The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-01

ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION
"DOwN WITH THE FILIBUsTERs TT may be
questioned If the civilized world has ever wit
messed SO melancholy an example of incon-
stancy and weakness in the administration of
the affairs of great country as is presented
by the actual federal government! 1t came
into power with the loudest pretensions but
up to this time it has not fulfilled single pro-
mice, nor accomplished single object of honor
or advantage, either to itself or the nation.
Whatever measure it has initiated, great or
small, it has invariably abandoned in the end.
1t advanced principles in the case of Kosz.a,
which it has refused to apply in every subse-
quent instance ofa similar character. 1t issued
akase on the subject Of diplomatic livery, and
yet every beggarly charge d'afaires and
attachf of legation struts abroad in all the
turkey-cock magnifcence offuokey upholstery.
1t was vehement in favor of the acquisition Of
Cuba, sent a filibuster to Spain, and elevated
the fraternity of the Lone Star with extrava-
giant promises, and ended with recalling its
own agent and laundering the penalties OF the
laws Of neutrality" against the very men
whom it had encouraged to violate them 1t
bristled up against the Netherlands, gave the
Dutchmen the fearful alternative of war or
compliance with its demands, and then backed
clear out on bubble. 1t sent an androgyne
mission to Santo Domingo to make treaty
which it dares not submit to the Senate. 1t
negotiates for guaDo in the Galapagos, to find
out afterwards that the islands are innocent of
4 o a. Tor iluau ro,,fa
to discover what everybody else knew before,
that no railway route exists amongst its saw
age wastes. Wherever we look, whether it be
to Mexico, to the Sandwich Islands, Spain,
Santo Domingo, the Netherlands, or at home,
we find the same unvarying spectacle of broken
promises, pre.ense without performa ace, feeble
ness and folly.
The sole act which Eliminates the dreary re-
Prospect, and which has shed impershable
glory upon the President and his Cabinet; need
we mention it? Do not the glorious " stars
and stripes" fiutter, and the bold eagle expand
it's wings alphabetically when we name the
victory Of San Juan next to the capture of
Bomersund, the vastest martial achievement of
the century?
Central America has been the last division of
the globe 10 which this comprehensive admins
tratioD, after exhausting Europe and the isles
of the sea, has directed its attention. Growing
glory Of its brilliant career it encouraged
body Of adventures to consummate the VIC
tory of San Juan by lawless invasion of the
Territories Of the Central American republics,
Of whose territorial rights it has assumed to be
the defender. And when the adventurers have
perfected their organization, and distributed
generalships and judgeships, and "powers and
decorations" and made every man of their
number an officer, with boundless tracts of
lands and uncounted gold in the perspective,
(all for twenty-five dollars, paid in adj
vance, 10! the tickle administration withdraws
its countenance, and orders the AROUSE eyed
marshals Of the seaports to prevent eiIectually
the fruition of the hopes which it has encour-
aged, If it did not originally inspire Yes,
after Marcy's endorsement of Kinney's stupen-
dous enterprise-after all that he has done to
give it currency and favor, we are now told
that it is to come under the anathemas which
fell upon the deluded "Lone Stars and is
to be cast into outer darkness. The President
will issue his proclamation, says the telegraph,
and the sun and the moon shall stand still, and
Kinney and his new republic shall both be
bundled of to the limbo Of brainiess schemes,
and all the mooncalf projects born Of folly and
ignorance.
We await now the next development Of ad-
ministration imbecility, wondering much what
new qualification it can devise, or how achieve
a lower depth of popular contempt.
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