Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-25

clear that the parties had benefited society,
and had not rsaped heavy gains from the ben.
eats they had conferred on the community,
and it was but just in Congress to give them
the opportunity of obtaining something SUBJ
stantial from their labors. We do not remem-
Der who those parties were, yet it gratiaed ~
exceedingly to see them so literally and Justly
dealt by. Similar cases will always be arising.
and while we shall do our best to aid Congress
in avoiding those which should not be sub
Jects for their favorable action, we trust that
We may always be able 30 to discriuinate, az
that we will do no injustice to those who
present cases for the action of the National
Legislature, which really deserve their favor.
able action.
Foreign Police.-Under this head the New
York Eapress says: Ea
I" The Herald is magnifying some private
letters of A. Dudly Mann written in 1853
which without any sort of remorse, though 60.
tfently stolen, 1t ushers before tho world, J
into the chart of foreign programme of the Ad.
ministration The letters may or may not be
genuine, for there's poutd forge, If s,sees-
sGry,D-but If genuine, they are but the senti.
ments of private individual before he be.
came Assistant Secretary of State, and are no
more the administration chart than the like
sentiments of any other like man, at like
time. The substance of the letters is, MIR
Manns desire to figure in Berne, (switner.
land, as the bearer of his ratified Swiss trea-
ty,-his belief that Louis Napoleon was desir-
Gus Of picking QUAR- el with the United States,
and his urging, therefore, Congress to put ten
millions at the dipossl OF the President to be
ready for any thing 1t is also advised, that
our ministers abroad abandon the court dress
and wear black coats with eagles buttons on
them, &c. because the ten millions were asked
tor, and the court dress forbidden the Herald
reasons, Mr.. Mann is in the foreign part OF
our administration, Mr. Maan has. doubtless,
learnt q good deal more Ia the State Depart.
ment than he knew before lie went there, and,
if he wrote the letters, has, in sons repscts,
become a changed man.
The Eaprsss, in this article, goes 10 show
the folly of essaying to hold the President
and Secretary of State answerabls for the
private views of any gentleman, it matters
not what may be the position to which be
may have afterwards been advanced
We have nothing to add, either In exposure
Of the Herai9's mendacity in this case, or by
way of illustrating the extreme idleness OF
its effort thus to make capital against the ad-
ministraiiOn.
This fish story, all about Mr. Mann's bein g
toe originator of the Administrators foreign
policy is, by the by, worthy OF the source
from which it emanates, and of that journal
alone. Il will be remembered that ever
since Bennett was refused the French mission,
the editorial columns Of Inc Hera:S have
been devoted to tho work cf 1.isrtprsS,niias
the acts of the Administga ION Not a day
has since passed without the appearance in
that paper of some deliberately ooncoe! ed
fslsehood against the Admi nistrs,ion, and il
is also known that its stories, one and all,
have been proved 20 have been manufactured
out Of whole cloth. In the last year and a
half the Herafd has earned the reputation Of
bsiDg able to tell more ard more monstrous
falsehOods in one week, than any other fast
journal was ever able to tell ir a twelve
month. Such, and auoh only, has been the
reputation made by the New Y ork HsraId in
that time