The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-29

| Our APPLICATION FOR TIE FRENCH Mission
! Our application to the present incompetent
! Cabinet for the mission to France creates very
sensible and interesting stir amongst the news
papers Of all classes throughout the Union. The
discussion goes on without intermission, and in
every form and shape. Some think we would
make very good minister; others salute us
with the title ofscoundrel, villain, rascal. and all
the other savory epithcts; which seem to be pecu-
liarly gratifying to the present highly classical
Cabinet at Washington. We have been accus-
toned for twenty-five years to meet like phi
losopher all kinds of abuse. and we do not think
that the spoils Cabinet can manufacture abuse
through all their forty or City organs sufficient
~ strong to put Us out Of good humor with our
selves with the world. with our prospects for the
French mission, or alter our kindness and res
poet for the President, or our high appreciation
by the female sex. In the meantime, new
phase in this extraordinary discussion about
our fitness or prospects for the mission to France
begins to show itself Our amiable cotempora-
ry Of the Tribune whose instincts are equally
opposed to Christianity and decency of Ian
guage and manners, has the following notice.
The Washington Star states that there is on the
files of the State Department written application
for the French Mission on behalf OF the notorious
james Gordon Bennett. The Star says IL will have
this interesting document brought to light when Con-
gress meets.
Very good but why postpone this interest
ing development Of the documents until the
meeting of Congress? We rather think that
we shall bring them out publicly on our own
hook, and show to the world precisely the
ground on which our application rests for this
important mission, and the merits which we
certainly believe we possess for receiving it
from the hands Of General Pierce, when he shall
be properly enlightened, either during the
present term Of the Presidency, or after his re-
election in 1856, when we know he will be
better informed on various points. Whether
our application has been put on the files of the
department since our attention has been direct
ed to this subject we know not but if it has
not, it should be forthwith placed there, and
accessible to every newspaper editor and slang
whanger in the Union, before the President be
under the necessity of making the appointment
or presenting the case to the United States
Senate. 1t would have saved the Senate,
foreign appointments such as Soule. Foresti,
Robert Dale Owen, John j.. O'Sulliyan, and
many others-had been discussed in the news
papers in anticipation OF their appointments
by the President and his Cabinet. As to our
merits we still insist on it that in every social,
political and moral point of view, our charac-
ter and reputation among those who know us
personally for the last thirty-fve years in this
community stand far higher, much purer and
better. than two-thirds of the recipients of the
foreign appointments made by the President,
and probably than half those Of his domestic ap-
pointments. We are perfectly willing to measure
our character and our reputation, in every point
OF view, with that Of any man in this community,
from the President of the United States through
the depravity OF his Cabinet, down to the lowest
tidewaiter in the custom house. 1t Is true our
rivals and enemies in newspaper enterprise
make great many uniounded, ridiculous and
intangible charges against our character: but
no man can ever put his finger on single act
of Ours in violation of any one Of the ten COM
mandments promulgated by higher power on
Mount Sinai We know our character, our prin-
ciples, our strength: and We defy the calumny
OF all the factions throughout the Union, aided
and allotted by all the political scoundrels
everywhere. combined with Satan himself who
is their great patron and great inspirer on this
| occasion.
We declare again, that in consequence Of the
discussion forced upon us about the French
mission, we are now, openly aud above board,
an applicant for that mission. and that We alb
solutely expect to be appointed to the Court Of
| the Tuilerics Immediately after the reelection
Of Pierce in 1856, if he should not get cnlight-
ened on the subject before that great event and
appoint us at an earlier day. If the present
| spois Cabinet be an obstacle to that appoint
| ment, we expect yet to be able to remove that
obstruction, as we sometimes sec the Street
| Commissioner order the removal Of a nuisance
in Broadway or the Bowery-cart them Off
This will be enough to-day on the French
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