The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-12-03
Wrtkly Grprt5s,
WEDNESDAY MORNING ...-.... DEC
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ssKQssuth and the Administrations.


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'.Kossuth and the Administration
Some shrewd and saucy outsider, with mos
words than ideas, and more breeches than brains
tempts to use it upon us in an article of two col
umns in Tuesdays Tribune. The writer gricve
like a dog over lost supper, because we have
abused, and as he says, siandered the admins
double distilled venom and low personal abuse
of US, in his article, than has been committed to
the columns of that sheet, or any other for some
months. Perhaps he thinks by selecting us as
the target for his random shots, to divert public
attention from the facts in this case, which seem
to CRATE SO harshly upon his tender sensiblities
This he shall not do, for we are determined tn
hold him to the point in the case. 1t is not our
dishonesty and corruption, but the course and
conduct of the Administration that we mean to
canvass. This inflated coxcomb, who, if he has
not already his literary box enveloped in blad
der, deserves TO have it there, has ground out two
full columns of wordy personal abuse, with
scarcely logical deduction in it. Such croak,
ers may make music for us every day. We
shall not object to it. 1t only shows that some
things can be done as we'll as others-and that
while this fellow is writing his essays on human
depravity, he cannot be engaged in other mis-.
chief which might be more injurious to society
But let us come at once to the point at issue
the great bone of contention. We condemned
the head of this Administration for its treatment
of Kossuth Let us see now, upon what we
based our remarks. Frs', the " Times,
the leading tory, and notoriously illiberal paper
of Great Britain, came out dsapproving of the
sympathy for this patriot, and ridiculng him as
a rcvolutionist, disorganizer and demag0gue.
Following this we have the abusire letter of the
recognized American Government Attache.-
This letter appeared first in the New York
Times, (Whig) and was copied into the "Na-
tional Intelligencer" and "Republic,' with edi-
torial comments approving Of its sentiments
These two organs are the acknowledged
exponents of the MISUNDERSTANDING the
views and feelings-partialities and dislikes, OF
the Executive. From these organs the cue was
taken, and general effort put forth to change
the current of public sympathy setting in Kos
su,hs favor. But like the notorious proclama-
tion, consgning poor Crittenden and his brave
followers to ignominious death, it asked too
much the liberal party and the true friends Of
freedom in this country, were not to be made
slaves to a miserable sIander fthis kind. They
had formed a high opinion ofthe man they sought
to honor. They had seen nothing in his course
or conduct which deserved condemnation. And
they could not be made the ready tools of Sian
der and inhumanity, in the hands Of government
appointees. Now that the Administration and
it. organs begin to feel the force Of public dis
approval and Indignation setting back against
them, they seize upon the first opportunity, as in
the case of Cuba, of reinstating themselves il
the public confidence, by praising the Hungari
an, instead of abusing him and intimatins
that perhaps he may receive diplomatic din
ner-wonderful magnanimity.
But it is claimed that the Administration il
the peculiar and exclusive friend Of Kossuth-
that it dispatched the Mississippi to relieve hin
from his confinement in Asia, and donated hin
fifteen thousand dollars, to defray his necessar.
personal expenses. Indeed did the Admins
tration do this, or was it done by democratic
Senate and democratic House of Representa-
tives? Let the Journals of Congress settle thl
question.
A great flourish is made over Secretary Web
ster, Attorney General Crittenden and the Hon
Henry Clay, and they cited as iliustriou
examples of the friendship of Americans for tin
down-trodden of Europe. In their private ca
pacity as individuals, we have no doubt the
feel for others sufferings whether in this country
or abroad and would cheerfully lend an effort fc
their relief; but when it comes to embodyin
those feelings into any general principles Of go'
eminent, they are as deaf to the voice of oppre'
sion and suffering, as any men in the country
Did MIR. Clay feel for the poverty strickel
when he denounced the pre-emption law an
represented those who were to reap its benefi
rs no better than "land pirates Did Seer
tary Webster and Attorney General Crittendel
feel for the oppressed of Europe, when the
declared that foreigners ought to live in Il
country twenty lone years, before they should
entitled to the privileges of citizenship? HI
the Wing party by its general policy, from Il
days of John Adams, to the present time; ev
displayed any particular sympathy for the 70
eigner, Let history answer
1t is asserted that "this Administration is
patriotic and enlightened one" The Galphir
GARDENERS and other teaches upon the pub
!, Treasury, no doubt think so. Governme
officers who are preying upon the lumberm
ofthc North and pioneers upon the public Ian
E in the West, no doubt think so. The specu
+ tors in government licenses in the Copper mi,
on Lake Superior, no doubt think 80. Preside
$. Fillmores Governor Brigham Young, of u
|. ! Territory, who daily defes the laws of
L country, ridcules the government and people
ii the U. s. and disgraces the name of man,
Sc doubt thinks so. The Capt. General Com
of Cuba, and his internal butchers, no do
think so. The English and French COVE
ments, when they issued orders, for their ,
r. sells Of war to cruise on our southern coast,
at, examine American vessels leaving U. S. pc
no doubt thought so. But ds an evidence
the estimation in which the Administration
held by the great mass Of the people in
country, let our neighbors review the ret
State elections. From no quarter can
80 draw consolation, except from the Abali
~ Governor Of Wisconsin.
In our remarks upon the course OF the
!, ministratien, we do not condemn all who C
to be Wings, because we know that there
pure minded men in that party, who do not
prove of the course Of tho Administration
is the Administration that we are down on
. not individual wings.
r9TA friend at our elbow desires to know
or what is to be thanked tomorrow. The
ernor's Proclamation, setting apart da
praise and thanksgiving, don't enlighten
he says. We regret our friends predical
but must refer him to the Governor for tn
sired information. The boys, we know
o"s very thankful to the Governor himself fe
owed Proclamation Tribune Of The 26th inst.
pay Divine Providence is to be thanked fo