Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-04-02
A"''' RO UG e.
;SAruxp5y, april ., 1912.

ne AVOIDED In contemplating The grand on
terprlse of q war whh our inyeteratc enemy
thar I'D brig. Of 0 step.mothrr, England
when$we count the coste, aud consider TN
em5ars tssmoats of our domestic a~fIatrs-ouI
i~inancfss low and dspreciating. our t~reasur,
emplyani iAde6tei% our commerce langulshlna
aud sraanpdic in its action, all the resources
1T thtess people unpfosluctive at home, and theil
credit annihiIated abroad-and above all, wher
we reflect on tha ufserAb'e spirit Of party and
Helfshness, that like a demon Of evil has selz,
cd upon the men Ii whom The nations intrr
ests and honor are %fonfded, the question very
naturally arises, can tbs mar be auoided!
WI shall not presume to answer this inter
roeatory directly; tie question Is get open tothe
deliberations Of mra--is yet open tothr muta-
tons of chance. The circumstances, howcv-
er, which tcnd to demonstrate the probability
or lnpFobabI,ly Of this contest, should be
~inowu tu every citizen OF the country and we
r~onr6tvc it our duty, as tar AS our information
viii :ennble us, to eypose 4 In longne, 10 our
readers The peculiar position into which the
United States have hean drawn hv q wishy,
Vastly, dr'ly-dalltng policy on their " part
and le malevolen:, d~eep.laid scohmes of En-
\ gland on the otherppit.
Ts do this, a brief summary of our ne~'''a-
tionss with England, and her negoci-.fo's WIN
othet governments, during ty"'aS' "Se years
IS requisite. Wesay t. f"st five years: not
Tim, 5bfs tnrm auks-ces the origin of all those
neycs,j,ti, rs, I'D because within it, events
Lo,.: hee, .apidly ui with fatal certainty
zig to a crisis evolving to open day
u DIRK and sinister pfoleAs Of our enemy,
md displaying the fiendish tact vi h which
nil lhr operations have been managed.
peswren the United States and England,
during tie period specified, the os,enSib1c aud
most: prominent question Of difference has
hccny our northern boundary. Thou. III the
ose7,sible, let il bn we'll undcrs God, this Las
never been the RrAL, or even a serious cause
Of difficulty between the two nations That
England should higgle for The command of a
river like the st. Johns, even on common com
mercial considerations, may well he supposed.
But The command Of that river is necessary
10 her on other views than those Of commerce.;
it is required by Ter cabinet policy. 1t forms
Il link in TINT great chain of influences, by
which she seeks to rcpress the growing power
Vt tho Union, TO cifcuuscribe tho scope and
%entramnlel the action Of our navy. Here is
Tie whole secret If our boundary bubbles
England claims, and IS resolved at all haz-
21rds to maintain the dominion Of the sea I
The difference has not been one Ct territory, =
hat of power; and the ~sevcrest ccnsure is I
herited by our government, for delayisg at |
Instant the decisise blow, when a question !
like this was pesding for If we are to be q
ruled by England, we are not what we claim TO q
I've, a free and independent people; and fling =
land rules the sea. she rules us, s
Within the term of five years, oar most u
prominent subjects of negotiation with Britain V
have been, the boundary, the Invasion Of our >
territory and m,lr1assr Of our citizens, (at first =
disavowed, but afterwards assumed by the go- :,
vernmcnt,) the right of search, and the annoy -
and interruption of orr by the Il
seizure of our merchant ships. All these ill.,
and Injuries have been levelled at N
Us with 'mpunity, and submitted to without in
True we have claimed our rights, O
III our claims have been put off with indiffer- 70
ence, or lasultngly denied. r in
" ounding as IRE these facts to our national a
,rlde-iorclhly as they demonstrate the re- m
OF England to maintain over us the au- w
hority Of a mastar-to make us her tributary be
md v~assal-her: negotiations in Europe afford III
'vefl stronger evidence of this design. For a re
OF years all her efforts in that quarter d"
been directed towards the humiliation of ~
our ancient AMI natura, ally, and the ie
Capitalization in her own hands of the diplo-
laey OF Europe, in such a manner as to be ~
big to combine with her own power, the pow !,
'rs:ot Russia, Prussia aud Austria, in ~opposi- :
ion eitherto France or the United States. or :
10Th, as ctre umstances might require. In no, an
ne instance, where the balance Of power in
could be made, an iH.egral of the tic
a. issue, during the space given, has On
ny other will been done than that OF England. en-,
was ~d'smembered, and Egypt reduce fri
d from a tloufishing TO a languishing pro- she
nee, to preserve this balance of power In
nd now, when her lines of partition seem aid
,cllrelv laid-,yben F,,,co sbo ,hi.
very side, 10 establish that F" balance OF DOW ne
: in full, she proposes, and has ratified a ""'
eaty by WHICH she obtains the fright Of ue'
arch making her by concession what she ~
long and proudly assumed to be, the Mis- .N
ess ottbs Ocean. st ~
Does the resder ask how this arirbt Of ~
(Which is mutual for the suppression W.T.,
the slave trade,) bestows on England an bo,5
:hority ne; gwen 10 others! We viii ex- I,ho
ih. with
England has a two iold Object in con- sea
aiding FOR this rish5, as she terms it. Eve
sane person knows that all her twad.e abou, "a
= horrors Of The slave trade &c. is lust 50 r :
tch cant, and nothing else, She would
=. ~ every negro in Africa tomorrow, lust Fl
;mag, msr1ering the Chinese, or reduce from
ID d'slaTerg, and destroy their old men and tam
'ge can't Their little ones b. famine, as she 'nen
ns.-ae to ,hnn wretched millions of India, if far1
: could maze money by doing So. Hence and
fright Of Search" is a specious craft, by go u
.,h che ;n,a :, Jesse
IN the hanAs OF France and the United -