The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-03-26
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FROM Gtc
THE RIVAL NATIONS.

Carthage never looked upon the growth and
power of the Roman people with more envy and
apprehension than England does on the"progress
of the American people. lis true there is an
ocean between the Old and the New World, ),
where the modern rivals have the base of their
power, and assert superiority But the Allan
tic forms not so wide a separation between us as
the Mediterranean did between Carthage and
Rome. Modern Improvements in navigation
bring England and the United States into close
neighborhood. The growing commerce and
power of the two people have Literally made the
home of both upon the deep. 1t is fear of the
Icompetion of the vast and rich continent with
her island workshop, and of the danger that the
new race of her own breedsmay obtain the as
cendancy in agriculture, manufacture, commerce,
and, consequently, in power upon the ocean,
which has constantly actuated England in her en-
lcroachments upon this continent and the islands
of the surrounding seas. The court of LiIIiput
did not take greater pains to pin down Captain
Lemuel CULVER TO the spot which his limbs cov-
cred in his sleep, than England has to confine the
United States to the stralghts in which the royal
charters bound them. The acquisition of Loui-
sana, of the FloFidas, of Texas, all in turn have
encountered opposition from England, not only
as far as her foreign diplomacy could counteract,
but as far as the active, daring, reasonable agen-
cy of the party under her influence here could
90 in defeating it. Efforts to dissolve the Union
were tried, which, if not successful in prevent
ing The increase of The confedeIacy on one
hand, might it was hoped, curtatl it on another,
or, at least, by civil war, bring on the decreptude
of the South American repubics--the victims of
internal dissenslon.
The Union has, however, outlived two wars
with great Britain, and grown beyond the limits
assigned by the Jealousy of its ambitious riva.--
1t is now only by environlng the United States
by ntrencLed strength OH both fanks--iu front
and in the rear--that the giant, whose power it
is feared will invade English supremacy on the
seas, is 10 be held in check. England on our
front, Canada and the West Indies on our right
and left, with the Columbia river and the Gulf
OF California TO command the whole western coast
of our continent, may be said TO have placed the
commercial power of the Union in state of
! siege. Whenever it threatens the British doini-
Mon Of the seas--narrows British commerce or
British conquests, then it will be assailed from all
these points of vantage at once, which in time
will be rendered impregnable TO attack,
The people of the United States should COM
prehend fully the position they occupy. The
view should not be confined to the attitude of
things at the present moment, nor to an internal
lpolcy suited to the genius of people like the
Chinese, who have sought to live in the she'll
made by the coast and wall by which they are
surrounded The destiny of the people of this
Union is not confined to this continent. Their
genius broods over every ocean and region of the
earth; and influences deeply affecting the fate of
the great republic will everywhere exist, requ-
ring its vigilance, At this moment, England
brings home to us the policy which is to be
watched and repelled, The articles we annex
from New Orleans paper suggest the observa-
tons we have made. They will be found TO con-
tain facts worthy of meditation