The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-01

We observe the following paragraph in the Washing
ton correspondence of the New York Express, under
date OF May 2sth,
Hon Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, has been will be
rendered the mission England He has accepted,
but probably may do in which case, however he will
not leave before the autumn. Mr. Bancroft is expected TO
resign and be during the His fresrade
correspondence with the British govenment has received
quietus."
1t il moi our purpose object to the honors which the
administration intends to bestow upon Mr. Abbott Law
renee In the present state of relations with Eng
and-which we believe, friendly and pacific, and
not likely to be disturbed al present by any question
that will require judgment or intellect to settle-we do
not object the experiment OF being represented at the
Court of ST. James by man of money instead of man
of mind as has been hitherto the uniform practice of
government, and, may add, of all sensible and
shrewd governments. We are very willing that Mr..
Lawrence should go to England and attempt 10 meas
ure purses with the British nobility, even the Eng
sh bourgeois, many of whom, he will fnd have
purses longer than his own, and in the display and
magnifcence which wealth enables its possessor to
indulge, will be able TO throw the cotton parten en-
trely in the shade We did not design however to call
the attention OF our readers this subject but to one of
more Importance limited at in the paragraph which we
OF Mr.. Bancroft during the summer the writer remarks
that chs free trade correspondence with the British gov
eminent has received its quietus."
AS it is well known that Mr.. Bancroft has been in
correspondence with the British government in relation
to the repeal of the navigation laws, and, of course,
the establishment of more perfect freedom of
merce, by which our merchants and mercantile navy
would be greatly benefited. we infer from the ex-
tract above quoted that the present administration has
made up its mind to oppose any further advancement
in the policy of removing the shackles of commerce,
and thus giving our merchants, well the great
agricultural interest Of the country the benefit of
strcted trade We believe that it discoses still further
the policy OF the administration. 1t indicates determi
nation not only to oppose any further extension OF the
liberal policy of the last administration, but TO restrict
overturn it by repeal of the tariff of 1916 If this is not
the design of the party in power we should feel greatly
obliged if one of its organs in this city would inform us
by authority what is to be the policy of the administra
ton in this respect! What the peculiar views of the
intelligent and experienced swing, but not an ultra
whig," now nominay at the head OF the government
Does he intend to carry out his alleged opinions this
subject as he has his pledges with regard to prescription
Or will he he has in that matter, leave everything to
the ocaue cabinet of which he but humble member
Surely it is time that the administration should begin to
develop its policy and its proposed measures in
thentic form And it will not do through the medium of
its organs in this city, which supposed to be its
fdence we must infer its policy from the fugitive revea-
tons which we occasionally meet with in the Washing
ton correspondence Of papers friendly to the administra
ton And hence we infer, from the paragraph which we
have copied above from the Express that the admnstra
ba.c fhc to
the liberal system of and trade established by the
last administration under the auspices of the democratic
party, and the resuscaton of the old and obsolete sys-
tenn of restriction and monopoly which has been the pet
of the ultra wing party for the last thirty years II
such be the design of the party in power the democracy
ready to throw down the gage and meet their enemies
upon the old battle ground, on whrh it has won its
most signal and splendid victory.