Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-15
CRAVE TRUTHS, painfully SUGGESTED
PRESIDENT FILLMORE AND HIS CABINET.

PROM THE NEWARK DAILY ADVERTISER OF JAN. z.
The present Administration has been exceedingly
.emss in its action during the whole course of its
existence When il came into power the country
was all up in arms about one thing another, and
some thought it was actually going to pieces. The
Government has done nothing but make all things
smooth and comfortable, till, by general confession,
the nation has never attained to such height Of
general prosperity as now. The two wings of the
Union are also pretty well reconcled at last, and
degree of harmony is restored. But the Admins
ration have made public demonstrations Of ener-
getic power, have turned out troops to put down
false and pernicious opinions, even threatened
any part Of the community with national coercion.
All that any body knows Of their having done is
quietly and ignobly to their influence and shape
their policy they call it, so as to proote peace
and brotherly relations. This has been accomplish
ed but what credit, we should like to know is the
Cabinet entitled to ON that account? The people
have pacifed themselves, have prospered in their
business, and made money. All the Administra-
ton has done amounts to no more than helping
them in every way they could, removing obstacles
and misunderstanding, bringing back tranquility
If such course has brought about any portion of
the present happy condition of affairs, let them make
the most of It; We are willing
MORE and his Cabinet toward foreign countries.
Could any except the most pusillanimous of rulers
have constantly preserved, as they have for three
years, so good an understanding with foreign Pow
ers the weak as well as the strong, governed they
are too by emperors and kings, and practising con-
tinual expressions upon their subjectsY The con-
temptible kingdom of Portugal owes our merchants
money, but Mr. Fillmore has not declared war
against it. Austria and Russia have done their
will in Hungary, but we did not march platoon
thither. How comes it that our Government allows
the subjects of Napoleon ILL., to speak French almost
within cannon shot of our California boundary
Are we never to have a brush again with England
We believe not, in our conscience, as long as the
present powers rule
Thank Heaven, their reign will cease in two short
months, and then we shall see if England will be
allowed to sail her ships of war in company with the
French in the Caribbean sea. Long before we had
existence as nation European Powers were masters
of the West India Islands; but the United States
have at length appeared and shall any foreign State
be suffered to utter word now about Cuba or St.
Domingo?' The French flag was seen lowering
few days ago around SANTANA, little island near
the Mona passage, in the vicinity of Dominica yet
the President did not attack it. VIII not Senator
Cass, or Douglas, or Mason, or Soule, or somebody
call for papers2 Spain wishes, as is natural she
hould, to live in quiet possession of Cuba, which
has been hers by tolerabe title-the right of dis
covery-for three centuries and half. We should
like to know how we suffer such thing to con-
tinuey Is not she despotic State, and will not
some Buchanan of the Administration hector her
till she yields it to Government which is founded
on law and ORDER and needs the island for her pur-
posesI If we have not now, we trust the time is
not far off when there will be such frank, worthy
statesman in position of authority.
We consider that the people, by their recent
sufrages, have decided most unequivocally and in
diligently for active interpostion of the United
States on all these points, though they were never
mentioned in the canvass. We suppose we must
concede, though do it with reluctance that Great
Britain has title to the possession of Canada at
present, as not within the Monroe Declaration but
we cannot imagine the reason why she and France
want little Greytowns and Honduras Islands, Sa-
manas and Sonoras here and there and every where.
We can never consent to it, for we want them all
ourselves. Yet President Fillmore has been sitting
all this time at Washington, calmly looking on these
encroachments our territory, or rather upon our
prospect, and seeing it thus obsructed without firing
the first gun In fact he is on the best terms, to
his disgrace, with foreign Powers and our commerce
is fourishng with security in every sea- How long
shall this state Of things be tolerated. and the wise
opinions of some American presses sighted? Salt
petre will take a rise, we trust after the 4th Of
March, if vote of purse of five Cor ten) .iilons
to the new President will make it. The nation has
been prospering long enough, and the Of
those who loaded with the present national debt
will know how to spend the surplus, now in the
Treasury, without paying it.