Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-05-06
From the Boston Post.
OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS UPON


That the doctrines ofrepub canism are reafirmed
and reinstated bv the election Of Mr. Polk 10 The
presidency, now have conc usive Testimony from
the tone OF The British mnnarchica press IN its com
inents upon the inaugural.
When MIR. Jefferson was inaugurated in March,
1901 he delivered that beautiful address which has
since become SD celebiat and popular, and in
which he compressed the essential principles of a
free government " Iih clear REPUTATION Of the OppO-
site doc ines, and statement of the hest
calculated 10 secure republican administrations
The address, too, meant what il said, for The prn-
cIples advanced IN II were subsequently reduced to
practice, and thorough system matured and APP
piled for republicanising the government. For this
course Mr.. jefferson received the and anathe
mas OF all the tory presses at home and Abroad and
no greater assurance derived from any quarter
by the friends of liberty that the moUarchcal lenden-
cies of the government had been checked, aud the
ship of state put upon the republican track, than
this abuse of the President and his message by the
English tory press.
President Polk has earned the envable
distinction with his counlrymen did Mr.. jeff rson,
| and in somewhat snniar circumstances. Under the
elder Adams The British politicians had rapid
reahsorpiion OF our government by their own, and
direct reiracing efthe steps that had led
iona Independence. The elec ion Of Mr.. jefferson,
reversed all this, and hence he peculiarly the
| object of their censure.
| In 1910 they took deep interest in The election
III General Harrison, and they rejoced in his sue
cess triumph OF their own. With MIR. Webster
IA, TIE head OF the Cabinet, they felt that they had
| AN efficient representative 10 direct national
councils; and they looked 10 Mr.. Clay's advent to
The presidency, winch they had been taught to be-
eye certain. "A full guaranty that anti repub-
| lican measures and and tendencies would become the
fixed policy of the country. Through the adminstra-
lion OF General Harrison, Eng land had secured all
she asked in the treaty the northeastern bounda-
ny, and under Mr.. Clay she felt INSURED Of an un-
molested appropi la ion TO herself VI Texas and Ore.
gon, and uninterrupted infusion Of her hypocrit-
cal abolition policy to undermine institutions and
| disband the Union of the States.
! The election of Mr.. Polk, and The manly Amer-
can dncunes OF his first stale paper, have dispelled
this illusion, and hence The English tory newspa-
pers seek 10 dlsburden their disappointment and vex-
alton by pouring out the small walls of their crit-
cIsm upon the new President and his inaugural
These of the B, ilish press are Of course
re.copet and reproduced by the federal presses in
the United States, and thus the old alliance between
the foreign and domestic enemies of democracy is
recognised and united against the democratic add
minisiration of MIR. Polk, destined. however, to the
same defeat that has followed all previous like coa-
tons.
sympathes of Tins sarcasm from the British press,
| to satisfy every democrat aud every true American,
that it is The highest praise that could be bestowed
upon the President VI their choice. The tone of
this censure, which is petuant without dignity. and
laulilindng without force, shows that The authors Of
ii fear much more than they affect 10 dspise the
quiet, unassuming, but firm fearless and convincing
positions taken in The inaugural MS the rule OF ac-
ton of the new administration in foreign rela-
tons The tory instinct in forms these CAREERS that
the willy policy OF Engan and her grasping aver.
ice OF territory will have TO encounter in Mr. Polk
another President, who will ask nothing that is not
right, and submit 10 nothing that is wrong.
The points on which the British press make their
chief attacks upon the inaugural are Texas and Ore
gon, with touch at slavery and reputation; and
the analysis OF their whole viIuperalye criticism
duces II 10 two elements, viz: mOnarrhcal hatred Of
repubicanisn, and British lust for aggrand,senent
by national robbery and pluLder.
Wha' higher honor can an American statesman
achieve, Than TO deserve the that emanates
from such motives! Praise to an American Presi-
cent iiom such sources would be only blame, and
assure the Boston Atlas and it's kindred wing
prints that lake pie sure in displaying these ebu.
inns OF the Lnnd press, that they only using
means thai will end ar President Polk still more to
the hearts OF his counrymen
sample of these crItc isms will show their worth
and tendeny The Lord N Times re, reseuts Presi-
dent Polk, when de iverlng his inaugural, rs s'the
creature of nab election, addressing his creators"-
Ii complains that SIN Mr. Folks address is faithful
" reproduced all the worst characteristics Of the
American statesmen who have been in power since
Mr.. Webster IN the cabinet - II sneers at
the American Union as "the hoowness of union
without unity, and political combinaio that inns
to embrace the whole world while il is afraid 10 IN
lerere with The grossest social corruplons in its
own bosom''
The calm claim of our right to Oregon, and TO re-
annex Texas which the President puts forth in his
inaugural with qset emphasis, of which The British
wrIieI well says, "we fear ITS significance" is de-
nounced by this couriiy London Times "as a lie re-
peated, alter has been oonrradicied and scouled by
all we'll informed and honest men; which Isa lie
raised 10 higher power that is the square of lie!"
The London Post describes the inaugural in terms
which ii means for censure, but which go To every
democratic heart az the highest praise II says Of Tho