The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-24

| not hesitate moment 10 proclaim their prlncl-
Pies but the other Secretaries do not seem disposed
| to commit themselves in advance. Three Secreta-
| ries of the four composing the Cabinet, come from
high tariff States and it is of the most vital impor-
| lance to them that they should not be called upon
to take any position in the matter, although the Sc
cretary Of the Navy leans to the stronger influence
| in the Cabinet We have no doubt but that this
question will lead TO dissolution of the Cabinet or
| to one or two designations before the meeting of
| Congress. Symptoms OF internal difficulties have
already made their appearance. and when the ex-
posion comes, it will be that the Oregon ques-
! ZION had very little TO do with it.
CANIBoLs OF NArIvEIsM-THEIR RECENT MANI
FEsTo-The natives are disressngly anxious to
persuade the people of the whole United States
the Dutch and the Irish also, that they are not vet
| finally extinct. If noise and swagger, and bragga-
| doca, such none but themselves attempt,
are proof of their existence, then there can be no
doubt OF il; they still possess some signs of vitality
of low order, sill perform few functions of ami
nation. but they are of the lowest and most unm-
portant kind All their shouting will not remove
the impression that they the eve of their de-
parture that their conortions and groans are surer
signs of expiring agony than of good health and
sound organization A few evenings ago they held
what they were pleased to call great mass meet
ing, at which set of philosophers assembled who
would equal the appearance Of the galleries of one
of the CHEAP and nasty theatres. large proportion
of them welr boys who knew al little of what
they came as they cared about ii. We
do not me- 10 say that there were not
a sprnklnc 5f men of decent exterior, and
who, if Judge ~ their own estimate of themselves
were gentlemen Of parts and pretensons Ex-Mayor
| Harper there, too-a host in himself and we
never saw him more funny and fowery than on that
occasion. No doubt he felt profoundly grateful for
the honor conferred upon him in his appointment as
chairman Of the meeting, and he could not do less
than seem pleased after saying he was so but he
could have dispensed with vast deal of bowing and
| scraping, and shaking of hands-all of which are
dangerous famiarites if he happens to be called to
power again, as there were very few surrounding
him above taking and soliciting favors, such as a
man with Mayors patronage can dispense.
II must be admitted at there is rothng in these
noisy proceedings deserving of notice were it not
that there is evident symptoms breaking ont of a
change OF position-in other words that the Ma
tves 'ratting" The greater portion of the time,
at the meeting last Friday evening" was occupied in
reading the address and resolutions adopted at the
Convention which sat in Philadelphia and which
was received with all the honors and endorsed as
the last revised and amended edition of the Native
creed political. Like adj that emanates from its au-
thors, this address is repete with bombas. and pre-
sumption, consequently 1t was too much for ordinary
patience and sensbility TO listen to from beginning
to end Yet some parts of it did not pass unnoticed
tor their singularity and inconsistency. One was
dedicated to the declaration that the experience OF
history had taught that persons brought up under
form OF government were unsafe repositories for po-
litical power under another and hence foreign citi-
zens unfit to enjoy the franchise in this coun
try In another portion Of the address, they declare
their readiness to admit foreigners to the right Of
citizenship after residence of twenty-one years.
Now, without saying word about the absurdity o
the first assertion, we may be content to ask these
immaculate statesmen-these profound politicians
how, if experience has shown il unsafe, can they
place power in the hands of foreigners any terms
If they think II unsafe. they are rators--if they
think it is consistent with the safety of the country
hey convict themselves of falsehood. We leave
them to take either horn of the dilemma
they please
Again, they say they for extending
liberation and protection to all on equal terms
that they prescribe no religion, no race in
particular To this we have only to say tina
ii il be true they vastly changed since they Sc
up trade last year. for the only available stock the,
had, their whole amount of capital, consisted of Ii
rades against the Catholic religion lis tempora
head the Pope of Rome, aad the Irish. They can
not forget these trades; they may be ashamed o
them, and now anxious TO get rid of the odium o.
the ntoerable stuff they spouted forth wherever one
of their wretched orators could mount rcketty plat
form at some street corner, or any hole or corne
where a mob would listen to him. But they may
pretend what they please: the essence of natlvesm
is ignorance and ilberality, and the deformed off
spring of the two-persecution. To be satisfied
that the Natives possess these three attributes per
son of intelligence has only to attend their meeting
and read Of their doings. Go into OF their as
semblies, and you hear a speaker-one OF their re
guar trumps-uttering rhapsody which, not to sa,
word about Its absurdy and incongruity, is no
IN good English We will venture to saw that min,
out OF ten OF those men who rprate about education
could not express themselves correctly on any sub
ject, Tor two consecutive minutes. We have lis
tened to one of their great guns even, a member al
Congress no less, and we've heartily sorry for him
such were his blunders in speaking his mothe,
tongue As to their iliberaliiy, read their organs
listen to their fierce denunciations of foreigners
think Of their attack on the poor old apple women
Are they prosecutors Go and cast glance on the
ruins of Philadelphia churches, and have evidenc,
Of what "Nativeism" did and what it would d,
again if permitted. The MANIFESTO and resolutions
adopted at their late Convention got up to deud,
The public and subserve the bad purposes on which
hey are bent; but they SO badly got up SO full o
contradiction, effronery, and falsehood, that the
'implest reader will run no risk of being deudec
.no the belief that this faction is not precisely wha
u was IN all that is base and contemplate.
lNsuRAWE-We refer our readers to the adver-
9.uent IN another column. Of The Mercantile