Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-11-17
OUR STANDING ABROAD.

Now that The excitement Of the election is over
and truth viii be allowed 10 dissipale in some de-
gree the errors ENGINEERED by parry blindness
and violence, we trust that the whole country
will be disposed to do justice 10 The merits OF The
present Administration II has fully redeemed the
pledse made 10 The world, ami met the warmesl
expectations OF is friends. Surrounded by diff
culties ot mos, novel and embarrassing chaIac-
ter; forced in,o foreign war in vindication al
the national honor; the administration have not
only conducted that ws' with glory and success,
and concluded peace honorable and beneficial
TO the Union-but has carried out into triumph
AMI operation Important measures OF domestic po-
licy, which have saved US from the ruinous events
abroad and planted The nation on firm basis Of
happiness and prospe-i-v. We trust that the adj
minisraiion which is - follow will have The Wis
dom 10 et things remain 10 their present admifa-
trigung politicians, Gen. Taylor shall attempt
10 destroy The Democratic policy and introduce
in it, stead The odious and rejected measures of
the Wing party. il wi!l be al the peril OF his
own standing and the integrity OF his party
His only cnance Tor quie; and successful ad-
minis,ration is 10 leave aters as they are and
pursue the sale and beaten rack of his predeces-
sor Should he follow he iead Of aspiring and
ultra Wings, his parry is split 10 twain and his
power and prospects shivered into atoms. Tie
Democratic parry will stand by their principles.
Should The Wings succeed in inducing cid lack
10 at,emp, a destruction of the presen, Democrat
ic policy, his administration will instantly lose
favor with the people and not even "Buena Wis
Ia" can save him. On the other hand, should he
no, follow he dc,aton OF the Wing pariizans, he
will al once lose their confidence, and like an
o,her John Tyler, be denounced AS ''irai;or" and
threatened with impeachment and banishmen!-
In any event, 0 d FAC will have rough road 10
,ravel-and SO will any MAJ who refuses 10
avow his principles, and who is taken "on rnst"
"at venture" and raised 10 high station
But re designed not 10 speak Of he future, but
OF The past and present. We dcsisne! 10 show
what favorable and commanding position our
government occupies abroad, in spite Of The carp
ings md misrepresentation OF the Wigs.
Ht LS34a1h lines ndsihS lHuuiStd IN some
sneefs at the condition OF things in line United
States, the London Daily News thus iorcihly an
swers lis objections:
|, is curious and instructive 10 contrast the
actual position OF the Presidential canvass 10
America with The Vaccinations respecting the
Union in which The Times, with reference TO this
subject, has intulged twice in The course OF me
present month. The articles TO which we allude
can scarcely have tailed 10 extort smiles OF con
tempt from intelligent readers on the other side OF
the Atlantic. When their writer seis out by de-
claring, 1T is no: easy 10 lake side in Ameri-
can politics." the most unrefectins are led TO ask
what right an Englishman has, or what useful
purpose he could serve by taking side in A me-
rican polilics2" And what must be the in,eec-
,ua caibre Of the journals, who confesses 10 a
wish TO do sof But such reflections are thrown
into the back ground by the parade OF schoolboy
learning, and display of practical Ignorance