The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-16
For The Union .
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PREMIER.

ton of the government with the exception Of Gen Jacksons
presidential term in which acou men have been gross
so undisgused and so INSCRIPTIONS in their anmoslcs
controlling the independence of their friends by iron
rules OF dctaoria discipline adapting their action OBJ
jecs of the peest personal spite partisan pocywth
the unconeealed views of ecitng executive concessions
and in the pursuit of these objects and the indulgence Of
these passions sacrificing alike the principles of the party
to which they allegiance the rights of fair
and justice and the proprietie Of conventional deco
Tis the extraordinary drama Of politics in
progress constantly rejecting does phases Of To-
cal partial discomfort naturally growing out Of the in
finite compexty OF the subject the most striking arg-
ments that have been produced those dd hone and
al absurdm Personality has been the striking trait
of all the political TRADES and inflated harangues that have
lately been poured FORTH like the rawlings of insanity into
the columns Of certain dsatected presses Rdeule has
served for of truth and this delicate instrument has
been perverted to the infinite annoyance to the in
Jury of two Of the and hghsouled patriots
that controlled the denies of this great country and
this is called political censereedom of discussion Well
might Madame ROLAND excaim, Oh Liberty what
mites committed in thy name No wonder that
in these days of general enlightenment intelligent foreign
yet be found who question the of po
litical experiment Liberty truly requires definitions
for the liberty of not being oppressed by your eow-men
although Indispensable, is yet of the nsignf-
cant fractional parts Of human freedom
To persons residing in large cities the straagetc contri
vances Of schemng politicians in organizing cous oppo
sons to administration however periodically conduct
ed, occasion very little wonder. The &bdus operaah of
such organizations is neither mystery yet secret to
them II is the unintated portion of populaton-the
industrious and agricultural classes scattered the
broad suraceo this immense continenthat most
cepblc of being impressed by the bold and daring rbad
ry with which unmitgated alsehoods daily concoced
elaborated and forth in fruess eudeavors force
the Chief Magistrate and his principal adviser false
position and to them into becoming the tributaries
to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of selfish and INSCRIPTIONS aspi
rants for political preterment
People at a distance from the metropolis of the Union,
and the large cities in its immediate vicinity have but sell
dom distinct idea Of the which initiate against the
successful administration of public affairs, when gil
gantic energies sterling integrity of purpose and
passed abilities, brought to the task The
abe of these causes and that which is generally fraught
with the deepest mischief TO national character and
public institutions the utter prostitution Of certain
presses TO the merely venal objects of money makpg
gardcss of honor irdeang and every consideration Of
proprety The responsible editor of the New York Herald
told friend of the writer during the presidential
of 1852 that he should do everything in his power to ia
cate the election of General Pierce but that the
White House. saint in Heaven political combination
upon earth should him from damnaon that mat
ter what measures General Pierce and his cabinet might
devise for the interest and glory of country
he should oppose and denounce them the bitter end
adding that the prosperity of the Herald depended upon
successful opposition to those in power Faithfully has
Mr. Bennett kept his word 1t may easily be imagined
that his application for otcc-no such fantastic craving
could ever seriously have gnawed at his cankered heart
made for the purpose of being furnished with preex
for attack and in the full expectation that the erontery of
the application would be rebuked as it deserved be-
congly after the formation of General Pierces cab
net we find the Herald stcahly wheeling round into its
congenia position of antagonsm and by process of
sophistcal reasoning seemingly plausible at first it
was astounding setting to work to pull to pieces the very
scafoding it had itself assisted to erect Although the
other members of the cabinet have occasionally for
limited share OF yuperation and abuse ii is chiefly upon
the President and the Premier that the walls of its theatre
cal wrath have been emped Towards the latter cspec
ally the rnlence of its personal attacks has been so
great and utterly without precedent newspaper war;
fare as to convey the impression with those unacquanted
with his sordd motives of action that the editor of the
Herald is savagely in earnest From that time to this all
the official acts of the Secretary of State have either
been distorted misreresented by that veconducted
press The motives that have governed him throughout
always upright patriotic and elevated have been purpose
y talsfed the nobest efforts of his pen and his diploma
cy, whether in defending national character or in up
holding the rights of humanity in securing for our be-
loved country commercial and other advantages that will
hereafter be Acknowledged the foundation of far
spreading future prosperity have been either adroity UNI
derrated most Indignantly ridcued And yet il is not
saying too muciand later this fact will be
mace patent 10 all the WOfthat when the records of the
Department of State shall be investigated for the
purpose of supplying the impartial historian with materials
for his chronicles it will be found that w. L. Marcy has
done much to leave the impress Of his great and compre
hensiye mind upon the country during his administration
of our foreign affairs that he has least achieved ms
many rumphs tending to enlarge the sphere of action to
American commerce. and to mpart lusrc to the Ameri-
NAME any of his predecessors. This is said with
out any intention to detract from those great dstin
guhcd who have preceded the present Secretary of
State in that important position, of whom have been
the personal friends of the writer the remark has been
elected by the conviction that it is inconroyerbly true
and that justice requires, at this moment especially that
the truth should be spoken
Among the remarkable instances in which this fac
tous spirit of opposition has been manifested may mem
ton the late incident at San Juan de Nicaragua as afford
ing striking Illustration of that groveng meanncss of
purpose which has throughout characterized the off
the Herald and some other kindred presses such as the
Tribune and Others of lesser note. From the time that
the present administration into power up to the pres
cnt day the ncessant and sereoyped dcnuncaon of
those presses has been that American interests
where neglected and sacfced that the dignity of tho
American tag was everywhere outraged with mpunity
that Americans found nowhere protection against the ra
pacity of foreign officials and The criminal practices Of for
eign vagabonds and maeacors that in short Presi
dent and his Premier too much immersed in the petty
squabbles of internal politics to watch the interests
of American abroad resent the manifold
insults offered to American citizens travelling or residing
in foreign lands the dcment of the American name and
the shame of American rulers These groundcss charges
have been reiterated from Maine Missouri with as much
not