The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-19
English Views of the Presidential Contest,

The London Times in the course OF long article,
written with its usual ability and hypocrisy holds
the following language concerning the contest for
the Presidency, now being waged in the United
States
The precedents before us are not of a nature to
dispel all alarms, In the ever-raging contest for the
American Presidency there is nothing so efIectuaL
as good war cry. There is always a war party in
the United States. Mr. Polk came in with Mexi-
can war and ''all Oregon none'' on his banner.
The former promise he has sufficiently redeemed,
with much glory and very little profit. On the
latter point he has allowed his party engagements
to be interpreted by public justice and discretion
But another election is at hand candidates are In
the field, only for that but for subsequent con-
tests, and tacticans already preparing their
plans for many future campaign. The well IN
formed correspondent whom our readers have
long known under the name of "A Genevese Trav-
eller," speaks very strongly and decidedly as TO
the probable effect of Celtic ant-Saxon antipathes
on future Presidential elections. The Irish are a
very large, and under continual immigrations, an
increasing party in the States. They have always
encouraged, and this year have even promised to
assist rebellion in Ireland. But they, in general
prefer TO operate against England through the
politics of their adopted country, always siding
with the ant-Brtish party, without reference to
any other considerations. General Cass is said TO
be secure Of every Irishman in the Union BECAUSE
as his supporters profess if elected he will seize
every statesman of moderate honor and sense in
the States will see the wickedness and folly of a
gratulOus war, we entertain no manner OF doubt;
but it cannot be concealed that furious war party
and Presidential election every four years are
combination suggestive of danger. In the hour oil
England's weakness or distraction, in a disastrous
crisis of European warfare, under provocatiOns or
pretences which our part can prevent,
with Ireland insurgent, and Canada near, sue
cessu candidate for the seat of Washington may
ind nd Ix pIp load tn
withdraw, and the Irish citizens of the Union may
al length succeed in dragging the two nations into
a war, from which England will indeed most
previously suffer, but from which we do not think
the U. States will emerge without irreparable HARM
Even in this country, under the decent veil OF
monarchcal and aristocratical institutions, we
have often witnessed during the last century, and
not less in this, the enormous mischief done by
what may be called Presidential contest-the
struggle for ministerial power. Even within the
last dozen years we have seen parties so evenly
balanced in this island drive the actual Occu-
pants of office to the most discreditabe alliances
the most mschievous concessions, and the most
fragrant abuse of official patronage. During that
long struggle between Sir Robert Peel and the
party in power which, on the one handS
so fatally blinded that statesman's eyes to the I'M
possibility of the engagements thrust upon him by
his friends the wings, on the other hand, were
thrown into the arms of the Irish mcendlanes,
From 1887 to 1871, Great Britain was governed by
Ireland 1t is notorious that during that period the
solicitation of one Irish supporter all powerful,
not only for Irish, but for English patronage and,
as we know by an example, that one Irish member
could carry off prize denied to the joint represen-
tations of six English and Scotch. Among other
causes that have contributed to the present out
break in Ireland, must be numbered that cupidity
for place which, after temporary encouragement,
Is now found impossible TO satisfy The public re-
suits of that untoward combination, tell their own
1ale. The cause of order has been permanently in
ured by the fell necessity which drove honorable
men to seek refuge in den of conspirators. That
such necessities have arisen under partial repre-
sentative system, is a fact which indicates the still
greater danger of purely elective government.