Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-11-01
WHOLE NO, HOG.

= 1cmOcratic press, the decnation of the dis.
ease.lho banshment Of pes,ilenco after a
recommendation Of President Taylor of pray
ers to God to expel it, was little better than
usnrpa'lon OF power; and j: required but ono
step further for thom TO ,ske--a natural and
an easy one--to place !he whole party or the
side of the Cholora, to defend i. against tho
Executive encroa, hmen,s of General Tiaylor,
and to enshrnc it as 4 political martyr by tho
side of the Fronch Minister, the Round I,lsn-
ders, and the Thousand victims who have
been decaptated by the 'bloody axo of pro-
Iecsiption." .. .....
The conduct of the Opposition in taking
oides with the French Minister, NJ. Poussin.
against their own Government, whom he had
twice insulted, exceeds, for its shameless ef.
irontery, anything that has occurred in the
pest history of this country. Believing, as VIC
do, tha. MIR. Pouosin had authority in his in
s'ructons for the insult in the case of Captain
Carpenter, and knowing, as s'l know, that
Mr.. Secretary Nason, at the head OF the Ma
~ Department. under Mr. Polk, as we'll az Mr..
Clifford, MIR. Poik's Minister in Mexco, had
both. with full knowledge Of ell the facts,
approved Of all the conduct Of Capt. Carpen-
der, VIC blush Gra presa which, in its rage 70
assal the President and tho Secretary of
State, has not hestated to demolish the char
actcrs of two of the leading statesmen of IL,
own party. BE 1t remembered that the imme-
date insult comp aimed Of by our Government
was MIR. Poussin's letter to the Secretary OF
State, in which he lectured the President and
his Cabine, about the dg0ity Of our national
marine, as involved in ur Mason own decis
ion in the CAGE of Captain Carpenter; be it ro-
membered that Mr. Clifford, in Mexico, had
thoroughly approve of Captain Carpender's
conduct, then let the candid reflect that the
complaint against tho Secretary oe State is
that he did not reverse the decision OF these
two Democratic func,ionaries, bat modes,ly
preferred submitting Comman der Carpender's
defence TO the French Government, in the
honest hope that he might escape censure and
disgrace for having saveI a French ship spd
kept her thirty hours, not in opposition, bu,
pursuant to the viii Of her own captain.
From all the facts which have ever vet ap-
peared, Com. Carpenter never detained the
vessel for an instant against the will OF hez
captain. The French captain, igno'an' cfthe =
navigation, refused Com. Carpenters offer to
surrender her; insisted that that officer should
take command Of his ship to get her of the
rocks, and abandoned her TO hir,. Com. Car
pender, by his nautical skill aud a; much haz
ard, succeeded in saving her, carried her safe
to anchorage, and delivered her up at the very
frs, moment her captain appeared 10 ask for
her. He was not only entitled to salvage FOX
his crew, but he exhibited an excessive gencr
osity N yielding up the vessel without salvage,
he voluntarily gave up his on shts, and the
rights of his sailors, who labored all night to
save the French ship, yet !, seems that nothing
would satisfy the French Gove.ntnea. but his
ruin. He had lien on the vessel saved, and
he had righ, 20 de,ain her until ne could car
Iry her into port for adjudication. He could
not carry her into Vera Cruz, as a Mexican or
dinancc Of long standing prohibits ans foreign
man-ofwar from entering the harbor OF Vera
Cruz; and had he attempted to enter the port.
Of the Eugene's destination, the guns OF San
Juan de Uloa would have announced tho arm.
val Of the Iris as soon as she came within gun
shot OF that fortress.
Never yet Was any OPP 'ciion betrayed into
= position so isrepuiab!e, as ,hrir presses have
placed tfem in, by their determination to op-
pose Preodeni Tavlor, right or wtong, " iO
the bitter end" They have walked over Mr.
Clifford. and lea hirn- PROSTATE and have
beaten down Secretary Mason, in order to
take SIDES with tie Fr.nch Government To
kill the Secretary Of State, they hcsiialed not
to stab their own Secretary Of .bc Navy. To
take sides with Mr. Pors,in. they have not
paused to CONSIDER what is to becople Of Mr.
Clifford. The reputation Of their own Mn
lister in Mexico is nothing by the siGe. ~ in
comparison with the reputation of the French
Mn'sicr in the United States The Union"
snl it auxilarics have no, scruped to publish
reviews aud reflections The most scrimoniou-
against an American Secretary Of State,
whose only object has boen TO, eusiain ,hs
honor Of his own Government, and hisown Of
cial position, agsns. Messrs. Dc Tocquc,iIle
and poussin aud to ,rample him in the dust
to sustain the Ministers Of a Foreign Govern.
men, who have twice gror-ly lnsul,ed him.
We mus, close 'hsse remarks (uI TO-DAY
The subject requires more space than Ne an
,lcpaed but il demands a thorough exanina-
ton, aud we shall resume it at ah cslly day.
The foreign policy Of President, Tsy'or viii
bear the stiicics, scrutiny, and in despite of
sll who mean to oppose !, 10 tho bitter end, no
matter whs, face II may weat, We ,uesn to
demonstrate that, o, far 10 il hes We, been dis
closed 10 the pubic, II has be.n honorable,
wise, and successful IN every raliieuu.
II National htcHignosr