Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-15

compensate her (Mexico) for What zoe shall haze
rapished!
OF proposition such as this we DESIRE in freely
expressing our sentiments, not to derogate in the
slightest degree from that respect for its author with
which, during his late very short term OF service in
the Senate his personal qualities and brilliant talents
inspired all who Witnessed their display. But, to
prevent silence from being taken for consent It is
absolutely necessary that doctrines such as his
such as, without any reference to him, we have re-
Gently termed erotc, and which are literally so, and
wholly foreign thegenius and settled policy OF this
Republic, should not pass unnoticed or unreproved.
TO what extent, let us ask, can they be capable
of rifing with their own public character, or the
national reputation and policy and peace, who could
seriously propose scheme of paclficauon ike
this! Such an abandoned arrangement strong
adversary would scorn for its Righteousness
weak one could not, even in the last extremity,
trust it: if brave, it would reject with Indignation
the nfamy of purchasing its peace by SO foul
coalition against another neutral if possessed of
one single glimpse Of policy, It would shun
the precarious event of such method OF ma
king whole, by the seizure OF new territories,
its own territorial losses; and if timid enough
to consider of such a compact, how should 1t
be rash enough to unite for the purpose with an
ally SO INSCRIPTIONS Such considerations make
it little short of faulty to expect the accession OF
Mexico to any like project. What end could it an
swer, then, but, by its avowal in so high quarter,
TO arouse, among those neighboring Spanish States
at whose safety it would point, a settled dread and
hatred Of us and our designs What other ten
lency would it have than to excite throughout the
world every sympathy against us, as nation de-
aring itself, by such bargain, ready to assa and
rample upon not only Mexico, but any other un-
attending sister Republic, for no better nor more
ational purpose than that Of rapne-the rapine, at
vast cost in blood, in money, and in our own in
of that (soil) of which we leave immea-
urable spaces wilderness at home, in order to de-
olae that of our feeble neighbors around US
From these hints of the dinner-speech and of the
ess public lecture in New York-the apparent
ources Of the New Philosophy-we return to its first
egular exposition as system, its first formal de-
elopment doctrine-the newspaper article
which we set out with citing.
The fundamental proposition which this learned
rgument would establish is, that the lust Of yhat
ther nations ossess-particadarly1 they possess
I inertly and ,0eakly-the ambition Of subduing
md Of ruling them By force, has eUer been the
treat agent Of all human civilization.
Now, this is logician of SO subtle sort that
We shall not pretend to dispute single one Of either
lis arguments or his facts on the contrary, we
hall adopt them all as indisputable, and merely
Nh Il al,r
o confirm them.
We beg, imprinis, that certain ialsehoods In a
amous national act called the /" Declaration of Inde-
Dendence' of the sometime thirteen British Colonies
De noted and henceforth forever expunged the false
hood, first that " all men created with certain
rights !" for rights rhsre can be none (
will be perceived) that shall limit Gods and Cvi
zations great agents. Ambition; the lust of plumber
ing and enslavng others the falsehood, secondly,
that, separate societies, all men are entitled to
life, liberty, and the pursuit Happiness" for it's
,lear blythe light of the philosophy of Progress,
hat any neighborng nation that improves or thinks it
improves faster than another has holy and God |
,ven right to "conquer and annex it," and, Of
ourse to slaughter or enslave it, if it does not at
nee submit to those best Of instructors the Sword
md the Fetter: and, third, the fasehood that, as
men have the nalienabe right to consult their own
happiness, they have, Of course, the right to be go
'erned, each society by itself and after the manner
md by the rulers that it prefers no. there can be
such right or, if there is those upper and neither
mstones of human affairs, Barbarism and Refine
nent shall crush 1.-THE savage, because they love
-apine and boodshed the refined, out Of the all
overriding rights Of Ambition and the sacred zeal
Of Progress
II will further be perceived, upon these enlght-
ened and beneicent principles, (the only ones from
which can flow wide and permanent human adj
that the more ambitious man is, the
more legitimate any power that he can seize: for
Ambition is Heavens chosen vicegerent of human
good and to resist the lust of dominion is TO fy
in the face of Providence and its plans!
Moreover, as Conquest is the main agent of all
Civilization, will follow that the greatest con-
querors have been the greatest civilizers. The
Mantchoos, with their horse-eating hordes, con-
quered China then possessed Of the arts and sciences
beyond any quarter Of the earth Of course they
civilized China although she appears not to have adj
vanced single step since. The Moguls overran
Hindostan; and Hindoo learning and arts were ne
cessary greatly advanced by the mercless slaugh-
ter and servtude inflicted so no matter what His
tory or Sir William Jones and his Orientalists NAV
say OF the comparative gores of Indian Letters be-
forp their 90 anneyatinn tLo,o r. IL o.. n