The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-29

to.ilaeu. and hseoms party to another conf.
~ertsl ssatam, can yea realize what advantages
Europe could tender her that would not be- ruin
ous 70 our interests! Might not, perehance,
new Poxxo de Borgo instil into the brains Of
SONS fAvipg autocrat the thought by him sug-
gested in 1877, Of subjugating these States, in
order 70 protect the world against the poison
ous effects Of their institutions? =
repsat il again, you have no power either to
surrender your rights or to disown your obIiga-
tions- Assert your rights and fulfil your obi
cations. But some will say this Is war! Not
quite cannot SOC that even then we should
abstain from what 10 good and just IN itself.
Know you not, sir, thst moral power, IN time OF
war as we'll N in time Of peace, acts the first
mi and often cosrces the powers Of numbers
- unconditional surrender Let me read you
ssor,, Hsfgter few lines, which define more ac-
cnr.telv than anythingI have yet read the orr
ain Ia sanction, and the imposing commands
~ the law Of nations
4epha law Of nations has neither lawgiyer nor
snnrer me Judge, since independent States ack-
,,nr,IsAce no superior human authority. Its Or
,,.n and regulator is public opinion. Its su-
s,rsms tribunal is history, which forms at once
the rampant of justice and the Nemesis by which
;o;nslics il avenged. Its 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
each other, but constantly tends to unite the
whole family Of mankind in one great harmoni-
Ous society"
What! speak you of isolation? Have you
not markets enough TO retain for your present
excess Of production, and markets to secure for
the surp,us OF your future wealth? Can you
RELY on the sympathies Of Princes, Kings, or
Cars for continuance of those relations which
alone can enable you to retain the advantages
which YOU enjoy on the old continent! DIsown
not Yourself Be not unmindful that you are
member Of the great family Of nations. DO not
repudiate the relations which that membership
implies. The law that binds nations to each
other is your law as well US theirs. Let it not
be violated with impunity. That law rests on
the dictates OF public opinion. Will you give
no your share in forming il! In vain seek you
to remain isolated. The tendencies of your
political organization, your commercial as well
as vour social interests, that thirst after the un-
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 apolitcal 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 market
for it? In the East lin the East There you
must look fol-. customers--thither 750,000,00O
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 may counsel her to take
You into partnership in the enjoyment of the
gorgeous boom 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 selfdefsnce 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 Gar
on his route to Turkey. He can now approach
Constantinople by Vienna as we'll as by Blu
charest.
"A SINGULAR HIsroRIcAL FAcT.-The New
York Express brings to light singular historical
fact which is not generally known. 1t says that,
in 1877, 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 suhiuga-
ted He said that, "founded on the sovereignty
OF the people, the republic Of the United States
OF America was fire. of which the daily contact
with Europe threatened the latter with conAagra
ton; that as an asylum for all nnovators, it gave
them the means Of disseminating at a distance, by
their writings, and by the authority Of their ex-
ample, a poison of which the communication
could not be questioned, as it 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 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 Er
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 TOMORROW