The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-13

CART snd s,mpleton quite long enough. Pal
merton, in his waIlike diversions to American
affaire. has descended TO the old trick of
throwing dust into the eyes Of the people, with
the vain hope of drawing of their attention
from the great budget of blunders Of the Rus
sian war. Our imbecile administration having
rapidly run down to bankruptcy, both in its
domestic and foreign policy, like drowning
man catching at etraws has eagerly snatched
up this enlistment bagatelle and this Central
American imoroglio, as expedients for "rais-
ing the wind;' or to be more precise, for di-
verting the popular breeze towards the White
House against the presumptuous and high
handed pretensions of John Bull In foreign
war the whole country would assuredly rally
to the support of the government; and such
have been the desperate extremities of this
administration that it could not resist the
temptation of exciting public sympathy as
upon question of war thrust upon us by the
arrogance of England.
The experiment, however, has failed to real
lie it's expected results. Our belhgerent Pre-
sident's message of last December overshot the
mark. Mr. Seward and his associate anti-slsvery
agitators in the Senate cried out, "Well done |!
Go ahead Give us awarl Give us the Canadas
and the adjoining provinces, and you give us
the club of Hercules with which to destroy this
hydrarheaded monster Of Southern slavery.
A war with England is the thing We
must sustain the administration" At this
point the sensible men Of the South recoiled.
Southern Senators and Southern newspapers
straightway began to throw cold water upon
the projected frolic of a universal war. They
foresaw that the wealth and the commerce Of
the two countries and Of the civilized world
would be sacrificed or imperilled in holiday
frolic such as this. Very fast, too, the admins
tration itself began to whine of the horrors Of
war, and to sing the dulcet strains of peace.
More than a month ago the Presidents Wash
ington organ assured US substantially that the
Central American difficulty was not matter
for war, but that "Mr Champion was the only
cause or pretext for rupture between the two
countries"
There is, in fact, no cause or plausible pre-
text, even upon Champion, for rupture. Had
our administration, on the conviction of Cramp-
ton and his associate consuls in the enlistment
business, promptly dismissed them, there would
have been az end of the trouble. But this
would never 90 with such chance for politi-
cal capital. We must have apologies, and apollo
gies being made, we must have these people
recalled. Their recall being declined, we pre-
sumo they will be turned adrift as a matter CT
course; and there will be the end Of this coz
emptible farce on both sides.
The Palmerston ministry and our Pierce,
Marcy and Cushing administration have been
we'll matched. If the former has proved i'm
beetle in action, and only powerful in empty
bluster and bravado, the latter has shown that
it can bully, hector and back out with the best
Of them. On the Spanish Cuban difficulty, on
the Koszts controversy, on diplomatic coats
and leather breeches, on Canadian recipr0ci-
ties, and on the fishery question, our fighting
administration has threatened successfully the
most fearful retributions for disobedience, and
has backed out in each case, giving up the
whole question in the most amiable and paci-
fc style.
War is, perhaps, out Of the question; but
there will be no satisfactory peace between
England and the United States while Palmers-
ton on the one side, and this Pierce admins
tration on the other, continue in power. The
true policy Of both nations is to set these two
clustering cabinets aside. Let them be
superseded, and then, in accepting Eng
lands offer of arbitration respecting
Central America, let our new admins
tration select Russia, and abide by the
result. Our Southern States are particularly
interested IN putting stop to such trifing
with their vital commercial and social inter
ests as that which has characterized the
foreign policy Of Mr.. Pierce and his go'd man
Marcy.
CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS THAT PRECIOUS
TREATY.-There is no end to the complications
following from that m arvel Of diplomatic wis
DOM the Clay ton and Bulwer treaty. The pub
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