Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-09-14
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP,

=" Puohsu tne IoiIowlng brief article. Viz:
r, THE MY TO His JouRNEY.-lt seems that Mr.
herscnel V. johnson, suddenly abandoning his
remaining appointments to address the people in
Georgla and other Southern States, has gone post
haste TO New York. Now, the key to this unex-
Pecfd journey Of his Is found in the whsperings
Of the Douglas managers here. II seems that
the Nforce" speech Of Mr.. Douglas, delivered
at Norfolk, Va, as published In tie Norfolk
ArgEs, and repeated by him at other points in
drawing of from the Breckenridge ticket In
Georgia, votes for Douglas sufficient to secure
the State 10 Bell the game for which the Georgia
remembered that I'm effect, the argument or posi-
ton OF the " force' speech in question is little
more than paraphrase Of the threats Of the New
York Tribune, and Messrs Sumner Wade Of nj
that In case Of resistance In what she regards as
her constitutional rights, abolitionism will send
Its armed cohorts down upon the South TO com.
pei her submission. As mig bit have been expected,
the assumption Of such position by Mr.. Douglas
Is causing every States-rights man at the South To
wash his hands of Dong lasism and ere the rise of
the Douglas party all the southern democracy were
Johnson to New York IL to the end of inducing
Douglas at once to modify his "forcen position in
order TO save the pieceso at the South; and to
saat end only He will probably fail in it, as the
Maine election must tend TO convince Douglas
that the only way In which he can hope to save
the pieces at the North, is to ii ght the ID with
even hotter abolition fire than he has been using
there up to this time. He cannot afford to venture
to correct his southern mistake at this particular
juncture. That's clear. So Mr. johnson will
have but his labor for his palms, we apprehend.
We published these facts on positive informa-
ton in our possession.
The speeches Of both Mr.. Douglas and Mr. H.
V. Johnson, delivered on the day before yester-
day In New York, bear 1t out to the letter Mr.
Douglas did make a characteristic effort to de-
ceive the South into a temporary belief that he
had modified his "force" views, az expressed at
Noyfo md olS to
pretended to retract, almost in SO many wo ds
his late sz eafhedra declaration that a STATE Of
the Confederacy can be guilty of treason thing
as impossible as that bank or a railroad com
pany can be guilty Of treason But while he ap-
Peared thus to yield the important point, he con-
lehded that the people taking what he regards as
reasonable State action, IL essaying IL, must do
20 al our fathers did in Revolutionary times
with matters around their necks - most unfcr
tunate aluson, indeed But the entire drift OF his
speech In this connection cannot fail to convince
wei Informed persons throughout the South that
ne II playing with the question Just az he assured
MS abolition constituents that he had played with
the kansas-Nebraska question, In a never.to. be
forgotten speech delivered during his celebrated
contest with Lincoln, wherein, with finger at
nose, he told them, In effect, that he had eyre
giousy cheated the South In his Kansas bill: for
they 1.-THE Southl would sooner or later find out that
while 10 had been pretending to secure their ma
terial rights in his bill, 1t would operate more
surely than even the application Of the Wilmot
PfoViso, to exclude slavery, beyond ps,adrsnture,
rom all United States Territories In time TO
come. His Halter' allusion shows unmista ke-
oily that he realizes that his game is to continue
10 play Tor the confidence and favor Of abolition
federalism, and that only.
nd
V. Johnson-(who, judging from the current tone
OF the Georgia papers, had literally fed from his
own Sate under a storm Of popular indigna.
ton against both Of tbem-against the former for
the purpose Of aiding abolitionism to hang all at
the South who may, in obedience to State author.
ity, take measures to resist General Government
countenancing aiding and abetting - John
Brown raids and Texas well poisonings and arsons
throughout the South and ganst the latter as the
political ally of the utterer Of such doctrines)-
said not single word In his speech upon thi,
z" force" queston-nOt word. He had practi-
caIly failed In his errand to New York
Douglas had positively refused to alter his
:" force " position, further than to resort to the
shallow trick Of pretending TO notice the dis.
JUNCTION between a State Government and Tn q
people who compose and administer it. In the mat
ter OF their action in protection of their own
rights-in that, though abolitonism may not
legally hang sovereign State, 1t NAV draw the
halter around the necks Of those who are the gov
eminent Of State, for its 1.-THE State governments,
action. Not word on the subject, we repeat
does his speech embrace. 1t is simply a string Of
abnse and twaddle against the Administration.
because that does not withdraw Breckenridge and
Lane from the contest.
One word more concerning Mr. Douglas speech.
when pressed with question whether he coun-
seHea fusion In New York or not, against Lincoln,
lie undertook to denounce BreckiRridge and his
supporters for disunionists, virtual traitors. &c
and then proclaimed his willingness to fuse with
any and all who were not either Northern or
Southern traitors and disunionists. Thi, disin-
Senuous, tricky sophistry on his part must strike
fairdealing men everywhere as being as con.
temPtible as his position on the other point dis
cussed above Is atrocious. That position. we
again take occasion to say, is that, IL the South
attempts to resist by State action the abolitonzny
OF the General Government, through the admins
atlon OF its affairs by abolitonists bent on carry
ing out abolition ends by means Of Its 1.-THE Gen
efal 1overnment's) opportunities and powers
though he will not sanction hanging the State, he
VIII DO his best to aid Lincoln and his abolition
cohorts to hang all the citizens Of the Southern
state who may obey its ordinances and laws made
to meet the emergency
NAVAL Observation-Disclosures of June %
have been received from Flag Officer Striblinp
commanding the East India Squadron. He was
about proceeding from Shanghai in the Hartford,
with the Hon. Mr.. Ward, United States Minister
70 the Gulf OF fitchili-to be followed by the
steamer Saginaw.
The United States sloop John Adams, CON-
mander Berrien, was In the river Min The Can
ton and Chinchew men were d & hting at Fouchou
and Com'der Berrien had dispatched two armed
boats for the protection Of American citizens.
The Chiriqui surveying commission, of which
Captain Frederick Engle is in charge, arrived I'm
the Brooklyn at Boco del Toro August %, ten DAYS
out from Norfolk. The Brooklyn had a ve,y
smooth passage, which favored the commission in