The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-01-06
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ex-Governor FoorE AND THE PRESIDENT
The Hon. Henry S. Foote recently addressed
a letter to the citizens of Jackson, Mississippi,
which is terribly severe upon the head of the
National Administration. Abiding to decla
ration made by Senator Davis, that MIR. Bu-
chanan " will not shrink hairs breadth from
the position which he has taken, but will take
another step in advance he exelaims:
"Gracious Heaven! what does this mean
What further pledge has been dragged from a
panic-stricken President, the execution ofwhich,
apparently at the instance and under the com
mand of Southern men, is still more to lower
the moral attitude of the South among her
brethren of the North, render her institutions
undeservedly odious, break down still more ia
tally the strength of the Democratic party in
the free States, which has so long stood as an
improbable rampant against Abolition hostil-
ity, and criminally facilitate the election of an
Abolition President in 1860; thus affordng
certain Union-haters in the South plausible
pretext to break up the Confederacy? We
shall learn all in week or two more. ] am
inclined, meanwhile, to think that he can do
nothing worse or more mischievous than those
things he has done already; for can scarcely
imagine greater enormities than the attempting
to force through Congress the Lecompton bill
4 tIV UCiCae Wy GACCudNc VI VIC Niie-
| tenden amendment-the notorious passage of
the English bill by the same discreditable
means-the indecent public rejoicngs over the
accomplishment of this high-handed fraud, at
the White House itself-the corrupt and anti
republican interference in the Illinois election
for the purpose of crushing DouglasLthe open
employment of the Executive official patronage
in connection with Black Republcanism, in
order to secure the election of Black Repub-
lican Senator. These criminal misdeeds of the
| President, none of which can be denied, it would
certainly be difficult to surpass; but those who
direct his conduct are not yet content, and the
trembling President must still take one other
step in advanced"
The Richmond Whg is in raptures at the
Wing and American move in Virginia against
Letcher, and urges on the movement most
pressingly. E
Richmond" addressing Wings and Ameri-
cans through the Wigs says: :E
:" The dry bones of the old Wing party have
begun to shake and move together, and now its
so-called valley of death is again alive with
armed men,"
Great goodness, what will the Democrats do
before this dry-bone army?
WIsE's ORGAN ON THE SLAVE TRAnE-The
Richmond Enquirer, edited by son of Gov.
Wise says of the slave traders:
" They may be criminals to law, but they are
not the less patriots TO the Constitution. Be-
lieving that every violation of the Constitution
tends to weaken Its efficacy, they have elected
criminality in the eye of the law, rather than
submit to what they believe to be serious and
palpable violation Of the Constitution. They
may be pirates by Congressional enactment,
but they are such without the amino furandi
which constitutes the gist of criminality."
Mr.. Forney's Philadelphia Press says:
"Mr. Jefferson Davis, able and bold as he is,
will find it, we think, somewhat difficult task
to carry his standard through Mississippi, if
that standard is inscri ed with the idea recently
enunciated by him, t,at, in the event of the
election of Republican to the next Presiden-
IRENE measures. That declaration would have
passed without antagonism in 1856, when there
was mere geographical organization of the
opposite party and yet it is hardly possible
that even the election of Col. Fremont could
have inflicted more dfscredit upon the Demo
cratic party and more -disaser upon our COM
mon country, than has followed the elevation
of the present incumb.nt. But we live in diff
ierent times.
No CHANCE TO ETfuBA.-The Washington
sptpFHj WHICH 10 wen SIOoeTN III ohNh htpblSi .;
thinks that the Cnban patriots have renounced
all idea of annexation 20 this country, from the
well-grounded apprehension that any move in
that direction will lead to the abolition of Sa
very. The States says:
"The policy of the French Emperor, however
yelled under diplomatic disclaimers and adroit
evasions, no longer ADMITS of doubt in Cuba
and St. Domingo. it 5 his settled plan to build
, up a rival empire of production our southern
limits which shall at or ce aliment the COMMERCE
aud maritime power of France and draw q
rail Of fire around tie slaveholding States o.
the Union. This veryexpression was used by
one high in his cougcis in November, 1857, as
an argument why the tubans should dismiss the
idea of annexation, an rely on the mediation
/, of France for the obtashance of an Independent
status, and as a conGea nence Of this status the
, certainty Of a cheap aed legal labor supply un
! der European guarantee.
, ''THIs PROMISE DISS, lived THE CUBAN JUNTA
, A few notorious and lnquestionable facts viii
: convince every reflect ng mind that Napoleon
. the Third has sincerely dopted this programme
: 1t is well known that Be is pledged to Spain no
, to per.,t Cuba to be mercanized, and that il
the late conferences ~ Madrid England was
r forced TO unite in this. pledge. j. is believed
!, that part of Sir WilE5m Gore 0useleys bust
ness hefe was TO perseade this Government tc
make a deinonstEa.io. or Cuba, in the vain
hope of thrusting uponf he United States wal
with France, which England dared not provoke
, or accept for herself
, g M. Buchanan was not to be inveigled into
this false position, .n5 he probably demanded
that England should face her or share of the
responsibility. Meanwhile, the Cuban JEnta
composed az i was of he most eminent men Of
the Island who had hei On pndismayed through
6 eight years of danger epd sacrifice, ali q. once
seal up ihar records md formally close theil
revolutionary labofs. -srhe leading member.
proceed to London, HadriG, ard Paris, anC
afiap protracted conferences and important in
J.. terviews wi4h some 6 Napoleen's' Ministers
they unanimously rep, nee the idea @ dnnera
ton.
"These able and lGag-suffering patriots die
: not renounce hope tG which they had so Ions
n devoted life and fortune without grave and-t(
Y them at least-conclIsive reasons. These
reas6ps have hitherto been confined to tn,
: members of the Reyol tionary Junta, and per
haps three or four of i cir American friends"
h ARRIVAL OF SENASoR DoUGLAs AT New
n Senator Doussa and lady arrived a
New York from hayssf OF the 2sth ult. Ht
8 was waited upon at the wharf by Alderman
/ Bradley end Councilman Baker, of the commit
t tee appointed 10 ,2cese him, and escorted tt
/ his rooms at the Evel;ft House.
He was visited byy Speaker Orr, Reverdy
l. johnson. George n. Sanders, John B. Haskin
h NJ. c., and otnc.s.
il Shortly after o'clsfk r. "a, ....1ermen Clan
: e.; Bradley, and McSpedon, called at his rooms
l. Mr.. Bradley. after eongratulating the Sena