Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-08

events SAID, cast the SHADOWS before lhey
baby DO but shadows change their appearance according
position Of the spectator and and very differently
placed. Time alone determine which has scanned the
dim unsubsantaliy the earnestly. Part of my views
are however confirmed by the editor of the Coyir and En-
q, when he says only do not desire any change
in tie ownership nationality Of Cuba but would look upon
change there unfortunate" go only step further
say, that do not consider any change probable.
II appears to be the employment of certain persons in the
United States TO be continually looking about for
ola future quarrel with England. AT time these
monges think that Canada and the North full Of combus-
be materials and that the great Northern Lakes are to the
of future conflicts between the Lion and the Eagle
and that there the Cross Of ST. George is in hostile
rivalry the Mar-spangled banner. Then the is
changed to the South, and the Gulf of Mexico with
vessels bsing with cannon and bearing the opposing flags OF
England and the United States whilst the rich soil Of Cuba
polluted with the blood of conending nations Il graft
flying that, whilst the phianhrost shudders the contem
paon Of these terrible representations the can cool,
prcudced dedueer Of events from nothing in the
present which leads him TO apprehend their realization
They appear to him nothing but the speculaons of the
imaginative, the pertubalions of the unquc, the
promptiDgs Of the ambitious and the unprnciped, with
whom all change GAIN and TO whom outrage, tumut and
stimulus and a pasme. England and the United
States have each higher and hoer mission TO attend to
than could be fulfilled by their quarreng with each other
either about the independence of Canada the occupation Of
Cuba and the wise ard good of both countries will exert
theeves to their respective missions to he fulfilled
England has to better the condition of her people home;
attend to their physical mental and moral wants to raise
degraded Ireland from the mre into which she has been od
den by ignorance and y spread civilization and the
arts and Christianity her mighty empire in the East and
TO net as the moderator and the mediator the arbitrator and
IL. &c,
raj policy between the conflicting nations of rapdyresenera
ing Europe. Here is employment enough for her This
part Of Engands duty well expressed by the Morning
Chronicle that venture give you the following short
tract from late leading article Of that liberal and talented
journal:
'The foreign policy Of England has assumed an impor-
'ance unparalleled since the peace 1915. Iii in fact the
state of things established by that eace that after subsstng
for than thirty years with urexamped success and sta
by, is beginning at length show symptoms of insta-
'bity and of tendency to brea up into fragments which
involves questions Of extreme grvy, for country which,
like England holds in regard the politics of Europe and
the world position of authority equaed only by the diff
cues which she encounters AMI the responsibilities which
she Hcurs Her insuar position which gave her in many
Of the continental contests the advantages of spectator ad
era has in consequences Of th progress OF ocomoon and
the vast but scattered empire she has become mistress of
former centuries There is quarter Of the globe into
(which her interests do not penetrate, and may not be inter-
cred with and unfortunately, there also few countries
with which England has intimate relations that not in
state Of political eerycscence which calls for the greatest
watchfuness on the part Of her foreign minister 1t
difficult to say whether Spain and Poruga France Agers
and Morocco Austria, Italy, and Switzerland Turkey,
Greece and Egypt the United States, Mexico and Cuba,
are likely offer the fest cofjuncture which will
danger the peace of Europe, and call for all the energies of
the statesmen who guide her desns the calamity
: of general war.
$50 prerent The outbreak Of such is he main duty
of Great Britain. But il is obviously not y md
Anticipated policy, by nbec concessions TO the aggressive
spirit Of her competitors that the interests Of this empire
best be secured the chances Of diminished So
far England responsible for the keeping Of the general
peace she fulfil her Office, not by tying down he
pansie forces Of Europe the limits Of 1915, bu rather
by sting replace what decayed in the ancient yste
and sizing in the gradual establishment of the bancc Of
power on a WIDER seader, and comprehensiv basis
thar the lasstude Of Europe, after twenty years war, adj
mitd Of in 1875 According crises in the uoub-
lous regions Of the European system, England must ready
TO express with prompness and authority which will
pei tentoH her view of the alterations in the adjustments
of tie old systems which she is, disposed to recommend
to acquiesce in when recommended by others.
." fortunately happens ihat If difficulties great so
'are Of encountering them. The event which
have occurred abroad during the last two years have bad
all events, the compromising advantage of bringing home
CONVICTION the minds Of the prejudiced and shncng
the hostility Of the most facious"
Ersands mission is them apod and prerent uar
TO seek and foment IT, Can the United States have
trary duty Certainly not.
Then what is the mission of your great Republic Briefly
but cmphatcally follows To recommend your fee and
liberal political institutions, and your tolerant religious Ones
to the notice Of Others by showing their effects upon individual
and national character among yourselves by beings people,
moral wen instructed, and liberal minded; nation fm in
the maintenance Of your rights and careful not to Infringe
upon those Of others; obedient the laws and careful to
whom you enrust the power OF making and executing hem
pushing your commerce, your agriculture, and your mluac
lures wherever they bc sdvantageousy extended cult
waiting all the fair delightful arts Of peace encouraging
ure science, and the arts and all the graceful amenities and
cfncmeDts Of life causing the wilderness to blossom the
rose aiding honest industry and humble merit; making
your extensive country only the gransry Of the world as
respects the food of man, but the depository Of intellectual
moral and physical exataon the home Of the brave and the
free and the place Of refuge for the oppressed and distressed
Of all nations Thus will you best fulfil your mission, and
your high destnya higher than Greece Rome
achieved. You have in your WASHINGTON mere ex-
ned specimen Of human worth than Mdcedon could boast in
her AIrx ASpEn or Rome in her RsAR Be rnp IA vour-