The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-09
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which the governments Of France IA d..
nave acted.
We may now, therefore, CO. ..,a.r Tho. .r1,o,.
Toms Cabin" has run it = r,ce in Eurone Pro-
'cribed, or at least e,>sudsmnea by three of the
most influential governments it ceases to pos
sess any political v,eirht and relies solely for
popularity on the fictitious interest which it
possesses IN common with Jack Sheppard"
,. mas serv ed as thorough test of the feelings
OF foreip, ners towards our institutions With
all re witchery Of dramatic art and every
chs'rm which talent could bestow the cause OF
a'oolition has been argued before the people OF
Europe; and out Of the whele assembled au-
dience but one clique--that of Stafford House
has given us the least reason to suppose that
they saw any thing deeper in the book than a
mere interesting catchpenny tale. The only
real converts that Mrs. Stowe has made out OF
her ten or fifteen millions of European readers,
are the forty or fifty titled personages, whose
unabashed snobbery has just received so mark
ed an illustration.
We entreat the abolitionists to ponder on
the fact. We beg them calmly to note the
gradual falling off in the Uncle Tom excite
ment ON this side the water; the terrible disap-
poihtment which the failure of the Key" has
inflicted on the publisher, and the probability
of both lock and key being entirely forgotten
five years hence. Mrs Stowe will need to
probe her Imagination afresh and furnish
some fresh stimulus to public curiosity before
long ifshe does not wish to relapse into peace
full oblivion and obscurity.
Mexican Afairs-Ai montc's Official Reception
ny the p esident-The Speeches-Pence or
War.
We think it was that sly old fox, Talleyrand,
who said that words in diplomacy were used
to conceal ideas And he was right, for except.
ing the straightforward way of Napoleon L.
such is the simple solution ofdiplomatic science,
in its highest perfection in Europe. 1t admits
Of the masking of the most belligerent designs
under the specious veil of the most delusive
reservations of peace. Mark. for example, the
late diplomacy Of Russia on the Turkish ques-
ton; the Gear dallies with his intended victim
as an innocent cat plays with an unfor-
tunate mouse; he boxes the poor Moslem into
his corner upon each attempt to escape, though
it is with paw as soft as velvet. But the
claws are felt though invisible, while busy pre-.
parations for deadly conflict fill up the whole
background of the picture.
We have striking illustration of this by
play or child's-play of diplomacy.in the official
reception of General Almonte, the represen-
tative of Santa Anna, at Washington. The
polite and courteous Mexican says
The Mexican government, desiring nothing
else - to cultivate and draw closer each time
the relations Of friendship which happily
exist Detween that nation and this in providing that
my worthy predecessor should go to ill mission o.
the utmost importance in another country, wished
that his place might be filed up without delay by
another representative, and upon me has fallen the
lot Of being selected for SO delicate a charge
From this it would appear that the only de-
sire of Santa Anna, (for he is the Mexican
government) in sending General Almonte so
promptly to Washington, is to cultivate and
draw closer the good relations of friendship
which happily exist between that nation and
this" Nothing else is desired. But at the same
time santa Anna is strengthening his army to
the war standard Of nearly hundred thousand
men he is known to be extremely DESTROYS Of
an alliance, offensive and defensive, with the
powers Of Europe most interested in Mexican
affairs he has introduced some forty or more
Spanish officers into his service the Captain
General of Cuba and the Spanish feet off that
island are suspected Of acting in cooperation
with his movements supplying him with arms
and munitions of war, and the newspaper or
gans of the Spanish government furnish evi
dence in confirmation Of these suspicious. He
has also, substantially. declared repeatedly
since his recall from Carthagena, his implaca
BILE hostility to these United States and has
sworn against the surrender of another square
inch Of the sacred soil of Mexico to the rapacity
Of the Yankees, whatever may be the other
alternative
On our side, from all that we can gather from
the reply of our President relative to the re-
firing Minister Larrainzar, and to his distin-
guished successor, Almonte, the desire for
peace and fraternal harmony between us and
the Mexicans is as strongly entertained by Gen.
Pierce and his cabinet as by Santa Anna him
self simultaneously, however. with these pa
SiAS uSSlaidtiOus, ~ lS well uuucIbtOOu budb Jul
administration have said that the disputed ter
ritory Of the Meslla valley is ours, and that
Gov. Meriwether and Col. Garland are en- route
for New Mexico, or shortly will be, with in
structions to maintain the neutrality of the dis
pated district notwithstanding that our official
boundary commissioner has turned it over to
Mexico as coming rightly within her jurisdic-
ton under the treaty. We also know that the
Tehuantepec question, brought to the verge Of
war under the pacific administration of Mr..
Fillmore, is now in more perplexing position
than ever, and with cabinet less likely to
stick upon trifes
All these facts and circumstances, on both
sides. go to confirm the apothegm of Prince
Talleyrand, that words in diplomacy are used
rather to conceal ideas than to disclose the real
character of the relations suhaistino betwean