Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-26

changed his system: to use the language OF the
gentleman from Connecticut he has made war on
the palace, AMI professed peace to the people.
While he grasped with inviolable friendship ihe
hand of the Crown Prince, the lawless banditu ne
headed sacked their city, and bore off in triumph
the Danish fleet While this transaction shall re-
main on the records of history, the character OF
Mr. Jackson will find conspicuous place in the
annals of fame'
i This strong language, from the leader OF the Re
publican party in the House of Representatives,
shows what was the public feeling in this country
in regard to the affair of Copenhagen and the Ian
guage of Representatives of opposite politics on
the subject was not less clear and decided !:
! /" Whatever was their view" said Mr.. VIM. MnNoR,
of Pennsylvania, referring to the British Minis
ry,) they were very unhappy in their choice.
Il They chose man once objected to, if am right
fully informed, by our Minister in London, (Mr.
i KING,) as unacceptable to the American people
!. They chose man conspicuous in transaction
which was one of the basest i'll the annals oil the
world a man sent to Denmark TO negotiate with
/. fleet and army at his heels, and who Immediately,
on failure of compliance with his demands. set his
: fleet and army upon the nation which had pre-
served uniform neutrality, resisted an alliance
with either belligerent and given the British Gov
: ernment no plea for the attack. | do not charge
Is this upon Mr. Jackson as his fault or say that he
: is accountable to the world for the transactions
i which followed the negotiation at Copenhagen !;
but, as the Minister who the precursor of that
horrid transaction, preudices had arisen against
i him which incapactated him from negotiating to
8 advantage with neutral nation"
The feeling which thus disclosed itself in the
Halls of Congress fully participated in by the
Press and the People. The Richmond Enquirer,
then leading Republican paper, denounced as IN
famous the whole transaction at Copenhagen. In
Relf's Gazette of December 90 1909, we lately
met with an Address to FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON,
&C., (afer his rejection by this Government) Of
the spirit of which, and of the prevailing sentiment
of this People at the time, the following extract will
serve to give the reader some idea:
our nomination created some suspicion and
much clamor. Peremptoriy refusing to ratify the
: terms proposed by one Minister, after they had
been accepted and efectuated on part, recall
: ing and disgracing that Minister, and appointing
| another who has been used to treat with fleets at
: his heels, were not indications of very friendly
disposition on the part of England. Notwithstand-
: ing these omens the mass of the American nation
prepared to accredit you as one OF the most dis
tnguished members of that corps which in the
States of Europe is regularly trained, formed,
and distributed armies and naves-aware
that you were yet reeking from the discharge of
most detestable duty at Copenhagen but hoping
| that your employment on several such eXgencles
was rather in the course of your vocation than
optional, and that the fame of such achievements
preceding you here would have the effect rather
to soften than aggravate your tone, &c.
! With the recollection of such sentiment pervad-
ing the breasts of men of all parties of the United
States upon the occasion of this wrong done to gal
liant people, not only unonending but unconscious
ly trusting to its treaty of amity with the aggres-
sor what flush of burning shame must not come
over the cheek of every man with true American
heart finding his country far fallen off from
its high sense of honor and its nice perception Of
right and wrong, that the Administration of its
Government shall dare to avow, as a rule of action
for itself, the detestabe morality of the expedition
against Copenhagen!
The Proclamation bearing the signature Of Gen.
ScoTr is commended highly polite in reference
to its object, and having had very favorable in
being reported, it may be, is only confirmation
of the known total dissimarty of the character and
habits of the population of Mexico to those of the
people of the United States, who would perish in
the flames of their homes rather than endure such
arrogant assumption by any foreign Power of right
to treat them as it would only treat horde of bruti
fled barbarians. Nor does the alleged popularity
of the Proclamation among the rancheros and mule
teers of Mexico relieve either it or the correspond
ing Manifesto prepared for Gen. TAYLOR from any
part of its odiousness its utter ncompatibty with
our own Institutions, and with the respect which is
due from this People to the independence and the
Sovereignty of all other nations. No temporary
advantage to be hoped from it could excuse the pro-
mitigation to the world of such principles as being
those OF the u. States, its Government, or People.
Before take leave of the affair of Copenhagen
we cannot resist the temptation to show how very
naturally-when men engage in enterprises of law
less violence, in those whose legality and justi-
| fiableness they themselves have no confidence in
they fall upon like expedents to excuse them, and
like language to palliate their enormity. We have
before us, in the same volume of the Annual Regis
ter which we have already quoted, the Proclamation
military forces sent against Copenhagen after land
ing the troops and when about to lombard the
town One ,uauld almost swear that the author