Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-16
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STUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1851.


1.-Two letter. on Public Affairs, from RICHARD
RosH, of Pennsylyanis, addressed to WILLIAM
HURY YREscofT, d South Carolina, have reached
our hands in printed form, into which they were
thrown for private distribution. Having glanced
over the pages, we find that these Letters were
written in answer to pamphlet enclosed to the
writer by Mr.. TREscorT, under the title A Few
Thoughts on the Foreign Policy OF the United
States"
The object Of Mr.. TREscoTT's pamphlet, as far
as developed in Mr.. RUsH's reply, is to recommend
closer policy of interest with Great Britain. Mr..
RUSH, in reply, seems to be imbued with wise and
confirmed opinions in favor Of the National Policy
with which we set out as nation; which was to
cultivate friendship and justice with all nations, and
avoid entangling alliances with any. "This was"
says Mr.. RUSH, " wise rule, when we would have
been the weaker party, perfectly wise. Then,
concerted movements Of any description might
/. have become entangling to us. Amidst the agita-
tons Of the present and uncertainties of the future
{ in Europe, where else can we so well look as to
England for national characteristics intermediate
'between arbitrary systems of government on one
side, and communism or socialism, seeking to
ally itself with power, on the other! What other
nation is SO to US, in the great attributes of
national and individual freedom; or runs so pa
ralel with US, in the prosperity resulting from
both !, Certainly no other. Page 5.
With some remarks of similar tendency, Mr..
RUSH continues But my dear sir, neither Of us
perhaps would find the predominatng numbers of
sour countrymen prepared at this iunc,ure to look
with favorable first impressions on the policy you
suggest and SO well explain, although listen
favorably 10 it. We have become too powerful.
$50 at FIRST it would probably be thought. Through
our freedom, industry, boundless command of
fertile lands, and, crowning ALL the happy adapta-
ton ofour Institutions, they exist and have
ever existed, South and North, to the character,
habits, interests, and wants of our whole people
Through these, as the great impelling causes for
drawing out an exuberant prosperity, our popu-
lation, riches, and power have been augmented
rapidly and prodigiously. It would be nothing
strange, but rather little excusable if i. produc-
'ed in us moments Of patriotic ntoxicaton. If
our increase in the Past has been prodigious, it
battles calculation in the Fuure.'-Page7.
With other expressions equally wise and truly
patriotic, Mr.. RUSH advances, with arguments ele-
gandy expressed and wisely stated, to enforce the
sound doctrine Of NoN-INTERvENrIoN.
If the Farewell advice of WAsHINGToN was wise,
it was also more. Under Heaven, it served more
than any other single cause, or perhaps all other
causes combined. to preserve the United States
neutral during the French revolution. If the people
Of the United States, Of any one or more Of the
individual States, wish to involve our country in
war, very ready, indeed sure, mode lies open.
Form alliance with any Of the leading States
of Europe Perhaps the mos, dangerous to this
country Of all alliances would be one with Great
Britain; since parentage, language, habits, and in
stincts would in that case stand in the way of a
just or judicious appreciation of cause and effect.
We should stand in the dangerous position of being
involved in unjust wars, alter having surrendered
our right Of choice.
II is 10 be hoped that the party to whom Mr.
RUSH has addressed his Letters may carefully read
and candidly reflect on the reasoning therein ex-
pressed A safe dependence of one nation on ano-
ther has ever been founded on mutual respect.
Respect and knowledge of power are the stream
from the fountain. Dry up the fountain, and the
stream vanishes,
We hayeina cycle Of seventy-sx years conquered
continent Let US improve our conquest. We
have ages of war yet to wage with Nature. Let us
finish those wars before we form g entangng ALI
ances or conventional obligations. the purport Of
which we could not clearly perceive, and the con.
sequences of which we could not control.
We shall have occasion hereafter, at more leisure
to revert to these Letters.