The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-22
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Mr. CnRnEN AT ASuINGTGN

Mr.. Golden has been staying, it seems with the
President of the United States at Washington, and
IN all probability he was residing in that august
mansion which Americans call the "White House.
at the moment when the news of his election for
Rochdale reached him. So acute and observant
person must at all times be storing up the materials
of thought; but just now, when he is restored once
again to political station, he is doubtless especially
attentive to everything around him from which a
useful lesson can be extracted. Let us enumerate
few OF the experiences of which he may be- pre-
sumed likely to give the House of Commons the
benefit. '..f .. f..... ......
Mr. Golden may in the first place, have seen
much to modify his opinion of that '.barbaric SPLEEN
DOR which he denounced in the English
Court. We only trust that the disadvantages of a
Republican Monarchy have not been brought home
to him IN any painful manner. The White House
is furnished by contract and at the expense of the
State; and we have heard frightful stories of the
consequences which follow a too incautious as
sumption that the articles which it contains are in
tended to serve their ordinary purposes. Nor do
lettering chairs and paraytic bedsteads constitute
the only Inconvenience from which guests of the
President alleged to suffer. 1t is remarked by
Americans, as one of the mysteries of their immor-
tai Constitution, that each successive President of
the United States. though he has but $1,000. year
to spend, invariably retres from office with com
potency. If the rigid economy which cOnld alone
produce this result has the Presidential kitchen for
its theatre, the condition of a gentleman in Mr..
Cobden's position cannot be contemplated without
dismay. Let us, however, assume that he has dned
and slept in comfort With his faculties unds-
turbed by fasting or restlessness he will probably
have discovered that cheap Chief Magistracy may
be good deal dearer to the State than a Monar-
chy and Civil List. Every single American gen
teman with whom he has shaken hands at the
White House either wants place from the Presi-
dent or has got one by his favor. A courtier need
not necessarily be arrayed in knee breeches and
sword. The same characteristics which distinguish
him may be found under the dress-coat and black
trousers which worn from morn to dewv eve are
n American in of
the world. President Buchanan is every day of
his life earwigged, fattered, importuned and be-
sought by as eager crowd of eXpectans as ever
filled the Long Gallery at Versailles. As no one of
these pretends for a moment that he wants office
because he is tit for it, or dreams of urging any
claims except those of party or personal interest,
we venture to think that the system comes expen-
sive to the country in the long run. In England,
the responsible Minister gives away the places, and
the paceman then goes to return thanks to the il
responsible Monarch. In the United States, an ir-
responsible President receives the solicitations, dis
poses OF the offices, and engrosses the gratitude
Mr.. Golden will have observed that the great diff
tereEce between the English and American Courts
Is this-that, In the first, man attends leyee be-
cause he has got place; and in the second because
he wants one.
But beyond all doubt Mr.. Cobden's attention will
chiefly have fastened on the state of public opinion
in America with reference to War and Peace. At
the moment when he was first informed of the out
break OF the great contest in Italy, he would find
community in the world. Mr.. Bright has recently
propounded the theory that all democracies are
naturally pacific but that their aptitudes for peace
are practically blighted by the existence of large
standing armies. But Mr.. Bright looks on the uni
ted States as the Peri on Paradise. He has never
been there, and he will believe no evil of it. But
bis travelled friend, who has actually trodden the
diamond pavement and listened to the music of
Bunkum, will be able to give him better infOrma-
ton. The United States have, properly speaking,
no standing army at ALL force of about 20 900
men, employed in small parties vast and de-
sert territory, includes some nightly Amer
lean officers, but the rank and file are nearly all
lrishmen and Germans. Yet the Americans are so
far from pacific that their very paitudes are bloc
dy-minded. Mr.. Golden may possibly have con-
WINGED himself that it is not paying for soldiers but
playing at soldiers, which makes nation warlike
1t is the habit of serving in the militia which keeps
American herosm at boiling point. A community
which maintains by its pay half million of mea
may be perfectly non-aggressive and pacific; but a
people like the Americans, who perpetually parade
their streets in fancy uniforms, and are ali called
General, Colonel, or Major will ever be thirsting
for blood The restless spirits who are always long
ing to meet the men of Inkermann and the Alma in
a fair hight are by means the officers and pri-
Yates of the American regular army; they are the
clerks and shopmen who baptZe themselves sWasb-
ington Fencibles'' and Jefferson Guards" These
truths Will soon make themselves felt in England -
The English ten-pound householder has for the pre-
sent set his affections neutrality, but when he
has once taught himself rfemans drill-when he
has once learned to throw himself on the reverse
portion OF his person and fire suddenly through
his legs-we are persuaded that nothing less will
satisfy him than campaign on the Ticino.