Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-10-26
M. POuSSIN.


10 mere PERSONAL controversy oe'ween VII
Clayton aud M. Poussip, the French minister ~
the Uni.ed States Ii seems from Lie last Nasty
adyces from France that the Democrallc sen!l-
ments OF M. Poussin were as Objectionable 70
the French President a 10 the American otcie-
lary. a man who had proved himself iaise W
the cause OF republicani.m, who had des loyeu
The lioef!y vi The press, declared PaLis IN s'a'e
OF siege, and sen! Oudinol with French army
10 destroy the republican movement IN Rome,
could not ieel any other sentiment oul 'ha' VI
pleasure III Witnessing The disgrace OF ifPuo'
lican minister. which would sH1rd MIN al oP
PoHunily OF givingl the American mission 10
some OF his reaclonary paItlsahs. Inc IePuo>
Iican sentiments Of M. PoussiI iaale nm ouious
10 the French government, (says writer from
| Paris,) aud Louis Napoleon had determined 10
remove him. So that alter all The braggadocio
OF The whis press and The furious altitude OF MI.
| Clayton, The American government was only
carrying Out The wishes of the President oil
France and Of the French goseTnment and all
Mr.. Clayon's bravery was blu! sound and Jury,
! signi!ying nothing We stated from The first that
this was in all human probability The STATE OF
affairs and that The administration was arrayed
against single man, and he unsus aimed by MS
own government. The attitude OF The Secretary
OF Stale may have been very bold, and The atii-
tude of the Wing press, Tor aushI that we know,
may have been very patriotic; ou The holiness
oil Inc one, and The patriotism OF The other, were
oil that description which has ever distinguished
The war party 10 peace, and The peace party III
war.
II has always been acknowledged that one 60
| vernmenl has perfect tight 10 dismiss The rep
Iescntative oil another and MIR. Clayton must
| therefore have known that le mere dismissal oil
! NJ. P0ussin, even il he Il III been dismissed Wih-
Out any cause, could scarcely be expected to lead
TO war. YET he permitted his organs 10 laud
| him Tor the patriotic boldness with which he re-
srned The af,onI OF NJ Poussn. The Secreta-
ny Of State was fearless when he had reason To
suspect there was no real danger, and he perin-
led his partisaus 10 endeavor 10 array hr national
feeling against France, when he had connected
the French government with his mere personal
difficulty with NJ Puussin, Ly appealing 10 that
government, as 10 an umpire, 10 do him Juslce
But Tor The laundering, which the Secretary oil
| Stale seems 10 have reduced TO system, the
French minister could have been dismissed with
out The supposilion OF possibility u iI,lerruplns
even Tor a moment The friendly relations oil The
TWO countries.
| The conduct Of The Wing press in relation 10
this mater proves ccncusively that il regards The
| Wing parry and lis leaders as entitled TO more
Importance Than The honor and welfare oil their
country. A Wing SECRETARY OF Stale resens
| affonl when there is no danger; and immediate
| y the whole Wing press becomes patriotic, and
denounces as unpalriotic and foreign sympa.
| ihser every man who do moi rally around The
Secretary Of State, and add bis voice TO swell The
chorus OF praise 10 The secure gallaniTy oil
| Wing dynasty. Blu, when our national rights
| are Iampled on and hostile army invades our
| soil. The patriotic ardor Of The peace parry IN
| war dies away, or is heard giving aid and cons
tori 10 he enemy. Mr.. Clayton and his presses
uuderrae the intelligence oil he people. The
people have mol forgotten, and they will not Tor
gel, that he was one II the NEST prominent advo-
cafes Vi the British cause when The Oregon dit.
fculty threatened 10 produce war with that pow.
er. Tine people have not forgotten ard hey will
not lorgel The conduct Of Mr.. Clayton and his
| associates when tn. Mexican war was actually
| existing; and when he appeals 10 The naiona
| sympalnies TO sustain him in his blunderiDg Pc.
| Icy, he will te reminded that h, Wing lead
| ers during that war held up the cause oil
| their country as ininquilous and abhorfcd
| Of Gud-enGeayored TO lorce our armies 10
| retreat ingloriousy from The 6eld-wilhhed
| supplies -ridiculed the national resuurles-dis
| paraseL The national credil-and eYerled them
selves 10 the uilermostlo cripple our government
aLd iDdLce The public enemy 10 p;ol zig the con.
| and Whenever TIL war parry III peace appeals,
| Tor mere party III ct, 10 their patriotic impulses
| and dcnC uncrs The Democrats as loleisn sympa-
| hzefs hey wilI answer lis brave words by re-
| m,niing IL vi lis base deed, and reasonable
| ptacitrs in the hour u real dagger The con
| duct vi The French government is indeed most
unfortunate for The Wing nary Louis Napo-
| leon should al least have pretended u be offended
al the dismissal OF NJ Poussin, in order 10 save
| Mr. Clayton and his admirers On this side of The
Atlantic from exposure Their conduct during
the Mexican waI-iheif failure 10 require Spain
TO make amends Tor the abduction Ut Rey-lhelr
| detention vi the Prassian seamer-lhclr eager
efforts lu prevent a frv.iI'i.n = ",l-, ""d 'ne
| ,-nuown favor in which they are known to be
| held by foreign monarches and by monarchists
in The United States, cannot be aloned Tor by the
! dsmission Of foreign minister who was in all
! probabiiy aready unpopular, il NO, obnoxious
10 HIS own government. We leave il to vi
Poussin, and his own Secretary al home, to SET
lie their own differences. We are happy that il
has produced no difference between france and
the Unil,d Safes Union.
| LOUISlANA.-Th election Tor Governor
members OF Congress, &c., takes place in this
Stale in icy weeks. To show the spirit which
anima,es IheDemocracy, We rc.publish The fol-
lowing sketch from a neutral paper, The New
Orleans Cresc,nl, Of The 18th ms anti
GREAT DEMOCRATIC MASS MEET
ING Last n,ht there was a tremendous ga,
lhering OF the democracy al Washington Square
far surprising enthusiasm and numbers any
previous affair d the kind this season. Club
after Club, wih music and t.bEers. lranspa
rencies and flag, filed into the square, until the
| whole space VS. lit up with torches and color
ed lanterns producing hne effect even upon
"lookef on in Vienna" and causing from the
assemblage one continued cheering tina. made
everything echowilh the nau.es Of Walker and
Plauche.
The meeting vas called 10 order BY S H
Page, who announced the officers:
| Presid,nt-B HAR aNY, &c.
The President addressed the assemblage in
French, and in abrief but spirited manner al.
luded TO the pTeant canvass, and called upon
tie Democracy t0giyc their united aid in be-
half Of the men tAt advocated their principles.
His remarks were deceived with much applause.
and again the welkiA rupg with cheers.
Alexander DimirY was thin loudly called for
and he responded 10 the wishes OF the meeting
BY an address foil OF elcqucnce and power, anu
which, al almost every sentence, called iouh The
enthusiastic approval OF The large concourse be-
fore him.
procession was formed al the close Of the
meeting, which passed through The principal
streets, and made brilliant, display. The "Chal-
mellr GaaId," cam, h-sl, The Walker Clubs OF
the different wards .ollowed, each one preceded
by fine band Of music. The German Club and
Independent Walker Club Of The Second Ward,
Third Municipality, turned ouI in reatslrengIh.
Transparencies OF Washington Jefferson, and
Jackson, were borne The procession; also l. II
length figures of Walker and Pauche, with in.
numerable lanterns and banners, bearing every
device and motto that ,onld be suited TO the can
vass. The line extetded several squares, ard
was headed by the Officers of The mecling.
We learn from the Van Buren (Ark) Inelli.
eencer that delegation OF Seminole Indians,
from that frontier, under the charge OF an agent,
has been ordered TO Fluida Tor The purpose, it is
said, Of aiding in loEmng treaty 10 remove the
Florida Indians TO The West.
The Kenlucky Contention has refused 10 re-.
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