The southern press., 1851-10-25

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little states Of Europe, almost all of them hav
ing outlets, so as ~ acquire for herself habita-
| ton and nsme 10 Europe. She has not har-
Dor there. She kicked out OF Mahon She
is only tolerated at Spezzia and preparations
are actually going on to drive her and her COM
merce aud example ont of Bremen, Into the sea
Hermann, w ashington, and all.
But Asia and the treasures of the East invite
us, and the change of affairs made by the spread
OF the republic to the Pacihc will require new
and magnificent system of friendship, commerce,
and iotercommerce with China, and all the is-
lands and continents in the neighborhood; and
with Australia, soon to be independent and
republican They have been brought thousands
of miles nearer To us than To any other nation OF
Europe. Our political system, internal and
| foreign is the converse Of the British, from
which the East has always sbrunk and still
shrinks ii takes the side of the people, and
| gives them lessons Of wisdom and Improvement.
! 1t will make us the patron OF those innocent
and helpless millions which the lighting and
pundering arstocracy of England have devoted
| by myrads and for ages to misery and destitu-
tion and death. The alteration of the route of
Europe to the East will make our position still
more worthy Of study. The kings of Europe
have unwisely caught the fever of internal i'm
provement They have laid down railroads,
and are binding together the Black Sea and the
Baltic, the North Sea and the Atlantic. Mos
COW has just had marriage jubilee with st.
Petersburg, and Warsaw ia to be joined to Ber-
lin Odessa is to receive the Cars iron embrace.
This whole system, as Is very remarkable, turns
its back upon Asia and the East, but convergea
on the shores Of Western Europe. The rail
roads comprising it could be made so many
trunks for the products OF the United States
Much more than that, however. In connection
with the Pacific railroad, when bnilt they would
torn the trade of China with Europe through
the United States If that road sho aid be de-
layed there is but little doubt that the same trade
and the whale trade Also will cross by our railroad
and canal the Isthmus of Panama, as the short
est and safest rout The Isthmus of Panama, and
its port now 80 potent in the worlds affairs, has
been made the subject of long negotiation /;
and, already, which the parties do not agree how
! to interpret and cannot enforce. 1t was the
most unfortunate bunder off Wing admnstra
tion; and must be finally adjusted by the next
Democratic administration.
The British have given up nothing in Central
America of the most grievous and absurd preten
sions. They protect the Mosquito king for the
same reason that the vulture protects the lamb,
and with the same impartiality for color--the
purpose of covering and devouring him.
They have seized the bright islands of Hondu-
ras, and boast Of their territory in Central Auer
lea being $4,000 square miles. They have
changed the names Of towns, and appropriated
the revenues of States, and threatened their in
dependence. They are agitating the people
there, as in France they corrupt the ruers--to
bring about the overthrow of republicanism.-
The British capital and British statesmen were
the place and agents Of the famous Cuban inter
vention. And the British press and Parliament
(, are the factor ries whence come the public opinion
Of Enron, ,uhirh apInreaa atrncioua falu
on our government and people. Not content
with inyeigling France into a coalition of fleets
and policy for the Gulf of Mexico they must
brand an expedition CT sympathzing republ-
cans, made against the worst despotism in the
world, as an act of piracy, and call the parties
pirates. II il to be hoped that Congress- so
soon to set, will do this subject justice. Eng
lands own example might be used against her; ;
, but that is no argument at all. There was in
vasion Of Cuba, and homicide in open battle, but
! no piracy As for the victims OF cruelty at Ha-
. vana, their blood cries from the ground. 1t is
the first republican blood shed for long time
, to the shout of" Long live the Queenw As
: for Navciso Lopez, he belongs to the immortal
. company of La Fayette and Kosciusko, HIS
, glorious fe was consumraated by death more
glorious Ia nud dd cdStra in mQrie ad astra
!, | 1t is necessary TO the of the despots OF
Europe that they shall falsely explain the great
prosperity of the United States. They cannot
deny that prosperity which the world now calls
superiority. Thanks to Fulton, Morse, Collins,
Stevens, Law, Hussey, Herring, Mccormick,
Hobbs and Hoe. They dare not attribute it to
the republican form of government for that
teaches the sovereignty of the peope-that the
government Is their creature and governors their
agents-that they can set up or pull down the
Constitution, ana that their welfare i, the only
true object ofgovernment In short, the converse
of the whole monarchica system ia laid down in
the Declaration of Independence. The monarchs
of Europe attribute our prosperity to the re-
gious character of the people, or to the remote
ness of America from Europe, or to the Anglo
Saxon race, or to the sparseness of population
i and abundance OF land.
They say that to soms or all Of these causes
we are indebted for what we are. On the con-
trmy, it is none of these, but II is to our demo-
cratic republioansm-to our system OF gov
ernment, State and federal, based upon the
foundations of universal suffrage and universal
eligibility to office. II We had here, either oil
garchy, as In England, constitutional monarchy,
az in Sardinia, or despotism, as In Russia, Prus-
sia and Austria, we should still have occupied
the briny strip of land which skits the Atlantic
ocean-we should have been feeble people
We should have passed through the same pulling
infancy which has been the curse of the States
Of Europe and centuries hence we might have
boasted the same decrsptnde. We should be
Jealous ovcrmuch If We claimed that the dspro-
portion of religion here and elsewhere explained
the difference of our political and social cond-
tiop. 1t ia not any explanation at all to at
tribute our superiority to that cause. 1t is
equally untrue t.iat the remoteness of Europe
from America has aIyiiIng TO do with the sue
{ cessfu working of democratic institutions. The
distance has shrunk to nothing, and all Europe
is here in the flesh of millions OF emgrsnts
As to the Anglo Saxon race, those apocryphal
superiors among men, tfey are only one single
ingredient of our population, which is an Ame-
rican miKtuEa Of al the races descended from
Eve and Adam. Nor Will il do to attribute this
prosperity to abundance OF lsIl--for there is
Russia, owner Of fourth Of the world, end the
psltriest specimen Of government in existence,
an Autocrat lording il over benighted horde of
4 slaves, and slaves Of slaves. The Americans
know better ihs foundation Of our strength. II
comes from the mass OF tho people, without