Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-11-24
Making a clean Breast.

NOW tnat the close or the campaign ana
the demolition of their prospects has ena-
bled the wing press to give full rein to
candor, we are getting some curious con-
LESSONS. The Fillmore and Webster men
find open consolation in the fulilment OF
their predictions while the original Scott
ties take revenge by acquiescing in the
democratic Judgment on some ofthe mark
ed dement's of the present administration.
Thus says the New York Times, edited
by H. j, Raymond, the hero of the famous
bargain and sale despatch:
Nothing has contributed more to the
strength of the democratic party in this
canvass than feeling that in its foreign
relations our government has not taken the
stand required by its position as the great
Republic among the nations of the earth
and we anticipate in this direction, there
fore, some decisive advantages from its
ascendency. We shall certainly be
glad to welcome, at the hand of any, ad-
ministration, democratic or whig, a more
energetic vindication of American rights,
a more cordial recognition of American
principles, and warmer regard for Re-
publicanism abroad, than have been wit
messed for few years past"
unity of opinion among men of all parties
as to the character of the series Of trans
actions which began with the Clayton and
Bulwer Nicaragua treaty and ended with
the letter we this day publish, on the Gre
scent City affair. The submitting to treat
with European government on the dis
posal of the territory of an independent
and friendly American republic; silence
under the most gross and palpable eva
sion of the obligations of the other party
to said treaty; denunciation of American
citizens as pirates and quiet acquiescencc
in their capture as such by Spanish
man of-war, part on the coast of Mexico
and part on the high seas the allowing
fifty others to be shot in a body, without
the formal trial guaranteed by our treaty
with Spain and the acknowledgment
(or what appears such on the face of the
executives own declaration) that the
Captain General of Cuba has a perfect
right to lay an embargo on any of our YES
sells at any time, with any or no warning,
and on any pretext mark IA course we
are only astonshed to see a respectable
portion of the press SO tardy in condemn
ing.
The chances are, however, that the
country will be spared any further occa-
sion for such humiliations during the rest
of Mr.. Fillmore's term. Canedo and the
rest will devote their attention to securing
clean balance-sheet by the 4th of March
next. The influence of the democratic
regime will precede its advent. 1t will
purify the atmosphere of the Gulf, where
lynchlaw in the hands of Spanish post
Lot ct pf
supreme. 1t will spread, also, over the
Pacific. The countries some of them
very aourishing, and all attractive to our
trade-along the Western coast of South
America, will ut once throw aside the
hostile and suspicious feeling such shock
ing plumbers as that about the Lobos
Islands have produced. The democratic
party has always sympathised in their
tranquility and advancement. 1t is that
party which has made the powers of the
new world predominant on the pacific
which is devoted to the exclusion of the
European system from the ocean ; and
which will keep its broad and opulent ex-
panse and borders secured to national right,
peace and progress. The rulers of Eu-
rope themselves will manifest increased
respect for this country. They will see
twenty-five millions of freemen who have
once more called to their head a govern
ment fully participating in the instincts
and impulses which have made them what
they area government identical in cha
racter and spirit with that which carried
through the Mexican war, forced a sur
render of Oregon, and placed the COM
mcrcc and industry of the Union on ba-
sis no external assault is likely to shake.
They will not 90 to extremes in opposing
our acqusitionof Cuba eitherby negotiation
with Spain or by annexation, should the
island accomplish its independence. Eng
land, our chief rival in that as in most
other matters, will be disposed to keep on
fair terms with us by the lowering aspect
of the French horizon. She will rccog-
nize us as more to be sought as friends
and dreaded as enemies. The time may,
though we sincerely hope it will not, soon
come, when her conservative strength
will be brought to the last test. An alli-
ance with American progressiveness will
be worth considering.
The wings have done the democratic
party injustice in terming it the aggres-
sive party. 1t is not aggressive. 1t is
expansive, as the representative organi-
cation of people who double in numbers
every twenty three years must be- Win.
Tiy.
IMPRISONMENT OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
The following is an extract from a letter
dated Batavia, island of Java, July 18th,