The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-06
= he Next European News


The Next European News
We have no tidngs yet of the steamship
Washington, now IN her seventeen day, from
Southampton, with several days later news from
England and France. She must be close at hand,
and will, in all probability, arrive in the course
of to-day.
The Treaty Investigation In the United States
Senate.
Who has not heard of Herr Driesbach, the lion
tamer-the great Napoleon of the menagerie
For years past he has been the " Conserved of all
observers" of the big boys and girls of this mag
ni6cent republic, as we'll as of those of smaller
size and fewer years, all round the country On
the anniversary OF American independence, in
each year, it ls the custom of this singular man
to give splendid entertainment Of raw meat and
bloody bones to his menagerie. He himself takes
the head of the table, the lion the foot of it, the
elephant thecentre the tiger opposite to the ele.
plant, and all the minor ANIMALS in appropriate
positions, with the monkeys hopping about from
corner to corner. Without even a grace before
meat, but with simple whoop from Driesbach
himself, the company fall to work, roar, shout,
eat, growl, bark, and then wash down the whole
with drauRht of cold water from the neighbor-
ing spring. Driesbach keeps order during the
entertainment, as long as he can. Each of the
animals contributes his part; the lion does the
roaring, the tiger the growing, and the whole
concludes with an entertainment, by the monkey,
who tries to bite his own tail off.
Such seems to be an exact parallel to the ter
mination of the important labors of the United
States Senate on the Mexican war, the Mexican
treaty, and the recent investigation to find out
who 1t was that gave the treaty to the Ne,o York
Herald-a question fully as important in every
point of view, as that which agitated this COM
munity so long-that of" struck Billy Pat
terson - The President and the Senate having
conquered Mexico, and after whipping her, pay
ing her twenty millions beside, are now endea.
voring to bite off their own tails, by the ridicu
lous antics they have recently cut in the recent
Imprisonment and incarceration, contrary to all
law and constitution, of n independent indivi-
dual, who chooses to keep his own secrets, when
the Senate had not sagaclty or sense enough to
keep theirs.
1t is hardly possible to touch any portion
Of the conduct of the Senate In this investi-
CATION, without creating general laugh among
all persons of common sense, beyond the reach
Of the corrupt atmosphere of Washington.
In another part of this days paper we give
a number of extracts, from various newspa-
psrs, on this subject, all of which, with one
or two uncomfortable exceptions, concur in
the opinion that violation of personal rights
and personal liberty, contrary to law and
constitution, has been perpetrated in the impri-
sonment of Mr.. Nugent, the Washington cor
respondent of the Nep York Herald, because
he would not divulse to them the affairs con-
nected with his own private business and the
business of the Herald, merely to crafty the
curiosity OF the Senate. The only exception to
this general opinion is to be found in remarka-
BILE quarter, and that is in the PHILADELPHIA
Ledger, journal which generally has been con-
Quoted with due regard to the rights of the
press and the privileges of the people. The prin-
cipal correspondent and contributor of that Jour
nal has undertaken to defend the Senate, without
giving single quotation from law or constitu.
ton unfolding that defence. Not content with
that, he endeavors, with extraordinary meanness,
TO create a prejudice against the gentleman,
whose personal liberty has been assailed by the
Senate, because he supposes him to be foreign.
era native of another land-possibIy oil Ireland
Now, what makes this discreditable and con-
temptibe piece Of business still deeper nd broad.
er In Its meanness, Is the fact that the principal
contributor and Washington correspondent of
that journal, is Mr.. Grund, who is a foreigner
by birth himself-a native of Germany. The
other attempt to throw odium on the CON-
duct OF our correspondent, and on his position
and character, comes from the Baltimore Ciipper.
whose correspondent, II seems, is also a native
of Europe, and stands in the same category with
the individual assailed
We hope that these persons can fully excupate
the mseves; and we trust they will not fail TO do
SO; for this matter is destined to cut deeper. and
to pervade farther, than m any are aware of. AT
present we have TO do with the personal rights
OF Mr. Nugent; rights which have been violated
by the Senate, aud which must be restored
before the great denouem,cnt, connecting it with
Mr.. Polk and other politicians at Washington,
can take place.
On the question Of law, no doubt can existin
any mind. The fifth article of the amendments
TO the constitution OF the United States reads as
follows,
NO person shall be held TO snsssr for a eanital or
othsrwIse infamous crime, unless on nre.,n,m.rr -,
no'etmsnt OF ana Jary except In cases arising in
the land or naval forcee In the tiA when Ga c,si
service In time o! or public danger nor a,s anv
person be subject for the offence TO bs t~is NM
IN jeopardy OF life or limb nor shall be tomp,lI,f 4,
ny c''msseI Gaze 70 De a witner against himseJ nor
s deprived Of fJs, h6,rfs, or properly uuhont d.,
pvses" Of aw nor shsll private propsry be taken for
public use, without asst compensation.
Now under this article we contend that the
conduct Of the United States Senate, ecre,