The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1849-11-24
NUMBER 81.

So much for our foreign relations, and the utter
wantonness and recklessness of the assaults which
have been made upon the Administration in re-
gard to them. There is no one point in which Pres
ident Taylor has not triumphed, by the exercise
OF that Infexlble honesty of purpose, and sound
common sense, which the late Mr.. Justice Story
declared to be the only necessary qualifications for
the proper discharge of all the functions of the
American Executive. We repeat our assertion,
that on every question, and in every aspect of it.
President TAYLOR has amply vindicated the con-
hdence which his fellow citizens have reposed in
him. The President made up his mind, as these
various topics presented to him. that the war
steamer United States should give the bonds re-
quired by the law-that Rey should be surren-
dered-that the Cnban expedition should be ar
rested-that we should have no further inter-
course with Mr.. PoUss1N; and he has carried all
these things through firmly and decidedly, but in
good temper and with unqualified success-pre-
serving domestic tranquility and challenging the
respect of foreign powers. But neither the homes
ty of his motives the of his policy can
shield him from the envenomed shafts of reckless
opposition.
But leaving our foreign poliey-President Tay-
lor has been assailed for acts of his Secretaries,
every one of which has turned out TO be wise and
proper, and fully justified by the result Mr.. Clay
ton was btterally attacked for refusing passport
to colored man. The foreign organ assailed and
bullied him on this point "Does tile organ con-
tend said the foreign organ, Tin talics) "that free
men Of color are not entitled to passports achea
they vist Europe; and that Mr.. CLAYTON as right
IN refusing them" Day after day it re-echoed the
outcry of the northern Locofoco and Free Soil jour
nails against the Administration, because Mr.. Clay
ton had refused to grant passport to coored
person. And when it was demonstrated that by
the law and the precedents Mr.. Clayton was right,
the foreign organ skulked out of its position on
this ground without the decency of apology re-
paration.
So with regard to the course of the Secretary of
War and the President. in relation to the alleged
Indian outbreak in Florida. The foreign organ
and its correspondents assaed the Administration
because, with the prospect of "a in Florida not
easily to be avoided they refused to sanction a
call fer volunteers by the Governor of the State
to receive them in the service of the United States
u1ata the regulars get into the field" If there was
any subject of which President Taylor might have
been admitted to possess some knowledge it was
our relations with these Indians and the best mode
of adjusting our difficulties with them. But the
foreign organ could not trust him with even this
subject; it denounced his Indian policy with the
same indecency it assailed his foreign policy
Whatever he did the foreign organ was sure to say
that something different and better ought to have
been done. The result has proved the wisdom and
propriety of President Taylors course. A forty
million upon the treasury of the United States
has been avoided by his sagacity and firnness If
he had failed to take his stand upon this matter,
and had listened to other counsels than those ofhs
own experience and good sense, we should have
been at the present moment in the full tide of al
Florida
We will touch now nothing but matters of which
we see the end When the end comes, we shall
ba 70 fhaf tho of
Taylor in regard to California and the Mosquito
question has been as wise honest prudent, and hon
orable, the results prove his policy to have been
in reference to the subjects have above discus
sed.
Notwithstanding the length to which our article
is running, must present another subject IN this
connection, which has been made the ground of at
tack upon the Administration. Some months agoI
we announced that Mr. Moore, Mr.. DENLY and Mr..
Collins were public defaulters. The organ of the
peculators Immediately took up arms in their de-
fence 1t denied that Mr.. Moore defaulter,
and promised that his affairs should be "explaned.
The explanation we have never had to this day.
1t avouched for Mr.. Denby's honesty, as an ac-
quanance of the senior editor; declared that the
amount of his alledged defacation exaggerated
and gave certificates of character to all the elite of
the Richmond Democracy who were implicated in
The loss of the celebrated 5155,000 1t averred,
over and over again. in Roman letter, small capi-
tails and italics, that Mr. Collins was no defaulter
that the Republic was guilty of SANDER and libel
for so asserting; and that the Cabinet and Presl-
dent were disgrsced in the eyes of the people for
countenancing journal that could be guilty of
such false and malevolent assertions President
TAYLOR was personally assailed in the raost abusive
and vtuperatve style for permitting his Cabinet
and journal which was said to possess his conf
dence to charge the offence of defacation on Mr..
Moore, Mr. DENLY, or Mr.. Collins.
The exposition of Mr.. Bond, his successor in Of
fee, which we published some weeks ago, demon
strated that every thing said with regard to Mr..
Collins was literally true-and that we were very
far from stating the worst of his case. There was
not a dash of over-coloring, there not word
of exageration in our presentation of that affair."
The whole truth is now before the public, with Of
fee, vouchers-and yet the organ of the peculators
has not withdrawn its charges of falsehood andll-
bel against the Administration in this behalf, nor in
any way modified or explained them. And this
notwithstanding it had the codbooded attroclty
to charge upon the Administration that it had Kill
led Mr. Collins by it's foul and slanderous asper-
sions upon his character.
Judgment has been recovered against Mr.. Den
by for larger sum than we ever stated as the
amount of his default and as for Mr. Moore, his
case stands precisely where it stood at the begin
ming, as one of scandalous malversation and de-
fault
Thus we see that in every assault they have
made uponP opposition press and
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