The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-01-16
.FoREIGN INFLUENCE.n

The Globe attempts to answer our structures
upon Mr. Van Buren's foreign policy by quoting
London newspaper, which is so ignorant of
this country that, we believe it announced that
Gov. Porter, of the State Of Baltimore, had de-
clared Gen. Harrison President. 1t is such a
paper that the Globe quotes to prove that Gen.
Harrison has ''sympathies" for the British. We
like such sympathies as Gen. Harrison pos
sesses. They are sympathies which, while
they delight in the advancement of the cause of
humanity, civilization, and democracy, at the
same time cherish the rights, the honor, and the
free institutions of America. How far they
would lead him into an embrace of British prin-
ciples or a submission to British rapacity, may
be judged by recurrence to the history Of the
battles of Fort Meigs and the Thames.
The Globe admits s the triumph of foreign
commerce over our own" but attributes it to the
American credit system. We inferred as much
from the persevering efforts Mr.. Van Buren, has
made to put down that credit system, and erect
upon its ruins the hard money systems of Eu-
rope. But, itso happens, that foreign commerce,
and foreign ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and empire, have
triumphed with the greatest rapidity during the
war which Mr.. Van Buren, has been waglng up
on American institutions. England, keenly sa-
gacious, has seen the paralyzing policy of Mr..
Van Buren,, and easily comprehended its ten
dency and results. And while he has been EN-
ployed in laying about him scourge upon his
own fellow countrymen, the British Govern
ment has been staving off our claims, and quietly
but industriously fortifying her own. If she
thus goes on, and succeeds in getting poss ession
OF California and Oregon, and retaining her do
minion in Canada, and on the sea, she may make
conquest ofMexico, and thus surrounding the
United States, meet the shock of war with
this Republic on account Of the Aroostook,
with more formidable prospect of success
than she otherwise would We owe her al
ready two hundred millions of dollars; and
in addition to all her advantages, the Loco
focos propose to admit her subjects to the full
rights of citizenship as soon as they strike our
shores. Of these subjects, of various sorts,
10000 to $4,000 are annually arriving She
| travels across our territory-knocks an American
citizen in the head with a musket, burns steam
boat in our waters, and marches on In her road
to universal empire with impunity. Mr.. Van
Buren,, meantime, behind the shield of the
| Globe, INDUCES in the pleasing arts of luxury,
! or attacks the people and their institutions by
way of showing how laborious are the tolls of
State. Thus slumbers the power of the Anne
rican Government, in regard to the destiny Of
the county through its internal resources and
foreign relations Of infinitely more importance
Ito Mr.. Van Buren, and his friends has been the
politics Of county, and more worthy their
deliberations the question Of the constitutional
power Of Congress to build bridge or toll
gate.
/ Oh, we rejoice that there is to be, at least, a
change. New England, by her achievements
in the mechanic arts, has nearly conquered the
| necessity Of protecton-while the South begins
to feel that the straight-jacket policy which has
bound her is becoming liberalized, and every
where, we hope there is growing willingness
to unloose the country, and to let her forth in
| all her expanded and unmeasured power and
| grandeur. Then shall the North American Re-
public outshine the glories of Rome in the
| height of her empire, and the stars and stripes
of America shall float free, to be respected and
honored from Indus to the poles