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

ecuted, by an roncal draught Of what the Scyhians
foolishly thought he sought among them, (rathel
than to improve them)-their gold, but melted.
We pass by Cambyses, (who conquered Egypt
and ruined its arts,) Darius, Hystaspes, and even
Xerxes, who marched with millions to the " annex.
atom of Hellas: we come to the Greeks them.
selves. What did they conquer! In their age Of
glory they planted the coasts of Asia Minor, of Ly
bia, and of Italy, civilizing them by Grecan art
humanity, genius. Their other conquests were
only after the downfall Of their greatness and free
dom, when the rudest of the Greeks-those men OF
the frontier the Macedonians-had mastered the
rest, and Alexander. sprung from those whom Greece
hardly ranked with Grecians, led forth the degene
rate descendants of those who fought at Marathon
and Mycae, to annex that last end Of the earth,
at which, when compelled to stop, flowed those be-
nignant tears with which he deplored that earth
itself was too narrow for ambition, too scanty for
slaughter. What pity that Columbus's discoye-
ries had not yet been made else who can tell that
he might not have wrapt another hemisphere in car
mage, sunk it in despotism, and founded univer-
sal monarchyto last several years after his death
The next great conqueror and annexationist was
julius Cesar, computed to have slain in his wars
some three millions of men. Women and children
he did not count, any more than does the new the
DRY of Progress: but by the magnitude Of his muir
ders (the sole element for the computation, except
the enlargement of Romans at home) we can reckon
the benefits, the " advancement" which he confer
red upon domestic liberty and humanity abroad.
Then come (again to puzzle us) the Goths, the
Visigoths, the Vandals, the Huns, and barbarian
swarm upon swarm-the dreadful Alaric, the fero-
cous Genseric, Attila called the Curse Of God, but
henceforth to be done justice to, as His special en-
voy and favorite,) whose glorious annexations bru=
tazed Europe for full nine centuries. But we cam
not pursue the history to its end, and can only all
ude to the last great encouraging example for the
New Progress, the Conqueror from the Island OF
Corsica, who conquered many countries, but had
not time before his career was ended) to confer
upon them any benefits that we have ever been able
to hear Of.
One thing, however, we must touch lpon---the
proof is so triumphant God directed the Hebrews
to annex the Jebusites, Httites, Amalekites and
so forth. The humanity of our new Moses, who
brings the command, shuns to give the example its
true extent Besides annexing the soil, the He
mothers son of them-nay, every fathers daugh-
the manageable virgins; SO that,
clearly, the authority is good for great deal more,
if good for any thing, and would enjon the smi-
ting of all males of conquered countries and the
sparing Of women only when young all this be-
ing (let it be well understood) entirely and purely
for the benefit of both the conqueror and the
nation-to moralize the one, and to en-
tighten the other.
Why, however, should theory, which may SO
justly boast of being American resort abroad Tor il
Have we not at home examples the
most abundant and brilliant of its mighty truths
Behold, from the squalid Esquimanx to the SILVER
ing Patagonian, from the fierce Carribee or Mexi-
,an to the gentle, ingenious, and half-poished
Peruvian, h0W, in only three centuries and a halt,
he conquering ambition and cupidty of European
superiority have refined, blessed, and elevated the
Tanquished primitive races of this continent In
his good work, this labor of love and illumination,
who SO conspicuous as we of the Anglo-Saxon
'trainl How the Indians have multiplied, have
'PIcdu, udfc ledIncu dits anu pohtChCss, uhuCi lfp
parental processes rum, gunpowder, and treaties)
of our ambition and annexation And, indeed. SO
fast the aboriginal tribes profting by our care,
that have we not been forced to thrust all the chief
Of them into the wilderness beyond the Mississippi
to prevent their multiplying and improving more
rapidly than was good for them BY the time that
our humanizing subjugaton shall have driven the
last surviving handful of them into the Pacific, what
benedctions will they not owe us And-since
The Sandwich group and the Polynesian clusters
were Just now mentioned as future fields for the
felicity which we Of the New Progressive principle
bestow by our sway-suppose, when we set about
them by little ambition, conquest, DC.
into Fortunate Islands, Islands of the Blest, we
send ahead, as samples Of what do for the races
that we hold in subjugation, an average African
from the cellars of Anthony street, New York, and
any remaining Florida Indian that we can catch
To complete this great theory of Humanity, Free
dom, Justice, and Peace-to perfect this last grand
discovery in Progressive Democracy-to render the
amazing invention practical, like Subtreasuries,
Free Trade Reputation, Prescription, and other
mighty Locofoco revelations Of new truths-one
thing only, very little thing is wanting namely
to give rule, to lay down method, by which,
when you are in glow Of "Ambition," hot to
conquer y and rabid to annex" some feebler
neighbour, you shall be able to determine-after the
scrupulous manner Of ambitious men, and with all
the customary equity and dsinterestedness Of Con-
n IN. Il