New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-21
MR. FOREIGN POLICY-DouGLA- oN
DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS

T ;,,le Giant has been making sPooen
in several different places in depreciation
Of the Whigs and Gen. Scott and threat
ens 70 make it at several other places De-
fore November. His prominent notions
.eam 70 be that the Wings are too anti
ouoted and stsgnnnt, and that Gen Scott
especially, though very goo1 'Oiulef'
knows nothing of .StdtesmGn'hiP' ana Is
unlikely TO learn. since he does not take
This Illinois Absalom as his chief counsel
lor. He and his associate Houston In the
Constructive Mileage swindle OF last year
sometimes venture to talk Of Wing EN-
travagance.' Galphinism,' &C. but this
subject is 50 ticklish that Douglas gener-
alIy cuts it short and spreads himself
on our Foreign Policy. Here is the
New-York version of his ideas on this
point, which he has repeated with unlm-
portan, vibrations at other points-yiz:
P,oud b.u.htv. and lnsole ., Eogland-1oud cheers
snd srosn,)-whc, but a few years age, would nave
lsvsHed IN deiiIion a. airy shisnce with the Inised
states va, nor ace king everywhere psr'ner,nis on
tie American coniirenL hnOviDg sn5 can no logger
lcpl7e any portion o' North South, or Central Amer
Ca Abe Il endeayoi- ~ eecI her OBJECT ~ her Bull
/ uer and CLAYTON ueeaet-,tfeus rdoul gr1ans &C.,
ard trying 70 whether he oaa nave pArteef'nP
| In the sTta, L.hmus coaue 5iirs the two 1ees1'
! ssy Ipd h. q . the duty ot Cover neat 10 hse
The tclt position (Ct eerS1 The Jnnet states has a
r4obt 70 AZ will have n sihmus Of an Ncara
sus IL huan'ere e. and every other grea, route ,eSeen
Sur two crest 81 go. ('hGers) tcnf the rikit OF
| Epg'srd 10 be con'uted 81 all up,n ihs question
fChyers England may keep, a. long a. she caa keep
/ her col uifs ibis Continent, bat am greatly mlfaA.
! ca our xsmys Goes not teach naughty Lngand
tbsi she viii tsve much 20 90 d keep her 10 81
JOINS CsLsts, sni Cther PROVINCES on th' Connnent
irn q cir sllc-'srce Whlul ring With GER
icsn II ,,hutcus (Loud cheers, and crie' Of good
bcy % Idont care GbO1t tie quarrel btreen thu bear
q ussa srd TIE lion Of Ersl,ad as ouz n their di'
uute 10 In Asia daughter would o. give tsrthins
10 decide which coaquers that sight, IS long az Il 10
confr ed to A,is but when comes among the people
q Europe, then must say, all my sJm plth'es are Win
The people and sGani, their oppFessors cloud cheers
TIE cuty OF the American Government was TO protect
| The whole Conilpen, against any EurOpeln poser
Cries q Cuba Ny fdend erie, cut Cnba AS long
40 40 ISIS when n candidate for Congress, declared
ny opinion that when theissnd Of Cuba should de-
are rs freedC and uAinsin lard spFly 10 the for
sn1eXstor soud bein avcrcflt Loud cheers But
went further, was willing 10 appropriate from the
put lie treasury any reressfG 'unt u m)nfyt0 pur
! chsse Cuba Cheers went further siil said that
Ii England or Sry ct1er European power, wsre 70 at
tempt to take Cuba by parehae or otherwi.e Il waitae
| flsks Tremendous cheer These are It'll my sen
tu rents II IL the s.iny OF rne great democratic party
to carry out these principles Loud cheers lac
Wigs cant DO Il without violating their avOwed orlncl
pies, aud oyerlulipg their uncerstsnding Cries OF
aThstsa fact and laughter The Whlgs don't
| dersuId The doctrine OF progress.
We ask sober, rejecting men TO think
Of the above, and consider that its author
is one of the magnates of the party. who
came very near a nomination for President
Instead of Pierce, at Baltimore, and i now
working with all his might to secure the
next chance. And this is the kind of
stattsmGnSh p-he who objects to Gen.
Scott as no Statesman by which he seeks
TO commend himself to the confidence OF
the American People You who say Gen.
Scott is 20 Statesman, say whether you
believe 1t possible that he could ever give
utttIauce to such rowdy balderdash as we
have quoted above You who have any
idea of international Law, or even Of natu-
raj justice, say-will YOU !-vhat right we
have to the Isthmus of Panama, Near
aqua, TehUantepec," &c, which this man
so coOlly aflirms that we "have right to,
and will have" These crossing places
are within Independent Foreign Nations,
hundreds OF miles from our own borders,
and far nearer to possessions OF England,
Fran &c, Spain and Denmark, than to ours.
II you say they are in the easist line of
communication between our Atlantic and
our Pacific territories, that is a. good a
reason for Great Britain as for Us, and as
good a reason for her claiming n strip Of
land through New England on her best
route from Liverpool to Montreal, a, for
our claiming the Isthmus Of Darien and
threatening to fight for it.
But look at the matter in another light.
We to-day hGve the Lsthmus, to all prac-
tical intents and purpOses-both crossings
panama and Nicaragua are In the hands
Of our people. Yankee vessels, manned
by Yankee crews, now navigate the Mica
ragua, both river and lake; Yankee con-
tractors carry passengers over the portage
10 San Juan del Sur; and San Juan de
Nicars qua is in effect Yankee port. As
PinEGA Yankee creation, has suppanted
Chsgres, and will soon be connected by a
Yankee Railroad with Panama, which has
its Yankee newspaper, hotels, &C., and is
rapidly becoming Apglo-Saxon. We are
quietly getting possession of everything
on both lines of uansit-the lines them
selves are all Yankee already-the Mos.
quito King is never seen nor heard of about
the San Juan, and 'Greytown' is becom-