Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-02-16

lie is disappearing our policy. he is de
grading the Attic dignity Of our standing
abroad, and that too, at an age Of the world
when we should unitedly oppose every thrust
At the development and maintenance of repub.
licau principles. as they exist with us or are
struggling TO exist beyond the Atlantic. He is
"cappiny the climax" Of he meek submission
and cowardly policy. which shall commemorate
in ages to come the intercourse of this waning
administration with Great Britain.
But what American. we ask, can read the fol-
lowing extract from leading English journal.
without burning sense Of shame that his coun-
ry's dignity should be compromised by its di.
ploma,ic agent abroad Our Honorable Minis
ter may have been en- barrassed at the novelty
Of his position--he should have held his peace.
IIe may have been warmed with genial wines
in common with his exalted hosts, when the
affections flow as unsteady and copiously as
brooks swollen by vernal foods, Then he may
have lavished his fulsome adulation and fawn-
ing worship with perfect looseness." to the
dishonor of every true American from high to
low be it so-in zinc rerit"s. and quite proba'
bly, he then poured forth more unchecked and
truthful exposition Of the principles which
characterize the administration whom he serves
which have stigna,zed his predecessors whom
he outstrips in all their weaknesses and sins
But be i: Us it may, he has wronged and in.
suited the proud, the self-relying, the manly
republicanism Of the nation to which he be.
longs. Ho has violated the sacrad trust in.
volved in the duties of his office. He has tar.
nished the Iustre of American diplomacy
abroad. He has taken especial advantage OF
his position to define the tenets Of the 'codf 81
Wing aristocracy Of the American republic
vet degrading as those tenets are, has made a
mis-. rable failure in the attempt to represent
them lmparsially.
Bat listen to the London Morning News
speaking Of Mr. Ingersol!:
cat a meeting at Manchester on Saturday
lie appeared something in the Eha a TER of a
democratical moth coquetting round an arts
tocratical candle, and in The uttermos. daugc!
Of singeng his wings. He reminded us very
strongly Of our Puseyite priests, who are neve,
so enchanted as when they are dabbing Oh the
very edges of the Roman Catholic quagmire
and who are sure ultimately TO fall in.
And again, in the same article, the write,
adds:
Mr. Ingcrsoll, tired of the old strain launch
ed out into some eulogistic defamation the
English constitution, which might have beer
inserted rs a supplement to any copy of Dc
Lolme. He described the progress of an imag
mary youth who. tells,;us might set out in life
with no friend or connexions, and aspire with
out mourning the charge of presumption, to 4
eeat ia the House Of Lords. We would advise
Mr.. Ingersol never to repeat his imaginary
description in the ears of any of his aristocrat
ic friends.
"Thc notion could have never entered into
the head Of any one bat a native OF a country
four or five thousand miles away. But what
influence has induced Mr.. Ingersoll to 60 out
IF his WAY To magnify the facilities of entrance
into the House of Peers, and to exat the
House Itself in a strain as lofty as it is unin,
telligibie? What could induce sober Amer.
lean 10 talk of a house q! hereditary Legislators
xs one every line Of whose magnificent heral
dry seems to partake of the Proverbs Of Solo
mon in it's character and stimulusp
Can it be that he was enslaved by the
charms of the oratory of the proteetionist earl
who. at the meeting at Liverpool, ihdulged to
the as,onishment eli his hearers, in q labored
aulo.y on the House Of PeersY Even allowing
that. Lord Derbys description was as true as j
is certainly false, an American ambassador
might have chosen some boz line for himself
and not followed tamey in tie wake Of pro.
tectionist peer. But the Earl Of Derby asser.