Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-07-19

! 'iC iet'eI OVER her w est lHQla pos
sessiot.,. Here, then, the fact comes
out that the British lion has got his
claw on the island of Cuba.
The Times, after characterizing the
Lopez expedition as piratical, after
characterizing the adventures as
much the enemies of the human race
as 1.-THE pirates that in former days in
tested those same seas''-by which it
doubtles means the various British
sea captains who invaded the Span
ish courts and plundered to their
hearts content, and were knighted by
the British government for their servi-
ces--it goes on to account, in the fol-
lowing way, for the little surprise
that was manifested relative to this
expedition sin every intelligent inch'
ofEnglandom. 1t writes as follows:
'lf there is any disposition to take
the event as matter of course, it is
because we are learning to expect
such acts from the American people.
We are indeed acquiescing in that
estimate of their genius which suppo-
ses them capable of any design sane
toned by the lust of personal or ter
rltorial aggrandizement, and restrain
ed by no law save the fear of chas-
tisement. A generation has made
great change for the worse in the mo-
raj position of fthc United States. Till
the close of the continental war they
stood on the defensive, and had no
thing but what was fairly their own.
In those dayslust of territory was the
vice of kings, and the citizens of the
New World were supposed to hate
conquest as much as despotism.--
Their sons have learned another and
an older creed. The have fallen into
the old maxim that If crime is ever
honorable, it is when dominion is the
object and at this moment it would
be difficult to name people SO op-
pressed with the recent stigma of vi
olent and fraudulent acquisitions, SO
elated with fresh schemes of fconquest,
SO indulgent to political outrage, and
offering such facilities for its success
ful execution, as the citizens of the
United States"
But John, after all, is not SO calm
as he appears to be on the surface,
especially when he smokes his ci-
gar, he looks a title ahead. The
Times says:
''If thirty-hve years have changed
the position ofthe Union from the de-
fensive TO the offensive, and have
added numerous conquests to the
original territory of independence,
what may not be expected from the
next thirty-fve years! The Texan
receipt for conquest is of universal
application; after Cuba, the other An
TILES and Central America are only
matters of details; then comes South
America; and who can doubt that
by that time, the old world will find
itself threatened no longer in its CO.
lonies, but actually at home"
The Times at length winds up this
one of it's articles in the following
stand-from-under strain:
"It is certainly not for us to de-
sire any disruption of a Union which
has hitherto been peaceful and pro-
fitable to this country, but Union
which menaces the peace of the
world, a Union which is no Union
for the suppression of outrage, or for
the satisfaction of injuries, but only
iUr tIe protection and the ratiGca-
ton of crimes, is no Union at all in
the political sense of the word, and
can only claim our good wishes in
the hope that it may one day give
place to a more responsible and
more honorable species of govern
ment."
But to drop this strain. The fact
we find stated in the London Times,
that secret treaty exists between
Spain and England about the latter
being a protectorate for Cuba, de-
serves the notice of government and
the people of this country. Presi-
dent Monroe proclaimed a sentiment
that this nation, all parties, all classes,
will adhere to, will carry out, let the
consequences be WHAT they may
II is to this significance, that Eu-
ropean interference will not be al
lowed TO control the politics of this
| North American continent. With
the Old World the United States
do not make or meddle; and there
the old governments may or may
not sustain their old policy, their
! old theories, their old oppression.
They may fix their balance of power
as may suit them, with let or hind
rance from the new. But we claim
that this continent must Of necessiy,
take their national law from lis, that
our national honor, Our national &C.
curity, our vast and mcalculable flu
ture, demand the strict assertion of
| this principle. This is our doctrine,
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