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impending Danger.
From the Ntp York Courier and ENQUIRER.

from the NtD courier ana enquirer.
cit may be regarded as a settled thing, "a fixed
fact that Frank Pierce is to be President
Pennsylvania, to say nothing of some other States
has settled that point. We SHALL therefore, have
progressive President of ego ahead nation. and
| so far it will be 30 good That the House Of Rep
resentatves will contain majority of Democrats
we are convinced; but liberal margin should be
obtained to make up for lukewarm and selfish
persons, who are not to be depended upon for those
great and extraordinary that sure to arise
under President Pierce's administration. We want
to see men sent to Congress who will walk right
straight up to the mark without flinching; men Of
iron nerves and resolute will, who have a control.
ling sense of the destiny Of America, and who be
licve that it has been ordained that they are to have
part in realizing that DISQUALIFICATION Times.
In single respect, in all other respects
combined, does the election of Franklin Pierce to
the Presidency bode 80 great misfortune to our
country as in the change of foreign policy it will
almost surely Introduce. Kossuth, wild were
many of his assertions, was not wrong when he
declared in his speech at Albany: "It is mahe-
matically sure that it is the next administration
during which the future of this great Republic
Its security and it's farther rising its decline will
be decided. 1t is not the slavery question nor
| the Compromise, nor any other internal question,
highly important as it may be; but it is the ques-
ton of foreign policy which you will have to
decide" In his farewell address to the adopted
urging them to sustain the Democratic party if
they wished the doctrines Of intervention to pre-.
vail These octrines, though not formally incor
porated into the Baltimore platform, have in fact
become part of the elementary substance of the
party, and affect i,s whole spirit. This ia per-
ceptible in all of the speeches of the most active
and influential of the Democratic leaders; and
more reliance especially in the large cities placed
upon the efficacy of popular appeals upon this
subject than upon any other means of influence.
European Intervention has not yet entered much
into the calculations of the promoters Of the new
policy. The existing condition Of Europe excludes
the possibility OF ts application in any shape, and
for the present it lies in allegiance far as the
other continent Ia concerned. But on this cont.
nent opportunity favors it. The new administra.
ton, If 1t be Democratic, will not have been in
power week before it will have the chance to in.
| augurate Its new aggressive and intermeddiing
policy byan overt and decisive act. Cuba, Mexico,
and Central America, arc all most tempting fields
for bold demonstration. 1t is admitted by every
body that the tenure by which Cuba is held to the
Spanish throne Ia precarious 1t il known that
rnalcontents there and revolutionary organizations
here Will continue their vigorous endeavors to
effect the deiver Of Cuba by the aid of the
American people and at the cost of the neutrality
principles OF the Government. Our present admin
lsration, is TO be hoped, will settle all existing
troubles with Spain on an honorable and yet
peaceful basis, but the great source of trouble and
danger will still remain. No amends that Spain
can make, no moderation and justice that she may
hereafter observe, can alter the fact that Cuba ia
coveted az a precious prize by a numerous and
restless portion OF the people of this country. No
action that she can take, short of abdcating her
power in Cuba entirely, will prevent new cxpedi.
tons from being attempted, and a scale greater
than ever before. Vigor, vigilance, and frmness
will have to be constantly exercised by our Execu
tive, to save our neutrality laws from violation
our treaty obligations from infringement, and our
nj tuIt fTnn ohns ito Il
minisration, instead Of meeting these respons-
bilitics as the national honor demands, WILL il any
confidence Ia to be put in it's accredited expoundcrs
| and prophets, only partake of the same aggressive
spirit, and give these acts Of violence all the pres
tgc Of its moral sanction and support. But not
only this war will be rsked for the acquisition OF
Cuba; and war with Spain on this issue involves
the liability OF n war with France and England.
This country could not, without p rovoca tion do.
spoil Spain Of Cuba without such n breach of in
ternationa law hs would justify oil civilized pow.
ers IN making common cause again us. IL Is the
right oi every nation to interfere Tor the malnten-
ance of the la Of nations, for on this code alone
depends their mutual preservation.
Mexico, too. is tempting prey for this same ra.
pacious spirit She is daily expo we'd to the mos
violent internal convulsons, and in her weakness
has no security whatever from foreign attack ex.
cepting those great principles Of right which gov
ern the intercourse of nations But II it be the
will of the new administration TO III axe war upon
Mexico, the occ aston will not for hour be want
ing. An ostensible casus beii may at any time
be found in the border quarre!s Of the Rio Grande
One indeed has already been presented in tangi-
! bIe shape in the resolutions reported 10y Mr.. Ma
son, the Democratic chairman Of the SQUAT Com
mitce on Foreign Relations, relative to The coer
Give measures to be employees against M exico in
case it persists in its refusal 10 carry in TO cffcc
the Iehuantepec grant. And so also Of the 18TH
mus. pretext Tor selling upon the whole OF
Central America can be had for the seek ing on
any summer winter morning. Senator Doug
Las, the chief Of the progressive Democracy, has
already told US at Tammany Hall that 1.-THE
United States has right to, and will have
the lsthmus Of Panama, Nicaragua, Tehuan-
tePec, and every other great route between
our two great shores" This means simple
conquest, for they can he acquired and made
ours exclusively in no other way than by the force
OF arms. The same lust for agRrandizcrnent and
spirit of aggression will il General Pierce DO elo t.
ed, control the management Of our entire foroie n
relations. In the strange vicissitudes and rushing