The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-09-09

four readers that they may understand the feeling
entsSiainee for US by a very large portion of the
English people and also the light in which they
view what they consider our interference In
their domestic concerns" The article is able.
eloquent and, upon the whole dispassionately
written.
seha Hull aud Brogher Jonathan.
IL ever there was people on this earth
blessed with every appliance that can make
life happy, man contented, and nation pros,
porous, il is surely the citizens OF the United
States of North America. They possess
the unlimited means of education and intel.
lgence, religious freedom; in fact the most
unbounded libeuy;-a territory so vast, va
ned, and fertile, that real poverty is not
known, and positive destitution impossible.
With light burdens, superabundance of eve,
~ production that can minister not only L,
the necessities but 10 tlie higher comforts OF
life, separated from all enemies that could
be at all formidable 10 them by the broad
Atlantic--distinguished for energetic indus.
try, boundless enterprise, remarkable inge.
nuity and genius, and restless spirit Of pro.
gress-what have they to fear from without,
Tor what have they to be anxious within,
what have they to wish OF hope for that is not
already realized? With them solicitude for
the future would be as preposterous as the
idea Of danger in the present. The growth
Of population, the pressure Of competition,
which create disorder, misery, revolution,
insecurity in the older countries of the world,
are relief, life, security, wealth To the Amer.
leans. National debt, which is the mill
stone about the neck OF European industry,
is with them so little an evil in their fedora
tive position, that surplus balances in the
treasury Of Washington have become a con.
stitutiOnal nuisance, and a speculative dan.
ger TO the independence OF the separate
States. The difficulties OF their capitalists
in developing the natural resources Of the
country, in consequences OF the rapid absorp.
ton OF labor in independent possession and
cultivation Of the soil, are disappearing ia
the ratio Of the rapidly with which the de
cay OF European States is sending their mos
provident enterprising. and industrious in
habtants TO the abundance of the New
World; and OF the irveterate tendency OF
emigration, at whatever point It may land
on the American continent, ultimately Ia
find its way to the United States.
The raw materials Of manufacture, in
cotton and wool, they not only command
Tor themselves, but supply to all the world,
and even their mines Of coal and iron are
rapidly making them independent of every
other country. On The ocean, they have
made their flag respected, and their meEcan-
hle marine rapidly becoming the largest in
the world. completes the circle Of their UNI
nvalled advantages. What have such a
people. ~ snprenaely hlest to do bu. 10 set
under their own vine and hg tree, none
seeking, none able, to make them afraid
what should be their sole concern, but to
enjoy in Tranquil contentment. the tide OF
comfort and prosperity which absolutely
preciPitates itself uPon them? But no--;hey
are human, and therefore they are mad
they must go in search OF destruction and
misery, il they will not come to them; they
must invent apologies for mischief and dis
order, il they cannoC find them. lf they
want empire or tenacity, they have already
dominion over space the most fertile on
the globe, larger than ell Europe. What
could they want with Oregon, except an
excuse TO quarrel about it! Why should the
owners OF such a land envy England Cana
da, or Mexico California? What hal that
unhappy Republic done to them, that they
should spend their own blood and treasure,
like water, 10 beggar and devas,ate their in.
nocent and inofensiye neighborsi II they
conquered TO themselves the whole continent
of America, TO what end could il be but to
introduce within the system Of their own
constitution, Babel masses OF heterogeneous
races, religious interests and sympatlies, a
piebald population Of anomalous tribes, who
speedily out-vote and out-govem their orr
ginal conquerors? Or if they vanqaished
them, but held them as conquered depend.
ants, what purpose could that subserve, ex-
cept to introduce boundles patronage. and,
therefore endless corruption, into their own
theory Of government in the shape Of Gov
enorships and Proconsulships OF s,lbdued
territories-the sure forerunners OF decay
and ruin?
Again-cannot they be satisfied with their
own constitution, without becoming the pro-
pagandists Of the world, embroiling them
selves in endless quarrels with nations too
remote to injure or affect any one political
or social interest which attaches TO them?
We take their cotton, their timber, their
agricultural produce; we lend them our mo-
ney; we send them our labor and capital
along with il; we do more to promote their
prosperity and power than all the rest ofihe
world put together; and their return is, to
send money and arms TO our enemies to help
them 10 overthrow our empire, and organize
brigades and legions TO lberate Mitchell and
to fight against us in Ireland. We ask no
interference with them except in the way Of
imparting good Offices. Why should they
NEEDLE with us? We don't ask them to
make Polk king, or Cass an emperor
When we purchased the liberty OF our West
Indian fellow creatures at cost of twenty
millions sterling, we did not extend prop
uganda into Virginia or the Carolinas. The
Americans, indeed, talk of the white slaves
OF Ireland, and the duty Of indulging in the
transports Of universal philanthropy but
black slaves are human as well as white,
and we must be permitted to doubt the puri-
ty Of cosmopolitan professions which go 50
Ear abroad for objests of sympathy, while so
many exist at their own doors. pleading for
a. -ol.....1- II Al A.,