Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-29

CuDa should Tor the present remain cOony Vi Cpa,
and that we will not interfere with it unless other
Governments attempt to grasp or buy it, or until
it has achieved its own independence rdculed as
stale and worn-oat doctrines J" whilst (says the
reviewer) "Me aohole race Of statesmen cho haze
thus far been IN place are about 70 disappear be-
fore the food Of progress and improvement which
they do not understand and cannot resist" winding
up this wholesale denunciation and prescription OF
political wisdom and experience its own party with
this very ineligible proposition Orr People
,oant Cubs and aoH haze and it is idle for poll
ticians to name the cases in which they will give
their consent to its acquisition This il ia briSf
th3 logic Of the modorn Democracy, and the why ii
which it deals with every thing that is most respect
able in its own ranks. And, pursuing for seve-
raj pages strain of reasoning to sustain this
demonstration, the article Of the Review arrives at
the following conclusions, remarkably consistent,
in their substance, with the proposition defeated
| in the House on Monday last:
! "All around the horizon the tempest lowers over
the United States and not least among the lega-
cies of the outgoing Executive to the incoming
/" President is the sequel Of this very Cuban diff
g culty. 1t behooves all to be prepared for en-
+" tren,ittes. The measures to be taken very
g simple. The principal are to follow Cromwell,
| !" in praying God and keeping our powder dry"
"The sinews of War should not only be forth
coming, but in hand and we have bestowed on
:" the question of finances long and careful atten-
I" tion''
.'sWe are in favor Of a credit Of seoeral millions
being opened at the Treasury for the use Of the
!" aert President IL case Of need. 1t is not much
g difference whether the amount placed at his order
Il ha mill nd MT af fha
:" abundant surplus on hand over the estimated ex-
pendture, it will be better to make ample proy-
sion for contingencies than to have the Executive
without money at critical moment"
| In a preceding part Of the article, the Reviewer
had yet more explicitly unveiled the projects and
calculations of the young (and verdant) Democracy
as follows:
| "With the President Elect at their head the
patriotic spirits Of the country, who are the men
/" Of the future, will not lag behind Manifest
Duty and Destiny in reference to the waters, and
+" islands, and isthmuses of the Gulf of Mexico"
A yet more remarkable coincidence than the con-
clusons of the Democratic Review is the con-
spicuous publication, in leading Democratic paper
in the city of New York on Sunday, the 10th of
this month, he day preceding that Of the vote upon
the question in the House Of Representatives of an
article noticing the first suggestion Of this Ten Mil
lion proposition to the House, "a few days earlier
than the vote upon IT'D in which the credit is claimed
for that journal of having been the first to advise
the measure, and, after commencing the frank dis
closure in the body Of the resolution, of the con-
tingcncies to which the money is to be applied, the
same journal recapitulates as follows " the more
prominent reasons why this fund of ten millions
should be voted to the discretion of Gen. PIERCE :"
First then our delicate relations with SPAIN and in
cidentaly with England and France the Cuba ques-
tion; our confused and embarrassing relations with
Mexico our intricate perpexng, snd mortifyng fea-
tions with England in Central Americato say nothing
Of the affairs of Hayt of the inviting field for en-
larged system Of commercial facilities with the States OF
South Amcrica-wi demand of the President elect from
the day Of his inauguration all the Skill sagacity, TACT
talent courage and discretion which he can bring into
his Administration. Secondly, he will be required to
act without further delay and upon bolder and more
positive and decisive schedule than the milk and water
policy of General Tayors Cabinet and Of Mr. President
Fillmores In the third place, decisive reversal Of
their policy in regard to Cuba, Mexico, or Central Ame-
rica may bring into collision with England France,
| or Spain with oil combined.
In the mean time Congress- adournng on the fourth
Of March, does regularly again till the first
Of nine months the whole weight Of the Government
with all its foreign responsibilities, viii rest upon the
President and his Cabinet In the absence Of any dis
creonary power, Discretionary means he may be
duced 70 THE EXTREMITY CALLING OF
CoxGREss whereas with reserved fund Of ten millions
TO back him, that erpeasive and generally WORSE THAN
ExPEDIEST, may be avoided At oil events IL
is the part Of wisdom to provide far the crisis
quires, against any probable necessity for extra
sion."
In view Of these disclosures, from collateral
sources, of the ends for which these ten millions Of
dollars were desired by certain aspiring gentlemen
to be put into the hands of the President, with the
avowcd purpose Of placing these traascendently i'm
portant issues beyond the reach Of Congress-with-
out holding the mover Of the proposition in Con-
press accountable for what has been said out Of
doors in favor Of the scheme-is il possible to shut
our eyes to the extent Of the dangers which, through
the wise discretion Of the House of Representatives
in declining to entertain this proposition, the coun-
try has so far escaped With what more deplorabe
eys could the opening Of Pandoras fablcd Box have
filed the confines of earth than the consummaton
of the views of these journalists might have shed,
by kindling general war, not upon this People
Ionly, but upon nearly every nation with which we
arc new in friendly intercourse
wpoucur IRoS manufactured directly from the ore
with mineral coal without reducing II first pig iron,
nd thence by puddinr into wrought iron s now being