Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-28

experience in its own party with this very intelligi-
DIE propositions: 'Our peOtle rant Cubu and then
,o'H haze it; and it is idle for politicians to name
the cases i'll which they will give consent to its nc
qulsltion.,' This is, in brief, the logic of the mod
ern democracy, and the'way in whichi it deals with
every thing that IS most respectable in its owrranks.
And, pursuing for several pages u strain of reason
ing TO sustain this demonstration, the article ofthe
Review arrives at the following conclusions re-
mafku6ly 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 less among the legacies
OF the outgoing Executive to the Incoming Presi-
dent is the SEXUAL of this uery Cuban di6fcuhies.-
II oehooveS us all to be prepared for ertremities.-
Ehe measures to beataken are very simple The
principal are to follow Cromwell, in praying to
God and keeping our powder dry.
- S"sThe sinewS of War should not. only be forth
coming, but in hand; and we have bestowed on
the question of finance long and careful attention.
we are in favor ofG credit Of seperal millions
beng opened at the Treasury for the use of the merit
Fresident IN case Of need. It is not much differ
ence whether the amount placed at his order be FIVE
or len millions or twenty mlllioas; and out of the
abundant surplus on hand over the estimated ex-
pendltures, 1t will be better to make ample p-o-,
visions Tor contingencies than TO have the Execu-'
tive withou! money at a critical moment"
In a preceding part of the article, the Reviewer
had yet more explicitly unveiled the projects and
calculations of the young (and ~verdent) Democra-
cY, as follows:
III EIeSlueul Elect at tnelr leau, the pa
Llouc spirits OF the county, who are the men of the
future, will not lag behind Nantes Duty and Des-
tttny III reference to the waters, and islands, and
lsthmuseS of the Gulf of Mexico"
A yet more remarkable coincidence than the
conclusions VI the democratic Review" is the
conspicuous publication, in a leading Democratic
paper in the city of New York on Sunday, the 18th
OF this month, (the day preceding that of the vote
upon the question in the House of Representa-
tves,) of an article noticing the first suggestion of
this len Million proposition TO the House, Ia few
days earlier than the vote upon IT'D in which the
credit is claimed for that journal of having been
the trSt to advise the measure, and after commend
ing the frank disclosure, in the body of the resolu-
uon, OF the contingencies 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 inc dentally with England and france, ON the
The Cuba question; our confused and embarrassing
relatlons with Mexico; our intricate, perplexing,
ana notifying relations with England IN Central
Ainerlca-to say nothing of the affair. of Hayti, or
OF the inviting field for anlarged system of COM
merclal facilities with the States of South Ameri-
ca-wll demand of the President elect, from the
day OF his inauguration, all the skill, sagacity, tact,
talent, courage, and discretion which he can bring
lntohlS administration. Secondly, he will be reOuir-
ed to act without further delay, and upon a holder
and mo:e positive and decisive schedule than the
mIlk-and-water policy of General Taylor's Cabi-
@@f - SoAAS 49, = AAhAOk d" Al II lUIu
place. a decisive reversal of their policy in regard
TO Cuba, Mexico, or Central America. may bring
us nto collision with England, France, or Spain,
or with all combined.
sin the mean time, Congress, adjourning on the
fourth of March, does not regularly meet again till
the first Monday in December next. During this
l"ng vacuum OF nine months the whole weight of
the Government, with all its foreign responsible
ties. will rest upon tue President and his Cabinet.
IN the absence of any discretionary power, or dis
cFet'"rHry means, he may be reduced to THE ExrRE-
NIFTY OF CALLING AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS-;
whereas, with a a reserved fund of ten millions To
BACK nm, that expensive, and generally worse
than useless expedient, may be avoided. AT all
events, 1t is the part Of wisdom to provide, as far
as the CRISIS requires, against any probable neccs-
Slty Tor an extra session."
In view of these disclosures, from collateral
sources, OF the ends for which these ten millions
oil doll1rs were desired by certain aspiring gentle.
men 10 be put into the hands of the President,
with tie avowed purpose of placing these trunscen-
IDENTIFY important issues beyOnd the reach of con-
holding the mover Of the PROPOSE
Uon III Congress accountable for what has been
SAID out OF doors in favor of the schemes it pos
slOle 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
propoSlhon, the country has so far escaped? With
what more deplorable evils could the opening of
fandora's tabled Box have filled the confines of
earth Than the conSummation of the views of these
journalists might have shed, by kindling a general
war, not upon this People only, but upon nearly
every nation with which we are now in friendly
intercourse?