The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-03

impunry but the evil they purposed returned plague
them for under menuced suspension OF diplomatic rea
tons, they We're constrained acknowledge in recorded
language the ulmPeachabe veraciy OF our distinguished
conntryman Not that that gentlemen, in the eyes OF
foreigners, stood in need of any such testimony for his
i've dignity OF manner his recttude of purpose and
manly intellect We're the admiration of all that it Is
likely he would have degned, had individual consider
tons alone affected him, besow passing thought upon
ribald sandeer, however highly placed but that keen
sensitveness to his counuy honor did not allow him to
rest, while the honesty him whose keeping had been
confided, was shamelessy belied.
With garng an instance Of inquity them before us is
it unfair, is it not rather righteous judgment upon men
who dare TO present themselves with unclean hands, 10
pronounce them guilty until their innocence be proved
and is II for them complain that the stainless and re-
proachess lives OF Others their opponents are taken pre-
sumpuve evidence against themselves!
But supposing that Frenchman broke promise
either othe or hope when he venured 10 beard Eng
land on Spanish ground, it that he did not in
advance wisely the of his undertaking; and in
reading The elaborate correspondence lately published con-
corning the Spanish marriages. reminded by his strug
gles oil strong swimmer" fnot in his agony" at least
with milestone about his neck while his dsanced
peuor seems to have been creduouy doing by the way
till the good time had gone by But though the winner in
this worthless and dangerous strife has been borne the
goal on fortunate wave, greatly do suspect that
more such victory will choke him in the midst of his tri
umphs
To ascertain whether the Franco-Spanish whistle has
of Europe few months since with what it is now,
and then inquire if, equivalent for the iboding
change that has taken place, there can be found any
amount OF good, which will compensate for the evil which
! has already come, which the future promises
Not long ago there was good understanding between
the respective governments and sovereign OF England and
France, if not between the nations themselves which
regarded, in sort, the high consabes of Europe.
wholesome fear OF provoking their joint dspleasure kept
the dencvilized avagencss OF the north in check, the
powerful upon their good behavior, and the
minor ones in their proper places The name of Po-
land and, if nothing more, the fiction of liberty in that
desoate land, had existence and peace, which had
lasted for more than thirty years, babe fair to
dnre for thirty years But look and
what less than twelvemonh has brought forth,
| and say, if, for the sake OF marriage portion prof
itesss his country, alliance banefu
his predecessors and throne in perspective, which,
should his descendants occupy it, be theirs
till another than himself sits upon his own, worthy
the Statesman king, Louis Philippe has been obse
quiousy called, to tout neighborng country that had
been his salvation and might have been again. TO
expose the mangled remains of PROSTATE people, the
object OF his protection, prey ruthless rapacity
and, finally with angry protests TO fill the world and all
mems hearts with uncertainty and dread Who will
| swer in the Affirmative 7 Not he himself am sure for
| within few weeks his cast-iron spirit has been
bowed down times when rejecting, as he did aloud
upon his weight Of years, the future regents unpopuarty
! and the heir apparent's infancy undack of promise.
Though Immediately fatal results, however, are an
European government, the seeds of i-wi will
surely 10 light and life in dark hour But the
meantime, aud while all parties busy with political
ordinations famine sits by the hearth of the Million and
laughs every attempt disodge her In parts Scot
land well in Ireland such fearful exremities are
reduced that the dead left for the dying to bury
And even in several departments of France, country bet
provided for than most Others the farmer hardly dare
carry his grain market for fear of leaving his life there
with his merchandise; because the empty hand Of the
peasant with wife and children looking for bread sets
defiance the official sword which frequently drops from
the dead hand Of him who compelled to draw it in
loathsome
And whence comes all this Is it from the failure of n
| harvest or the destruction Of a cropl No These
may be the occasion, but they the of the
evil. The lies deeper 1t lies in the perverse
contraventon of that great law of the Almighty
the base and groundwork of the economy of ma
tons well Of individuals-the first frce-,rade
principle ever enunciated which teaches "love
our neghbor ourselves and to do others as
we would have that they should do u.s. In blind
and mpious defiance Of this holy precep, nations have
fused to receive fair exchange for their products
the gifts the hands Of Strangers and through
grcedines of GAIN which they vainly imagined be
in ropoon the loss of others, they have succeed
ed in enaling upon their several soils But had
the rule of action which the Al-wsc Lawgver first pro-
mulpatcd been duly Observed since the commence
of the present century, the cry of furnishing wrcches
would never have been heard, it now is, in part
the globe when there food enough and spare o,ers
want would have logged the steps of dencss alone
industry would have asked paid advocate uphold
inalienable right to fair proportion in the fruits of the
earth.
| Most respectfully, your obedient servant,
| A STATE S"-MAN
| PARIS February !, lS47.
p s. II is only since mailing my letter of the date
with this note that NJ Guizos last communication Lord
Palmerston written on the 18th OF January has been
pubshed in the journals of Paris. 1t was looked for
with great curiosity, of the awkward posi-
author had been placed by official
of interviews between himself and Lord Normandy, the
English ambassador in this capital, given by the
to his government about five months ago, but made known
to the public only within the last few days OF this
municaton and OF these reports propose take brief
because hurried notice. in order that you may whether
the estimate hitherto made by of the French foreign
scretarys merits founded upon his double dealing
wards our minister this court, in anywse exag-
| gerated
On the lst of September 1886 NJ Guzot told Lord Nor
mandy shat the marriage of the Queen ofSpain with the
Duke of Cadiz settled, and that she then give
her sanction for her sisters marriage with the Duke OF
Monpensier which not, however, take place at the
same time with her own" On the I'd of the month";
what had passed the preceding day having been reduced
TO writing was shown him. and received his assent to
its accuracy" But only twenythree days ater-that is,
on the 25tl-Hhe denied first having used any such
words though when hard pressed, 'he admitted that he
had said something that effect but only that the Queens
marriage should take place first And so WILL added he
she ,oM be married first" Lord Normandy replied, THAT
he had put upon the words their natural construction that
the transactions would be kept separate and that he
Queen should tho go through the marriage
nony" Now, is any comment required upon such shut
fling chicanery this
| When asked ssWhether he had under