Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-27
From the Newark Daily Advertiser.
Grave Truths Playfully Spoken.
PRESIDENT FILLMoRE AND his oARrNrr

PRESIDENT FILLMORE AND HIS CABINET
The present Administration has been exceedinp
~ remiss in its action during the whole course O
its existence. When tcame into mower the conn.
try was all up in arms about one thing or another
and some thought it was actually going to pieces
The government has done, nothing but make ali
things smooth and comfortable, till. by genera
confession, the nation has never attained to sucl
a height oil general prosperity as now. The two
wings OF the Union are also pretty well reconcilet
at last, and a degree of harmony is restored. Rut
the administration have made no public demon
STATIONS OF energetic power, have turned out nc
troops to put down false and pernicious opinions
nor even threatened any part Of the commauit,
with national coercion. Allythat any body know,
OF their having done is quietly and ignobly to use
their influence and shape their policy, as they cal
II, SO as TO promote peace and ~brotherly relations
rms has been accomplishedi but what credit. we
should like to know, is the Cabinet entitled to or
that account? The people have pacifed them.
selves, have prospered in their business, and made
money. All the administration has done amount,
to no more than helping them in every way the,
could, removing obstacles and MISUNDERSTANDING
bringing lack tranquility. If such a course ha.
brought about any portion of the present happ,
condition of affairs, let them make the most of it
we are willing.
Very similar has been the conduct of Mr.. Fill.
more and his Cabinet toward foreign countries
Could any except the most pusillaninious of rulers
nave constantly preserved, as they have for three
years, so good an understanding with foreign pow
ers' the weak as well as the strong, governed as
they are too by emperors and kings, and practising
continual expressions upon their subjects? The
contemplate kingdom of Portugal owes our mer-
chants money, but Mr.. Fillmore has not declared
war against it. Austria and Russia have done their
will in Hungary, but we will not march a platoon
thither. How comes it that our Government al
lows the subjects of Napoleon III to speak French
almost within cannon shot of our California boun-
Daryl Are we never to have a brush again with
Enplannf NJ lie mr. IN 49,
long as the present powers rule.
Ihank Heaven, their reign will cease in two
short months, and then w shall see if England
Will be allowed to Sail her ships of wari in company
with the French in the Caribbean sea. Long be-
fore we had existence as a nation, European Pow
erS were masters of the West India Islands; but
the United States have at length appeared, and
shall any foreign State be suffered to utter a word
now about Cuba or st. Domingo? The French
flag was seen lowering a few days ago around Sa-
mana, a little island near the Mona passage, in the
vicinity of Dominica; yet the President did not at
tack 1t. VIII not Senator CaSs, or Douglas, or
Mason, or Soule, or somebody call for papers?
Spain wishes, as is natural she should, to live in
quiet possession of Cuba, which has been hers by
q tolerable tiLIe-the right of discovery-for three
centuries and q half. We should like to know how
we can Sufftr such n thing 10 continue? Is not
she a deSpotic State, and will not some Buchanan
OF the Administration hector her till she Yields it to
a Government which is founded on law and order,
and needs the island for her purposes? If we
nave HoL HOW, lruSt the Time IS not lar oil when
there will be such a frank, honest statesman in a
position of authority.
We consider that the people, by their recent
s%uffrages, have decided most unequivocally and
inleHIgently for active interposition of the United
States on all these points, though they were never
mentioned in the canvass. We suppose we must
concetle, though we do it with reluctance. that
Great Britain has a possession of Canada at present,
as not within the Monroe Declaration; but we can
not imagine the reason why she and France want
little Greytowns and Honduras Islands, Samanas
and SonoraS, here and there and every where. We
can never consent to il, for we want them all our
selves. Yet President Fillmore has been sitting
all this time at Washington, calmly looking on these
encroachments on our territory, or rather upon our
prospect, and seeing it thus obstructed without
firing the first gun. III fact, he Is on the best
terms. to his disgrace, with foreign pow ers, and
our is fouriShing with a security in every
sea. How long shall this state of things be tolera-
ted, and the wise opinions of some American
presses Sighted? Saltpetre will take a rise, we
trust, after the 4th of March, if vote of q purse of
five Cor temp millions to the new President will
make it. The nation has been prospecting long
enough, and the successors of those who loaded us
with the present national debt will know how to
spend the surplus, now in The Treasury, without
paying it.