New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-22
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Waited, One Hundred Thousand Adventures
20 Plant and Wafer the ypas Tree until
"the Peculiar Institution" shall "tnke
firm Voof.,,

=" the Peculiar Institution" snail " tnke
firm root"
4 writer in the Nev Orleans Commercial Times,
dating recently from the City Of Mexico tells bis
correspondents that majority Of the United
States officers in the Army Of Occupation, think
the best policy would be, 10 have an army Of from
10000 u 100000 quartered in the country
holding military possession. until our laws and IN
srITUTioss, CUSTOMS and manners HAVE TAEEs
FIRM ROOT" They would also locate the volun.
teers whose term of service had expired, upon the
road from Vera Cruz to the Capital by which means
the country "coud be regenersted morally AND
politically
II may be of little use to ask, why lreemen
should leave their Northern homes to keep in bon
dsge a distant people, and force once more our
peculiar Institution upon them, at the bsyonets
point-it may be a waste Of words to point out TO
our vain and foolish young men the baseness Of
hirog themselves out for 4 weekly stipend to 90 a
thousand miles beyond Texas in order TO compel
Indians Creoes and Spanards TO adopt the d" inst
tutions Of Charleston and savannah-but there is
some reason to believe that when it comes to be
considered, WHO PAST there is one class at
leas. who will probably stop TO listen.
France remained a powerful monarchy for
thousand years. Her Kings, Priesthood and Peer
are went to war whenever it suited their whm or
caprice enormous burdens were laid on her mer
chants, farmers, manufacturers and mechanics
they were bowed to the earth with taxation ID
every shape and form, direct and indirect rich men
lent their treasures. Governments borrowed, con
tractors became Princes debts were accumulated,
patronage was multiplied, the scons OF nobility
engrossed the sinecures, places, aud pensions
At length tue Treasury got empty, the military
power failed to force supplies from down-trodden
people, the heavy burdens on whom discouraged
useful industry, and then came the revolution with
its terrors, its guilotine, its cry OF " ~dr 10 me
mansions peace 10 the co'tages.' The result is mat
ter Of history. Let the wise profit by it.
The career of prohigacy which France ran and
we have entered upon, strongly marked the down
ward path of Spain. She multiplied her colo
MES her foreign possessions, her armies-she orced
her manners institutions and customs upon re-
Iuctant peoples-she clutched Mexico-her volun'
teers themselves the slaves of passion, avarice and
pride. pretended Stockton like to confer civil and
religious liberty on Peru-and where is her mighty
pover7 She has sunk down into state ofinternal
discord, poverty and ieebeness. " The leaders Of
The Dsople cause them TO err, and those that are led Of
them are destroyed"
Letusnext turn to England. Hitherto, by es-
chewing her Colonial system, and avoiding the
burden of additional territory obtained by violence
and force. we have prospered beyond any other ma
ton Her people, on the contrary, pay direct In
come tax, a news tax paper tax, tea tax 1901 per
cent, an advertisement tax, a stampedpap tax,
alegasy tax a coffee tax, a tobacco tax 700 per
cent?. an oil tax n lumber tax, a tax on raw ma
terias used in many manufactures a tax on spices,
drugs, dye stufis, and paints, coPPerore tax, a
coal tax a glass tax salt tax, sugar tax IN
short. the Exciseman and Custom house officer are
everywhere. Until lately there were National
taxes levied on her domestic printed caicoes' soap
candles window lights, and almost everything that
was pleasant to the taste, eye, or ear oil man. and
the direct war tax was ten per cent on landed
property. 1t is now three per cent
England's oppressive taxation, her war debt her
large standing army to coerce reluctant nations her
legal monopoly, and other drawbacks have enabled
as to bring our commercial marine the nearest to
hers of any in the world, while, hitherto, our mill
tary and naval expenditure has been small IN COM
parison and our comfortable circumstances as a
people are fast enabling us TO attain the foreground
among the nations But two short years have
elapsed since our national treasury displayedt"elve
millions OF a surplus revenue, saying nothing OF
some twenty more deposited with the States for
safe keeping. How will it be by and by
With our enyiable condition we were not content
We wanted more territory more lands, scrips, and
funds. to be speculated with more subjects 10
Christisnize after the Cortez and Pizsrro fashion
more gigantic armies amammoth naval establish
ment; more huntsmcn. TO shoot poor Mexicsns, on
the hills and valleys where they were born as If
they were wild beasts We en'ied Englands
splendid misery, OF which the evidences were 50
abundant on our shores and we are leaving the
paths of wisdom peaceful and pleasant as they are
to follow the downward road of older and less Ia
vored nations.
Where are tho intrepid statesmen, like Chat
ham. Richmond Burke Fox, Barre Dempster ana
Dlnnine. in England. at the commencement oil our
Revolution who will endeavor to arrest our down
ward career aud rouse the noblest feelings of men 5
natures against an ignobie contest with a feeble
rsce--sgains, war which is dividing us at home
aud degrading abroad a war to strengthen
slavery ALL dcifcss uttinen, 10 Cypress Ahlcfi's
with crouching poverty on the one hand and purse
proud villainy ON the other and to induce our heed
less youths TO exchange the plow and the loom for
the uereticious ornaments tawdry trappings aud
far rorse than Idle life of the hireug soldier Of
a sided colonial despotism
Mississippi bought some ten years since ninety
millions of dollars worth of stolen property and the
owners in slave breeding States are greedy and
eager for new markets. Even Texas with It's
400 900 square miles of territory seems insufficient
for q breakfast 10 the Unsuitable NAV OF Southern
oupdty and sisyerys 100 900 voters, through their
20 Representatives in Congress are eopsrdizing hu'
man progress. and the permanence off Govern
ment 10 strengthen the worst conspiracy against
humanity which the world ever knew.
HEwHANrsHlKE.-Th LocoFocos OF this State
have elected their complement OF Deleg ties to the
National Convention as follows; Richard Jenness
of Portsmouth, Delegate a, large; District Dele
gs.es-John S. Wells Exeter. Andrew Pierce