New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-08
Oar Foreign Reiaiions-Nicnrag
Cuba. &c.

progress Of Freedom and the well-being Of
Manbind-we presume few observers can
doubt. In view of the imminent, momen-
tous issues of 1852, what is the duty, what
should be the attitude of the comparatively
Free Nations of the earthl Would is be
excusable for the United States and Great
Britain to rush into collision, whether of
arms or diplomacy, and leave the Continent
of Europe to the tender mercies of the
Allied DespOts J What true American
could look back with satisfaction and per-
ceive that while this Country was fercely
wrangling with England and France re-
spectiDg the Right of Search, the guardian
ship of Cuba and the Right of European
Interference in affairs apPertaining to this
Continent, the Northern Bear had seized
his opportunity to tread out the rekiadling
fires of Liberty from Warsaw to Naples,
from Pennsylvania to Holstein! What
sincere Republican, looking back on this,
would wish to realize that he had aided to
ctt uiC sum
We are no lover of British policy nor
British ascendancy: on the contrary, We
have been battling against them for the bet
ter part of our past years, and expect to
continue in that course to the end. But We
deeply feslize that the true and only elfec-
tual resistance to that policy must be made
through Peace, not War not by battering
down the forts and blowing up the ships of
England but by quietly building up at home
those branches of Industry which she
has hitherto excelled in, and stimulating
other Nations, by the success Of our exam
pie, to do likewise. We might do her more
immediate harm with hundred armed
steamships and three-deckers than with
twice as many rolling-mills and wooden fac
/ tories, but we could do ourselves immense
" more good with the latter, and at one
! tenth the cost of the former, while we
should far more surely and vitality sap the
foundations Of that towering Commercial
and Manufacturing predominance which has
enabled and still enables England to depress
and impoyersh Labor throughout the
world. Her baneful monopoly was founded
and cherished by War and is to be over
thrown by the arts of Peace, if at all.
With regard to Central America and all
manner of Musquito annoyances, we have
en- abundant protection against groundless
and inadmissible assumptions in the Clayton
and BuIwer Treaty. That Treaty is of
recent date, and was negotiated under the
auspices of the present British Ministry
1t cannot be disowned nor receded from by
Great Britain, and it contains ample guar
antics against such outrages as that re-
Gently perpetrated on the Prometheus at
San Juan. The British Government must
not only disavow and atone for that insult,
but must explicitly disclaim any pretense
or disposition to repeat it. If our Govern
ment but stands on the Treaty and insists
on its observance to the letter, the insOlent
assumption of Mosquito authority set up,
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consequence thereof by the captain of the
Express, must be promptly and fully dis
avowed by his superiors, and our rights in
the premises thus admitted and established
beyond cavil.
But with regard to Cuba, the case Is not
so entirely one-sided. We hope Mr.. Thrash
or is innocent of all completely with Flibus-
tierism: and if so, it will become our Co.
yernment to see him promptly liberated and
his wrongs redressed; but it must be borne
in mind that We have as yet heard but one
story. There is of course another; let us
compare it with Mr.. Thrasher's before we
pronounce reversible judgment. Let us
remember. too, that the Spanish race have
right to be jealous Of our Vaccinations
and wary ofour approaches. Louisiana was
once theirs and is now ours; so OF FLORIDA,
/ Texas. New-Mexico and California. These
vast and generally inviting regions were
acquired by us in various ways; If zee had
/ been the losers and another race the gain
ers, would those ways have seemed to US
uniformly correct and unexcePtionable
Let us place ourselves in their position,
/ consider the matter for a moment, and say
/ whether the notorious weakness and decrepi-
tude of Spain DO not furnish excuses for
q severity toward captured invaders Of
her colonies or detected plOtters against her
sway which would be objectionable in
/ France or Great Britain
Now when Mr.. Crittenden very eoOlly
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