New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-04
Won Raumer,s America.


domestic differences Of People foreign to the WI
ter are and naturally must be concocted such COM
nents if Just canno, be without value TO the readers
and even 10 futurc writers Of works OF this descrlp'
ton.
voluminous reader and writer-we will sup
pose hin, patient, podding, matter-oi-iact rainef
dull German-resoves TO visit America and wrlte a
book upon her People. Institutions and coniroVer
sizes He has already conversed with TWO Vi 'i.'
travellers hence and has loosely imbioed their h'on
of the matters he intends TO discuss 1hey give i.N
letters to persons of like views in Boston, 'of IN
stance W no invite him 10 their houses, dra" AROUND
hin, others of like feather and proceed TO lndoctrn
ate hin, more fully in the convictions or preJuaices
r ,boir set or party Duly edited he takes letters
from ,bes, to their allies in New York, who school
hin, . third time. and duly ticket him TO Phade
NH, and so on. After three or four months spent
ia travelling, feasting, talking and gazing the
thoroughly crammed traveller returns to bis study,
revises his notes and issues his volume, emoodyine
what he represents and perhaps truly ianc'c5 10
be tbs view of the matters discussed therein, but
which is truly nothing but disgorging, often Ill
pitiable confusion OF what was talked INTO nm ny
courteous hosts whose venison and champagne were
SO prime that it would have been the hight OF incl'
i,y to question their politics, or delivered SOTO
roce BY button holding adorers of every thing Eu
ronean from British cloths and French fashions TO
Italian arias and German professors, or whispered
confdincly in his ear by fair neighbor at the
dinnertable, whose eyes SO bright as to render
ungalant any impeachment OF the tullness OF her
Information or the soundness of her logic The at
tempt thus 10 settle by dash of the pen, and on
three months Indifferent acquaintance controversies
which have engrossed and divided the Hottest minds
through half century, is Of which the preSump
ton is only equaled by the completeness OF the
failure.
Won Raumcr came among evidently intent on
commencing the Loco-Foco party and It's policy 10
his coun,rymen, in Europe and here, and he has
done it to the best Of his ability. II is not difficult
10 magnify cause when the advocate has complete
control of the facts, and can suppress or color them
at pleasure Thus in his account of the Bank con
troversy here he takes no notice OF the objection
that the Removal of the Depostes was an act beyond
the Constitutional sphere OF the President and only
accomplished by indirect but palpable usurpatlon
of power. He takes no note of the course OF the
two great parties respectively in regard TO the In
dams he never mentions the loahsomc but profitable
deyo,edncss of his beloved Democracy 10 Slavery
md the use made of it in stimulating the passions
playing on the ealousies and securing the votes OF
The Slave States He seems never TO have heard of
the different attitude of the rival parties with regard
to Political Prescription, and the unprovoked COM
mencement of that corrupung and dangerous prac
,cc by Jackson He wonders why the Wing party
should be considered Conservative, but never men,
tons the rally of that party the side even OF Jack
son when the Union was threatened by Notification
md its faithful adherence the Supreme Court as
the ultimate arber in all Constitutional disputes
while Jackson refused execute that Courts decis
ion in the case of the Cherokee Indians rs. Geor
ga and to the extent OF his power, Frustrated that
bulwark of Law and Right against Force and W ILL.,
In short Won Raumer professesto give both sides OF
our Political controversies when he is only acquant
ed with one and his DEFICIENCIES glaring that
his suavi,y and air of candor all that render his
book imposing enough to be mischievous.
His work abounds in such assertions as these, Up
27O0
"All parties now call themselves Democrats
Both acknowledge Jefferson as their leader and hssd
Now that both parties are 10 some extent Demo
cratic and the Wing quite as truly so us Its antaGo
MIST, we do contend but few Wings attach any I'M
portauce to the name while the intelligent OF both
parties know that Mr.. jefferson was right Oh some
questions Mr. Hamilton on others where they diff
iered as must happen 10 two Statesmen and Pat
riots so diversely constituted they. We think
few Wings regard Hamilton as less wise or useful
in the founding of our Government than Jefferson,
though each had his appointed sphere and ably
filled it.
Won Raumer assures his readers that his tavorites
never advocate Destructive doctrines, and are the
iar,hest possible from Agrarian or Communist ten
denotes He woud have his readers believe that the
Loco Foco party did not generally countenance
Dorrism, when all here know that they did. and
made votes by H. even last year. He talks
tp. 269l Of Jefferson and his friends as having
defeated Hamilton's suggestion OF a President
for life. The truth is that Col Hamilton suS
ges,ed President during good behavior only.
10 avoid frequent recurrence OF the icrcencss and
/ corruption of our Presidential contests which he
had the sagacy oresee and predict; and for this
suggestion Virginia roted and Mr. Madson,-aier-
ward the peculiar exponent OF Mr.. jefferson views
and his succcss,-himself cas-! that rote. See Life
of Hamilton, Vol. IL
ON banking Allu oL SoSs
where his party dare not ENTHUSIASTICALLY OPP
posing oil Paper Money and all Discriminating Du
ties. He untruly asserts tina, Polk was elected as
an unequivocal Free Trader, when all here do knew
that he was elected by cheating Pennsylvania on
that point Had he stood where Won Raamer places
him, he would have lost that state first, and this
would have inevitably followed.
I He tells us p, 3l3l tina; Webster and CLAY are We
ry inconsistent, wherefore they often get hoored in
debate. especially by the sagacious and eloquent
Buchanan Mr.. B. will be very grateful for the in.
formation. Calhoun, he saysis always logical and
consistent Calhoun the author and adversary Of
the last National Bank, The champion and destroyer
of Protection, the friend and enemy OF Internal I'm
provemen,-who has changed his party thrice in
ten years. So many crudites and scraps wres,ed
from their conteXts he has heaped together the
Tariff question can hardly be matched elsewhere.
Perhaps as good illustration as can be given Of
this sort of ,ravelbook and bookmakins is found