The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-30

coalition, and become party to another CONT
hentaI system, can you realize what advantages
Europe could tender her that would not be ruin
GUS to our interests? Might not, perchance,
new Pozzo de Borgo insti into the brains OF
some raying autocrat the thought, by him sug-
gested in 1917, of subjugating these States, IN
order to protect the world against the poison,
GUS effects of their institutions!*
| repeat il again, you have no power either to
surrender your rights or to disown your obliga-
tons. Assert your rights and fnlill your obli-
cations. But some will say this Is war! Not
quite. cannot see that even then we shouid
abstain from what is good ana just IN ITSELF.
Know YOU not, sir, that moral power, IN time OF
NOR as well as in time OF peace, acts the frst
nart and often coerces the powers Of numbers
10 unconditional surrender Let me read you
CON Heffter few lines, which define more ac.
cnrately than anything have yet read the orr
ain the sanction, and the imposing commands
Of the law of nations:
..The law of nations has neither lawgiver nor
supreme Judge, since independent States ack-
nowledpe no superior human authority. Its or
oan and regulator is public opinion. Its sn-
nrame tribunal is history, which forms at once
The rampant of Justice and the Nemesis by which
;n;ustice il avenged. It's sanction, or the obi
cation Of all men to respect IT, results from the
moral order Of the universe, which will not suf-
far nations and individuals to be isolated from
zach other. but constantly tends to unite the
whole famil Of mankind in one great harmoni-
GUS society.
What! speak you Of isolation? Have you
not markets enough to retain for your present
excess of production, and markets TO secure Tor
the surplus of your future wealth !! Gan you
rely on the sympathies of Princes, Kings, or
Cars for a continuance of those relations which
alone can enable you to retain the advantages
which you enjoy on the old continent! Disown
not vonrself Be not unmindfu that you are
member of the great family Of nations Do not
ranndiate the relations which that membership
IMPLIES. The law that binds nations to each
other ia your law as well as theirs Let it not
he violated with impunity. That law rests on
the dictates of public opinion. Will you give
nm vour share in forming it? In vain seek you
to remain isolated The tendencies OF your
political organization, your commercial as we'll
ma YOUR social interests, that thirst after the I'M
known. which you can neither compress nor
satisfy, will throw you forcibly into. contact
with foreign powers. What their policy may
induce them to attempt against your commerce
will not cease to be political aggression though
it should affect only your mercantile interest.
With the progressive ratio OF your production
compared with your population you may have
in 1900 an excess of seven hundred millions In
your produce Where will you find a market
for It? In the East lin the East There you
must look for Recommendations 750 100000
of consumers invite your commodities and your
excess of wealth. The dependence of Eng
land on your great staple for the supply OF her
growing manufactures my counsel her to take
YOU into partnership in the enjoyment OF the
gorgeous boon. But should Russia gain the
ascendency there, what would your prospects
be Her policy is essentially exclusive, an
tagonistic to your interest Suppose she lays
hands on Turkey, and shuts you out OF the
Mediterranean might not this great basin be-
come again the great reservoir and entrepot OF
eastern commerce You see, sir that interest
alone presses you on all sides not to remain
isolated. In self defence you are bound TO
watch every movement of European policy. See
how strangely have fallen those Balkans which
its old statesmen raised in the combined strength
of Hungary and Austria against the devouring
ambition Of the Cossack? Austria, now a
Russian province, is but relay to the Car
on his route to Turkey. He can now approach
Constantinople by Vienna as well as by Bu-
charest.
"a SINGULAR HIsToRIcAL FAcr.-The New
York Express brings to light a singular historical
fact which is not generally known. II says that
in 1917, a Russian Of eminence, M. Pozzo de
Borgo, being then in Paris, proposed in a memoir
addressed to his court on the importance of re-
placing South America under the dominion Of
Spain, that the United States should be subjuga-
ted He said that, "founded on the sovereignty |
OF the people, the republic Of the United States
cf America was FIRE. Of which the daily contact
with Europe threatened the latter with coufagra- |
ton; that as an asylum for all innovators, 1t gave
them the means Of disseminating at distance, by |
their writings, and by the authority OF their ex-
annie. a poison Of which the communication |
could not be questioned, as il was well known
that the French revolution had its origin in the
United States; that already troublesome effects
were felt from the presence Of the French refugees
in the United States" The Russian ambassador
went on to state and argue that the conquest Of the
United States was an easy enterprise; that the de-
gree Of power to which the Americans had risen,
made them objects Of fear to the European mon
archical governments, &c. The editor Of the Err
press came in contact with this curious paper in
the State library at Albany, in an old file Of the
Missouri Republican, printed more than thirty
years ago.
coNcLUsIoN TO MORROW