The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-02
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TO New York for the parpose Of making ar
raDgements With some one Of our bookmAkipg
bouses for the publication Of his work on
American diplomacy, especially the diplomacy
Of our present administration, as illustrated
in his hate extraordinary Spanish mission, aud
its exciting and wonderful results. This book,
we understand, will be large octave of four
or five hundred pages, and will be issued to
the public ia September, so as to take the wind
out of the sails of Marcy and his confeeerates
in our Northern autumnal elections
The gravamen of this Spanish imbreglio lies
in a nutshell. The appointment of Marcy as
Secretary of State solves the whole mystery,
and was the beginning Of that chain of bad
measures, bad appointments, bad diplomacy,
and bad luck, which has foundered the admins
tration and shivered the democratic party TO
pieces The original organization Of Mr..
Pierce's official family rested upon Mr.. Hun
ter, of Virginia, as Secretary Of State; and
upon this political basis-hslf young Aneri-
ca" and half Southern secessionism- my sub
ordinate appointments including that Of Mr..
Soule, chip of the same block, were made.
But Hunter, upon reflection, looking back
to the unfortunate case Of Henry Clay, and
looking forward to higher promotion than
the post OF Premier, positively declined the
State Department, and the result was the final
lodgment of Mr.. Pierce upon Marcy as his man
Marcy being an old fogy," and the most OBJ
jectionable Of the whole tribe to Youag Ame-
RIGA and Southern ultraism the immediate con-
sequence was . declaration of war against
him by all of that peculiar progressive demo-
cratic school of which Hunter, Soule, Daniel,
Sanders, and such, were the admitted leaders.
On his side, Marcy was equally belligerent, as
his efforts to defeat the appointment Of Soule to
Spain, Of Daniel to Sardinia, and Of Sanders
to London, abundantly attest These appoint
ments were made, however, 10 spite of Marcy,
because Mr.. Pierce had gone too far to recede.
SoulG, ut least, had received his reward for his
services in the Baltimore Convention before
the appointment Of Marcy hiEself, and it would
have been dangerous. therefore, to touch Soule.
Indeed, to concilate the Southern secessionists
to Marcy, it was found necessary not only to
retain Soule, but to give them voice in the
Cabinet; and hence the selection Of Jefferson
Davis as Secretary of War.
Soule having thus triumphed over Marcy,
and having secured the consent and approval
of Mr.. Pierce to q bold AAvbustering policy at
Madrid, thought himself perfectly secure. This
was his fatal mistake. Acting upon the
presumption that the administration was
q unit, and that Mr. Pierce controlled it,
Mr.. Soule wrote out at length his Spanish
programme, as approved by Mr.. Pierce, and
laid it before the Secretary Of State. Marcy
took it, read it, said nothing, but laid i. by for
future use. Soule had shown his hand but the
Premier reserved his best cards for the end of
the game. The subsequent published CORES
Pondence between him and Soule, including the
fatal coup d'<tat OF the Ostend Conference, tels
the rest of the story. French diplomacy Wa
defeated by Yankee cunning. Soul6 had de-
pended too much upon the slippery promises
and the nominal authority Of Mr.. Pierce, and
had too lightly regarded the hatred, the treach-
cry, and the deep cunning and power of Marcy.
The forthcoming book we presume will fully
substantiate this view Of the case. We under
stand that it will embrace Mr. Soule's original
chart of his mission as laid before Marcy, and q
good lot Of diplomatic correspondence which
Marcy thought proper to suppress, in the batch
which, upon their call, be transmitted to Con-
gress, and which has been published. We
learn, however, that none of the secrets of this
mission will be given calculated to prejudice
our pending negotiations with Spain, but that
the ex-Minister will limit himself to such do,u-
ments, letters, and statements Of facts, as the
case may seem to require to vindicate his Off
cial conduct against Messrs. Marcy and Perry,
lesyips- considerable margin of generous for
bearance in b:.balf of the misguided and unfor-
tunate Mr.. Pierce.
We are informed, also, that this brochure Of
Mr.. Soule will not be confined to his Spanish mis-
sion "and its consequences" but that it will
embrace scathing review Of, and commentary
upon: the Mexican diplomacy of Mr. Fillmore
aud Mr.. Webster and the results which have
followed and which may be expected from the
return, through their management, Of Santa
Anna to power. With the publication of this
book, then, all that viii be required to give
perfect inside history Of the diplomacy of this
administration, and part Of the last, will be
sequel from A. Dudley Mann. As the author of
the original draft of the 6libustering and red
republican European programme upon which
Mr.. Pierce began bis foreign policy, a full con-
fession from Mr.. Mann is indispensable to per-
fectly clear understanding of the subject. Let
him initiate the example Of Soule, and come out
with his book.
MORE ABOUT THE POSTAL BLUSDEas Some
time since one Of our Souther subscribers-Mr.
]. b. Lindsey, of Lebanon, Tennessee-com-
plained that the HERALD which had been sent