The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-02-05

gress to arm and organize the citizens in or
der that'they. may be prepared 10 avail them-
selves of any emergency, 10 receive all com
munites ready settled on The North Amer
lean continent, into The bosom ofthe Union,
and prevent the colonization of any part oil
the continent by European nations.
IfCongress adopt the principle enacted
by Messrs. Monroe and Polk, they will AFRO
gate to the Government of the U. States the
sole and exclusive right TO colonize the yet
unoccppied portions of the North American
continent. The mere ex-parte declaration
of one government cannot make any doctrine
part of the laws of nations; the common con-
sent of all, or of majority OF Governments
is required for that purpose. But the doc
trine recognised by the majority of civilized
nations on this head is, that all tracts of coun-
try inhabited only by savage or nomade tribes
not organized into State, may be colonized
by the first government that sees fit TO take
possession of them, and that government
may, by certain preliminary measures, estab-
lish an exclusive right to colonize more ex-
tenstve tract OF couLtry than ii is prepared TO
do at the moment. The Government al
Washington is entitled TO insist that all tracts
of land TO which ii has established such an
exclusive right shall be colonized either by
its own citizens or by individuals who agree
TO submit TO its peculiar laws and its institu-
ions; but any other Government in any part
of the world, 81 entitled 10 dothe same: and
Russia and Great Britain have done it.
1 Ii is possible, no doubt, that principle
which has not actually been recognised as
| part of the law of nations may be so recog-
nsed. The principle asserted by the Pres
denis Monroe, and Polk, though not law,may
be so equitable that the British government
would do well TO combine with that of The
United States TO urge its adoption upon all
other governments, Ellsworth while to ex
anime the proposition of the American states
men, with view to ascertain whether, since
it is not, already, it ought not forthwith 10 be
made law.
4 The claim, then, which they assert, sneith-
er more nor less than exclusive right of colo
nizaiion over all The unoccupied tracts ofthe
American continent for the government OF
United States.
To this exhorbiiant claim they can show
no better title than the accidental circum-
stance that their government is actually res
ident on that continent. That government
and its citizens are themselves colonists from
Europe; their settlement gives them valid
title TO the territory they have actually taken
possession of, but no right 10 exclude from
the unoccupied tracts other colonies which
European governments may send after them
The first awSdelivered 10 man was that he
should replenish the earth. In virtue ofthis
law, all denizens of overpeopled countries
= AL L. c. \ ,lya nj
new and unoccupied lands. They are emit
tied to transplant the institutions which hab-
il has made second nature to them 10 their
new homes.
The European colonists has the same right
to plant monarchical or aristocralical insiitu-
tons in the territory 10 which Russia and
Great Britain have established their pre- fera'
BILE right of colonization, that the U. States
o eolonists has TO plant democratic institutions
: in the territory on which his Government has
laid lis hands, In point of equality, the
i claims of the European coionists are the
stronger; for their over-peopled countries
leave them no option but TO emigrate, while
: within The settlements of the United States
the population is insufficient to occupy the
D soil. The Polk and Monroe policy is the
dog-in-the- policy, of excluding Eu-
ropeans from regions which their own coun-
irymen will be unable 10 occupy for centuries
J. TO come.
: 1t has lis original in bigoted political Sec
}, taranism which can see nothing good except
e in its own political institutions, and would
s compel all settlers in America TO adopt them
II betrays on the part of the Americans a
want OF faith in the goodness Of their own
institutions; if sincere and consistent in their
belief of their excellence, they would leave
them to be voluntarily adopted by the new
: corners, instead of trying to make submission
to them condition of settlement. The aim
: of this attempt to prevent European coloni-
E cation, to extend the political influence oil
the American Government, not 10 promote
the individual prosperity of American citi-
zens.
+ The pride of professional politicians may
+ be gratiied, and their emolu ments increased,
: by widening the sphere within which the au-
ihority of the central government at Wash
b. ington and the local machinery of govern
+ ment throughout the Union is paramount
q but private citizens can only be benefited
: by removing every obstacle TO the speedy
i settlement aud cultivation of the waste. The
$ imposition of republican institutions is an
obstacle to European colonization. The
American citizen who sacrifices real indi-
5 yidual interests to crafty the vanity of this
! government, is as simple as the European
S subject who does so TO pamper the pride Of a
: monarch.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
Il The New Orleans Bee of the 9th ult.