The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-08-25

Renee and knowledge OF Details well the particular
that school OF economists The given out Tor
rejecting this gentleman were not such as particularly
quailhed aim Tor the post OF chairman OF the Mexican
commission but the selection was one that met Win
Ino disapproya His associates were OF different Or
der OF intellect and received their appointments nolo
rously and solely as the reward OF PARTISAN laooIs Inc
commission being exclusively partisan, the claimants
were 10 great extent driven To the necessity oil select
ing eminent wing partisan attorneys Grave senator's
and members Of Congress were engaged as counsel
whose fees afforded them pecuniaTy reward for al
most any deprivation OF honors they might have expe
rienced This was new element introduced
Al the time the departments began to be unusu-
ally hronged with prominent lawyers OF the two houses
pressing unfounded and rejected claims This Indecent
practice OF certain lawyers holding seats m the nauona
legislature and suing for claims before the executive
Departments, did not originate with the Taylor admins
iralion; but il received an impulse under II that was
ms",a to The public interest When senators and others
elected make laws and egisaie Tor the purity and well
fare of the government are employed Tor hga lees 10
suppcate the departments for worthless and fictitious
claims, and when those departments require these law
yes their legislative capacity TO grant them improper
favors. the door for collision Is flung widely open
between them. No species OF bribery can be more cor
uptng and pernicious than that by which the public
treasury is made thus indirectly to pay legislators for bad
laws and official delinquency
Impassve and contracted the administration had little
feeling for sympathy with the movements that per-
President had been accustomed to defend the flag OF lib
ey but to erect its affairs He had learned to obey
orders. but had studied personal POLITICAL or ciy
rights The cabinet Hamiltonian in sentiment, dis
ustfu OF the people, disbelevers in popular intelligence
and integrity, welded to the past and doubtful OF the
future. Not one among them had he been citizen Of
Northern Europe OF Hungary would have participated
the rising struggle for liberty but each would lntu-
lively have chung to the old and oppressive dynastes that
he source OF power they considered faacy but this
not the general sentiment they had not the honesty
and courage to their principles on the subject be-
fore the country, any more than on bank or oter ques
linn euuay unpOpu lar.
| The communications that emanaed from the State
Department indicated, however, the chilling sentiment OF
the administration, and advised the republicans oil Eu
rope that they were TO expect encouragement from
attitude nation. An effort had been made by the
German people struggling for liberty IN the early part Of
Great Britain and this country several hrsclass steam
ers In England they experienced no difficulty In per.
fectng the negotiations but the only vessel purchased in
the United States not having sailed the change OF ad
ministraton, hasy, for, and arbitrary intere
renee made to obsruc and embarass the arrange
ment under cold and repusve prctext that the govern
ment must preserve its neutrality The egtmists
invited BY our government to demonstrate against
the transfer and sailing OF the vessel One effect OF hls
movement was to exclude the United States from the
market in further purchases TO be made, and England,
less sensitive and repeng to the German republics, be-
came the recipient OF several mons' winch Otherwise
would have given employment TO our artisans and smu-
lated their industry.
In other exterior relations Of the country like want
OF true American feeling discovered On the north.
ern borders Canada has displayed unmisakable signs Of
growing affection and regard for the Union. AT the same
time the British government through their consul IN New
York. preferred singular and unenabe professions in Gen.
trail America conflicting only with the rights OF the lat
ter but the interests OF our own citizens The former re-
ceved Kindness and the latter met with no rebuke Or
at all in whisper that not permitted TO catch the
public ear While thus lethagc and naenve to the rights
OF American citizens there sensitive and vivacious
assiduity protect Spanish interests in Cuba proca;
nation pompousy announced having been received
the Department of State" from the President some
where in the interior Of Pennsylvania startled the
iry with the first and only intelligence that " there is
reas am belye that eyuedOn about be
fitted out in the United States with intention to invade
Cuba, some OF the provinces OF Mexico In spread
ing the proclamation before the country, there was
marked effort to represent that il took the Department
of State" well the country by surprise. IL was
rumored yesterday at the Department, OF State IN
communication from the President. at Harrisburg" was
the language of both the wing metropolitan journals
on the morning of its publication On what part OF the
Susquehanna this armed expedition" about to be
fitted our not stated and there indefnteness
TO its destination, though II seemed TO be presumed
that il was Cuba somewhere. While the public were
there many curious specuaiions in regard to the
proclamation and its paternity. The effort TO have the
founding laid at the door Of the President in Harrisburg
was cumbrously ludicrous: The document was not 80
remarkable in IFS composition, that the President might
have found schoolmasters or attorneys TO have writ
ten for him in any village on his route; but how he
should have obtained the facts, except through the prop
err departments at Washington, mystery to all who
were not acquainted with the discrimination and weak
cunning Of the descending Secretary II the President
did not detect the armed expedition" on his tour, he
have had the facts from that very department TO
which he enclosed the proclamation, and that depart
men when communicating the facts TO the President
transmitted the draught OF the proclamation Had the
President himself possessed ordinary requirements bad
the usual business of the Executive been discharged in
the ordinary manner there would have been attempt
TO disguise the facts; but heralded received IN
communication from the President. The disguise
thin, the trick papable that the deception failed and
reacted on the authors.
From Discrimination participate even in good wishes
and fraiern regard with the republicans OF Europe,
well from those laborous duties in turning out demo-
Gratis and appointing wings. which 'chained him down
TO single spot from II TO 10 hours day. the Secretary
indsposed TO have the government take attitude
that should favor rising liberty, or rgdly guard Amer
lean interests He found time, however did the Presi
dent and other members OF the cabinet the eo
quen and very pathetic letter OF Lady franklin, appeal
ing TO the Executive for sympathy and assistance in be.
half OF her adventurous and probably hus-
humane, and generous. The assurances given, which
led TO the expectation OF immediate aid, were published
in thousand journals, before il reached the eye and
made glad the heart OF the unhappy wife. To the mourn
ing lady the promise OF the American Secretary like
the anti election promises OF that gentleman and his wing
associates, and her disappointment great as that OF
many sorowing and distressed family made wretched
through his nsirumentality The letter TO Lady Jane
franklin was certainly pretty letter. though improperly
addressed, and was much commended, Notwithstanding
led 10 expectations OF than the Executive and the
Executive Council could perform. II was notifying
that the President and the cabinet should have committed
illegal a,d cruel bander, and which only discov
sruced the Secretary OF the Navy that there neither
time, ships. money, nor law to warrant the proceeding
Had Mr. Clayton succeeded in obtaining the Office OF dis
trict attorney for Delaware twelve before, when
plcaon was made to Mr. Van Buren,, coupled with the
assurance that he would in that event abandon the wing