The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-26

DO Mr. ISRAEL T. JAMES Isa South Tenth Phlade
phs general travelling agent assisted by James "hp
Pile VIM H. Weld o. H. Stem, John B. Weld, l. B. waterman
John Collins james Deeng Albert X wellington r. James
Henry Piatt, T. A. Evans and Chas. g. Hall
UJ Mr. HENRY NJ LEWIS, Of Montgomery Alabama, is our
general travelling for Alabama and assisted by
B. b Brett
90 agents particularly requested to make frequent
to this sBee, and especially regard subscribers and diseon
hnuanees.
tlons-more Proofs Of the Heal Motives OF The
Cabinet.
In the National Inteligencer of the 18th OF June inst
is published what purpors TO be the correspondence,
covering two sides of that paper in regard to the steamer
United Stales purchased by the government of the Ger
manic Confederation of citizens of this country and con-
verted from passenger vessel into steamer suitable
for naval purposes In the same paper OF the 18th ap
peared article strongly eliminating the administration
of Mr. Polk for disregard of neutral obligations, and
claiming no little credit for President Taylor for promptly
repairing the
We have charged that the present administration have
attempted make party capital out of this proceeding,
evincing want of sympathy with the friends of civil
liberty abroad, and especially in Germany, and DISPOSE
ton to concede that their government had been wanting
in due respect to the rights of Denmark for party
advantage.
The National InteAigencsr, with its characteristic
adroitness accounts for its unwarantable assaults
the late administration by what indscreet at
tack on General Taylors administration Our article ap
peared in the Union of the 18th inst and-obviously in
concert with the Secretary of Statethe editors assert
that this was the cause of the publication of the
respondence and the unjust reflections the govern
ment, while administered by Mr. Polk. Now before
Al a.;
remove this pretenson In the New York Courier and
Enquirer OF the 4th Of April last, Its Washington cor
respondent that Ga change of administration
times discoses facts of the deepest moment to the public,
and seriously affecting the relations OF the government
with foreign nations. When the acts of the late dynasty
are fully revealed, it will be found that there is
truth than poetry in this suggestion" Then, abiding to
the purchase and alteration of the steamer United States,
this writer adds: Thus have high officer of
the government, composing part OF the late admins
tration, lending his official countenance in fitting out
vessel of war, in direct violation of the neutrality law
of 1918, which imposes penalty of forfeiture of the
vessel with fine and imprisonment to the parties mpl-
Gated" Certainly more unwarrantable and illegal
proceeding attempted, and one which, consid
ering our treaties with Denmark and the other powers
which are interested in this question. was in fragrant
violation of good faith and honorable neutrality. Upon
coming into payer, the present administration adopted
prompt and efficient measures 10 prevent dnyJurer con-
nerion vuh this vessel, and TO signify that co.opera-
tion Of any kind you'd be extended TO further the uies
for phieh she purchased" Thus wrote the CORE
spondent of the Courier and Enquirer Who he was can
easily be conjectured. Colonel James Watson Webb,
the editor OF that paper, then in Washington, and
was ready and willing, rumor charged, to the
country as its minister either at Berlin or Spain AT all
events, he TO have been correctly informed of
what the administration doing in reference to
the German steamer, and no can read the arti-
Gle without being struck with the conviction that
at least one object of the new administration was
to cast its predecessor. The National In
tgencer therefore hardly succeed in its disngen-
nous attempt to impose the public creduy, that the
administration have been dragged by before the pub
lie on this subject No; the whole proceeding shows
that there was an anxious desire to make case,
out of which this administration might claim credit for
themselves, and cast those who had gone
before them Mr. S.een Bile comprehended this feeling
when his note of the I'd of April to the Hon. John
NJ Clayton. he cooy suggests to the Secretary, there
is evidently looseness in the public mind with regard
these matters, and hence 10 first prnci-
lies, as skstched by the President in his inaugural adj
lress. would, no doubt have most salutary bearing
on the peace of the world, while the black cloud of
general war is lowering it with portenous fore
oodings" Mr.. Clayton confessed ''the soft impeach-
nent" permitted this diplomatic fling at his government
md his country to pass and was capvated by the alu
sion to the inaugural and the ''earlier Presidents"
We have looked in vain for the breach of neutrality
in the published proceedings. We have inquired, and
are satisfied that while MIR. Folks administration sympa.
thzed with those struggling for civil liberty, in all
parts of Europe, he and those associated with him in
the administration of the government always ami
mated by the most anxious desire to maintain friendship
and do justice to all nations In reference to Germany
and the noble effort to unite the German States in one
grand confederacy, occupying the centre OF Europe
with population of forty millions of people, dis
tinguished for industry intelligence, and virtue, and
promising to maintain and exert happy influence over
the peace of that quarter of the globe, and to
baassng restrictions commerce, how could there be
other feelings than those of admiration and of sympathy
What the adopted by the late admnstra-
ton in reference to this most interesting of things
early in the year ls4s, Mr. Polk directed the rgate ST.
Lawrence TO be sent to the north sea- to protect BY her
presence. our commercial interests. She was received
with universal burst of enthusiasm and feelings of
admiration and affection for the United States were mani
tested throughout Germany The government of Prus-