The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-07
WASHINGTON CITY.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. =, 1864.
ENGLISH DENUNCIATIONS OF THE ADMINISTRA
TON OF FRANKLIN PIERCE.

ENGLISH DENUNCIATIoNs OF THE ADMINIsTRA-
TI0N OF FRANKLIN PIERCE.
The London Times has paid its respects to the admins
tration Of President Pierce in article of characteristic
insoence and iasehood--the immediate provoeaon being
the attack upon the of San juan The Times was an
early caumnator of the President Among the first il
true proclaim its joy his election for certain selfish
commercial reasons it was also the very first European
journal hired the corrupt pen of reckless advenurer
TO repeat the most atrocious personal ISLANDERS upon the
character Of the American Executive These shameless
bels have ceased only, presume, because they
supposed to be in such gross contradiction of the voun
tary concentrations with which the Times hailed the in
auguraton of the President and probably because they
not believed to be proper preparations to an era Oh
good feeling between England and America at the time tue
former was about to go TO war; Now, however, the Times
falls back the slough of yituperaton and resumes
its most congena avocaton eopening the uiees of its
abuse upon the present Administrations We copy its last
ebuon of good feeling in another part of o-days paper
to show alike the readiness with which the Times repeats
the party slang of our own oppositionkindred in all its
hopes and fears with the British arstocracyand the reck
essness with which it fabricates the and bodest
falsehoods
Nothing is so certain of arousing the slumberng ami
Times is the representative, as the appearance of n
bold and independent tone this side OF the Atlantic
That General Pierce should bea vore with the class
of politicians that hold Great Britain to be sort OF con-
stable of the seas kind of drectorgcner of distant peo
plethe COLOSSUS Of nations and the political providence
in whose smiles we live and beneath whose rowns
fade--is by no wonderful.
new era has been inaugurated in foreign policy by
ad ahO
carried into practice under his administration; and doc
trines which England has insisted upon for centuries have
been openly controvcrted by statesmen until their
abandonment has been much matter of high necessity
to England as of justice the United States Among the
first to feel the force of this positive and perseverng policy
has been the peculiar party that rallies around the Lon
don Times They have seen that the long course OF
British domination upon this continent about to
terminate forever The pragmacal assumption and ar
rogance which have led British agents to interfere in
the politics of the North American continent have had
their day The pretensions of school of oyerbearng
statesmen been subjected TO the analysis OF fearless
investigation and have been exposed the world alike
hearess and unjustiahe Beginning with the exposure
of British arrogance Texas under the memorable admin
straton of President Polk in order to prevent that fair
and fertile territory from becoming part of the American
try became ours by fair purchase and by the vaor Of
armies the efforts of such leaders of public opinion in Eng
land as the London Times have been many signal fail
rresso many Notifying discomfres What consdera-
lions Of Justice of international comfy operated upon
England ia lbese cases What of propriety
strained herr Wtst regard for her honor the feel
nys OF our people the good opinion of the world
Her agents were busy and ppbc in attempting to resist
JoC,a 9ul CafOr-
mia she crowned of the most cnlpabe inerfe-
y Selling BY the port of San Juan Central
America in order to place there sort Of armed police to in
tree and to aruov fmercan citizens and american
cree on Mr ray and from the american possessions on
the Pacific border This is history; and do
der that the party in England which speaks through
the London Times should reco from record so dis
croaitable to nation that be the farest
and most liberal of all the ancient powers Let na in this
place. ask the London Times how any such attempt ON the
mart Of any other government to interfere with material
British interests would be received by the British Foreign
Officer Lord Palmerston wond not wait day before
he resisted it by force How soon Lord Clarendon
would elaborate his denuncatons of it 10 the civilized
world! How aoemny the ponderous leaders of the min
isteral organs would repudiate and rebuke it!
1t will Mt once occur the intelligent reader that the
town. as petext for general onslaught upon the entir'
nolcv az the administration of General Pierce and the
authority s its pervadng bitterness is claimed to be the
general unpspularity OF the administration throughout
This country Gay British contemporary must remember
that it's not here as ~ England Public opinion is not
made up aud proclaimed pg few metropolitan prest~
The people have a voice in The GIFTED States and if the
Times could hear that voice would discover and admit
that it is as mach mistaken in supposng that le policy
ofGen Pierce by the American people as 1t was
in surprising the Mexican odous or that the
acquisition of California was regarded with dstrust by the
citizens of the United States However therefore the APP
oinment of the advisers OF General Pierce at home and
of his agents abroad may be distastefnl 10 the London
Times of one thing that journal may be well assured
these advisers" are not TO yield to any new de-
manas of the English government based the most OF
her policy in reference this continent has BEEN upon the
aspirations of an uugovernabe ambition They know
the guardianship which England desires to exercise oSer
Cuba and the anxiety of that government to keep Cuba in
the bands of Spain least untu the present Christian
warfare in the Baltic and Black stall terminate They
know too how eagerly Great Britain awaits The oppor
sanity of initiating the policy upon this continent when
she has pursued in the Old World. Fully conscious
alike a The plots Of at least portion of the British par
sans against the peace and the prosperity OF the repub
tic and fully Intelligent of the crafty philosophy which
anmaes other posons in asserting their designs against
the United States one breath and in denying them in