New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-08

NAPOLEON BosAPARrE; and retained through III
these changes only two chsrscteristcs-unceas'n
ferocitv of faction, and increasing violence OF az
s-e..ion against foreign States The scandal OF the
French Revolution fell back upon the United states
of America who were regarded as the hr't dis
turbers Of the ancient social system. The princt
cipsl European monarchs combined, under the
guidance of England to arrest the p'esumptuou'
career of France and extirpste democracy by the
sword. Nevertheless, the Republican cause, how
ever odious in Europe, was our national cause
The sympathies Of a large portion OF the American
People could not be withdrawn from the French
nation which always claimed, even when mar
shsled into Lesions under the Corsicsn Conqueror,
TO be fighting the battles of freedom; while on the
other side the citizens who regarded innovation
as worse than tyranny. considered England and
her allies as engaged in sustaining the cause ''
Order, Of Government, and Of Society itself
The line already drawn between the American
People in regard to their organic law naturally be-
came the dividing line Of the popular sympathies
in the great European conflict. Thus deeply idr
rowed. that line became "a great gulf liked
The Federal Party unconsciously became an Eng
lish Party, although it Indignantly disowned the
epthet; and the Republican Party became a
French Party although with equal sincerity it de.
MED the gross impeachment. Each beliigerent
was thus encouraged to hope some aid from the
United States through the ever-exPected triumph
of its friends; while both conceived contemptuous
opinions Of People who, from too eager interest
in foreign fray suffered its national rights to
be trampled upon with mpunity by the contending
States.
WAsHISGros set the new machine of government
in motion He formed his Cabinet of recognized
leaders OF the adverse parties. HAMILTON and
Knox of the Federal Party were balanced by
JEFFERSON and RANDOLPH of the adverse party
"WAsHlseToS took part with neither, but held the
balance between them with the scrupulous justice
which marked bis lofty nature On the 18th o.
April 1898, he announced the neutrality OF the
United States between the belligerents. and his
decision, without winning the respect OF either, ex
asperated both Each invaded our national rights
more hsgrantly than before, and excused the In
Justice by the plea of necessary retaliation against
its adversary and each found willing apolosists In
asympathizng faction in our own country
Commercial and Political Relations were to be
established between the nited States and the Euro.
pean Powers in the season of conflict Ministers
were needed who could maintain and vindcate
abroad the same mpartality practiced by WASH
IsGroS at home. There vas one citizen emiaently
qualified for such a trust in such a conjuncture.
Need say that that citizen was the younger AID
ANS and that WAsHISGTos had the sagacity to
discover him
john QUINCY ADAMS SUCCESSFULLY completed
missions at the Hague, and at Berlin, in the period
intervening between 1894 and 1901. with such sd'
vantage and success that in 1902 he was honored
by his native Commonwealth with seat as her
Representative in the Senate of the United States
The insults offered to country by the belliger'
ents increased In aggravation as the contest Do
tween them became more violent and conyulsve'
France, in Isna laid s.ds even the name and forms
of a Republic, and the First Consul, dropping the
emblems of popular power, placed the long coveted
disdem upon his brow, where It's jewels sparkled
among the laurels he had won in the conquest oil
Italy WAsHISGros's Administration had passed
away, leaving the American People in sullen dis
content JoHS ADAMS had succeeded, and bad
stoned by the loss Of power for the offence he had
given by causing a just but unayailing war to be
decl AIRED against France. JEFFERsos was at the
head of the Government; he thought the belliger
ents might be reduced to forbeaance by depryiDg
them of our commercial contributions of supplies
and recommended first, embargo, aud then non
intercourse. Britain was an Insuar and France a
Continental power The effects of these measures
would therefore be more severe on the former
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severe on our own country than on either OF the OF
tenders Massachusetts was the chief commercial
State ia the Union. She saw the ruin OF her com
merce involved in the policy Of JEFFERSON, and re-
garded II as an unworthy concession to the usuper
of the French Throne. In this emergency JOHN
QuNcY ADAMS turned bis back on Massachosetts
and threw into the uprising scale OF the Admins
tration the weight Of his talents and of bis already
eminent fame. Massachusetts instructed the recu
SAINT TO recsnt He refused to obey and resigned his
place. His change of political relations astounded
the country, and, with the customary charity o.
partisan zeal, was attributed to venaty. 1t 10 now
seen by US in the light reflected upon IL by the hab
tua independence, unquestioned purity and lofty
patriotism OF his whole life and thus seen, consti
,utes only toe first marked one OF many instances
wherein he broke the green withes which Party
fastened upon him, and maintained the cause OF hi
country, referring the Of bis fame to q cd an'
to an impartial Posterty. Like DgcInUs BRurus
whom julius CESAR saluted among his execution
ers with the exclamation "Et tn Brute" ions
| QUIscY ADAMS was not unfsthful but he could no
be obliged where he was not left free.
JEFFERSON retired in 1909, leaving to bis success
sor, the scholastic and peace loving MAD Isos, tb'
perilous legacy of perPexed foreign relations am
! ouoItIered uUmesLiO f5uds. Great Britain Dov
completed the catalogue Of exasperaiions by inso
lently searching vessels on the high seas, an'
impressing into her marine all whom she chose 4
suspect of having been born in herslleg snce, ever
though they had renounced it and had assumed tb'
relations of American citizens. War was there
fore imminent and inevitable. Russia was theI
coming forward to position OF commanding inau
ence in Europe, and her youthful Emperor ALEX
AsDER had won by bis chivarous bearing the re
spect Of mankind. john QUINCY ADAMS wa
wisely sent by the United States TO establish rels
tons of amity with the great Power Of the North
] xii. h.. thus aroaoad ha namea of II Ia