The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-18

with it, and TO preserve those relations by frank,
| firm and manly policy-meetng in all instances
the just claims of every power, submitting 10 lnJu'
| ries from none.
This language, in the connection in which it
was uttered, is remarkably strong and pointed.
John @. Adams endorsed the advice of Wash
ing on, against "entanging alliances" and
adopted as his own the following language of
his immediate predecessor, Monroe:
"The citizens of the United States cherish sem
titnents the most friendly in favor of the liberty
| and happiness of their fellow men on that lhe
Europesn) side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the
European powers, in matters relating to them
selves, we have never taken any part, nor does 1t
comport Nth our policy to do So"
General jackson, in his Third Annual Message,
says:
| "Having none but straightforward open course
to pursue-guided by single principle that uin bear
The strongest light-we have happily no political
combinations to form, no alliances TO entangle us,
no complicated interests 10 consult"
Was there ever stronger endorsement, a more
hearty commentator, of the principle of non-in-
PREVENTION in the affairs of European nations!
| In his fourth Annual Message, Gen. Jackson
says, more strongly:
SIN the view l have given Of our connections
with foreign powers, illusions have been made to
their domestic disturbances or foreign wars to their
revolutions or dssensions. 1t may be proper 10
observe, that this is done solely in cases where
those events affect our political relations with
them, to show their operation on our commerce.
Further than this, it is neither our policy nor our
right TO interfere. Our best wishes on all occa-
sions, our good offices when required, will be
afforded to promote the domestic tranquility and
foreign peace of all nations with whom we have
any intercourse. Any intervention in their affairs
further than this, by the expression Of an Official
opinion is contrary to our principles of national
policy, and will always be avoided
Van Buren,, in his Inaugural, said:
eve sedulously cultivate the friendship of all
nations, the condition most compatible with our
welfare and the principles of our Government
We decline alliances, as adverse to our peace.
We have no disposition, and we dsCaim all right
to NEEDLE in disputes, whether internal or foreign,
that may modest other countries; regarding them
in their actual state as social communities, and
preserving strict neutrality in all their Controver
o sies"
8 Mr.. Polk, in his first Annual Message, went a
not even countenance interference in foreign affairs
y on the American Continent. He said:
d at is natural that sympathies should be
Y warmly enlisted for their 1.-THE nations of South
| America] welfare that we should desire that al
controversies between them should be ameably
adjusted, and their governments administered ii
If manner TO protect the rights and promote tn,
y prosperity of the people. 1t is contrary however
to settled policy to interfere in their controver
n sizes, whether external or internal"
President Fillmore, in his last Annual Message
strongly advocates the policy of non.interventon
;. He says:
4 "Friendly relations with all, but entanglng al
d liances with none, has long been maxim witt
=. us. Our true mission is not to propagate on
opinions, or impose upon other countries our form
of government, by artifice or force but to teac
T. by example and show by our SUCCESS, moderation
;" and JUSTICE the blessings of selfgovernment, an,
NJ the advantages OF free institutions. Let ever
people choose for itself, and make and alter its 20
m litcal institutions to suit its own condition am
Il convenience"
10 Properly enough, he adds:
v "But while we avow and maintain this neutra
policy ourselves, we are anxious to see the sam
y torbearance Oh the part of other nations, who's
ia forms of Government are different from our owl
=, The deep interest which feel in the spread of lit
eral principles and the establishment of free Cover
ments, and the sympathy with which we witnes
az every struggle against oppression, forbid that "
should be Indifferent to a case in which the stron
III arm of a foreign power is invoked TO slhs publ
is sentiment and repress the spirit of freedom in an
country"
~ These two extracts, taken together, explain on
~ another, and place him, side by side, with til
"a usirious Presidents OF our Union in the advocac
of the policy of non-interventon in the affairs ez
:. ternal or internal, of European nations.
So, we have Washington, Jefferson, Joh
,f Adams, Madison, Monroe, John @. Adams, An
!. drew Jackson, Van Buren, and Fillmore-all chic
magistrates Of young, but great, Republic, or
# posed in this policy to Kossulh, the Hungarian
% and the hurra of the demonstration" GROVE
Which are right! Let the calm reflection of tn
:, country search the question. We cannot do s
i. now, without extending our remarks beyond tn
, reasonable limits of newspaper editorial.
~ -e>t-
le A Crystal Palace IN New York.-A petition
n about to be presented to the Common Council ,
n. NewYork for the use OF Madison Square, for tn
IN erection of Crystal Palace, to accommodate til
second great Worlds Fair, in 1852. Mr.. Pax.o
:, has made the design-5OO by 200 feet two s,orie
Vi and the contractors agree to have the s,ructu
/ okoI ~ tbr,a h. 4 TT