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TERRITORIAL CONQUEST AND AN
NEXATION.
NEXA'TION.

The love OF conquest Is the ruling passion
ofalrhost every people in every age. The
conquest of arms, Of animal strength Or du-
plicity and diplomatic cunning. The object
has been the spread of despotic sway, the
concentration of power, the glory and ag-
grandzement of the few, and the prostration
and brutalizing of the many. These doc
trnes, SO at war with humanity, and which
never could and would not now be tolerated
in Europe, if it twere not for the besotted
ignorance and vice of the people, have been
most wisely exclude from this continent.-
Our conquests are of different ORDER The
means we use is the enlightened moral cou-
rage of the people. The ends aimed at are
Of an exalted character. Our conquess are
the triumphs of virtue, of liberty-the spread
of the holy truths of Republicanism.
Every man here is politician. He as
sumes the responsibility of tracing out the
result of any given policy upon the destines
of the country and the world. The most
momentous questions in place of being con-
hded to the care and keeping of political
priest, to be kept secret from the people un-
til settled by the juggling chances of dip!c-
macy, are submitted at once to the PEOPLE.
and the decree of that august tribunal, like
the laws of the Medes and Persians is NOT to
be changed. The annexation of one Re-
public to another, which would seem at first
to surpass the capacity of all but the master
spirits, is eagerly grasped at by the common
mind of the American people. They scrut-
nize, investigate, and resolve. OF course,
the Investigations lead to various conclusions,
One sees in it the germs of happiness and
glory; another the entering wedge of disso-
lu ton, and fraternal discord. These honest
differences of opinion form the substratum of
our political struggles, and induce the remark
so frequently made by strangers 10 our lib
eral institutions, +" that we are nation of
cavillers and restless politicians"
A clear conviction that certain principles
and policy are true, compels the honest and
morally brave man to Jealous promulgaton
of them, and our fierce partizan struggles
so far from being indicative of disease in the
political body, are so many arguments going
to prove the stern, unyielding Republican
virtue of the American people.
But little more than year has elapsed
since our country was the arena on which
were assembled tw enty millions of disputants
nearly equally divided, TO canvass the policy
of annexing an Independent republic of great.
er extent than that of any country of Europe.
Russia excepted.) All the arguments for
and against the measure were presented in
the most mastery manner, not 10 the King
in Council, but TO the freemnn of the United
States. All the real and imagined local in
terests to be affected by the settlement of the
questio were brought into the discussion to
enlighten the popular mind as much as pos
sible before the great day of trial arrived.
The day came, and passed-calmly and
peacefully. The work of annexation was
consummated, and the Flag of the Union
floats out over the new territory, embellished
with new stars and stripes, acquired by the
peaceful conquest of the freeman's ballot.
and unobscured by single act of dishonesty
or any thing not in accordance with the
most exalted national virtue. Such are the
territorial conquests of the New World.
How unlike the dismemberment and an
nexation Of Poland, when the crowned i'm
beetles, who trample under foot the rights
of man in the old world, tore asunder the Vi
tails of the state, and divided bleeding and
down-trodden Poland, between the tyrants
by means of the gibbet end the stake
Ireland is another specimen of the con-
quests of the old world. She was driven in
to slavery, through the ignorance, bigotry
and cupidity Of her own petty robbers, and
the bribery, perjury, murder and rapine, in
troduced by the cormorants of England
The Union was effected in opposition to the
will and wishes of nine-tenths of the Irish
people. Such are the territorial conquests
of the old world. They are the triumphs of
vice and the worst passions of the human
heart-the victories of despotism heralded by
the shouts Of slaves and the groans of the
oppressed.
The American policy is different Every
acquisition of territory here, is triumph Of