The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-24


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To this we must add the United States, en-
braclng Mexico, which will either be entirely
annexed or become appendix OF our system OF
government With such annexation, and the
prospect of similar changes In Canada, Cuba
and the West Indies, we may estimate popu-
laton of forty millions, with richness OF soil
and character among the people, beyond those
of any other nation forming part OF the civil
lied world The recent military events IN |
Mexico will carry the conviction of these broad |
facts, and probable speculations, to the mind OF
every statesman in Europe. Looking, therefore,
from the confines of Russia on the East,t to the
limits of the United States on the West, we are
presented with new map of the civilized world,
actuated by novel principles and operated upon
by extraordinary impulses, that will produce
future the like of which the past has not seen or
imagined.
What is the prospect q! What is the organise
ton of these different nations? To what results
do they tend The empire of Russia embraces
over fifty millions of peope-under the govern
ment of one man, regulated by one policy-ac'
tuated by one impulse. The Emperor of that
great country is remarkable statesman, and ne
has assembled about him as agents, at home and
abroad, men imbued with the same sentiments
of progress. He possesses country almost
equally as rich, in agricultural and mineral
wealth, as the United States and Mexico. In
the south of Russia, the cotton plant can be pro-
duced in any quantity. On the plains of central
Russia, breadstuffs are raised by which part Of
western Europe is fed. The mines of Siberia
are beginning to supply Europe with the pre-
cious metals, and are commencing to regulate
the markets and commerce of that part Of the
world. With all these elements of power and
wealth, that country has its peculiar principles
of policy-its unique political institutions-tcnd-
ing to results different from those of central Eu-
rope, and altogether opposed to the influence or
views of the United States
On this side of the picture what do We behold!
The United States, a homogeneous people OF
twenty-five millions, adding power after power
and country after country to its limits-possess-
ing great agricultural wealth--grsater than any
other country as to the produce of cotton; and
with the prospect of Mexico before us, we shall
surpass Russia in the production of gold and
silver as a currency or product of commerce.
Our principles of policy are p0pular-republican
acknowledgements restless-energetic, and
totally different, so far as regards the rights OF
man, to the principles of Russia. These two
countries form the two centres of thought and
action, which must exercise great and unlimited
influence on the central States of Europe, for pro-
badly, centuries to come
What do we see in Europe!
From the western shores of Ireland TO the
eastern limits of Prussla-from both shores Of
the Baltic to the northery sands of the Mediter-
ranean, we see collection of nations in the
midst of terrible struggle between different
classes and races-a struggle involving princi-
pies of government of opposite tendency. Those
nations possess within themselves the elements
of despotism, fighting and contending with the
principles of democracy in thousand shapes.
They are in the midst of transition state. Re-
ligion politics, society, are all changing in those
central countries of Christendom. On the one
side is Russia, with its homogeneous popula-
ton, under an autocrat, influencing one branch
of society in central Europe; and on the other
side are the United States, with their principles
of democracy, presenting countercheck to Rus
sian influence in every part of Europe.
There is the prospect, therefore, presented to
the world, from which we must draw concln-
sions for the future. Europe is not only strug-
Cling for political rights and principles, but it
also Is in the midst of great financial struggle,
covered, as ii is, with debts Of centuries-debts
that have been created by the interminable wars
among themselves, and now amc uniting to
81, 900, OOO, 900. The credit of the merchants
the confidence in their public stocks-the whole
fabric, financial, commercial, and political,
is all under the influence of Russia on one side,
or of the United States on the other. We have
already seen how the Russian government has
produced an influence in France and England,
by the investment Of specie in their public stocks.
At moments warning that government could
destroy public credit and produce revolution in
those countries, by its breadstuf and its gold.
There is no check to that power, but what the
United States possesses in its elements OF wealth,
increased now by the prospect Of attaining the
bountifu stores of specie in the mines of Mexl-
co. II may, therefore, be one of the happiest
things for the future civilization and liberties Of
the human race in Europe, that the American
arms have conquered Mexico, and that our peo-
pie have disposition to retain that country and
make it yield those materials of wealth that will
give our country and government an influence
in favor of the liberty and civilization Of the
central nations of Europe.
TRADE WITH MExrco.-We find the following
in the Boston Traveller Of the I'D instant +