Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25
NATIONAL INTELLIGENGER.
NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

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Usher" Three dollars per annum.
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Edited by Charles F. Hoffman, Esq Publishers, Osgood
Co., 1876 Nassau Washington agent, William Q.
Force.
These publications fall so naturally into the same
category that we need not apologize for clubbing
;Aem together. In doing so, however we necessa-
rily assign ourselves brief limits for any critical
tice of either of them, and shall probably confne
ourselves to little than abstract and extract.
Of the first of these journals, we have from time
to time noted for our readers the growing merit and
interest. Ii is progressive" in right sense iii
(as Senator Corwns anti-war speech said) max
ing itself room,' we trust every day. If It keeps
steady to the Conservatism which now guides and
animaes it, much new Wing territory viii it help
10 annex" to the Union It's /" destiny is ma
nifest,' if its doctrine continues TO be SOBER just,
worthy OF the great party of which il aspires TO be
one OF the chief recognised exponents. There is
now, and there must continue to be, no rash en-
brace of new theories, striking hands with poti-
cal or national experiments, unried and looking
most nauspicious of trial; no innovation upon the
maxlms, the methods, the tme-approved policy, the
hme-honored spirit, which have won to our cause
the respect of the wise the hopes of the good the
affections OF the uncorrupt, the courageous faith of
all those who, while single band of brave hearts
even if few-but they few no longer can be
kept embodied in the field, never despair of the
commonwealth :" nay, were that lost even, would
still fight on, for personal honor, because it became
them to fight, because that last dishonor of surren
dering to the bad and base is never to be submitted
10, and because, when such cause is lost, the pa
trot, who has no longer country to strike for may
strike 10 revenge it.
The articles (the prose ones, we mean in the
present number of the Review are as follows: Ist.
The President and The .3rmy-a paper of ten pages,
very strongly exposing the conduct of this warlike
Executive OF ours, as 10 the organization and treat
ment of hatvery military force, to the employment
OF which, IN wild and fatal project of aggrandzing
a.
ton TO sacrifice every other public principle and
duty. Certainly, tits new thing for prince, who
expects to derive the whole glory of his reign from
Literature to begin by preferrng TO all posts of learn
ing the people who write nor read rather than
greatschoiars or their most shining disciples: but our
Reviewer shows with but too sad clearness that
our President, setting about the conquering career
OF manifest destiny, schemes of continental subiu
CATION to which those of Alexander of Macedon
mnd has ol,
cannot be too much admired, begun by cashierinp
the formidable phalanx of Philip his father in order
10 constitute the host, with which he was 10 march
to the borders of China, out of commanders rsnchief
taken from the hustings, coonels of the ballot mot
bullet box heroes who had handled the party tick
et not the sword or bayonet, military genuses and
taetcIans who know strategy but that of election
days, and who had never /" set squadron in the
held, nor drilled any thing, except as Locofoco
fuglemen and Orderly Sergeants to party word of
command.
The second article (also of ten pages) is The Phu-
saognomy Of Cities. The subject is an agreeable
one, such as gives scope for much amusing and Gu
rlous remark: but as we have not yet had time to
survey any but the graver and more useful papers
Of the number, we have not ad leisure to read it.
The third is entitled Conservaiisn and is clear
though strong contrast three pages) of the middle
party IN politics with the two extremes, Toryisml,
"iSi' iSiuScS dli change ana progress, Ia
mcdtsm, or suoversion, which will allow nothing
permanent seeks innovation from the mere headlong
love OF novelty, and struggles to upset all law. thai
the individual man, not the collective citizens NAV
be what Il calls free-may, that is.to saw. have an
unbounded right Of personal phrenzv and public
tumut
Next comes lin sixteen pages historical and
political retrospect of the affairs Of the Republic of
Paraguay, since the death OF its strange democratic
dictator, DR.. don Jose Gaspar de Francia. Abound
ing in information which is not only entirely new.
but as authentic as it is important, SHALL as soon
as our space will permit, place the complete paper
and lf found equally valuabe) its promised sequel
before the public; which is 1--WE need hardly adcn
utterly and most strangely not only l-nformed, but
missormed, not merely of the general affairs Of Pa.
raguay-a country with which VIC have naturally re-
lations OF politics and trade highly mporant-bu OF
all ihat iiie diplomatic intercourse which has been
again and again offered her part and so strangely
and blindly repeled by rulers since the unfortu
nate prevalence OF that party who as the mere
OF clamor against the Clay and Adams Admnstra-
uon IN ioZs-9 set the nation against the Panama
MISSION and that combined policy of the American
Free States which the Congress a, the Isthmus
was the JUST saie and only practical means las we
ourselves have ever thought Of bringing about lis
great end, as every body knows, was to organize
a Nlaun, ,I