The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-14
The French Mission AColn.

Marcy, Guthrie, and Davis will act.
The French Mission Again.
Will there be no end to this subject Ct the
French mission? We are receiving communi-
cations from Washington and many other parts
| Of the country. all making inquiries on the sub
ject of this mission, and endeavoring to eluci.
| date the movements that were made on our
behalf during our absence in Europe. We are
| every Gay met by persons, with grin from
top to bottom of their face, asking us what
progress we are making in procuring the mis-
sion to France from our special personal and
devoted friend Secretary Marcy Ofcourse we
always make reply that our prospects are as
good as might be expected under the circum-
stances. In another column will be found q
further communication from our correspondent
at Washington, protesting to give some fresh
and novel views in relation to the application
made by various parties to General Pierce and
his Cabinet in favor of the French mission being
awarded to us as part Of the spoils resulting
from the great victory Of 1852
Seriously, this is a very amusing and funny
business. 1t seems that during our absence in
Europe set of adventurers-some of them
protesting to have influence and control in the
HERALD, though they were hardly ever inside
the Office. and others giving out that they had
purchased up the editor for large sum of
money-were actually talking on one side of
their mouth in favor of our mission to France in
connection with our name, while they were very
busy endeavoring to procure offices for them
selves and their friends, under the feint of talk
ing about US. We have reason to believe from
the facts which have come to our knowledge
since our return, that the agents of Marcy. at
Concord, actually made General Pierce believe
that everything that was done by the HERALD
was procured through the influence of Marcy
and his faction in New York, aided and assisted
by Belmont and the capitalists of that day, who
declared that they advanced a large sum of
money in favor Of the election. A more gratui-
tous piece Of insolence and falsehood never was
put forth, than such stories by these men; but
unfortunately, however, it appears that General
Pierce actually believed them at the tinic.
Mr.. Glover, of this city, on the part Of Mr..
Belmont, once talked to us in favor of sustain
ing Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency. But this
was soon settled at the time; and even Mr..
Marcy, for the first time in twenty years, ap-
preached US at the Irving House, and began to
talk in favor of Mr.. Buchanan-but this was
before the nomination at Baltimore and against
General Pierce and his prospects for the Presi
dency. Old Marcy had cheated us twenty
years before, in the most mean and contempti-
BILE manner that one man could cheat another,
and we soon settled his hash for him. But he
procured by stealth the insertion in the columns
Of our paper an article against Gen. Scott, which
was full of malice and falsehood, and which we
did not then know had come from Marcy, else it
should have been rejected. All these intriguers,
it seems, were using and abusing the capital
which the HERALD had made in the election
campaign, during our absence in Europe
praising its great efforts and admiring its won
derful leaders, while they gave out at the same
time that all had been procured and purchased
by these chaps themselves.
Such was the gross humbug which Marcy
Belmont, Forney, Saunders-and we don't know
how many others-all attempted to pass cur
rent during our absence, in reference to the
French mission and the influence of the HERALD.
We heard, also, while in Europe, and during our
sojourn in Wiesbaden, that Gen. Pierce, in pub
lie and in private, in every form and shape,
was profuse in his gratitude, and thanks and
admiration Of the course which was pursued
towards him in the New York HERALD, and of
the editor thereof This created in us a smile;
but an interesting person advised us, just out
Of within, to test the sincerity Of Gen. Pierce
himself in his warm culogiums passed upon the
course If the HERALD in his election: and ac-
| cordingly We commenced q very amusing
| corresI ondorce On the subject, consisting Of
| three letters addressed to General Pierce. III
| rretty much the same strain as the man
| from the " est applied to General jackson for
| the Office of the first minister in his Cabinet
| hut in case he could not get that or anything
| below it, nc would be content with an old pair
of breccles sooner than go away without some
thing by way Of a present from the cid hero
| At the clsse Of the correspondence, we found
| II to be an aLsolute fact that General Pierce
| tie President of the United States. had not in
] fucnce enough with Secretary Marcy to pro-