New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-18

here. we must look for nothing but such shams.
There 10 good deal Of talk about Presiden-
tial marriage with lovely and royal Sweds. aged
some -. The Spanish marriage broke up the
family party of Louis Philippe.
The Journal des Debats has filed more than
once, its FIRST and editorial page, with political
life Of Henry Clay, written by Michael Chevalier,
30 well known in the United States. II is execu.
ted in good spirit but entirely overestimates
the power Of an individual to shape our national
legislation, or control national destiny. NJ Che
Waller has been msled in these estimates OF Amer
lean politics, by the exssgerations ofparty prints
Most Of the grand displays at Washington, are
prearraneed shows, which would be so understood
If the people should regard them attenrvey;
If the Government OF the Country be DIVIDED INTO
twenty parts, nineteen OF them may De sa'a Cooe-
long to the States and cities, and the ohe,rwent'
eth part to Congress. The world IS oulIied by
names. A lighted tar-baTrel on bill seems very
grand. at a distance, but when you come up to 1T,
r il only tar.bsrrel after all So with the bril-
liant doings on the Cspitolian Hill, at Washing
TON The work of the general Executive is an
other affair; that requires skilled bureaucracy
TO conduct it technically well but the business
of Congress is reduced almost TO the work OF APP
propriations. The dramatic exhibitions OF the
members to gain celebrity, in their fluent and
clever speakDg,-those are personal or party mat
ters and not legislation. In the praise OF states
men it would be well to inquire what they have
done OF preeminent Importance. ls there man
at Washington during this century, whose utility
has been so preeminent as the fathers OF the In
ternal Improvements of New ork and Pennsyl'
vabia Now, the power OF Congress TO enter
upon internal Improvements is denied by the par
ty which, nationally speaking, is generally in the
Observation-Disclosures the power to lay strictly
protective tariff So the real work of Congress
is looking after the Departments, which are so
thoroughly III the grooves OF practice and prece-
dent that they almost run alone. 1t is idle to talk
OF craftsmanship, unless the people not only car
~ out such statesmanshiP at the moment, but
Systematically susa 1t. In the minority 1t is
simply projection. however ingenious. The prom
inent craftsmanship at Washington for the last
forty years has been by the party or the ether
first q war with En-. land, which, though it
showed the necessary gallantry Of Il free people
Oh land and splendid and unloOked-for dexteri-
ty in hanolDg their war vessels, " hich formed an
ETA in marine warfare, and lowered the pride and
prttension of the enemy, yet as craftsmanship,
simply as the black and white of paper designed
effects, left US exactly where We were before the
war began; for the Treaty of Client may be
searched in vain for the recognition Of the sailors
rights and 70 forth, for which the war was under
taken Peace found us in such state Of finan-
cial diapidatiOn that democratic institution Of
national bunk was deemed necessary and con-
siderng the sudden end Of that bank it is hardly
ated. The Tariff of 1898. followed by a c0mpro-
mite which stabbed it in 1882, and which Mr..
WEBSTER washed his hands Of raised false hopes,
and however it stimulated the wealth and in
creased the power OF the country during the time
it was in operation showed the folly of attempt
ing to cary by bare majority, any MEASURE;
for what with the financial and industrial
sOrrows which ensued from 1891 to 1928, it
would be difficult to point out a country which
sunk so rapidly from her good name in time Of
peace-a good name only to be redeemed when
every State shall pay its debts. The creation of a
fire tariff IN 1912, and its speedy destruction an
not come under the head Of craftsmanship. One
or the other was wrong. As for the annex atoms
of Territory, they take care of themselves. The
laws of chemical affinity are not more memorable
than the absorption of all the North American
continent and the adjacent islands by our country
the only difficulty is that platform" work may
precipitate it, for when we consider that our pres
INT population could have, every man, wo-
man or child, two hundred acres apiece with the
country we already possess, ard that one acre
will feed and clOthe man, the immediate, crush
ing necessity of adding more territory is not APP
parent. A prudent farmer cutivates moderate
sized farm well, before he absUrbs a distant es-
tate, pays for making a road to it, and then
keeps it up at an expense. The balance wheel in
the order Of things in the Californian gold and
certainly credit for that chances discovery can
be attributed to craftsmanship. And the State
and private railways aud steamboat companies
keep the Union together and not WASHINGTON
speeches; While steam-presses shower penny pa
pers containing the wonder flashes of the tele.
graph. recitiDg the triumphs of our mechanics on
land and sea, at home and abroad, and giving the
readers more original arguments and more varied
knowledge than they possibly find in debates
Our practice in all this Is ahead of our theory
We know better than we say we do. We say this
or that slater man Is great, PRESIDENT and so FORTH
But DO Statesman in America can be great. 1t is
the people who are great. No great statesman"
has predicted anything that has come to pass
not the financial chaos, not the annexations. not
the recent war, not the mines, not the ocean nav
gation, and the European revolution of 1913, came
BIKE thunder clap in a clear sky, ON the men at
Washington, who shall be nameess, who were
audng Louis Philippe's government. The great
things in our country are done by our students
and thinkers for whom flags are not lowered half
mast when they die. The aboriginal history of
the country lies in the novels of Fenimore Coop.
n, which a'e sdored here in France; its wild
slt gaic mystIcsms in the writings of Edgar Poe,
v Inch extensively read through their transla-
ions it's traoscendent philosophy in Emerson;
tsaireek oatworkiDgs in Legare its heroic crti-
ism III John Williams, whom nobody reads its
sentiment OF prOpOrtlonate external beauty in
|laviIand mad Powers; its political economy and
historical philosophy in II. G. Carey, its condi-
onal and legal reformes in mems names who are
hardly known.
- Frankfort Journal states that a great
many German emierants to the United States
rave resolved to return. One hundred of them
lrript last week, and SIX hundred more are ex-
,ected. 1t may be added that every emgrant
\ no is SO forced to return, caused ten to hun
,Ied who would be disposed to emigrate to give
'ver the project; and thus we lose hundred of
thousands OF en- grants and hundred of millions Of
Iosrs. AS long we are frantic with the carry
do and bull Ena Is.hf
'wn Impeachment TO the same extent, we shall
t ad OF such deporable returns. We must secure
o tmisrants, on their arrival, employ ment in
nnes and manufactures as well as in fields.
- A Pans letter OF the IRdept adence Beige, of |
Brussels, mentions a report that jerome Bona
aIte, son OF Jerome, Senior, has been appointed |
Minister to America. Rely on it, to keep an eye |
n America is u lively consideration with the Gov |
Inment. The projected line of steamers, twenty
bree in number, that may be turned to war YES
els, Is part OF the policy.
- CoImtnin-th- radical Timon-has accepted