Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-09
Spirit Of the Morning Press.

Spirit Of the Morning Press.
The IntelHgeneer joins the Union in Sc
verely deprecating the conduct Of the late
Admiral Cockburn, when in command of
the British squadron in Chesapeake Bay
and the Potomac during the last war with
Great Britain; and also joins the Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer in deprecating the Gus
tom of certain American presses, in con-
stantly striving to influence the popular
mind against European governments.
Judging from those newspapers, the
editor says:
sLike norus homo in good company, we
think everybody sneering at US, and shake
our fists in their faces to make them fear or
respect us- We doubt if our threats have
either one effect or the other on foreign rulers.
We incline to think that they understand us
and the nature of sour institutions better
than We give them credit for; and, so far from
viewing us with dread or enmity. it is more
likely that they regard our country in the
light of a teeming and exhaustless cow, form
ed for the nourshment of Europe, to be kept
in good humor and MIXED at pleasure
The Unions leader of this morning is
upon the alleged new attitude in which
the presses of the other side in politics
are beginning to appear. Thus, the edi-
tor says in effect that, alarmed at the in
creasing strength of the administration,
the Wing journals have abandoned the
policy of praising it, and have every
where taken to debasing and misrepre-
senting it. He then goes on to disprove the
Courier and Enquirer allegation that the
Cabinet are not unit upon the doctrines
laid down in the Inaugural, or that the
administration has changed its position
on the Pacific railroad question. In this
last connection the Union makes good
what We said month ago, relative to the
fact that it had really taken no definite
position with reference to this railroad
project. We quote, as follows, under the
impression that it conveys the very i'm
portant announcement, "by authority"
which may be drawn from it:
"The Courier's last specification is. that
the attitude of the Administration towards
the Pacific railroad has changed from favor
to hostility This statement is really too
gross an attempt to impose upon the public
1t is untrue in sCrry rrord. 1t is wholly I'M
true that the Administration has ever stood
in an attitude of favor towards the Pacific
railroad as a Government measure 1t is
wholly untrue that the Administration now
stands in an attitude Of hostility to the Pacific
railroad. It i, wholly untrue that tho adj
ministration has ever changed its attitude on
that question, because it is untrue that the
Administration has ever taken an attitude
upon it. If the COnrier suppOses that the
Administration will hereafter take some atti-
tude towards the Pacific railroad, and wishes
to guess what that attitude will be, then we
advise that journal to study carefully the Pre-
sident's political record. to see what princi-
Piles he holds in regard to such a question,
and then to consider for itself what would be
the wisest practical application of those rrin-
clples in view of the existing condition of the
country
The Union further discusses in short
editorial the condition of politics in the
State of New York, showing the folly of
the charge that Secretary Marcy and
Governor Seymour are not firm friends of
the compromise measures"
The Sun is to-day devoted to news;
while the Clipper argues in favor of an
international copy right law, so desirable
fon Dickens, Macaulay, and the rest of
the host of British writer's of eminence.