Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-07-08
From the New York Tribune.
SEIZURE OF THE SANDWICH Is
LANDS, AND THE GENERAL
POLICY OF ENGLAND.

Can any thing he more cruel and IN
Just than the late seizure by France and
England of the Marquesas and Sandwich
Islands! These inSular nations have ust
emerged. under the influence principally of
American Commerce, and the efforts Of
American missionaries, from barbarism to
civilization and Christianity; and their re-
ward is to be rapaciousy seized and appro-
priated by two nations Boosting of their
love of Peace and their sense Of Justice.
Was there ever more undisguised hypocrisy
and robbery? Towards each other these
mas,ifs, endowed with nearly equal
strength, are respectful and forbearng.
They shun an encounter where much may
be lost and nothing gained, but spring with
unrestrained ferocity upon those whose
weakness renders them incapable Of resist
ance Some trfing affront TO one Of their
Consuls, probably as grasping and over
bearing as the countries they represent,
and they proceed at once to denationallze
the unresisting offender. And pray, what
is to become of American rights and in
terests, while England and France are col
onizing the worldl If we make CONNER
cial treaties with them. to take their goods
for our produce, will they consent to
throw open their colonies to our trade
upon the same termsl Oh, no; that would
he contrary 10 their system. We may
trade with England but England alone can
trade with her colonies. If England wants
Free Trade, she is in favor of Free Trade.
! if Free Trade is right, why docs she not
allow Free Trade to those who are under
her protection. But she dnes not want
Free Trade, and Free Trade is no further
right than il suits her purposes and inter-
EST. If she can close the ports of any
place on earth. except TO her own trade.
she does it; if she cannot close them. she
is willing 10 negotiate for reciprocity.
How humiialing is the present condi-
ton of America! Scarcely the second
commercial nation in the world, she is
obi ged from constitutional restraints upon
her government, fanced or real, and in.
ternal division, to stand quietly by. and
see not only her commercial allies but her
own commercial offspring, devoured by her
mighty rivals. But this is not the worst
of i,-whe England has violence for the
powerless. she has the arts of deception.
persuasion and corruption for the strong.
1t she wants part of our territory, after
we have had it in our own unquestinned
possession for more than thirty years under
plain and unambiguous treaty. she does
MT hesitate to claim il. while she has
in her secret custody the cIearest and fullest
proof that she has no right 10 il; and she
perseveres in her demand until favorable
moment arrives for its surrender. And
when we give it up. il is glorious com
promise, equally honorable to both the
high contracting parties. As soon as we
began to emerge from the colonial vassalage
in which she had bound us, aud to throw
off the colonial chains which for ages she
was engaged IN forging for us, and to man
ufacture our own wearing apparel, she tells
us she is willing to relax in our favor those
laws by which she has so long starved her
own people, rather than have them fed by
US: Her time has arrived for commercial
treaty with US. She can no longer supply
US with her manufactures unless there Is
some reciprocity. and this is the hope with
which she now begins to cajne us. Her
Arkwrights have been making out Of us
forty millions of dollars by supplying u;
with their cotton goods. But our Ark
wrights are beginning to beat hers Unde
these circumstances she is willing TO TAXI
our Indian corn, which nobody eats il
England. or any thing else. which she doe
not want, or which will not pay freight, i
we will take her manufactures, which w
do not want, and upon which the freight
compared with the value, is merely nomi
nal,