The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-08
The Diplomacy and Presidential squobbies
ortne AdIninistration--Ad Additional inside I'M
ts.ligence from Washington.


nation upon the subject, which, for some weeks
past, have from time 10 time. illuminated,
through our colamns, the benighted democracy
Of these northern latituaes. Our present chap
ter is particularly edifying aud suggestive;
and for the further enlightenment Of our read
ers in this connection, brief review Of the for
efgn policy Of this administrator, and Of the
origin and progress Of the Buchanan league for
the succession, mcy not be out ct place.
First, however, q passing word or two upon
the Greytown afair. We arenot surprised at
the Discrepancy reported by our correspondent
between the message of the President, the in
stractions of Marcy, and the dispatches Of Bu-
chanan on this subject. Every reader, we pre-
sume, of the annual message felt satisfied that
The President did not there settle the question.
1t is still open, and between Marcy and Blu
chanan nay be considered as forming an item
in the general issue Of o peace or war policy.
1t is an interesting feature Of the game, and
serves very much to teighten the interest Of its
curious complications.
On the organization Of the Pierce admins
tration, then, strong, radical, iat-footed sub
| terranean democratic foreign policy was adopt
| ed, strongly seasoned with 6libusterism, and
with active sympathy in behalf of the Jacobini-
| cal schemes OF the European revolutionary
societies. This programme, chalked out by
| Dudley Mann in his letter from Paris Of Feb
ruary, 1858, was substantially engrafted upon
the Inaugural; and in the persons of Dudley
Mann, JEFF Davis, and Caleb Gushing YVES
| introduced into the Cabinet. To this ultra red
republican and ilibustering platform, also, is
the country indebted for such European sp-
pointments as those of Souls, Sanders Sickles
Belmont, Daniel, Robert Dale Owen, and sach.
Hence the original bold instructions of Marcy
to Soule, end the belligerent and revolutionary
proceedings Of that gentleman from Madrid to
Ostend, from OsteDd to London, and from Lon
don to Calais where his high-handed career
was temporarily modified by Louis Napoleon.
Hence the original bold instructions to Belmont,
and to our representatives at the Continental
monarchies generally. Hence the circulars of
Marcy upon diplomatic coats and breeches and
hence, too, the mistake of Mr.. Spence, at Con-
stantinople in declaring to the Sultan that the
United States were enlisted in the cause of
Turkey The policy laid down by Dudley
Mann was SO fascinating as to be Irresistible.
1t was, in word, the policy of active propa-
gandism of democratic principles and manifest
destiny in both hemispheres, through new
school Of American diplomats, and new system
Of American diplomacy, beginning at the tailors
shop and eliminating in q general blaze of
war.
Marcy was, for time, fairly taken in by
this dashirg and formidable foreign platform Of
his assistant secretary. There was something
positively refreshing in it to the old fogy Pre-
mier; and for time he Joined in the sports Of
his Young American diplomatic subordinate
pretty much in the styl Of the prancings of an
old cart horse among a drove Of young I'M
broken colts in a clover field. But, alas the
Ostend conference disclosed a wheel within a
wheel, and the Premier discovered that his
subordinates were using him in the game of
Mann to overthrow no less parsonage than the
Secretary Of State himself, and to give Bu-
chanan the inside track for the next Baltimore
Democratic Convention.
4 declaration Of war from the Premier WAS
the immediate result. Marcy instantly put him
self in posture of defence, falling back upon
a general peace policy, very much to the en-
plant him. This coalition consists of Dudley
Mann, JEFF. Davis and Caleb Gushing, of the
Cabinet proper; of Torney and the editors Of
the Cabinet organ and other members Of the
Kitchen Cabinet; OF Buchanan, Mason, SoulG,
O'Sullvan. Belmont, Sickles, Sanders, Daniel,
ONcn, sna otbsrs Of our Osterd diplomatic
league; and Of Rossutn, Mazzini, and others OF
fhn ,npri al rain oil
oined in common cause against
Marcy. Hence the wrangling in the Cabinet
and in the Kitchen, between Nancy and his
subordnates, and the troubles and embarrass-
ments of Pierce 10 his ridiculous efforts to keep
up q show Of unity aud harmony among the
rebeilious instruments Of his administration.
The leading aspirants Of his Cabinet regard
Mr. Pierce as mere automaton, the iocgm
tenens of the White House, nothing more.
Gushing has confessed as much in his late IA
nous letter to Judge Black. Of Pennsylvania.
In that letter the President is set down as en-
tirely out Of the question for the succession,
and Buchanan appears as the fayoritc of Cush-
ing. A late member Of the United atates Sc
nate, to whom the letter was communicated by
Judge Black, or Paul Il. George, who carried
it up to the White House for the enlightenment
Of Mr.. Pierce, will bear Us out upon this affair.
And this is but an item in the curious catalogue
of the harmonies among the aspirants, plotters,
and counter-plotters Of this administration.
How dignifed the position of John Tyler, us
President Of the United States, in contrast
with that Of Franklin Pierce! What rank in
Justice was that which charged General Taylor
with being nothing more than the Good Man
Friday Of his Cabinet
Look ut the position of poor Pierce. He ia
nnln. L.. l.