Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 8, ls4s

Proposing TO say little TO you except on few
/ subjects, which | desired to examine and under
stand, must beg you not 10 look TO me for any
news If, out of Art Politics, mention any
thing, il will be but by accident. Something Imay
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 tina
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
ramre,) what can do but to pursue some topics OF
our present foreign affairs, which seem to me not 10
have been very well calculated by the public press
of either side.
! If according to the Jacksonian notion, President
Polk was, by his election instructed TO do the OBJ
posite of what Mr.. CLAY would have done, he is in
some particulars most observant of those instruc-
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 cvility of an official notice: Mr.
HuGHEs gives place to know not what bipes inn
pla,aiS, what unhedged birding of embassies: and
Mr.. WHEATON stands expecting his late like the
last feather III tame swans wing, when all the rest
have been plucked.
already had of democratic" diplomacy gives any
promise Of very piercing perspicacity, such as
would endanger, violently, the secrets of Cabinets
all over the world. Gen. MURPHY and Mr.. SHAN
NON were veterans in Rutherforth and Maby that
would not light on their adjuncts to any thing
that would greatly astonish the Metternichs and
Guizots and Aberdeens, or that would have made
the Taleyrands and Pozzo di Borghis 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 either the dupes of mere ministerial
civilites 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 us on the Texas on all other ques-
tions-perhaps to keep England in check if she
was newfoundland all sorts of other courdy no
things, said with a very obliging air, but Tmark
that, Mr.. KING nota word of them put on paper.
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
Il aS pnly IN Of
should long ago have taken care to force from the
French Government the moment such things were
4 met something unequivoca, and not have gone
Ichnckling home, TO write dispatches assuring oul
Government what an amiable person King LOUIS
was, what fine man his Minister, and how read,
4 both were to see us help ourselves to just wha
liked us.
ri Nor do think il less evident what the real polio,
1 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 monarchica and con-
servave 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 GUIzoT, the 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
a 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 al 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, or may soon become
| of value.
/ Whether, however, this Administration and the
last have, on this matter, deceived themselves, OF
been very easily cajoled by France, do not under
take positively TO say. j.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE Ii, 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 visbly break
ing up in this city and throughout the State: thai
the Wings disheartened, the Locofocos largely
dissatisfied; Nativism on the spread As to the
j first fact, know no cause that should of sudden
make any man less a Wing than before. That
party has alone, during late events resisted the sui
cidal career into which the Annexationists would
force the country. Ii there be any man who wishes
to desert, only that he may join himself to the
shame of this Texas business the desertion Of such
a man would be loss to be rejoiced over: | would
part with him as gladly as | meet good people:
would furnish him with music 10 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 Locofocc
must be much of the taste of those who love the
coarsest meat, but fondly abstain until it has time