New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-10
Our Diplomacy In Mckee.

Our Diplomacy In Mckee.
Wd find the following scrap Of history in Mon
days L. s. Journal Loco Focol II is part OF let
ter from Mr. Atocha- between whom and Mr. b. l.
Green newspaper controversy has been carried Or
for some time Mr. B. E Green. it will be reooilecieo
was the genius to whom the Diplomatic discuss'oH
with Mr.. Rejon relative to Annexation
entrusted. which formed such conspicuous par -
the documents accompanying the Presioeh' 'A'
Annual Message We take it that this scrap u
history certified By a bona fde signature 49,.
ahead Of any of the illus,rious PleniPo. snahnv1
performances Speaking Of the standing % VA
Green. oYr Charge be il remembered NJ A'''''-
proceeds: ,-,.....c ~.
"Ye, mus. do him justice: tt<Te ars brI Won
-. Fb;Dt ha .hoved b nself capable ana "ie- /" u
nm a re1own there even more perm -. - ,borgF m
oftis --ate-pauer-. OF one OF 'Heii' - ~. c-.n
! - 80 - historian. Just opposite ~ VIC '.si
worthy De ne ~. 1-i R.fnzio No -. there dweli
:. nc humble and i-furnis hca lsueil a.
beauty and virue u-aaly nnAo'. ~ rb ,,,re-
.r.zie in the play calls Alts l'.nOn
~ - bsch .he .od were brought from Ne" VI
- 40 I being the banker WIN "non -he oePO'l'eu
her money always seited iof nei, a '' 5 -
~ b'onable attices a. just received, 81 the arrival
,5irb had no, been apprlzed. asked ner therefore
"a, he was able 10 sell them by0re che mad Paid ne
of similar articles which senior Green, the Arneri-
sn Cbsrse (xhose company she enjoyed some two OF
bree time. week) had done her the kindness 70 have
drought from New Orleans for her and passed free
through the Custom mouse, BY virtue OF having HeH
| directed 70
THE UNITED STATES LOCATION. MEXICO
Young Mr. Green. she assured me. was very abe
| siplomafs and highly useful 10 her
sckno Wedge then. Nessrs. Editors that TINS orna-
rnent of Cabinets capable Of other ne-ses besides his
singular expioi, Of denouncing and cslumniaiing rs
chief in affair for which he himself alone Is resPGn.
-ible-f indeed such diplomatic innocent could be
held responsible for any thing. As little french Mil
| liner is usually not very reserved win her ieIo"-
yr.e,,es and a. Nile EeOnore and her class are com.
monty provided with severn! admirers each. 10 all 81
| whom they are equally communicative need hardly
lay that the scandal Of such abuse Of our Charge
functions was soon widely blown in Mexico, u the utter
sharne Of all Americans who unaccustOmed 70 see
the National revenue defrauded and the American flag
| degraded in order that loose boy may conduct III
qaOnyetss in the cheap form OF smuggling IL was soon
known that the goods for 'i7 resPecaoe re-.
| were consigned. AZ above described, 70 An eminent
| American House-ihe only one in Vera Cruz-so that
need not name il. The Government ana DiPnntuo
Corp. al Mexico Of course speedily learned me a1a III
| a city where spies abound; and you may guess :"
much the brilliant position achieved By the Charge :
diplomacy was improved in social consideration
~ The AMERICAN REVIEW for July, is certain
| ~ one of the best issues OF that exceen, work.
The leading article on Cases of COnscience-Po-
itical Aboonisn," is Of the clearest and
seenest exhibitions of logic we ever read. Mr..
James g. Brney's declaration that, II elected Pre-
-dcnt, he would readily take, as administered the
oath to support the Federal Constitution, all the
time intending not to support and execute but to re-
ect az nugaory and refuse to execute such portions
of tina, instrument favor Slavery, IL lucidly set
forth as an open avowal and Justification of pre-
meditated perjury There is a pungency aud Plih
in this article which must command II TO sound
thinkers
The longest essay. in the number discusses The
| Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteen Cen
tury. in reference TO Rev. DR. Griswolds recent
| compilation This article is able and mainly just
especially so in its vindicaiion of Tennyson from
Mr. Griswolds disparagng es,imate-we think not
| 30 just in s sweeping condemnation oil fes'us
| Bailey. 1t is very readable criticism, however.
| Marshal Macdonald is well delineated in bog
raphical sketch by Mr.. Headley; The Life and
Character of John Jay well portrayed and Hon.
John O. Adams contributes paper on Society and
| Civilization which does not exhaust IFS theme.
| Progress and DISCRIMINATION are discussed by an
able hand, whose conclusions however, we could
not endorse. The only poems save extractsl are
| The Gods of Old by VIM. Wallace, (which we
have publishcd)-eoo}-an 'Eulae,' by f. A.
Poe-not extra. The reminding papers are emit
tied The Ghas,ly Funeral American Enterprise
in Steam Navigation; 'Italy-Hcadleys Letters :
| Commercial-Tariff and Finances and \ True
| Work Of Art
- We ever doubted and frankly expressed to
the Editor our dstrusi Of the practicabity OF pub
fishing Magazine which shall be regarded as the
the organ and exponent of the general sentiment OF
any Political Party. Such work If minglIng at all
freely in the Political contests of the time, mus, en-
barrass and often njurc those il wishes TO serve.
The Nullifcr of Carolina and the Loco Foco OF Yer
mont or Massachusetts both call themselves De
mocrats and vote for the same National candidates
We, their ideas and notions most Political topics
compared would exhibit radical difference. Just
so of the Wing Of New England and the Wing Of
Mississippi Any statement OF Political Tene,s IN
| tended to be common TO the members OF either Pc
tical party throug hout the Union must be brief or
| vague indeed. 4 work like the American Review
can hardly be calculated ON steadily effective
partisan. To be honored and useful at all II must
be more aud higher than this-,hc exponent and
champion of certain great elemental Principles. of
universal and enduring significance. Now the great
fundamental idea of the Wing party is not Conser-
vaiism, not Radicasm or Progress, implies
neither unboundcd confidence in nor habiiual dis.
rust Of the popular sentiment Of the day. 1t is THE
SUPREMACY OF LAW over any aggregation OF mere
individual Wills-of Constitutions over Mass Meet
ngs-of Legislative Acts and Judicial Decisions
over Empire Clubs and Whisky Rebellions. Ac.
cording TO this idea, Mr. Polk is entitled to obedi-
ence and rcspec, as President, not because PSI Of
every 500 legal electors voted for hm-for we think
they did not-but because, by the decision of the
legitimate tribunals he is pronounced legally chosen
and so is really the President of the rkole People
and not merely Of those who voted for hm-the
whole having previously and consiitu,onay assent
ed to be governed by persons designated as he has
been. The Dorr question was in fact a iouchs,one
Of the elemental questions in difference between the
parties. though thousands Of thinking men who
even openly condemn Dorrism, with its abeiiors
=. IL 80.