The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-11-19

matte Negotiations md CONGRATULATIONS
Interest lchch clusters around the Opening of Con-
gress.
The excitement about who will be the printer 10
Congress, Is pretty nearly decided, and the atten-
ton OF the whole nation is now directing itself to-
wards other points of deeper and loftier interest,"
II begins now to be matter Of paramount intense
interest, what will the message and the diplomatic
correspondence of the first nine months Of the new
administration show to the country? What has
Mr.. Polk, and what has his Secretary done during
the summer, to bring on, or to stave oil war! What
anxiety has been manifested in this quarter, to bring
to an honorable and annie able adjustment this
mighty question! Every man of sense, among all
parties, knows that these are the great questions
that will come laundering up to the doors of the
Capitol, when Senators have taken their seats. An
honest free, a bold, an enlightened people will
wait earnestly for the response. When the response
is gwen Mr.. Buchanan will have the loftiest spot 10
stand on diplomatist can ask for, to show himself
to his countrymen. All eyes will be turned on him,
from the East and the West, the North and the
South. 1t will no doubt be for him an anxious cri-
sis If, when his dispatches read, they prove
to have been written with that GOODNESS and sagaci
ty-that boldness fran ness and independence-f
they are pervaded by that just, honorable, concilia
ting and magnanimous, spirit which bespeak the
great statesman and the lofty minded patriot they
will place him where he has never before stood
Curiosity, find, has already among members of
all parties who have come, reached point of in
tensity-everybody is anxious to know what the
President and his Secretary have done. This ques-
ton rapidly swallowing up all others, and before
Congress meets, it will prove to be the rod Of Aaron
which swallowed up the wands OF the Egyptian
enchanters. A few men will continue to talk about
the printing, and some will talk angrily. The wings
will foment the matter, for they begun it, and have
done their best to convince the country that the
feud was general and never could be healed, and to
aid their they will S let slip the dogs of war;
and resort to all those tricks used to operate upon old
women and young children. The letter writers
have wrote about this, for they have had nothing
else TO write about, and they have magnfed it be-
yond truth or possibility. But the fire has gone
down, if indeed there ever was anything but smoke;
the msts are clearing away, and the nation, which
will not be humhugged long on any point, turning
its eye to greater question, to which we return
again; What will the, diplomatic correspondence
reveal have, like all the world, tried to lind out
what could, and suppose know as much as my
neighbors. The message will contain a calm, ut
/ will be cool document-nOt heated one,) quiet
presentation OF the greatest question of this gene
raton-what are claims to Oregon and what
course must pursue. The history OF former
EQUATIONS this matter will be given-the policy
OF the country will be clearly indicated, and an ap
peal made to the people.
The tariff will also be discussed-but am strong
ly inclined to the belief that no radical no ultra
ground will be taken The present tariff every body
Knows ought to be, and will be ere long, modified
Its unequal and consequently unjust provisions, must
give way to wiser and better ones-its odious fea-
/
need not borrow any unnecessary trouble on this
point The President will take the following ground
on the tariff Just revenue enough to defray the ex.
penses OF the government in time Of peace, and
of those odlous distinctions drawn in favor OF
capitalists and mOnOpollsts which were forced into
the tariff of 1912. This is the moderate ground on
which the entire democratic party will unite, and
not few Southern and Western wings Will go with
them. The Daniel Webster men may just as well
reckon upon the practicability of mapping out forty
thousand acres Of blue sky and selling it tor city lots,
colx- to(< ,n,r
anti Oregon or protection speeches. Protection, as
a principle, has received its death blow in this
country, just effectualy as the Bank-it is
odious as the Hartford Coventon-even the name Is
enough to make a common democrat double up his
fist. But to come back once more to Mr. Buchanan.
Little the public know about the exact nature OF his
dispatches and negotiations with England and Mexl
CO, it seems to be universally conceded that they
have been prepared and conducted with consummate
ability. On this point, certainly. no man who
knows the history of the Secretary can entertain
doubt. There is not, probably, in the country man
in either party, in whose hands any such business
could, with more safety, repose, His blood is cool
enough, Il beg his PARDON for he is bachelor, and
the ladies' must skip this part altogether to have
learned that passion has no place IN the head of
diplomatist He must professionally understand
all our foreign relations well any man in the
nation Few of our statesmen command the same
respect abroad-probably one except Mr.. Web
and profound, though he may be, and in the Senate
superior to nearly all the men OF hlstimes, manages
negotiation very much as he makes speech He lacks
that quiet, that repose, that sefpossesion that
hausts courtesy and wit and argume4 before 1t
comes to the point Of the blade. He is cava-
Her in diplomacy, even to the hair OF his head
Buchanan Is an admirable mixture OF the cava-
game would do what the Caroinian never could
accomplish England hates Calhoun. She would
have approached the Oregon question very reluc'
family if he had been Mr.. Folks Secretary. His
despatch to Mr.. King was bold, magnificent
stroke but the man who wrote it ought to be more
proud OF it speech of an indignant Senator,
for which nobody but himself was responsible,
than despatch-at least despatch that was TO
! be made public
Mr.. Buchanan, not unlikely believed every word
Of it-probaby entered deeply into its spirt-but
he is not man that would ever have written it,
| He would have never sent such despatch, that
went whizzing like a shell, and struck SO like
bomb upon Europe Nothing OF this kind will
does not astonis the people OF this country and salts
iy all parties that in choosing the Pennsylvania
iron monger for his counsellor, Young Hickory did
well, will pass for false prophet and the son of
one. But at all events, we shall see. AT any rate,
fortune has given the Secretary superb chance Of
showing himself to the nation-to the world. He
knows that the country ID waiting to see what he
has done, and that England and all Europe, besides
poor ragged, bobtailed anarchy haunted republic
the world has agreed to call Mexico, are looking at
him, and will wait for his dispatches, and the
effect they have upon the country. Thus far during
the short lite OF the administration, ne has been IN
the shade-not of other men-but of time. The
time has not yet come that ne couid snow himself
he has had no chance. And during the summer the
letter writers have been amusing the country by their
stores and news and rumors OF all colors and kinds
what he has said and what he has done, when he
was going to resign and 60 to the BENCH and the
Lord knows what. But the Secretary has bided his
tme-let the world (about regular letter writer's,
set of poor devils who get their bread in this way,
when they can get it in other) say what It pleased
Now as happen to be little more enlightened than
some of these fellows, shall tell you all about this
matter as soon as get time. But must stop now,
for my candle is going out, and shall have to get
into bed in the dark, and in SO "streaked" spot
before he agrees to deposite his the night;