The southern press., 1852-01-12

world. Their fortunate geographical p0stior
is an mpregnable bulwark against any power
except one that commands the ocean, and it il
useless to shut our eyes to the truth-Englanc
is at this moment our most dangerous foe. She
is watching our progress with jealous apPre
hension, and everywhere interfering with it un
der various pretences. tits, in a great measure
through her influence, that the North and the
South have become antagonist interests, arrayed
against, instead ofco operating with each other
and the progress Of free principles has been
checked in Europe, by perpetual stream OF
gross caumnies and misrepresentation all level
led against the United States, and all Of which
may be traced to the British press. The habits,
the United States have been printed in the dark
est colors, and the faults with which they are
charged, all traced to the freedom they enjoy.
In addition to all this, the dependencies of
England surround us on all Sides If we go to
the ST Lawrence and the lakes, we find England
there If we look out from the Southern shores
of the Atlantic, we find her there. If we 60 to
the extremities of New England, we find her
there If we go to our Southern borders, we
find her influence predominating in Mexico, and
gradually creeping over Central America. And
lastly--if we go to the shores of The Pacific,
we find her there. Her fortresses and mil
itary establishments frown on us from every
point of the compass, and we are environed
by line decentralization bristling with bay
onets In addition to all this, her intrigues
and bullyings in Mexico, on the lsthmus of
Panama, and her late Intervention between
the United States and Spain, furnish more evi-
dent Indications of her policy, than compliment
ing the United States for what she takes all the
credit to herself. According to the theory of
British writer's, the Americans are only brave,
active perseverng, intelligent, and free, by vir-
tue of their Anglo Saxon ancestors and if they
do any credit to the family, it is entirely owing
to the mother. Washington, who never saw
England, was, according to Mr.. ALIsoN,t an
and owed all his virtues to his de-
scent from British ancestors. am not the en-
emy of England, any farther than as | believe
States; in proof of which, appeal to past his
tory and present demonstrations.
But however this may be, what have the Uni
ted States to do with the policy Of Russia and
England, in Europe or Asia, unless il is brought
to bear injuriously on themselves? The time
may, and probably will come, when the relations
Of the United States will be more intimately
with the East, by means of their pos
sessions on the Pacific; but if we meet rival
or an enemy there, it will not be Russia We
shall not encounter Russian, but British steam
ers and ships of war, which are found pr0wling
about in all the highways and byways on the
ocean, of nearly all which England is now in
Everywhere she holds the most
important commercial points of the world Glib
raltar, Malta and the Ionian Isles, give her the
command of the Mediterranean and the seas
with which it is connected. By the possession
of the Cape of Good Hope, SINGAPORE, Hong
Kong and Bornea, which she has lately taken
under her "protection," against the pirates, she
commands the great maratime routes to India,
and in fact the entire Eastern trade. BY the pos
session of Alden, she commands the Red sea and
the great inland route between Europe and Asia !;
and, having some years since taken possession
of the Falkland Islands, without shadow of
right, she has gained section from which, in
time of war, she may cut up our whaling busi-
ness at pleasure TO crown all, she is now
aiming at the possession, or at least control, of
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and that of Pana-
ma, which, if acquired, will give her the complete
command of all the great routes connecting the
four quarters of the globe.
Yet the United States are invited to co operate
with the only power of the world whose policy
md interests are, and always have been, un-
friendly or injurious to them; against the only
power that, while checking the vast designs of
England, both in Europe and Asia, can by no
accession of dominion in either quarter, become
dangerous to their peace and prosperity.
The United States and Russia, united in a
general system of commercial policy, are alone
able to enforce and maintain the freedom of the
sea against England, which never has, nor never
will, abandon her pretensions to their dominion,
except through force or fear. The interests of
the United States and Russia, as regards the
freedom of commerce, are one and the same.
Though different in their government and inst-
tutions, they resemble each other, in one great
point at least-that of being progressive powers,
gradually undergoing vast expansion-espe-
aially increasing in wealth and numbers, and
happily far removed from collision or competi-
ton. As to the serfdom of Russia, and the
despotic maxms of its government, the United
States have no more to do with these than with
the Schah of Persia, the Grand Signior, or the
Pope Of Rome. BY intermeddlng with these
matters, they furnish fair pretext for the mon
archs of Europe to do the like with their own
domestic concerns; and the Gar of Russia has
Just as much right to interfere with the South
ern slave, as we have to interfere with the Rus
sian serf, who, equally with the slave, is far
more pious, moral, contented and happy than
that burlesque on freedOm-the English pauper