Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-11-25
From the Norfoik Beacon.
A'N"e W.
ENCROACHMENTS.

with their known pretenssons 10 exclusive
and peculiar national superiority, are ar
resting tho attention Of all dlspasslonate
and discriminating observers. The move
ments against chi-a; the British dongs
in Asia Minor, which, it is rumored, have
called forth Inconsistencies on the part oil
Russia and France; the search and seiz
ure Of American vessels ON the coast oil
Africa the stcalthy march Of British en-
tcrprizs up the Colombia River, all demon.
strate d graspiag ct universal dominion.
England has great resources IN NUM-
bers, valor, aud wealth, but she has an
overwhelming national debt, and Cypress
i've taxation, with Discontinued poPuia.
ton; and she now finds rival commercial
nations competing with British manu'ac- ;
lures and commerce IN all the wa.efs o'
the Globe-thc policy ihefeiofe Oh 'c, sa-
gacious statesmen, is to open new markets.
for British manufactures, and to acquire
new territory for British emigration TO oc.
cupy and enlarge.
We. ON the other hand, have within
our reach all the means OF individual and
national greatness, and all we want Is 10
be let alone--io progress quietly but stead
ily TO the developement OF our resources,
and to exchange by free and unrcstrict.
ed trade, our products for the productions
and manufactures, required for our con.
sumption, bat more cheaply made by
friendly nations, is, as we believe, our true
policy.
Tie able writer in the October number
OF the North American Review, maintains
that apart from tire paramount; consldera-
tons enforced 5y religion, civilization and
humanity, HAT peace IS the true policy OF
both III 5lana and the United States. Our
people. though, he says, if they arc ever
forced into contest, will 20 into il under
an intense and unanimous sense of wrong,
which viii call forth all their energies aud
resources for ite prosecution. They will
undoubtedly 80 in;o it with determine
ton that this disturbing question OF boun-
Diary, If ii cannot be settled in one way,
shall be PIT at rest in another, eiiectually
and forever; that the Z" continuous strain.
of tho martial airs Of England, circllng
the EARTH" shall be abridged Of that great
arc that crosses North america, and her
morning drums" cease to beat hencefor.
ward within a northwestern Indians hear
ing. We do not say that that purpose
will be executed; such issues are in the
womb Of time We but say that 1t will be
the purpose, and that il viii be one hard
to subdae. Aud let not England, above
all, nattcr herself that such scenes as some
of those rehcarsed, in the last war, along
the Chesapeake and the frontier, are to BIZ
acted over again at as little cost. There
is a way to her islands as well as from
them, and it is no, given TO her for ever,
while she does such things herself,
to sit ut case,
An island q',cen, amid her subject seas,
While the ycxt pillows, in their distant roar;
But sootho her slumbcrs, and but kiss her shore"
IL the question be Of sacking and burn.
ing towns, it is horrible one, but if she
insists on again presenting it, Baltimore,
with its considerable wealth and insufficient;
delenccs, is not nearer to the salt water
than brighton, with its perhaps equal
wealth, and no defcnces at all and Liv.
erpool, taking the chances Of the weather,
is only two thirds as far from New York,
as New York is from Liverpool. They
are apt to remind us, thai we have 5000
miles Of unprotected scacoast; and how
far, we would ask, from two thirds of this
extent Of seacoast, have the two British
islands; and how vas, is the disproportion,
on the other hand, OF assailatle and valua-
Bile substance scattered along that beach |;
and what are the coast Notifications Of
England good for, anywhere except at
her naval dcpots! For the most part,
her old works elsewhere, where they have
been kept up, are out of date, and OF small
worth in the present state Of the science
Of war, her reliance having been placed
on her wooden ENTHUSIASTICALLY agood
defence, no doubt, but not sufficient one
against sudden descent. Ships have to
pay respect to wind and weather, and can.
not be at every moment at every place
that may need their succor; and, with the
favor of circumstances and sufficient mo.
tive, Yankce coatrivance has done more
improbable things before now, than would
be marching three miles on English
land" and doing in night what would
be remembered through a century. We
are not speaking Of any permanent lodg-
ment upon the soil 4; that Of course is out
Of the question, though no more on the
one side than on the Other; but Of sudden
raips, winch, between running into a har.
Dor and oong out Of it again beyond pur-
suit, would take no more time than did
Paul Jones visit to SelkIrk Castle, or the
conlagration Of llayre de Grace or Buff
talo. And the improbabiIty Of such adj
ventures being undertaken and being sue.
cessftl, is lessencd with every improve
ment in the use of steam power in naval
operations.
But why so much as allude to such un.
desirable possibilities Why, except to
show that il would be unreasonable for
the great power OF England to harden it.
self in wrong through an excessive conf
dence ia lis security? We hope, and we
believe, that Two nations by whose con.
tinuod good fellowship humanity asprol-
tied SO much, and may look for SO much
more, will find some other way OF COM
posing their unhappy differences, besides
that which, while it has been SO falsely
called "the last resort Of kings" oughl
TO be the last-thc grievously reluctant,
even where it seems TO be the indispensa-
BILE resort Of free and righteous men. Ger
tainly we think that England has gone
far in committing herself to a course Of
insuiferable injustice. But she has taken
no rrcvocablc stcp--none which cannot