Democratic Standard

From the Globe.

JOHN BULL'S THREATENINGS THROUGH ONE OF HIS RUNTS.

The National Intelligencer concludes its article against the audacity of attempting to stand up for the rights and honor of the country with the following remark on Mr. Pickens's presumption in venturing to suggest such a thing in his report at the last session of Congress:

"Mr. Pickens's report comes out just at the close of the session, red hot for war, usurping the prerogatives of the Executive branch of the Government while negotiating with a foreign power, and throwing down defiance at the feet of the British Government by an act unknown to the customs of modern civilization, and equally alien to the principles and habits which usually regulate the intercourse of nations. Who ever before heard of Congress taking in hand, without consent, a business pending between our National Executive and foreign power; thus forcing the whole matter into a false position, fanning to a flame the war-passion both in this country and in Great Britain. If the rashness and impropriety of this assumption had not been seen and discreetly managed both here and in England, our ears might have been saluted by a declaration of war, and the thunder of national strife might have been heard on our maritime and Northern frontiers."—Saturday's National Intelligencer

The only comment we shall make on this, we shall adopt from an American Federalist abroad—the brother of the Editor of the Boston Courier, and the correspondent of that print, from which it is taken. The notice of the Bay State Democrat vouches Mr. Buckingham as the author:

Mr. Pickens's Report.—We copy the following judicious remarks from the Courier of this morning. They are extracted from an interesting letter from the Paris correspondent of that paper, (Mr. J. H. Buckingham.) We are glad to notice that one American abroad has some regard for the honor of his country, and utters truths in relation to the course proposed by a portion of the Federal press, which are as creditable to him as just to his country.—Bay State Dem.

"Some of the American Whig papers showing more partisan zeal against Mr. Pickens and his party than patriotism, have commented on his report in such a manner and at such foolish length as to afford the ultra Tory papers of England ample opportunity to sneer at the whole people of the U. States. A long article in the New York Express, written with party recklessness altogether inappropriate to the occasion, has been extensively copied as the voice of the organ of the new Administration, and of the authorized mouthpiece of the great majority which elected Gen. Harrison. Our papers, generally, I am sorry to say, too often furnish occasion to make us appear ridiculous when made use of as they are by the English press. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Pickens's report, and however inexpedient the publication of it may have been, it contained sacred truths which cannot be controverted—and it has had a good effect."