Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07
WASHINGTON.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
ipsepai able.D
THURSDAY, MAP 5, 1853.

Since we have, in duty to our readers, deemed it
right to copy lately several articles from sources
friendly to the President, calculated inspire some
disrust Of the pacific intentions of the new Admin
istration, we consider it due to it to copy from the
Union Of yesterday portions of article contain
ing satisfactory dsavowal of the beligerent views
imputed to the Administration by the writer's re-
terred to. We think it due to the Union, too, to
give it the benefit of its very just remarks, in
counting for misapprehensions into which the pub
lie is prone to be led on the accession Of new
Administration
UNION.
That the journals of this country should occasionally
into extrayagances of folly and in discussing
the policy Of Government is the inevitable result of their
license in political speculation, and of their anxiety to
stimulate the paled appetite Of the public by exaggerated
stories of exciting interest AT period like the present.
when the policy of new Administration is still unde
veloped the least significant of its is severely scrut-
nzed its hidden purposes boldly explored and the most
rash and ridiculous conclusions drawn from inadequate
or fictitious premises Rumors originate we know not
what authority impressions are made by we know not
what influence and the public mind is dashed by
hands into feyersh condition Of excitement and anxiety
The frank and manly avowal of purposes and policy which
the President made in his inaugural addressto the nation
has partially failed to produce its legitimate effect upon
the popular mind in consequence only Of the rash pecu
latons and exravagan stories of portion Of the public
press In his inaugural address President Pierce gave
the country every Of permanent peace in in
dcatng foreign policy based upon the highest principles
Of national honor and public faith The almost universal
applause Of the country indicated its satisfaction Nothing
in the conduct of the Administration conflicts with the
clared policy Of the President Nothing has occurred
disturb that feeling Of security and satisfaction which
peryaded the nation But it seems that an anxiety in
respect to the foreign relations Of the country felt in
certain quarters correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
discourses in the following strain
THE Union here inserts the letter of lon, which
we copied yesterday, and proceeds j
BY such wild speculation this is the public mind
kept in fever Of excitement and anxiety 1t would be
vain it is unnecessary to attempt to aay appre
hension utterly unwarrantable that to which the
correspondent of the Sun refers.
We take all this in good faith; and although, as
the Union says, "the policy of the new Admins
tration is still undeyeloped," we will not doubt that
its aims are those Of peace. The President is a
reader, and may have been impressed with the truth
of that fine lesson for Potentates and Presidents
''Peace greatness best becomes Calm powr doth guide
With far more imperious stateliness
Than all the swords Of violence can do;
And easier gains those ends she tends unto"