolutions Of party conventions for
recommendation. Their public life is before the
country and its record in the breast ofthe people
They stand upon the great pledges, to preserve
the Union, to support the Constitution and en-
force the laws-a Union of equals, a Constitution
reaching to and protecting all great national in
terests and laws conforming to the just spirit of
these
1t is not to be disguised that there is a spirit
abroad hostile to the security of our Government
and the integrity of the Union. Extreme senti-
ments have taken possession of the minds Of some,
and in the struggle for party ascendency they lead
to the advocacy of extreme measures. I will not
say there Is danger to be apprehended from that
source, nor will undertake to measure the degree
In which 1t appears We hear much of the tyranny
of sectional domination; of danger to vested rights
to grow out Of its abuses; and we hear much Of
qualification and secession remedies. But IL the
day ever comes when sectional party shall be in
stalled into office, aud, in the madness of power
pursue Its ends over PROSTATE rig hts, in my opin
ion neither notification nor secession will be re-
cogniZed as measures legitimate or expedient for
redress. brave people will spurn the one as
they will scorn the other. To secede, TO creep out
Of the Union, to sneak out, TO be kicked out; TO
leave the Federal Government in full force and
vigor, established at Washington, in possession
Of territory belonging to Southern State with
subject ourselves 70 the disadvantage Of all these
No, believe Ii not. When the madness of sectional
strife shall impel 10 disunion, dissolution will be
the means The Government will be overthrown
Here in this city the work will begin IL is idle
to talk Of peaceful separation; IL must begin In
violence. A sectional minority in both Houses Of
Congress will obstruct all legislation; an attem pt
at coercion will bring on the fight; and as the
Union, at it's birth, was baptized in blood. so il
will be shrouded at its death in the same sanguine
food.
FOrbearance, temperance, and justice on the
part of those entrusted with authority to avoid
these dangers and turn aside these evils and ii Is
therefore that we commend Bell and Everett 70
the country, All parties may trust them, every
section cOnflde in them.
The speeches which followed, by Messrs.
Harris and Bowie, of Nd, Hodge Of La, Bote-
ler, of Va, and Bradley, Of this city, were ami
mating and appropriate, and elected the highest
Communications. The meeting was closed about
midnight, and the masses retired In the best pos.
81 bic humor.
CRIMINAL CoURr.-To-day, the court met at
the usual hour, and took up the case cs the Uni
ted States agt. John b. Burgess, for an assault
and battery on Daniel Whalen. This case was
pending when our report closed.