Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-10-11

?roporonste effect But in the meantime hiskorv tells
Us tcith her fnerorae roioe that any graf
departs.
Nay its renquishment of conquest has not less
Certainty oeen accompanied both as cause and effect by
decay oil national virtue; and that decay has in inv
TED aggression from ruder sates Greece ceased to con-
quer, and Rome subdued to her and superior PEG
pe Rome ceased conquer and the Cloths overran
empire The Italian states survived only while thew
made conquests. Austria, Prussia began toter when
their frontiers appeared have reached their widest
tension hussia has not yet competedt the onward march
other borders the American Republic takes, or makes
province a stride.
sThe lesson conveyed in those more ancient subuga
tons OF great states by ruder is instructive. Ii
seems to me this a people. secured from war
tapped in luxury, in its modern imitation, "comort
directs its attention solely material interests to in
electual renements forgetting the condition by which
attained to its greatness and negectng maintain its
physical vigor then ruder nation whose discipline
supplies that neglected element of national power per
mitted to supercede the overgrown state Thus when
the Greeks had lost their virtue Romans took from them
their lands Romans forgot the lesson which they had
been the instrument teaching and the rude but hardy
Goth restored the animal virtue of Europe. Europe
again faint and squeamish and again the Goth
more than ready There must be- indeed deep truth in
those broad SUGGESTIONS of events sufficient to make us
pause before pronounce dogmatically on the con-
quests of the United States rough and unprncpled
some OF them may look to the nice eyesght of
science of refined scholarship, calculating commerce.
peace-loving comfort.
Conquest has not left off in the world-hat is "great
TACT, but it is still than question in whose
name. on whose behalf conquest is to be made. For
part incline to believe that conquess in the name
and interest Of eedom-conqucsts on 6ehalfof those aco
represent real cicaSation-re more for the interest of
ank'nd than conquest IN behalf of tyrany brbaris
It, indeed civilization. betakng itself dogmatic fast
nesses, believing that it keep peace by willing it, is
content to conquestt ruder and baser nations
not wonder that the results untoward When civil
lzaon coating the vain enterprise OF opposing the nev
table march off events shall have finally lied itself to
conquest then the last great campaign will be fought the
crusade peace will have be iun. Just now we en-
to have approached of those spoons in which the
alliances
ed to the leading nations and much higher questions are
astr than the fate of fish the maintenance of an eete
rule in Cuba.
Following this (says the Times,) is an article
from the London Leader, which contends ear
nestly against any alliance which shall bring
England into relations of hostility to this advan-
cling spirit ofthe American Republic, as in the
highest degree menancing to English interests
and to the very stability of the British throne
Then comes another article from the Spectator,
warning the Government, in words of earnest re-
monstrance, against the growing influence of
American principles, imported by American emf
grants, in Australia. And, finally, the London
Examiner writes in justification of Mr.. Web
ster's course in regardto the Lobos Isands-as-
sorting the equal right of all nations to take
guano from those islands, and sustaining the
American Government for what it has done in
vindication of that right