The New York herald., 1850-01-06

hammered out would only make decent sized
potato patch out West, John Bull strains his eyes
till they look like couple Of peeled onions in
pan of moasses, and seeing the enormous area of
this country, falls at his roast beef and says, "Oh
you can never govern it, sir'' He forgets that
England has governed colonies which begirt the
globe. If Great Britain governs a territory on
which the sun never sets, if it be
That po whose flag is never furled,
Whose orpipg drum beats round the world,
the Joke may al last get TO be understood by Bro
ther Jonathan.
1t is most superabundantly funny to see how
Europe has opened her bleared and shortslghted
eyes 10 the rising power of the West.
We cannot close these remarks without lament
ing, for the hundredth time, that Mr. Clayton, the
chief Secretary OF State, and the evil genius to
boot of one of the noblest men and heroes we
have had since the time of Washington, should
have let so glorious opportunity slip of showing
TO the despotisms of the old world how deep and
universal is the sympathy of the people of this
country with the fortunes of liberty all over the
globe. There was time when, by discreet ma
nagement and fair display of Amencansm, in
its noblest sense, without compromising the re-
public or diminishing in any manner the dignity
of General Taylor, he could have put forth an
fuence upon the fortunes of Europe, which would
probably have decided for ever the fate Of its
struggling patriots and heroes.
Let us suppose case. If, at the time the repub-
c of Rome and the republic of Hungary were pro-
claimed, he had bethought himself of the greatms-
sion our republic might at the time have filled, he
would have forgotten the meanness of partisanshp,
and buried every little feeling in the noble ambi-
ton of doing something great and honorable for
his country and for mankind. Ifhe had sent some
of the greatest statesmen of our nation to Europe
in that trying crisis-placing Mr.. Webster in
England, Mr.. Clay in France, Mr.. Calhoun in
Russia and some other great man in Rome, with
fifty other superior men at the different diplomatic
and consular posts of Europe, all bearing with
them the same instructions, and all commissioned
to execute the same great busness-namely, that
of encouraging liberal policy on the part OF the
governments of the continent, of recognising re-
publcs at the time of their birth when they needed
help, Of proposing reciprocal treaties of commerce,
of aiding ard maturing the infant democracies
around them; it is all idle to say that such a corps
diplomatique could not have aggregated and con-
sodated force that would have awed and won
mankind Under such inspiring auspices, Hungary
might have held out still longer Russia might
have stayed back her accursed Cossacks; Rome,
with Plus IX., might have been kept on she side
Of liberty the German confederation might have
become sohd and irresistible phalanx Of free and
Illuminated states and France might have Inau-
gurated a republic after the model of Washington,
Jefferson and Franklin.
With the genus and the fame of such men, we
might at that time have come to the rescue Of
Europe 1t is silly to pretend that we might not
have had very decisive influence in its fortunes.
But that golden hour for action and for fame has
gone by Mr.. Clayton, who is understood to be,
like every other Secretary of State republic,
the presiding genius IN our foreign policy, never
thought anythng about 1t. Kossuth could strug-
gle, and faint, and sweat drops of blood, and fall,
but Mr.. Clayton cared nothing about it, Plus IX in
his newborn treachep Of the genus Of Roman IL
berty, could send his benediction to the ministry of
France, and call for glstening bayonets to stab the
new risen form of Ron liberty; and Mr.. Clayton,
perhaps, nay probably, did not even read the news
until il was stale that everybody else turned up
their noses in disgust when he began to talk about
IT. God save us from such Secretary of State,
while we, as the model republic, are looked to by
the struggling millions OF Europe for aid in the
hour of their adversely,