The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-07
MoNARcHICAL VI. REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS.

MoNARCHICAL VI. REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS.
No sentiment was ever more popular in the Uni
ted States at tho period Is its ttcranss, than the
celebrated one of Mr.. Monroe, contained in his
message of 1923, that "The American continents
by the free and independent condition which they
have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to
be considered as subjects for future colonization by
any European power" 1t was made at time
when the Union did not contain one-half the num-
Der Of inhabitants that are now within its limits; and
when the government was embarrassed Icy an OPP
pressve debt, without the ability to liquida,e any
portion Of the amount; when we had comparatively
no munitions of war, and when we were without
well-appointed establishments for manufacturing
them; when steam power was in its early infancy,
and when railroads were wholly unknown when
the people were but just recovering from the eects
of three years. conflict with Great Britain,
and when irretrievable pecuniary ruin would have
resulted to them by collision with foreign power
Yet patriot hearts, (and nearly every bosom then
bore one) responded to it nobly if the perpc-
tuity of the republic depended upon its. adoption.
We were then united people-an american people.
We were devoted to the cause of liberty-we were
proud Of political institutions. If we could not
carry our system Of government successfully into
the old world, could invite the inhabitants of it,
however humble, and however severely chastised
by the tyrans rod, to the asylum which our fathers
had erected for them in the ne,p. We regarded il
ss freedoms home, where the arbitrary voice of q
despotic master should never ring upon our ears.
This feeling with respect to the entire Amer
lean continent more than quarter of a century ago
But now, when the evidences are rapidly multiply
ing of determination the part of two Of the most
powerful Of the crowned heads Of Europe to estab-
lish a monarchy in North America, we quietly fold
our arms and look as complacentIy upon the start.
ling proposition, as though il were to benefit, by
the diffusion of liberal principles, the condition Of
the human race. We cannot behold with compo-
sure monarchy erecting platform north Of the 18th
mus of Panama, even if il should be backed by ali
Europe, without feeling thatwe are retregradng in
the estimation Of other powers, and that our course
is tending downward. That such a measure is in
contemplation in Great Britain, some politicians
have for some time believed; and the mod,s operand
is now discovered in the following editorial leader
of the semi-oficial organ of the British government
the London Times of the 18th January
From the London Times jan 10.
"EURoPE, MEXICO, AND THE UNITED STATES
| The dispatches laid before the French chambers
with reference to the annexation of Texas and the
part taken by France and England in opposition to
that transaction documents OF great interest, and
they completely demonstrate the cordial co-opera-
ton Of the two powers in this negotiation. One
whole year before the correspondence Of Mr.. King
and Mr.. Calhoun, to which we called the attention
Of the public on the Cd Of January, 1s45, known
in Europe the French government had given the
most formal and precise Instructions to its diplomat
ic agents in direct contradiction to the system Of
encouragement and connivance which Mr., Calhoun
ascribed to it. In a despatch from M. Guizot tc
the French ambassador in London, dated the 10Th o.
January, 1884, on the Texas question, NJ Guizo'
announces, in reply TO the question Of the Earl oil
Aberdeen--'s the French government disposed tc
furnish its envoy in the United States with the same
instructions as those which will be received by tn,
British envoy against the annexation y that he vii
write TO M. Pageot in the same senses and in I
despatch to M. Psgeot, dated the 10Th Of February
| M. Guizot fu6ls the promise made to the Earl o
Aberdeen, and enters with detail into the sub
ject. Amongst other arguments, he says, lin a 20
litical point of view there Is connected with tn
preservation Of this independepce real interest o
4 equilibrium The union OF Texas, by extending
the limits Of the territory Of the United States ia
as RIO Grsnde would, as immediate consequence