Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-04
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS,

The htetllgenccr, noticing the Unions
recent comments on the rumored refusal
of Sardinia to grant an exequatur to Fee
ix Foresti, our newly appointed consul
to Genoa, says:
1T having been surmised in some paper
that Foresti, a naturalized Italian, lately ap-
pointed Consul to Genoa might not BIO accept
able to the Sandman authorities, our Gov
eminent paper, the Union, gives them to I'M
derstand, in advance, that if they do not ac-
cept Foresti as consul there UiH be none. Our
model Republic has certainly model organ :;
but we question whether in this case either
the style of the notification to Sardinia, or the
right implied in it of forcing ON foreign
Government particular individual as consul,
had the sanction of the Secretary of State
The Union discusses the " independent
support" given by the dissatisfied Demo-
Gratis to President Pierce, using the labors
ofMessrs. Cooley, ofNew York, and Burke.
Edmund, of that ilk) for its exemplars.
Of Mr.. Burke's labors in this connection,
the editor says:
Edmund Burke plays the Fart of domestic
conspirator, and, to make his treason effective
he deems it important to maintain the relation
OF personal friendship to the President. To
him seeIss to be assigned the work of under.
mining the personal character of his victim ;
whilst Mr. Cooley, aided by Mr.. Brady is to
storm the citadel by open assaults. Mr. Burke
Is shrewd politician, and understands the
necessity, in the accomplishment of his pur-
poses, of destroying that personal standing
which secures to the President the affections
and confidence of the people. He cares not to
preserve for himself a reputation for purity
and integrity if he can but involve the char
acter Of General Pierce in ruin. To this end
he has undertaken to give history of the
nomination of President Pierce and in that
history he unblushingly makes himself the
hero OF base intrigue, which utterly discred-
its him as politician and as man of candor
and Integrity. He duplicates not only the
particular friends of General Pierce in New
Hampshire, but boldly asserts that Gen. Pierce
himself was cooperating in his designs.
single paragraph from his publication will
show the character of the intrigue and the
ooject for which Mr.. Burke makes it public.
Speaking of a meeting of the New Hampshire
delegates shortly before the Baltimore Con-
yention be says:
Whilst Mr.. Burke is seeking to undermine
the personal character of the President by
disclosures which, if true, would disgrace
himself, Mr.. Cooley is traversing the Empire
crimes which would render him filter inmat.
OF prison house than of the White House.
We have promptly and dignantly denounced
his cslumnies as they deserved but Mr.
Cooley is the leading candidate on the ticket
of an organization in New York which claims
to be peculiarly the national democracy
This fact gives to his ISLANDERS their chief i'm
portance He is supported by leading demo
Gratis who have heretofore occupied high
stations In the party and in the country. Mr.
Dickinson, Mr.. OConor, Judge BronGon-these
gentlemen, who almost claim a mouopoly of
purity and nationality of democratic excel
lence, are supporting for a high office this
miserable calurnniator, We happen to be
thoroughly acquainted with the personal habits
OF the President. We see him almost every
day, and have no hesitation in saying that a
moro exemplary and moral man does not live
IN Washington. The whole population of the
cityis ready to rise and pronounce Mr. Cooley
slanderer. The personal habits Of the President
are as well known in Washington as his face.
and, without distinction of parties, he has
won, by his urbanity, his frankness his at
tention to all the civilities and moralities OF
society, the warm esteem and admiration of
the entire city. Yet Mr.. Cooley sustained by
ms eo-eenspirators in New York, loads his
name with abuse and caumny-and this he
does tnat the administration may be over
thrown"
The O"'on further take up Judge Bron.
sons last letter to Secretary Guthrie, and
shows conclusively that B. and his friends
have been from the first actuated bv IT,.
reconcilable hostility to the National and
State administrations. The editor to this
end reviews the course of Senator Cooley
from three months before the Syracuse
conventions came together, to date; show.
ing that though he had voted consistent.
ly with the Wings from that time, and
had improved every occasion for abusing
the President and Cabinet personally.
the Adamant,ne convention singled him
ana his course out for their express ap-
proval and praise by resolutions, failing
at the same time to say a kind word Of
heNational or State Democratic admins.
trations. The editor then takes ND Judoe
Bronson, and shows that he recently used
the whole patronage Of the New York
custom house to sustain Cooley i Co.,
who were Iaboring tostrepgthen the hands