The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-01-16
Il HI E MADISO NIAN
FOREIGN INFLUENCES

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 il announced that
Gov. Porter, of the State of Baltimore, had de-
clared Gen. Harrison President. II is such a
paper that the Globe quotes to prove that Gen.
Harrison has 'ssympathies" 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-
cipes, or submission to British rapacty, may
be judged by recurrence to the history of the
battles of Fort Megs and the Thames.
The Globe admits 81 the triumph of foreign
commerce over our own," but attributes il TO the
American credit system We inferred as much
from the perseverng 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, it so happens, that foreign commerce,
and foreign ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and empire, have
triumphed with the greatest rapidity during the
war which Mr. Van Buren, has been waging 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 b. en- 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 industiously terrifying her own. If she
thus goes on, and succeeds in getting poss esson
OF California and Oregon, and retaining her do
minion in Canada and on the sea, she may make
conquest Of Mexico, 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
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 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 sumbers the power Of the Anne
Tican Government, in regard to the destiny Of
the county through its internal resources and
foreign relations OF infinitely more importance
to Mr.. Van Buren, and his friends has been the
politics OF a 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 protection-whie 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 r e.
public outshine the glores 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.