The southern press., 1852-03-30
d'affaires escaped the necessity Of committing

who now represents Great Britain near this re
public would be 10th to admit that his govern
ment had transcribed its privileges, or nigh
under any circumstances, surrender the exercis
Of its assumed rights. Hem was you will nd
init, Mr.. President, fit opportunity for this ad
ministration to display some of that watchfu
energy which ii so merclessy exhibited on
kindred occasion. Why is il that it suffered it
wrath to be so easily soothei and its suscepti
bities to slumber What business had it to b,
thus tolerant and accommodating when il has
, pursued, with such an unrdenting rancor anC
severity, that little band of deluded, but bray,
and chivalrous men who had engaged in tina
unfortunate and ill-advised expedition which end
ed 80 miserably at Baya Honda Was it love
for non-intervention that prompted the polio,
which branded the Invasion with deadly names
and doomed the invaders to an ignominious
| slaughter Sir, disapproved then, as disap
prove now, the reckless undertaking but those
who engaged in it had stout and noble hearts
they were nthusiasts--maniacs, if you choose
but nthusiasts-maddened by the most dis
interested and the most lofty aspirations. What
| right had this administration to track them
through the waters of the Gulf, beyond the line
of our municipal Jurisdiction? Will its friends
show me where, in the Consultation, is lodged
the power which the President thought proper
to exert on that occasion? And, as if tho butch
cry made of fifty of our citizens, slaughtered ia
| full daylight, within view of our flag waving
sadly over our ships ,ot-war, and in wanton VIC.
lation of the most solemn and the most explicit
treaty stipulatons, was not enough to satisfy
the most extravaganza exactions of Castan
pride, Castilian punctiio, and Castilian revenge
we are driven to wituess, in the great metopo,
lis OF the South, the heart.rending spectacle of a
salute booming out TO exulting Spain, repent
ance and atcnement in the name Of the United
States of America The triumph won by the
Spanish minister on this occasion over the sus-
capabilities, once so keen, Of orr statesmen, has
no pPcedent IN the annals Of the diploma ic
histoR of any milton.
But return to the present aspect of affairs
in EuOi G, and to the new attitude in which
England stands to the continental powers.
Believf you, sir, that she would now be SO
humbA, so detected, so submissive to Austro-
! Russian diotation, if she had firmly stood up by
those principles which her Galatians and her
Cannihgs had so proudly proclaimed to the
words How dearly she pays for her impas.
sivenes, while the Roman republic was falling
under. French bayonets, while Hungary was
slaughtered hy Russian sahres, and while Cra
COW lid PROSTATE at the feet of her plunderers.
Sir let us not be Iuled into slunber by the
idea that we are too distant from Europe 10 be
affected by her political commissions Know YOU
not tint violence and oppression are contagious,
and that their triumph in any point of time, or
on anI point of the globe, reacts on the moral
worlds
Why, Mr.. President, speak of isolation, when
you can ride your floating palaces from continent
to continent in less time than It took your
fathers, fifty years ago, to travel from Buffalo
to New York-from Boston to PHILADELPHIA -
when every wave of the ocean brings you swift
messengers, blown over to these western shores
by the same breeze that waited them away
from The eastern hemisphere when, low as it
beats, you can hear every usation of the Eu-
ropean heart beneath the iron hands that strive
to compress and stide its languid and agonzing
energies!
But it is insisted that an expression of our
synpathies is more matter of sentiment than
OF right and policy. All, sir, pity the states
man who does not know that public sentiment
which sometimes supplies and sometimes cor.
rec's the law, is always its strong, st support
Sir, believe me, it is our interest, and if not
our interest, our duly, to Keep alive, by good
of1ces among the nations of Europe, that rever
ence for the institutions of our country, that de-
won't faith in their efficacy, which looks 70 their
PRONUNCIATION throughout the world M to the
great millennium which is to close the long cal
endar Of their wrongs. Let their fame light
up the gloom and dispel the darkness that now
envelop them. Humhled though they be, de
spise them not. II was not their choice, but
treachery that made them slaves; and if YOU
should ask why is it that they seem TO look
with approving smiles and contented hearts 10
the hands that brandish the rod over them, for.
get not those deluded wretches destined TO the
beasts for the entertainment of the Roman EN-
perors, who could not be persuaded that Caesar
was not Rome, and who, upon entering the
Coliseum, a. they passed his seat, would bow
TO him In respectful submission, and excaim
Cesar, mOrituri te salltanf-C@ ar, though
Iooned 10 die, We salute you.
beard, the other day, the honorable Senator
from Tennessee, in Ste of those soul. stirring
feats oi eIoquenceso peculiarly his own, sclaim
that here be anything like destiny in the call.
ings " nation. How could he have thus over
looked that there is nota work Of Gods wisdom,
nor striving Of the human intellect, that bears
not the mdelibe seal of destiny Onward I
onward is the injunction Of Gods will as much
as Ahead! ahead! is the aspiration of every
American heart. We boast exultinply Of our
wisd,m. Do we mean 10 hide il under the
bush,l, frtm fear that its light might set the
world in flames! As well might ChristianiLr
have been confined 10 the walls ola church, or
10 the enclosures of cloister. What had Il
effected ft mankind, what had il effected for
itself without the spirit that promulgated il 20
the worldg Onward onward To stand still
is n lie Ileless-inerion is death. Had Ma
homei stood still, would he and The mountain
have got togetherl Had the colonies stood
still, wouh this be the government Il is Had
Jefferson md Polk stood STILL would Louisiana
be ours! Would Texas, would California, sit
here in thebright garments OF their sovereignty!
You commend the policy Of the fathers Of The
republic al il time, that witbers the strength Of
man, did nd I" throw around him the ruins Of
his proudes monuments" Have not shown
how mutabe IL had beenl Let us not calum.
Mate the past by fastening its usurpations upon
the future. ! revere its teachings, but cannot
submit TO make them the measures Of present
wisdom. Speaking Of the sages whose names
and authority have so often been invoked in this
debate, the elder Adams attempts 10 exculpa,e
the defects Of their views and policy by this re.
mark: "The present actors on the stage have