The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-22

renee in American politics is most evident
There Mons. Gabriac, the French Minister. is mas.
ter of the situation, aud Mr.. Otway, the British
representative, is nothing but his tool. In spite
Of and in open violation of the interests Of their
own sub Gets resident in Mexico--n open opr ISL
ton 10 the manifest political tendencies of
tha republic, and in enmity TO the en-
Ii tened spirit Of the age--.hesc official
agents of the Apglo-Fr alliance have
determined to uphold priestIy and military
despotism, which possesses no sympathy with
any other political system than that of France,
and to crush out, if possible, the constitutional
government of President Juarez
Tie final result of this policy, if it succeeds in
establ.aaing the power Of Gen. Miramon, will be
to bring on war between this country and that
republic, and chat within the next four years.
In such conflict England and France may
think they can bring other elements to bear, of a
political and practical character, which will
change the whole future, as now manifest, of
Cuba, Mexico and Central America. They be-
lieve grave complications can be made before
which the United States will give way rather
than encounter the probability off, general war
and if Louis Napoleon can bring about conflict
between the constitutional governments of the
United States and England his ends will be
served, for he knows that such result will be
the best guarantee for the safety OF the despotic
theories Of his dynasty in France, and of aristo-
cratic class government throughout Europe.
This is the juncture that is now upon US
Lord Clarendon's boast that the allied policy
was to rule the policy Of the world, and that
''there is no por ion of the two hemispheres' ex
| empt from it, is to be attempted to be carried
out. There is but one way in which we can
meet it with dignity, with honor to ourselves, and
with success. The policy which the President has
recommended to Congress must be at once en-
dorsed by that body. Let the Cuba bill be passed
| at once by the Senate, and then let the bill
comforting upon the President authority to pro-
tect our citizens and our interests on the great
| Isthmus transit routes, and in Mexico and Cen
tral America, be taken up and passed by both
| houses before the approaching adjournment.
| At this important crisis in our foreign rela.
| tons the Executive should receive all the
| strength which can possibly be conferred upon
| it. The cry that it is dangerous to our public
| liberties-that it is a concession of the war
making power-that it is an ambitious party
scheme Of the President's that it is an undue
strengthening Of the executive at the expense of
the legislative branch-are the cries of faction,
and not the breathings of true patriotism. None
of them will bear the test of argument |
nor the light Of reason. A strong Congress
sional endorsement of the policy of the President
is the only way to give the government the moral
power which the best interests of the country
require it should possess, and to preserve peace
with all the world The common sense of the
country has long seen that the President should
possess the power Of claiming redress for the in
dividual wrongs of cur citizens and to enforce
| it, and it has determined that that power shall
be conferred on the Executive. If the members of
either or both houses, through captiousness or the
insane impulses of faction, refuse now to do it,
they will be held to fearful responsibility be-
fore the people. The complicated state of affairs
in Europe, as well as in the republics south of
us, renders this course the more necessary now,
because if these necessary powers are granted
at once they will give Ills a moral influence in
European cabinets, and produce an immediate
change in their policy in American affairs Vacil-
lation on our side will only confirm them in taer
mistaken theories, and our hesitation will only
encourage them. The whole country expects
Congress to act at once on the Cuba question,
and on the special message of the President re-
garding Spanish American affairs. We call |
upon it to do is duty to itself and to the country
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SIGNS OF THE TINES AMONG NEwsPApERs--
Greeley is running about the country delivering
lectures at fifty dollars each. Dana and Ripley,
managers and associates of the Tribune are
writing, or causing to be written articles, at two
dollars page, for Appeton's Encyclopedias"
These facts show that Niger worship is nearly
at its close, that anislavery agitation is going
down, and that whenever it becomes defunct the
Tibune's niger circulation will collapse.
JUDGMENTS AGAINST TIE CTY.-In another
column will be found report from the Street
Department to the Common Council, calling at
teAion to the judgment obtained by John
Pettigrew against the city, and suggesting that
some steps should be taken for the opening up
and setting aside of the Judgment thus obtained"
1t appears that the chief item in Mr. Pettigrew's
claim was for earth-fllng in Sixty third street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues, and that his
original proposal for this work was at the rate Of
twenty-five cents per cubic yard. This item was
afterwards erased in the original contract, the
| original bid removed from the Street Depart
ment, and the word "forty' was substituted
| for "twenty," making difference of seven
thousand dollars IN Mr. Pettigrew's favor on the
$4,000 yards of earth-Hlling" called for in the
contract This is one Of the judgments, we un-
derstand, which the Comptrolle advised to have
paid; and we learn that it is not by any means
the only one in which erasures, will hereafter
beproved. There are other objections, it is said,