New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or PIERCE MEN.


A writer Of strong Loco Foco proclivities,
who writes from Washington to The Journal
Of Commerce and The Baltimore Sun, says that
" the strength of the present Administration
is to be tested by its power to preserve the
peace Of the country"
Well. who is it that proposes TO precipitate
the country into war; Is it the Wings
OF course not They have carried the coun-
try through four years term without raising
OF leaving the smallest cloud in the sky. Whose
bellgerent temper and purposes is it then that
the Administration have got to resist We
know Of nobody bent upon war unless it be the
Fillibusters Of its own party. And is it so
soon that its organs begin to bespeak the aid
Of the conservative influence of the country
for pull in the preceding TO resist the head
long drag Of these gentlemen We thought
that the present Administration was TO 90
ahead and not hang back that it was to be
bold and resoute in its air aud atti-
tude toward all other nations. We have
imagined its motto was to be, Who's
afeard" We have been told all along that a
brilliant foreign policy was to characterize the
new Administration one that would contrast
strongly with what has been termed the pusil-
lanimity of the Wings. But 10 here at the
start We are spprised that the existing Admin
strstiOn find the momentum of affairs already
TOO great, and that the brakes must be forth
with applied to arrest it. We must say that
We think the gentlemen who have just taken
the reins of Government, and their friends,
are unnecessarily alarmed if they share in the
spprehensiOns ihtimated BY the writer in ques-
ton, and who is as good Journal Of Com
merce LocOfoco as can be found. Let them
not imagine that the country expects 10 take
them OF their word. 1t is well understood
that all that has been said about manifest des-
tiny-a bold foreign pOlioy-asking for nothing
but what is right, and submitting TO nothing
| that is wrOng-annexatiOn Of Cuba-driying
England out of Honduras, &c, &c, is nothing
but gas, and only intended for bunkum. No,
gentlemen, be not alarmed. Nobody expects
You 10 do any thing in particular, but to belle
your professions and this is the easiest kind of
work for you. You wilnot have so much diff.
Guilty in preserving the peace of the country as
you imagine. You may not find the WHY'S so
earnest as the Conservative party of the country
has been AZ some periods in times past, TO cling
franticaly TO the coat tails of Democratic lead
eIs in order TO prevent them from lesping over
frightful preciPices, threatening national disas-
ter and ruin. Their policy now aud their
proper duty, is to allow the party in power TO
go in their own way, and take the responsible.
ity Of their own acts Hitherto the game of
Loco Focoism has beenxo emulate the conduct
Of the bully who cries out in the midst of me-
lee" Hold NE ~ Hold me-" Il shall
hurt somebody! and so get himself willingly
pinioned by the over timid and spprehensivs
preservers of peace and good order. The Con-
servative party in the country have hitherto
been relied upon BY the Democratic party to
keep them from hurting somebody. We say
that just now the men who were defeated al
the last election do not propose TO reeuact any