The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-18

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Platform and Foreign War for the Pro-
sidency.
The news which we published yesterday, Of
the retractation Of Louis Napoleon in the m It
tor of the quarrel with Pierre Soule, our bel
ligerent Minister to Spain, has been read with
unmingled satisfaction by some of our readers,
with incredulity by others, and with astonish-
ment by ALL Nobody expected, in this affair,
such sudden and complete letting down on
the part of the deliberate, firm and immoveable
Nephew of his Uncle" But it is true. The
Emperor has succumbed; and, presto, the inter
dict against our Ambas sador is changed into an
invitation to come Into France, and to pass
through France, at his discretion.
This surprising denOntmeat will doubtless
be considered, in some quar- ters, a great diplO-
matte triu mph Tor cur administration. But an
inside view of Il facts in the CO, puts totally
different Con plexion upon TIE affair. 1t is
victory to Marcy, but it is defeat to Pierce
and the Kitchen Cabinet. The object of Pierce,
Forney, and their conspirators on the other
side Of the Atlantic, in this business, was . rup-
lure with Spain or France, or both; the desire
Of Marcy is peace. Give him the spoils, and
he is content to be quiet. A foreign
war would increase his official labors ten-fold
entirely detachiDg him from the intrigues OF
the politicians for the succession; and in the
end a new brood Of military chieftains would
run away with the glory. He is the bnlwark
of the old fogies = in the Cabinet, against
the bloody school Of Young America. We are,
1rha indn ad IN
rom foreign war, upon various questions to
the caution and logged obstinacy OF Marcy
Yet it is to this very position which Marcy
occupies in the Cabinet that we are now ena-
blcd to trace this Soule affair, and the whole
warlike schedule Of diplomatic and Presiden
tial movements on The part of the Forney
branch OF the adm instr. tion.
r To begin, then. The administration is
blessed with two Cabinets-yea, three-a regu-
lar Cabinet and Kitchen Cabinet at Washing
ton, and a Cabinet Of our red republican
school Of diplomats in Europe. At the head of
the regular Cabinet is Marcy; at the head Of
the Kitchen Cabinet is Forney; while Soule
is the Premier Of our European red repub-
lican diplomatic Cabinet. The interests
and the programme Of the Kitchen Cabi-
net and the diplomatic European Cabi-
net are the same. They work together, and |
for common objects. The first object is to
Dust Marcy from the State Department, and to
get Buchanan in his place; the next object has
been to humoug Bucl anan with dissolving
view Of the Presidency. and Mason at Paris
with the ta'f'of the State Department under
Buchanan, or the Vice Presidency. In this lat
ter object, the Soule Cabinet at O.tend, Brus-
se's Aix-la-Chapel'e, and other places, where
they held their late Continental conferences,
have evidently succeeded. Buchanan and Ma
son, credulous, easy, and good natured sold
fcgies" as they are, have been thoroughly hum
bugged into wild goose chase, by the adroit
management of Soule, Sickles, Sanders Bel
mont, Kossurh, Ledru Rollin, and others of the
Continental diplomatic cabinet, acting under
the instructions of the Kitchen Cabinet.
We say that Mesrs. Buchanan and Mason
have EVIDENTLY been inveigled by the Pierce
diplomats under the lead Of Soule and his con-
freres into their programme for the succession
And what is it? Our advices from Europe, OF
the most reliable character, furnish us with a
key to the mystery. And here is the plan
The first thing required is to lift the ad-
minjstration again upon its legs. This
can only be done by a foreign war. EN-
broil us in war with Spain, or France,
or England, or all combined-the more
the better-and tie country will rally as
ore msn to the support # the administration.
But to obtain the i've cooperation Of the
regular Cabinet at Washington in this business it
is necessary to supplant Marcy, and to put some
other man in bis place. They have found the
man in Mr.. Buchanan. The Kitchen Cabinet
and the Soule Cabinet, have therefore, been
working zealously to put the administration
upon war footing, to disgust Marcy With it,
to drive him out, and To bring in the more pla-
BILE Mr.. Buchanan as the head of our foreign az
fairs. To this end we are advised that the forth
coming annual message of the President to Con-
ertss will give the quietus to Marcy and his
pacific policy. We are admonished to prepare
for EN- nd for tae Immediate increase of the
army and he navy, and for contingent appro-
priatioa Of tw my or thirty mill ons for the i'm
mediate anne xa'ion of Cuba, with or without
the consent of Spain.
The next step has been platform for Blu.
chanan for 1856, as the frotege Of Sonle,
Sickles Sanders, Belmont, Ko sutb, Ledru Rol-
lin, and Coz pany. A rupture between the United
States and France or 81 ain, or both, including
England, would create diversion which, pend
ing u e Russian war, would give to tie social
lists and red republicans of France and the
G. ntipent golden Opportunity for general
rising. The reaction here, as they calculate,
woud te tremendous. The counlry would be
for the administration In the war,
and i,r its candidate for the succession. Nothing
could prevent his reelection in perfect whirl-
wind OF applause. This is the plot into which
Buchanan and Mason have been inveigled by !
the political caucuses Of the warlike diplomats |