The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-04


forbid to enter. He prophecies the most extensive
prosperity, and power, and greatness to his country
And In this should the States continue no
scarcely prophecy wrong be too eangune. Every
American just to DO proud of his country and
good oitjzens every in 1t must always look for
ward with feelings of pride to her glory aud prosperity
They perceive the to secure this namely, TO
take core Of themselves before any others-a course
which we once followed and prose- cred, but which We
have unfortunately lately abandoned, and for which
national error and crime We are paying and must Pay
the fearful penalty.
Of these States In 1885, fully 900 dollars
lf625000 000> and during last year 1t hiss certainly
been increased more than per cent thus bringing the
productions Of the United States equal nearly
the productions Of the United Kingdom; and he shows
how utterly Insignificant their whole foreign trade 10,
whom compared TO this and their internal trade and
consumption Mr.. Walker also, tsls us, and tells We
bssve truly that the export OF specie from tue
" ssss to THIS country - not % pay ~aSsss
GAUGE bill drawn England be relied 90 or
considered safe He extols greatly the warshousng sys
tenn essbyhed lately In America which he says tended
to make this county rich and and which,
he statss will have the eect regards the United
Statss and he concludes by predicting hpt under It
the Increasing prosperity Of the country New York
will, ere long become the commercial emporium, not
only o. the unissd States but 81 the h M9EId hs
York viii bring higher premium than bill upon any
other city, aud when the tribute of millions of dollars
paid By to other nations upon exchange shall be paid
BY them to u.s. and dow into great commercial
porium Great Britain and her free trade advisers
Opinions In England OH the next Residential
h.iectiOn.
From the London Times, Jan.
The political condition of tho United States at this
time extraordinary the perturbation caused by the
consequences Of the xaton Of Texas prodgous
the extent aud duration OF this Mexican ncalcu
LIABLE and at the same time ths balance OF parties IN
cannot direct the attention Of readers to
rous, perpexng and instructive spectacle. The time
probably for past when certain political phloso
piers of highly imaginative school, wont to point
to the republican and democratic institutions Of Amer
the great standard Of modern government to which
all nations thought to be experimenting. Tn.
ceut States of Europe could i'll adopt the peculiarties
new community placed in the most favorable crou%;
ment the which promised 1t succss
TALLY American; those which have since opened the
Pandoras box Of and let loose all the evils of arbi
ton military aggression fnsncial extravaganza and
tonsl arrogance the country and its neiehbors are
policy OF the United States are even more in
teresting than the once healthy Development of their
iustItutions and to reduce the matter from Of
culation to practical necessity il may bs added that
other nations will find they have later to deal
in America with all those political excuses which the
udence and good faith Of the older have happ
~ banished for the last thirty years from Europe.
1t would not bs cary to Had another instance In
tain cause that even the principal authorities Of the
country by which II Is carried directly at varl
time of vast indefinite, and devourng charac-
ter that the men who began IT, and carrying It
do not attempt to assign any limits to Its duration
the uxurisucc and riot OF young and daring people
already divers from their proper functions the
principal organs As might be supposed in frse coun.
try these results OF Mr. Folks deliberate policy have
called forth tho most energetic OF the opposition
and violent contest has begun on the subject of the
Mexican between the wings led By the most eminent
statesmen and orators of the Union and the democrats
Of an excited popuiaos Mr. webster Mr. Clay and still
recently Mr. Albert Gsatin have In spseches and
pamphlets Of moro than transatlanto proixity and
he IA and de
nounced the manifest resolution of the President pur
1t to exremities We should despair of conveying
to tho English public notion of the
language in which there discussions carried in the
United States; not indeed by the eminent have
just named but by the writer's whom for want Of bet
ter term we must call contemporaries. But the
following specimens will speak for themselves. The
M ss he
why q. very s..sg. q the csYr.y.rs, II other
bsiliwick who chewsd up or nose, or scooped
ont with thumb PROSTATE adversarys eye humane
generous in comparison with this for he, when he
fought fought the weak, but rather bis match
nor when his rival champion lay gasping and hepless
under him. game the last ready die than
utter the craven word enough would he have
thought of proceeding to mutIlate the vanqushed by
then, moreover, have helped himself Whatever he
could find In the MANNED mans pockets No, even In
his hardened heart there would be manly pity because
there courage; il he did not at rass up his
enemy with respect, he ut least, would not bsgin
strike st his vital parts and well for him. too that he
very
it then was was yet undebauched Of every right sen
ment BY party politics. and would not have suffered in
tho bully what it now endures In the President SO
much for the merces and computations Of him who
proposes, for the luors Of I've miserable misns Of in
IDENTITIES which he himself acknowledges Mexico could
not raise the means OF paying to butcher enslave
whole empire Of republics
To these assertions tho principal organ of the Aer
can cabinet replies in the same heroic vein.
"And does the Infegencer think to rally party In
this country upon platform OF sentiment opinion
ouch is ppt forth In this atrocous paragraph! We
tell them inre sobernes,, that they will just
persuade the people to sustain party ralying in d.,
can psopls-proud and patriotic an they urewl crush
and grind to POWDER between the upper and the
Their mlsones tho political life Of any party leader who
shall ask them to confess by their that this just
Mexican war-their war, which they have volunteered
to fight which they have fought goriousy and which
peace and justice obtsinod-s only the demoniac
work Of savage DULLES and gougers and pckpockcs,
whom they have set 10 high places in the executive ca
bnet and In the halls of Corgress to govern them, end
under whose lead they have elected 60 forth to
yista, and churutu'co, and the National Palace Of
From those accounts It may be Inferred that the Ac
ricsn ttstesmsn most eminent for enlightened
Of the duties and interests their country and
for adherence to the principles Of the American
stution, herein pitted against the Executive Co
vernment the impetuosity OF the democrats and the
cold sudscity Of Mr. Polk we are told jndce that in
Congress, parties evenly balanced, that the dec
sion OF the nation still trembso the beam and We be-
lieve that more than bare majority OF rejecting Anne
ricans Nro Auserso 70 tne Oh tns WAT
granting that such equality does prevail It rs but
the precursor OF defeat of the moderate party To
nation from passionate impulses and rash concu
sions especially when themomentum OF tho Executive
power driving the along the decvity. much
more Is required than mere equality Of votes The ex
element Of military end the intemperapos OF
national triumph, are moro than n,atcn for the re-
straints Of prudence right and Nor hss there
been people ia tho world prone 20 this species OF
tempesiuous agitation as the Americans the de-
of Athens nuctuated in the agora What booto It,
then, to speak peace These protestaons only
der the enormity Of the evident 20 mankind
its consequences they will never avert.