The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-29

Here is the point of our weakness-the point
OF highlands strength; and if privateering is
proscrited BY league of the leading goyern-
Rents OF the Old World, it is not dificult to see
that we shall fad few neutral ports in which
to dispose Of ovr prizes
We thus place before the reader ct an early
6ay view OF our relations with England, our
aetaal position, the motives which control the
politicians on the other side Of the wetsr
that they may Judge Of the probabilities Of a
peaceful termination Of our controversies shert
OF sn AFFECT submission on our part.
The truth is obvious enough tn 1t if Palmer
stce is sustained, war with the United States
would seem TO be inevitable. 1t is In vain that
we Say our interests and feelings and those OF
the people Of England are for peace. I! il
folly 10 argue thus in the face Of hard words
between rowdies who have the ring and are
determined on war. The destinies of she two
countries have been placed in the hands of
po,ticisps aod ambitious demagogues They
can't on desires for coed fellowship; frieaily,
so,isl and Industrial union; fair aud honest
political intercourse, and on the mutual bsne-
ifs of peace; but these are manGuvres foc q
position diplomatic verbiage conceaiiug the
bittsrast aninosiEies and the most fatsl desiy ns
If disturbing The peaceful relations of the two
countries
Iniess, then, Lord Palmerston's admiuistra
,sol shall ae overtime Wifi Manchester and
srsde and money shalt 80 heretofore, adhere to
tie present Cabinet; if they shall build up and
foItijy themselves on the strength OF Lord Cia-
rendoD's letter to Mr.. Marcy, deeming that
JssHiiicai apologize nsgation Of the truth CT
al the alleged grievances of our administra-
ton il the matter Of enlistment sufficient, now
are We TO avoid collision? The question of
peace or war is to Ds tried in Parliament on
resolution condeEnipg Pslmerston and Cls-
rendon in the management of the Crarnoton
affair, and tle probable dismissal of Mr.. Dlllas;
end i! must be confessed that the Pierce-Marcy
Cabire. have wonderfully strengthened the
oese Of the London managers in permi ting
them to fatty dissvow all intention to violate
our laws, and to profess friendship for US aud
desire for peace Like professions Oh our
si's, accom- oaoied by the act OF dismissal,
smouat to nothing; because they are followed
~ tie disuiss5i tself, which it will be alleged
docs awsy Win tne profession Of friendship.
We have thua 1luuaered along, having agood
cause ard ample justification, until that ,ause
has been nads 20 assume the character of de-
fcnce. Fsoro being the injured party, w are
D ade the aggaessors From an honesseffort
TO vinjicate our outraged laws and sovereign.
ty, We have been forced into the position Of
disregardirg the peace Of the two counties.
Why were we called upon to accepsa ma
tional apology, and at the same time to PERSIST
il the act of dismissal Of her Msesty's officials?
Did 1T strengthen us to be thus compelled to
act, instead of relying solely upon the facts of
the case, and terminating the official relations
of the convicted parties on those facts acne
PRESIDENTIAL lNTRIGUEs--WnLTAM L. MARCY
IN THE FIELD,--Our readers will obser-e, by
one of cur telegraphic dispatches from
Washington, that the game Of the Gncin-
natl jugglers, otherwise called the DEMO
cratic party, alias the political niger dri-
vers, is beginning to develope itself in new
phase, even before they have reached the
scene OF their midnight orgies and other .pe-
rations. 1t seems from the develope NUTS
made by cur correspondent at Washington hat
ali the fuss raised there by the newspapers
concerning the claims and chances Of Piece,
Buchanan and Douglas, are merely the prslmi-
Dsry movements for their iinal extinguishm,nt,
and the resufciSation of Marcy, Of New Yuk,
as the only practical candidate Of the demo-
cracy in the present crisis Of their destiny.
1t will be in the recollection Of our political
antiquaries that but for the singularly happy
presence and opposition of Mr.. Dickinson, of
New York, in the Baltimore Convention of
1852, Marcy would then have been the SIC.
cessful candidate, and Pierce would never have
been heard of as the occupant of the White
House and the wearer of patent leather bo5s
Daniel S Dickinson no longer holds any pcsti,r
within the bosom Of the debauched democra;
now assembling at Cincinnati to prevent tie
elimination Of Marcy's aspirations for the put.
pie; and hence we are positively and authori
tatiyely assured that the nomination of Marcy,
following the straDgulation Of Blchann,
Pierce and Douglas by the same bowstring Is
the deilber ate Intention Of all the old heads e
the Virginia democracy and other sin liar hand
SOULS throughout the country.
We have some faith in the triumph of this
Marcy movement, from the information which
reaches us from not merely the four, but from
the forty points of the compass. Marcy has
been the great balAnce-wheel of the rickety
administration Of Pierce, holding together its
weak ribs like strong iron hoops around q
barrel OF explosive materials. Franklin Pierce,
Jefferson Davis and Caleb Gushing would long
since have split the administration into frag.
ments but for the iron grasp and iron rule of
old Marcy. His letter in reply to Lord Cla-
rendon, which was despatched by yesterdays
steamer to England, will be brought outimme-
distely In Washington, for the purpose Of
throwing in the shade all Mr.. Blu ,hanan's nego.