The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-27

Jews-DcautiRi daughters Just waiting Tor
Anglo-Saxon husbands. Who volunteers for
the liberating army Of Col Walker, and for the
chances Of rich Spanish senorita for wife,
and for q trip to Washington next summer,
with the pay and mileage of member OF
Congress Upper California is used up. Lower
Come, boys, now is your time" Such will,
most likely, be the effect of the Presidents pro-
clamation among the Upper Californians; and
such, too, will be the practical effect of the Pre-
sident's amendment of the Gadsden treaty
touching the ilibustering expedition of Colonel
Walker
What we desire, therefore, is an answer. "by
authority" to the following questions-Who
furnished the sinews of war to Col. Walker? Is
the Presidents amendment to the eighth arti-
Gle Of the new treaty intended for the protec-
tion or the punishment of Col. Walker Is the
manifest destiny" policy of Col. Walker any
part Of the unwritten policy of the administra-
ton? Or is it the policy of Gen. Pierce to set
up dlibustering republic in one part of Mexi-
CO, and the empire Of His Serene Highness"
Gen. Santa Anna in another part of that
doomed and unhappy country? Or is this
Gadsden treaty mere sham, disguise.
diplomatic stratagem, for humbugging Santa
Anna, while the real policy Of our administra-
ton is in the hands of Col. Walker? Have the
claimants on Mexico to be provided for under
the treaty any interest in the Walker expedi-
ton? Who is the decoy duck, and who is the
real negotiator Of our government upon Mexi-
can affairs, Gen. Gadsden or Col Walker! Till
these questions are answered we are sorely
puzzled which Of the two to choose rs our real
ambassador to Mexico Col Walker or Gen.
| Gadsden. Which is our man?
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT IN VRGNIA.-Itis
| clear that the advocates of international copy
| right have no chance in Virginia. Our read
ers are aware that, if that State is remarkable
for any thing it is for the ability and intellect of
its periodical press. The Richmond Examiner
is peculiarly distinguished for sagacity, lbe-
rality and uprightness. In one of its late num-
bers, it devotes one of the six or seven editorial
columns with which it usually delights its sub
scribers to the humiliation of the International
copyright law and goes about the work in
this wise. First "Aathors merely reproduce
ideas; Macaulay, Prescott, Bancroft, Irving,
Webster, Kent and Story have built up their
regulations upon the facts and thoughts FUR
Dished by men long since dead :" therefore
quoth the Examiner, "the present copyright
laws are sufficient protection" Next, the
Examiner argues that "the authors and press
Of England have constantly labored to render
hn fo1 OF -,
Europe;' and after few paragraphs of funny
blunders, in which the Edinburgh is mistaken
for the Quarterly and vice versa, it concludes
that "piracy and robbery of such men Ito wit
the BritsA authors) is justifable species of
Ter talionis, ]" and is consoled by the reflection
that though thousands of their works are sold
N the United States, the advantages of their
republication enure exclusively to American
publishers. printers, binders and engravers."
This is very pretty confession to make
Without stopping to question the Examiners
Latinity which seems to be on par with his
English, we may safely infer from this
that should the editor ever find his way
into this Office, his conscience would justify
him in carrying off anything he could lay
his hands on, as a Ter talionis Ito use his own
words) for our turning him into ridiculeby
copying his nonsense Editors engaging in
controversies with The Examiner will govern
Themselves accordingly.
Z Our contemporary continues, and quotes the
works of some half dozen eockney scribblers
who have abused America inferring from the
fact that we ought to revenge ourselves by
Il
We ought really to apologize for replying to
such stuff: but does the editor of the Examiner
not perceive that by following his advice we
should revenge ourselves on our own authors
to begin with 1t is great mistake to sup
pose with our Southern contemporaries that
international copyright is favor sought by
England, and to be granted or denied by us.
1t is an act of justice demanded of the American
and British public by the whole mass OF writers
in the English language. 1t is very true that
few twopenny authors and newspaper men in
England have ridiculed this country, and mar
row minded Americans like the editor of the
Examiner feel very sore in consequence. But
what have our own authors done to forfeit
their claim to justice at our hands? The piracy
of which we complain is quite as extensively
carried on in England as here. Are the SLAM
ders of the Quarterly any defence for the
British pirates?
The Examiner enumerates list of Ameri
can works which have sold here But it for
gets to add how many Of these works have been
pirated in England, and to what extent the au-
thors (Americans) have been robbed by the
English publishers. 1t would be curious to as
certain how much money hasbeen stolen, in the
shape of pirated editions, from Miss Warner,
Fanny Fern Donald Mitchell, Headley Ste.
phens, Sparks, Webster, Longfellow, Haw-
thorne, and others within the last two years
only. We believe it would equal the amount
stolen by American publishers from British