The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

- ~ I6llS4 IT. paragraphs il relation
s;sn policy 81 ne dissatisfaction, from
tington Us;ss. Il will End warm re-
SPonse very American bosom:
80 e. s, aesf vide-.psead and long accuma.
l'rcc = sne popular mind vas the sense Of
sis;s. /. Ss ~ p1eas exigency in our national
~ American people but n me aee !uosmen. o.
1ofciRn nations also, the administrator = =
eesponded - justly to secure the public conf
xence. We refer to the foreign policy Of the
country. including alike its territorial and com.
merciai rights and expansion the elevation Of
The American name, the maintenance of the
immunisies VI American citizenship in foreign
lands. The unfortunate errors Of the last al.
ministration made the fact fully apparent thst =
deliberate and well-consdered and general pub.
lie sentiment in regard to our foreign affairs
vas far in advance Of the line Of policy adonted
~ that administration aud that which was
secognized as we'll and rightfuly exercised in The
State Department towards its close only proved
The more conclusvely that the Id formulas and
8trad'tons OF the wing party in lis foreign policy
were rePugnant t. the spirit Of the people. and
utterly unsuited to the new era on which the.
conntry was entering.
In view OF this state of public feeling. it is
not easy to see why the President ) announce
y ment, IN ms Inaugural, of the spirit of his for
Hseign policy, took the popular heart by storm
a 1t was the word which the country was lonyino
TO hear from the Presidential chair. We need
! not repeat the sense of those weighty sentences
which have engraved themselves upon the
memory OF the people. 1t is enough to say that
the whole doctrine Of our national growth and
grandeur and fair rcnown among the nations Of
the earth Is there. As those declarations went
forth, there was not an American in foreign
lands who did not lift his head with fuller con.
viction Of security and prouder sense Of pa.
triotisin; tor IN their spirit and the whole man
ner Of their utterance waDseen and felt con-
elusive evidence that they would stand as the
deliberate sense and the fixed purpose of the
American government and people; and when
the gallant lngraham cleared his ship for action
and took his stand upon her quarter deck,
watch in hand, to mark the moment at which
the unlawful grasp of the Austrian government
upon the liberty and life of poor Hungarian
exile must be Embossed because he stood within
the safeguard Of our country, that act, heroic
a. II was, drew its whole significance and effect
from the universal conviction that it was but
true sign Of the policy which the new Ameri-
can administration had avowed and would
maintain II is not needed that we should refer
IN detail to other instances of the action of The
administration in regard to our intercourse
with foreign powers, nor to what is understood
90 be its attitude in regard to the questions Of
foreign policy which most nearly concern our
Aational interests and welfare. II is enough 10
say that even partisan calamny does not venture
TO deny that, by it, own pledges as well as by
the whole attitude Of its party, the present ad-
mlnlstration is fully committed to stand or fall
with the maintenance Of policy thoroughly
American in lis spirit and purpose, and adequate
g me growth, the progress, and the destiny of
par eo0ntry.