The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-14

ty-hTee years orrayed against each other upon the
K fields of a thousand battles. The result Is known
In that mightest of struggles, the kings triumph
ed over their subjects. But the hopes OF the van
pushed and the fears of the yictors survived the l
umph. Those hopes Of future success still enter
Iained by the masses, and still threatening TO uproot
| the thrones of the whole swarm Of secondary
princes, ultimately drove those princes to seek their
individual safety against popular outbreaks under
the protection of the five confederaed monarchs by
the total surrender of their political Independence.
This concentration of the whole sovereignty Of Eu-
| rope in FIVE associated crowns--an aggregation Of
power which now menaces the freedom OF the
world, and the independence Of all nations--was ac
compllshed by tho alliance signed at Chaumont,
that subsequently, signed at London, the treaties of
Paris, the negotiations at the Congress of Vienna,
| and by the several succeeding alliances and COM
| paelsi the whole embraced between the years 1873
| and 1928 Thus has been consolidated a system,
founded upon the brute power of the sword, against
the social rights Of men. By this eystem, the per-
petuiIy Of hereditary power-of thrones-of orders
of nobility-of political abuses-of the wrongs of
government-of all the suferings of the people
throughout Europe, have been guaranteed by five
| monarehs, who stand pledged to each other, and
ready TO enforce passive obedience, with two mil
lions Of bayonets. BY this system, At Is, that
these soyereigns have constituted themselves the
sole legislators Of Europe; have for all purposes OF
State parcelled our among themselves It's whole sur
face and popuauoni have sought to entail everlast
ing bondage upon the masses; and have secured
themselves against the ambition Of each other, by
the adjustment Of all urisdctional and territorial dis
putes. Thus, having taken every preCauton against
danger from popular movements, as we'll as gainst
the ambition OF each other at home, they are now
seeking to extend their system from Europe to the
ends Of the eartho make their edicts stand for the
law Of nations, and to regulate the intercommunica-
tons between all the communities Of the world
Under this scheme Of universal dominion, what
spectacle does the world at this moment present!
With the professions Of peace and Of religion upon
their lips, these holy allies are, at this very hour,
waging the most cruel and the most causeless
of spoliation and despotsm, against the remotest
the oldest, the youngest, the most numerous, the
most teienceess, themost harmless portions Of man
Kind.
With this state Of things before us-wth Eng.
land and Russia reducing old Asia to their sway
France overrunning Africa-England and France
united to reduce South Acknowledgment seeking
to stretch her empire over own soil Of Oregon
France and England soIing upon every island in
every ocean-with a family alliance between the
| throne of France and the only throne in South
America--wth France and England but lately uni
ted In intrigue TO prevent Texas from entering our
Unon-with the official announcement by the CHIEF
minister of France, of his wish to apply the Euro
pean principle Of the balance Of power to the indie
pendent governments Of Amerca;-with this state
Of things before US, where, | ask, If the United
States shall faer, where has the world another
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universal dominion Of these conspiraor- kings'
And how, sir, stands the with the two Amer
icasl This great continent (for | shall speak Of
them continent) embraces one-thlrd OF the
habitable portion Of the globe. The whole OF II,
from Cape Horn to the Arctic Circle, was within
eighty years past and the most Of II within thirty
| subject, as colonies, to European monarchs. With
the exception Of the present British dependencies on
north, the whole of these numerous colonies IN
both Americas successfully revolted, and, excepting
Brazil, the eastern side OF South America, estab-
lished for themselves their independence rs nations
and republican forms Of government founded upon the
Sovereignty Of the people, and excluding the principle Of
| herediiary poictr. These colonies having become
thus independent, though feeble republican States,
and Justly fearful that the very form Of their gov
eminent would be, of itself, sufficient reason for
the monarchs Of Europe to combine against them,
formed among themselves, in both Americas, such
considerations their geographical proximity per-
United. From this has resulted tho great political TACT,
important to be kept in mind, that here upon this
continent to be found the only republican Insu-
tons based upon the sovereignty of the people, and
excluding hereditary power that exist in the world
These governments some fifteen or eighteen IN
| number, compose the popular system OF the two
Amercas and cover the whole OF their habltabe sur
face, except Brazil in the south, and the colonies Of
England the north. Yet In all this system there
| Is but a single member-the United States-which
Possesses the power Of successful self-defence
| against foreign aggression.
| All the other members united could oppose no eff
icent resistance to the ambition Of the allied sove-
| eigns. Those monarch calmly looked on, and be-
| nsld with pleasure the dismemberment Of the old
/ Spanish monarchy, by the revolt of Mexico and
South America, because they desired TO participate
IN the rich trade of those regions, and hoped that
the confusion and eebleness Of untred popular IN
sttutions would enable them in future to approprl-
ate those vast countries colonies to themselves
| That hope two of these powers are now openly
hope w whole
popular system upon this continent, and which no
power on earth can defeat, but the government OF
this Union the natural and the rghtfu GUARDIAN be-
| cause it ia the parent-power, OF the system. III,
therefore, this government shall allow itself 10 De
intimidaed into the surrender of Oregon to Great
Britainifit shall allow itself TO lie thus beed about,
still more closely by the iron arm of the British en-
plre-if shall allow that monarchy to extend and
consolidate its kingly institutions still more upon our
oorders-ifit shall exhibit these signs OF apparent
| weakness will not such exhibition be the signal
Of invitation to the allied sovereigns to strike down
the republican governments of the south, one by
one until we ourselves shall be compelled at last to
arm, when all the rest are lost, to defend our own
| Independence and freedomi Yes, sir, it is upon
| the power of this naton--it is upon the readiness
of those who administer its government to give
full scope to the mighty energies Of this great peo-
pie upon the first threat of danger, that the fate OF
| these republics depends. Can any man doubt it,
Can any man behold what France, England, and
| Russia about IN the Wurlu-DenOu what the TWO
former are, at this very moment, doing upon this
continent--can any man see these things, and yet
doubt that, but for the formidable power of the Uni
| ted States these monarchs would overrun the two
Americas, and obterate free institutions forever
With these facts before US, does il become us, as
| the representatives of free and gallant people,
does it compor with the interest and honor, with
the safety of this government--does it become our
glorious position the first republic on earth, and
the safeguard of all others, to crnge, and quail and
cover to Great Britain, as often as she chooses to
set up claim, without right, to our soil, and to
shake her trident in our face'
The answer to this question, sir, is the point and
the only one involved in the matter before US. For
most certain it is that free and independent ma
ton, we shall cease to exist when we cease to be
formidable to our enemies The power which
alone can secure US against aggression, and, with
US, the whole popular system, is the belief of the
| world that we ready for war, and have the
means to wage it with success, whenever the rights
or honor of the nation require it to be waged. IT,
instead of a willingness to stand forth in great
emergency, we show disposition to uuckle and
| ,b IF 9TH the ohstruc-