Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
PHrLApsLpHrA, JUNE o, ls45.

Proposing 10 say little to you except on few
i subjects, which | desired TO examine and under
stand, must beg you not TO look to me for any
news. II, out of Art or Politics, mention any
thing, it will be but by accident. Something may
presently say on two strange public phenomena
the one Of the city, the other of the State: mean
that utter failure of law which permits the frequent
riots here and the incredible righteousness of that
system of pardons which Gov. PORTER has found
ed Meantime, until better informed in those things
of which should desire to write you, TART or Lite
ranre,) what can do but to pursue some topics OF
our present foreign affairs, which to me not TO
have been very yell elucidated by the public press
Of either side.
| IT, according to the Jacksonian notion, President
Polk was, by his election, instructed to do the OPP
posite of what Mr.. CLAY would have done, he is in
some particulars most observant of those nstruc-
TONS In his selection OF foreign agents. he appears
to have been guided by wise dread of the Gala
tins and Pinkneys and Monroes and Adamses and
Legares. Mr.. EVERETT he has recalled, or is about
to recall Mr.. BLACKBOARD he has dismissed with
out even the civility of an official notice Mr.
HuoHEs gives place to | know not what bipes inn
pt,emis, what unfedged birding of embassies: and
Mr.. WHEATON stands expecting his fate, like the
last feather in tame swans wing, when all the rest
have been plucked.
already had of /" democratic diplomacy gives any
promise Of very piercing perspcacity such as
would endanger, violently, the secrets of Cabinets
all over the world. Gen. MURPHY and Mr.. SHAN
NON were veterans in Rutherforth and Mably that
would not light on their new adjuncts to any thing
that would greatly astonish the Metternichs and
Guizots and Aberdeens, or that would have made
the Talleyrands and Pozzo di Borghs stand aghast.
On the whole therefore, our of the portfeuille
are such, whether of recent or older democratic
choice, that think the President may safely con-
graduate himself: not one such would Mr.. Clay
have ever appointed.
This brings us to our French relations in this
Texas question where it is now evident that our
Envoy and the Executive have grossly deceived
themselves. From the first, it was perfectly clear
that they were either the dupes of mere ministerial
civilities on the part of LOUIS PHILIPPE and his
Premier, or that they were attempting to impose
upon our people for something solid such courtly
professions. Certainly much was very suspiciously
kept back but it was nevertheless clear that all
which Mr.. KING communicated as having passed
either between him and Majesty or Mons. GUIzoT,
amounts to nothing more than some very polite ex-
pressions OF good will towards us, Of wish to be
agreeable to on the Texas as on all other ques-
tions-perhaps to keep England in check if she
was newfoundland all sorts of other courtly no.
things, said with very obIiging air, but mark
that, Mr.. KING y nota word of them put onpaper,
Now, in diplomacy, or in any thing that is public
and serious, who does not know that what is merely
said, and is not to be left in any permanent and
certain form, goes for nothing / conclude, then
that the Public and the Administration should only
have looked with suspicion upon these French pro-
LESSONS. The care taken not to give them in any
tangible shape marked them to me, from the first,
L a m mi tn IF c,t,v
should long ago have taken care to force from the
French Government, the moment such things were
met something unequivocal, and not have gone
chuckling home, TO write dispatches assuring our
Government what an amiabe person King LOUIS
Il was, what 6ne man his Minister, and how ready
both were to see US help ourselves to just wha
i liked us.
4 Nor do think tless evident what the real policy
of France is. Peace with England is one of the
chief parts Of the system of LOUIS PHILIPPE, and
that is the feeling of all the monarchical and con-
sentative part of France. tits the Opposition alone
in that country that stir up any contrary notion
and this only because in it lies their hope of un-
seating the Ministry or pulling down the dynasty
Could THEIRS or MOLE, aided by the Legitimists,
upset GUzoT, the new Ministry would soon find
itself soothed by place into more pacific humor,
or forced to be presently driven out, when the King
was ready for Kidding himself of them. For LOUIS
is his own Prime Minister.
This is not all France by this time feels what
folly she committed when she fell upon Mexico
some eight years back, and bombarded Vera Cruz.
She drew from Mexico an indemnity, and she lost
all her trade there. All has passed into the hands
of England. Would France not, at present, gladly
recover that trade and, by friendly part towards
Mexico, regain her old equality with England !
Moreover, the commerce of Texas, if independent
OF us, is worth struggling for, may soon become
| of value.
Whether, however, this Administration and the
last have, on this matter, deceived themselves, or
been very easily caoled by France, do not under.
take positively TO say. j.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE Ill, lS45.
Of the state of parties here, and of local politics
hear something; but little that strikes me as OF
any certain consequence. There are those who
tell me that both the great parties vsibly break
ing up in this city and throughout the State that
the Wings are disheartened, the Locofocos largely
dissatisfied; Nativism on the spread. As to the
first fact know no cause that should of a sudden
make any man less Wing than before. That
party has Alone during late events, resisted the sui
cidal career into which the Annexationists would
force the country. If there be any man who wishes
to desert, only that he may join himself to the
shame Of this Texas business, the deserton of such
a man would be loss to be rejoced over: | would
part with him as gladly as | meet good people
would furnish him with music to start with and a
pair Of shoes to carry him on his way after those
to whom he properly belongs He who would
choose the present moment for turning Locofoco
must be much of the taste Of those who love the
coarsest meat, but fondy abstain until it has time