The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-31
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those relating TO and identified with the democratic party
II is curious newspaper edited by high public
funetonary struggling TO damage It's country by the
employment Of the INSCRIPTIONS Not con-
tent with app laading the haeessness Of demonstra-
tons against the peace and the stability of established
political and social Institutions the Times hires the veua
pen Of who FIRST lches money from the pockets Of
people under pretencos Of especial patriotism and them
with the bounty thus acquired retres to the city of Lon
dom where be vents bis spleen upon the very country that
has supplied TO him the means of lving--not
tent say with hiring this assa aud 20 raduoe
the American people the New York Times adds the
weight of its own testimony the purchased calumnies
Of migrate adventures and dishonest dcmagogues II
feature of most of the cheap newspapers in New York
those regret say which circulate most among the
aassesthat while they bahbc about pure Americansu
and while they denounoe the democratic organization for
its alleged sympathy with adopted citizens they
be than anxious to place their country before the
world the dehased and the of
all the nations If they only ater The foreign preju-
dice against the United Statesf they only hold up
republican rulers many admontons to foreign peo-
ples-and, more than all If they foreign
circulation for their newspapers-they abundant
" compensated for their efforts. 1t would be
teal cooperation with foreign anagonisms aud hatre
contrased with their declarations of sympathy
with the prevalent dogma of American exclusion of
foreign influences did they feel that the latter
men like that which aids and echoes the preudices Of
European courts end in the disgrace of
tional character.
It's from newspaper controlled by such sentiments that
we may naturally expect the basest assaults upon every
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exponent of repubicansm No matter how base the inven
ton that il will furnish pretext for abuse and
geraon it is put into immediate circulation. AT a
ment when the patriotic mind beholds with undssembled
socude tumutuous horde of revengefnl prescriptions
and unreec,ng medocrties pressing forward to seize the
and pervert il TO corrupt and revolutionary
cndswhen sacred guarantees boldly struck at and
struck down-when fragrant schemes of speculation look
forward the triumph Of these prescriptions and these
ediocrties the certain of every project to
plumber the public treasury--the New York Times
tempts to deprecate the administration of President
Pierce That paper did hesitate open its columns
few days ago scandalous imputaon upon the integr
" Of the Executve--ndsed stopped iow per-
accusaiou firing price upon he public act n Ha
high fnetionary, to go 20 the oorid its pages ptom
scord Of contradiction dissent 1t is have said
however, very natural thing that such paper should
halt extreme, however dishonorabe to stain the
good of the American republic; and there seems
to be abandoned mode of accomplishing this la
Dor of love- boldly strikes the highest Of public
servants.
When behold the frequent evidences Of the DISPOSE
ton Of certain foreign powers insult and invade the
character and the interests Of the United States the
siy of bold and incorporating policy the part Of
our in the administration of the federal
is felt by every American be of the highest
Importance. And when such a policy has been fully
proclaimed and by decided demonstrations practically
maintained unhesitatingly affirm has been the
under President Pierce that citizen entitled to
lasting Reproduction who the nations of the earth
through the medium of widely -eircuated journal tina,
this policy is after ALL only ,ma treacherous and time
serving that our Executive lacks the for great
crisis that his counscllors cravensf and that bis
practices are at with bis professional The following
from the New York Times OF Saturday last specimen
OF exactly this sort of false dealing As if to crown
with iufany the writer heads it with the title of The Adj
rs. the Country
The indications are multiplied that the President is en-
tirey willing to something serious grow of the Ell
Dorado outrage. Indignation this particular period
probably he thinks like other people, be entirely
harmless and since it Is cheap aud has been known
reputation before now would be wrong make
show of it. But the administration has cried wolf
often that thinks of driving in the flock because the
cry repeated II the doctrines OF the Inaugural had been
procsed this tme the strong ingraban demoDstrs
on from the cabinet had been sustained by those who ina
ted i the earlier instructions Mr. Soule had been sup
ported by the later ones indeed the loud talk had been
shown be thing but buster the terrific threats
thing than Buncombethe attitude which the President
would I'll the country with alarm all the
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country. But when Spain stood straight in spite Of the
Of hbnsterng plenpotentisry the admnitra
bowed When, in the Of Capt Gibson the power
IL had deal with showed signs OF submission, the admin
isra,ion undertook do the whiting. Whatever Il has
promised stand BY II has backed FROM and only where
has tacy Acknowledged support has il afterwards taken
Of Mosquito colonization until the expedition
fairly org anzcd then opened many eyes Argw
might and al its Brarean hands busy in hipderng its
IL amabe toward the Lone Star people and
the Cuban untss that they thought B1kia willing
But when the OF Cuban revolution just ready
burst by strange the whole island Of Cuba put
under the knows all that Score
tary o. State knows and every Suspicious cfa along
coast put the task Of proving tef gultcss of prates
intentions II would be the greatest folly, then, calculate
that because there sqaai at Washington
ng that because yengsspoe b threatened body should
stand from under In the NJ Dorado matter doubt not
that President 10 bat what Of tbsT Long
ago country learned that II worth While sneeze
because President Pierce takes snai."
Let rscur in the rst place the inaugural address
Of President Piercc and she In which the dec