The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-22
Whist VIII Congress, Dol

New York Commercial AdrertiSer, must look
with anxious interest to that event. The res
sion will lie one of more than usual import
ance. Msny Circumstances will contribute to
this. Foremost Of these, though il onght net
% be, s the fact that with this session of Con-
gres5 begins practically the next Presidential
campaign. With large proportion of The
members Of the House OF Representatives, aud
we fear with many Senators also, lie first con
sideration will be less how they legislate for
the good Of the people, than how they can
best promote the inter SIS of their fav"rite
candidates for the Chief N ,gistracy on Pres-
dent Piercvs retreneLt-for il is morally GER
tain that no party will put him again in for
NAL nomination. We doubt whether even the
Democracy Of the South would desire his re-
election. The Democracy of the North, we
have no hosi;stion in saying, will look else
where than TO the present incumbent of the
office for their candidate. Without, however,
entering upon the question # candid, ture, il
is quite safe to pred ct that the qualities and
prospects of Presidential candidates will enter
largely into Congressional discussions, aud
greatly impede public business. If such Is
not the case, there must be an Improvement
of the material OF Coner, IS which we shall be
very happy to see and TO chronicle.
And yet more pressing questions will pre-
sent themselves for the action of that body.
Neither the foreign nor the domestic affairs Of
the country are in such a condition that Con-
d 81.
The Central American question, after being
seeming settled, is thrown back to Just where
it was before the inception of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, aud is as liable-nsy more liable
han ever it was to give rise to mutual ieal
ousies and misundcrstandi, between the /!
United States and Great Britain. For Aneri- /,
can citizens, some honorably, some dishonora-
bly,, have become intimately and it may almost
be said inseparably mixed up with Central .
American troubles. We are not among those .
who are ready to attribute hostile motives TO .
the English Government without rhyme or
reason, for We deem that British interests, if /
no higher considerations, will deter it from
seeking occasion of quarrel with the United |
States. We 90 not regard the very natural |
disposition Of a portion Of Eagland's present |
immense naval armament as having reference |
to Central American affairs; least of all that
il has any such signifcace, AS the London Times
assumes.
AcseriAclesa, our relations in that quarter
are such rs 10 demand the prompt and grave
COZ sideraiion Of Congress. There are obvious 1
reasons why such consideration should he given !
60 Central American affairs. We seeln 10 Ice /
acting uGjn-lly toward her. At four separate
times have expeditions gone out from among I
IA Ia prey upon her territories under Kinney
Fabens, Walker, French-and 1t must seem
ianle less than nnckery to Nicaragua TO say
that We cannot hepit. Some measures should /
unqaestiouahly be taken 10 put this Govern
meut right before Nicaragua aud the world in .
TINT resIect. THEN our citizens have now
legitimate interests an that corst which se m
10 he put ia peril alike, by The pratcal bands
above referred Ia, and the jealou-ics aud fears
of the Nicaraguan Government. Aud further,
il is emnently desirable that substantial nrgo.
tstion be Immediately re opened with Great
two Governments. There is nothing within
the latitude and longitude of Central America
worth fighting about, and therefore nothing
worth keeping the country in perpetual fer
ment about. And a. the present AdmiusIra-
lion has So bunglel affairs rs simultaneously to
permit portion of the Central American re-
pubRcs TO be ovrrrun with flibnsteriug parties
from the United States, and the whole Clayton
Bulwer negotiation 10 fall to the ground. we
respectfully submit that Congress ought to
take the matter in hand, and devise aud apply
the remedy.
PROFESSIONALLY, our relations with Mexico,
and the conduct of the United States Minister
in that Countrywide present and future Of that
Inflated country and the contingency that may
spring therefrom-also demand attention.
Then not only has diplomatic intercourse with
Great Britain under the auspices of the present
Administration resulted most unsatisfactory,
but on the continent At Europe it has been
eoually unproductive. Little has been recent
" said Of Spanish atFlirs, bur enough la. tran.
spired 20 show that lie conduc, Of diplomacy
in Spain demands Investigation. Hints have
been lately thrown ont that negotiation there
progresses very Enthusiastically. TheIe is also
the question Of the Danish Sound dues reqnir-
ING settlement, on which subject Congress
ought "a have methiug to say 80 that cur
foreign policy AMI relations, which. like our
domestic sifIirs, ave leen thrown into d-or-
der, or permit ed 10 lapse into confusion. by
the present Administration, present grave mai
tiers for consideration and discn~,i u, and such
AS cannot be abandoned f'r the prosecution OF
the business of President making, without
serons detrment 90 the country.
AT home, the state Of affairs l. by no means
Encouraging, while We have even less hope Of