Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-07

less fantastic turn.
On the 18th March he returned to his hotel in
Vienna about midnight. An hour and half af-
forwards feeling himself indisposed, he called his
vaIet de chan,bre aud asked for glass of water
On entering the room, the servant found his
master in the agones of death. Physicians were
Immediately called in, but the General had ceas-
ed to live. "Haynau has died of clensency,' was
a common remark in Jenna the next day.
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The British Press and the Inaugural.
The two leading newspapers of London differ
widely in their interpretation of Gen. Pierce's In.
augural The Chronicle prouounces the address
an emnenty conservative document, whilst the
Times regards it as decidedly aggressive in its
tone and principle. Considering the marvellous
degree of candor and explicitness claimed for
the inaugural by Gen. Pierce's friends, this diff =.
terence OF opinion in respect to its meaning
among intelligent foreigners looks little strange
we leave to the Democratic press the task of
explaining how it happens that one portion of
their British brethren like Gen. Cass, claim
Gen. Pierce an old fogy. whilst another portion
like Judge Douglas hold him to be disciple of
Young America. The Chronicle comments ON
| the inaugural as follows:
We are unable to assent to the opinion express
ed by some OF our contemporaries that the speech
delivered by President Pierce, on his inauoura-
ton, is of a temperate and conservative char
acter, or that the sweeping principles which tho
! head OF the American government has thought
fit to lay down are materially qualified by the APP
| plicatlon he proposes to make of them. In our
| judgment, there is mixture of looseness and
| Dretenson in the style of this discourse which
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sense of its author; for to write simply and cor
rectly is certainly of the first qualifications of
| man who addresses his countrymen and the
! world as the chosen governor of powerful peo-
| pie. Although the diplomatic body we're pre-
sent when this address was delivered, it contains
| not one word which can be understood TO convey
| the customary assurances of respect and good
will to the powers of Europe, and the passages
about ia nation of soveregns standing unabasfed
even in the presence of princes or the "panopy
| OF American citizenship partake of that bombas
| which 1t is more prudent to avoid on such occa-
! sions. 1t seems, moreover, that these express
sions were addressed to the spot at which the re-
| representatives. of foreign governments were placed,
| with an emphasis and manner that could hard
| ly have been unintentional; for these words
served as an Introduction to reassertion of what
| is called the 'Monroefdoctrine, in the strongest
language which has ever yet been employed. to
the effect. that 1.-THE rights the security, aad the
repose ofthe confederacy reject the idea of in"
reference or colonization this side ofthe ocean
by ary foreign power beyond present jurisdiction
as utterly inadniissible." In other terms, the
government of the United States not only deter
mines what its own rights and possessions are
and ought to be over the whole American CONT
nent very broad and uncontrolled principles
but it repels as nadmissbe the idea OF the inter-
ference of every other State. For instance, if
Santa Anna who is happily recalled to rescue
| Mayico fror,,f tho md
which that country has fallen, should seek to
strengthen his government by closer alliance
with any European power, as it might be his in
terest to do, the United States would resist such
q measure, if they were already entitled to
pronounce supreme decision on the acts and
alliances of their independent neighbors 1t is
| needless to add that this lis doctrine which can
| not, according to one of General Pierce's singu-
lar expressions "challenge ready Justification
| before the tribunal of the civilized world" for if
| it were acted upon it would be absolutely desruc-
| tive of the independence of all second rate pow
| ers.
The London Times has long article on the
inaugural, from which we take the following ex-
| tract:
| The inaugural message of General Pierce,
which this day publish, is probably the
smallest sacrifice which was ever offered by u
| democratic politician to the principles of Ameri
can democracy. 1t the abstract proposition were
| struck out, this address would read like a grave
| profession of conservatism from some statesman
of the school of Washington and Adams
| Wherever the new President has enunciated
| principle, it melts down to nothing in
| his description of its application. No soon-
er has he sketched the bod outline of a
policy than he takes up his brush, and colors
| with neutral tint. 1t is obvious, through
| out his message, that he is addressing him
| self in turn to the various crotchets which his
| party has from time to time taken up, with the
view of giving fair notice to their votaries that
complimentary ausion is all which they may
expect from him. The Kossuth agitation is in
Dictated as appealing to the sympathes of the
American people "in the cause of human freedom
and universal ADVANCEMENT but this gentle adj
mission is prefaced by significant state ent that
| the United States have 10 relations with the
| complicated European systems of national po-
n.y. and are Indifferent to the wars, the tumults
| and the anxetes of the Old World. Much tn >
same treatment is accorded to the Monroe doc
trne' which Is disposed of in the fewest possible
words General ass gets hint that its re-affirm-
alton would be little less than folly aud the only
satisfaction proffered to that turbulent gentleman
consists in sort ofparenthetcal declaration that
'.the rights, security and repose of this cou.
| federacy re ect the idea of interference mr.
colonization on this side of the ocean. bv any
| foreign power. beyond present jurisdiction.
as utterly nadmissible." But by fur he most
striking evidence of the Presidents mod.
Grafton is afforded by his remarks on Cuba
and Mexico 10 language infinitely more con-
sistent with due sense of national obligation |
than was recently employed by the secretary of