Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-09
THE NEW AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION.
FROM THE LONDON TINES OF MARCH 4.

THE NEW AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION.
FROM LONDON TINES MARCH 4.
The President of the United States assumed this day
the supreme power in that great Commonwealth and en-
upon the duties Of the Office to which he was elected
December last by large majority of his fellow citizens
in almost every State of the Union No has
commenced his high political under circumstances
more favorable than Gen. PIERCE He finds his country
in state of universal peace and unexamped prosperity
No question of immediate interest urgent gravity de-
mands prompt solution threatens the integrity of the
Union The majority which has suddenly borne him
from comparatively obscure position to be the tempo
ray head Of powerful nation seems at prescribe
his policy and to regulate his of action We may
anticipate that the policy of the United States will hence
forward be openly directed to the unrestricted free
dom of commercial intercourse both with the contiguous
provinces Of the British Empire and with foreign
tries And those territorial questions which
apt to excite the passions Of the American people, and
sometimes threaten to embro them with their neighbors,
Gen. Pierce takes the Government interval OF
pose when the relations of the Union with every part of
the world are tranquil and we hope pacific. In COM
mentng upon the discussions which have lately occurred
in the public assemblies of the United States it well to
bear in mind that much is said than meant or will
be done. Mr.. Casss decamat0ry orations tue Mon
doctrine qualified by his sturdy opposition
the schemes of the buccaneers Cuba and have
hope that the ervd appeals made to the pas
sons of the nation delicate points Of international
law will have serious effect the policy of the Union
towards the rest of the world.
General Pierce has observed most discreet and states
manke during the whole period which has elapsed
between his election and his induction office. He has
carefully avoided all those demonstrations which popular
enthusiasm and curiosity would readily have awarded
successful candidate. He has not allowed pledge to
pass his lips in public written declaration to proceed
from his pen. SO little is known Of his past life beyond
the boundaries of New Hampshire that he is unfetered
by any thing he may have said or done in any former
capacity and though must be confessed that the credit
he IN Is In n
teal succeeded better in preserving the mys
terry of undsclosed greatness in avoiding the embar
easements that precede office Even the selection of his
confidential advisers has been kept profound secret and
in country where every thing is bruited about, and
every scheme discussed beforehand by million voices,
the real character and policy of the Government at
Washington is little to be guessed at the Of
Pope in a newly assembled Conclaye the policy Of
absolute Sovereign who has just assembled the throne
Probably the of the apparent indifference Of the
American people to these considerations, which would
to be Of essential consequence under elective
government is that they well assured that under any
men whatsoever the of public affairs will be very
nearly the They regard the first officers Of State
the servants rather than the rulers of the people, and
they satisfied with the conviction that whoever may
be inrusted with the management Of public affairs will
aspire only to do their bidding.
is due however, to the statesmen of the Wing party
in the United States-of whom in an official capacity
take leave for tmeto acknowledge the ability
and prudence with which they have many occasions
found control and direct the popular WILL often
ing the relations of the Union with foreign Powers That
is the lasting glory of Mr.. Clay Mr.. Webster and more
recently of Mr. Everett and although they have certain
ly sacrificed jo of what could be considered
their national rights in the widest interpretation they
have wisely and honoraby endeavored sometimes the
risk of obloquy and censure, by negotiation
difficulties which afforded grounds of agitation to the
facous portion Of the community, net only against
the Government, but against its foreign allies.
in the very last communication addressed by Mr..
Everett to the Senate have striking example of the
results of this good feeling and forbearance, and ii may
possibly teach Gen. Cass lesson to find that at the
very time when he aborng to extract quarrel
Of the treaty with Great Britain for the establishment Of
a ship canal through Central America the British Gov
eminent was in conjunction with the American Secre
tary Of State dspassonatey considering the best
Of securing the independence Of that passage and freely
resgnng of the protecting rights which it has long
exercised portion Of those territories IL may be
in the recollection Of readers that have than
once discussed the anomalous and announcement claims on
the Mosquito coast to which Lord Palmerson appeared
when he held the Office of Foreign Secretary attach
undue Importance. He traced the boundary line
of Mosquito the swamps and serras of Honduras
and invested iterate and hAlfclothed savage with
the attributes of sovereignty King Of the Mosquitoes
though the power exercised in his really belonged
either to British subjects more lately to committee
Of American citizens Lord John Russell has very wisely
put end to this farce which exposed to the respon
sibty Of defending the independence Of territory not
and he has thus given, both to the United
States and to Central America the strongest proof OF our
pugnance extend the British territories in that part of
the globe The only point against which It is essential
both for ourselves and for the Americans to provide is
the possibility of pretenson on the part OF the Nicara
guam Government convert the passage Of the San Juan
into monopoly. The object of the treaty with the Uni
ted States and of whole policy is simply to promote
the easiest the execution of ship canal
the isthmus and to secure its freedom and neutrality
With this view il has been proposed to the city
and port into free haven and in the Of the canal
being executed it hardly fail to become Of the
most important commercial positions the globe con-
Meeting Europe with the Australian continent and the
islands of the Pacific and the Eastern
The proposal is creditabe to the English Ministry and
the spirit in which il is made Is that which ought to char
acterize our relations with the American people This is
not the first instance in which Great Britain has shown
that on the fair field of commercial competition we seek
for no exclusive advantages. We ask no more than to
stand on the public rights other nations and we
have set the example Of the policy profess by opening
our own ports and trade widely as possible to the rest
Of the world Mr. Everett though the organ Of Govern
protesting the principles Of free trade has done
Justice to our motives in this communication and he has
also sought to mark his Administration by the settlement
of the question Of the fisheries and colonial trade on fair
terms and even it is said by The signature Of treaty for
international copyright, to which his attention has no
doubt been particularly directed by his own literary con-
nexioas 1t is to be feared, however that in these mat
tiers the thread Of his official life WAL be cut before they
be completed and he win leave the work which he has
begun to be concluded by his successors
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