Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-12

whether it was their intention to declare war,
or invade Texas, OF whether they were dis
posed to adjust and settle, in an amicable
manner, the pending differences between the
two countries. On The ninth II of November an
official answer was received, that the Mexi-
can government consented to renew the diplo.
matte relations which had been suspended in
March last, and for that purpose were will
ling to accredit a minister from the United
States. With a sincere desire to preserve
peace, and restore relations of good under
standing between the two republics, | waiv-
ed all ceremony as to the manner of renew
ing diplomatic intercourse between them; and,
assuming the initiative, on the tenth of Nov.
a distinguished citizen of Louisiana was APP
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Mexico, clothed with full
powers to adjust, and definitively settle, all
pending differences between the two coun-
tries, including those of boundary between
Mexico and the State of Texas. The minis
ter appointed has set out on his mission, and
is probably by this time near the Mexican
capital. He has been instructed to bring the
negotiation with which he is changed to a
conclusion at the earliest practical period;
which, it is expected, will be in time to ena-
BILE me to communicate the result to Congress
during the present session. Until that result
IL klOWf, L lOTD6dE W recommend 10 OODHTGSS
such Interior measures of redress for the
wrongs and injuries we have so long borne,
as it would have been proper to make had
no such negotiation been instituted.
In relation to Oregon, the Executive talks
largely. After giving his views of the claim
of the United States to that Territory, which
Of course he represents to be better than that
Of any other nation; he says:
1t is well known to the American people
and to all nations, that this government has
never interfered with the relations subsisting
between other governments. We have new
or made ourselves parties to their wars or
their alliances; we have not sought their ter
ritories by conquest: we have not mingled
with parties in their domestic struggles; and
believing our own form Of government to be
the best, we have never attempted to promul-
gate it by intrigues, by diplomacy, or by
force. We may claim on this continent a
like exemption from European interference.
Thu nations of America are equally sovereign
and Independent with those of Europe
They possess the same rights, independent
of all foreign opposition, 10 make war, to con-
clude peace, and to regulate their internal at
fairs. The people of the United States cam
not, therefore view with. indifference, attempts
of European powers to interfere with the in
dependent action of the nations Of this CONT
nent. The American system Of government
is entirely different from that of Europe
Jealousy among the different sovereigns of
Europe, lest any one of them might become
too powerful for the rest, has caused them
anxiously to desire the establishment Of what
they term the balance of power" 1t can
not be permitted to have any application on
the North American continent, and especial
ly to the United States. We must ever
maintain the principle, that the people OF this
continent alone have the right to decide their
destiny. Should any portion of them, con-
shutting an independent State, propose to
unite themselves with our confederacy, this
will he a question for them and us to deter
mine, without any foreign interposition. We
can never consent that European Powers shall
interfere to prevent such a union, because it
might disturb the ''balance of power" which
they may desire to maintain upon this con-
tinent. Near a quarter of a century ago the
principle was distinctly announced to the
world in the annual message of one of my
predecessors, that ''the American continents,
by the free and Independent condition which
they have assumed and maintain, are hence
forth not to be considered as subjects for flu
turs colonization by any European Power"
This principle will apply with greatly in
creased force, should a European power at
tempt to establish any new colony in North
America. In the existing circumstances of
the world, the present is deemed a proper oc-
casion to ~reiteratc and reafiirm the principle
avowed by Mr.. Monroe, and to state my cor
dial concurrence in its wisdom and sound
policy. The reas5ertion of this principle, es-
pecially in reference to n orth America, is at
this day but tho PRONUNCIATION of a policy
which no European power should cherish a
disposition to resist. Existing rights of eve
" European nation should be respected; but
1t is due alike to our safety and our interests,
that the efficient protection of our laws should
be extended over our whole territorial limits, e.
that it should be distinctly announced to the
world as our settled policy, that no future Eu-
ropean colony or dominion shall, with our
consent, be planted or established on any part
of the North American continent.
The Louisville Morning Courier talks idly
when it asks us to gather information on the
subject of slavery by personally visiting Ken
lucky. To what end should we do thlsl--
We have never doubted that Kentucky mas
tiers generally treat their Slaves with such
kindness as the relation permits--our objec-
ton applies to the system of Slavery, and
the idtos by which that system is upheld
These we can comprehend as we'll in New
York as in Kentucky, and they cannot be less
than internal any where. Laws which allow
one man 10 sell another man a thousand miles
away from his wife, and their children FIVE
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