Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-31
sPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.


sPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union replies to an assault In the New
York TINE, upon the Administration. The
Tune, Insists that the President fails to carry
out bis purposes, and the Union refutes its
allegation of instances to prove that assertion.
The official editor in so doing takes occasion
to hold the Times up to public reprehension,
for encouraging Kossuth to mslign the Presi-
dent and the United States in writing of our
Cuba question, saying in the course of his ar
ticle:
Its from newspaper controlled by such
sentiments that We may naturally expect the
bssest assaults upon every President of the
United States whose Administration is an ex
ponent OF republicanism. No matter how base
the invention, 70 that il will furnish pretext
Tor abuse and for sxaggerati it L. put into
immediate circulation. At q moment when
the patriotic mind beholds, with undissem bled
sellcitudc, tumlltuous horde of reyenpeful
prescriptions and unrehecting mediocrites
pressing forward to seize The government and
70 Pervert 1t to corrupt and revolutionary ends
-~nen sacred guar antees are boldly struck
Al ana struck down-when fsgrant schemes
these D. Prescriptions and these msdiocrites as
the certain success Of every project to plumber
the public treasury-:he New York Times at
tempts to depreciate the administration of
President Pierce. That paper did not hest
tate to open its columns q few days ago to a
soandalous imputstion upon the integrity Of
the kxecutive-sHdeed, 10 sto0psd SO loo as
10 pernItt an accusation f1,ng price upon
the pn5tie act Of that high fitnctionars, to
an - he \
of contradiction or dissent! tits, as We have
eaid, however, q very natural thing that such
paper should halt at no extreme, however
dishOnorable, to stain the good name of the
American republic, and as there seems to be
no more abandoned mode Of accomplishing
this labor of love- it boldly strikes at the high
est Of our public servants"
The Intsihgsnesr commenting on the
Unions remarks concerning the arrest of Mr..
Thompson, American "Vice Consul at Ssgua
Ia Grande," Cuba, the tearing down of the
coat-of-arms which was over the door of his
ONCE, and the act Of the Spanish authorities
An taking him off to Havana. says:
"ANOTHER OUTRAGE
One woe treadeth on the heels of anothsrn
The Washington Union must double it
ton Of spanish outrages." One 10 scaresl
hsralded, ,iftsd, and exploded before another
comes forth Its press grosns with national
insults" appalling as the spectres in the play
aud generally about as real The Ell Dorado
outrage had barely expired under the scrutiny
OF truth when another is conjured up, in tn,
shape Of the #" arrest of an American Vic,
Consul-s Mr.. Thompson, "Vics Consul al
Sagus la Grande," arrested, the arms Of the
United States torn down, and he marched of
TO Havana. Giving some credence to this story
from Its circumstantiality, We turned to the
GsHetteer and the Blue Book to ascertain the
whereabouts Of Sagua la Grande, and whether
the United States had Wee Consul at such q
place, and we were Unsuccessful iu fndi np
either We therefore beg to ask the Union to tel
us not only where Ssgua la G rands is bat whc
MIR. Thompson is, and how he comes to be
ptcd Consul Of the United States, with tn
American flag over his door2 There is n
slch ONCE nor officer to be found in the Blu
BOOK az Vice Consul at any such place AM
We desire to know how Mr. Thompson come
10 claim TO be such? Has he any exec uatu
or other commission from our Governments t
nlI an Office which is net to be found on tn,
omcial list? Have our Consuls In Cub,
or else the power to appoint, OF
their own melton and at their own pleasure
V'cs Consuts or Commercial Agents, or vic
any thing else, without the authority Of tn
Government If they have, we can only sa
mere Is much vies in the proceeding, and
until better informed, We must doubt whethe
any such officer was legally at Sagua I
Grande, or whether the arms Of the Unite
States were placed over the door of Mr. Thorn,
son IN virtue Of any legal authority, or for th
purpose Of protecting any interest Of the I'm
Ted statds His arrest most likely oringinase
an some very different cause"
This explanation of the IntsHigsnesy Is
Do received cum arano sails. We think v
can show very diferen. state of circum
Stances a. those involved in this affair, In on
next issue.
The In'sIIissHesr also rejOices over the fec
that Hon Thomas II. Bsyly, of Va, Is a can
didste for 70 election, and hopes that he vii
DO returned to the House of Representatives
coneeiving that his conservative influence
wherever foreign relations are concerned, ar,
Tery valuable.