The Daily Union

The Minister to Spain.

The Republic means to make an ample atonement for its gratuitous professions of "loyalty" to the administration. Suspected, distrusted, and defeated in its attempt to creep into the democratic camp, it has returned to the service of its party with its usual weapons of detraction, of vituperation. It is fast relapsing into its habitual tone of malignant partisanship, and nobody will hereafter be deceived by its hypocritical protestations of independence and fairness.

Its issue of yesterday gives an insight into the sort of warfare which the Republic is preparing to wage against the administration. Having engaged the services of an ally who, writing with the license of an anonymous correspondent, does that dirty work which shrinks from responsibility, and can only be done in the dark, the Republic, with the aid of its "gossip," assails the administration for the appointment of Mr. Soulé as minister to Spain. This is not surprising. The brilliant senator from Louisiana has been the especial mark of vindictive criticism in the columns of the Republic--his offence consisting simply in his foreign birth. It was bad enough, thought the Republic, that a Frenchman should be a senator in Congress; but to send him abroad to represent the country at a foreign court "is to the last degree unwise and unjustifiable." The opinion of the Republic is of no consequence whatsoever. The conclusions of its judgment are not of a character to command respect, even if they were not the dictate of party bias or personal malignity. Nor have they the sanction of any respectable portion of the country. It is barely possible that the ungenerous bigotry of the Republic may be applauded by the supporters of political nativism, but by all others it will be detested and repudiated.

Pierre Soulé is a noble representative of that numerous and honorable class of American citizens who became such not by the accident of birth, but by their own voluntary adoption; and his appointment is but a just recognition by the Executive of the claims of the foreign-born citizens of America. His brilliant public career affords abundant evidence not only of his extraordinary talent, but of his devoted patriotism, and the country has every guarantee that the administration have secured in the diplomatic service the fidelity and capacity of another Gallatin.