Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-01-11
Our Foreign Relations.


The course pursued by our Executive in relation
to foreign relations, seems to be approved by the
whole Press of the country without regard to poti-
cal divisions. In the matter of Central America,
which perhaps The most delicate of all the sub
jects yet 10 be settled between Government and
Great Britain, the voice of our nation unit in re-
Spouse to the decision of the President, arshadow
! ed in his recent Message. The North American, of
yesterday, speaks as follows upon the subject:
{" We believe but one opinion exists in this COM
munity in regard to complications with Great
Britain the subject of Central America, and that
49, that Government is clearly in the right in the
position has assumed and that it and will be
sustained, at all hazards and at any cost The
views expressed by the Senators who joined in the
conversation which followed the reading of the
Presidents Message Monday are the views of
the whole country, and uttered, they were, by
the representatives of all the partes and fragments
of parties into which, at this time the American peo-
pie divided are full of significance 1t is to be
hoped that when they reach the opposite shores of
the Atlantic, they may not be without effect in modi-
r flying that hostile and aggressive policy upon which
the PaImerston Ministry seemed obStnately bent
"a policy which, if persisted in cannot but lead to
deporabe results, if it should not involve the
+ dreadful calamitIes of war.
Y AS matters stand, it is source of sincere
congatulation that Minister al the Court of St
James is wise, cautious and moderate statesman
for if it were otherwise the worst consequences
would be to follow. We have good reason fol
belIeving-apart from our general knowlede of his
- CharaCter-that MIR. BUCHANAN has thus far con.
Quoted the negotiation in d temper which has cha
leDged the respect of the British Cabinet, and tina
II if he has not succeeded in bringing them to sucl
terms justice demands, he has at least shown thai
+ the most rigorous assertion of national rights is no
. incompatible with diplomatic courtesy. 1t is no
difficult TO appreciate the value of such an Ambas
sador at such juncture ."-PennsWuania
=; THE President AS A WR1TER.-The New Yorl
- Sunday Mercury, neutral paper, pounces savagel
- upon the foul magners of Gen. Pierce, who infes
" Washington. 1t says:
y" The jackass of a correspondent if he knew any
thing, ought to know that the inaugural address G
President has, in all cases. been the inceptive pre-
II duction OF the President concoced by his pen
and either read or spoken the world, after havin
been submitted to the consideration of his mmediat
Cabinet ministers. We have not thus far had
ID President, with the exception of Gen. Jackson an
- Gen. Taylor, who have not been known as reputab
y bellies ettres scholars.
AS for Gen. Franklin Pierce the President of tn
United States, whom the stupid correspondent of tn
" New York Herald would have the world believe
so deficient IN Literary requirements that he has
nj employ Judge Gchrist to write his State paper
IL everybody who personally knows aught of the ma,
at knows that he is of the first classical scholars
the day. At college he ranked with the best of II
bellies lestres scholars then induced to Alma Mater
and while at the New Hampshire bar. and when
the United States House of Representatives and in Il
Senate, he stood conspicuous among his peers as q
~, elegant writer.