The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-28

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the proposed progressive policy Of this govern
ment, with reference to foreign relations, from
the Charleston Mercury.
| Our FOREIGN PolLcY.-The upraor about
Kossuth in this country has, as was inevitable,
excited the severest animadversion in Europe
And it deserves no less. Everywhere this hub
bub about Hungary and the sacred right of
every nation to take care of its own affairs has
been accompanied with the unmistakeable ex-
| hibition of design to force the United States
to become party to every conspiracy against
| the established governments of Europe, for the
purpose of intruding our political institutions
| upon their people. The parts which leading
| men, candidates for the Presidency and func-
| tonares, have taken in this movement is calcu-
lated to unsettle our peaceful relations with all
Christendom. Especially has the demeanoS of
Mr.. Webster at the Congressional Banquet
where, inter pocula, he clustered and staggered
like another Pistol, called forth the indignant
comment Of the European press. Mr. Web
sters position in the cabinet made it natural to
conclude that he spoke the sentiments of the
government. We do not believe this, or even
that he spoke his own; but he spoke what he
believed would advance his prospects for the
Presidency. A Paris paper remarks on this
scene, as follows
"The most serious attention is due from the
great European powers, to what has passed Mt
| Washington. The government of the United
States, inpeled by the Democratic passions that
rule over it, has abandoned the policy of George
i Washington. 1t no longer restricts itself to
the interests of trade and navigation, but dreams
4 ..5,exercising an influence over European poll
ttics Any measure taken against the envoy Of
f>fAtria at the American capital, must be con
sidered, not as the quarrel of Austria alone, bu
rs the common quarrel and concern of the Ole
World, resisting the absurd pretensions of the
American republic"
What better could we expect to hear concern
ing doctrine that involves this atrocious con
tradiction, that no nation of Europe has the
right to NEEDLE with any other nation, but thai
the United States, blessed monopoists, has an
unlimited right to NEEDLE with them all which
in its legitimate consequences, assumes that we
are henceforth to be arbiters of peace and war
to all the world, and that whilst they may not
stir without our permission, we, on our side
may carry on war of propagandism and con-
spiracies against them without cause of COM
plant Is it strange that for the PRONUNCIATION
of such doctrines, the United States should be-
gin to be looked upon piratcal government
the enemy OF the human race?
| But look at the absurd conflicts in the various
| parts of our foreign policy. For the sake of
the trifling interests OF our trade in the Levant,
we have cultivated with anxious care the friend
ship of the Turkish government, by far the
most absolute and awless in Europe we have
industriousy hunted out the little despot of
Muscat, for the sake of exchanging loving pro
| fessons presents, and treaty Of amity and
commerce. we have considered it a natio nal
happiness to be admitted to the friendship of the
| despotic government of China, and have with
much labor and long suffering sought after tn e
good graces Of the barbaric tyrannies in Further
India Yesterday, the mails brought us the
joyous news that our envoy at Constantinople
had succeeded in negotiating treaty with the
| despotic King of Persia, which places us on the
footing of the most favored nations. From time
to time we are treated to details of the prepare
tons Of the grand naval diplomatic expedition
of Commodore Perry, in search of fraterna re-
ations with the most despotic of all despotisms
past present, or future-the Empire of Japan
We shall never rest till we have exchanged pro-
fuse and fowery expressions of love and respect
with that ultima Thule Of pitiless tyranny.
What is the purpose of these distant ALI
ances, pursued so perseveringly, and through sc
many discouragements Simply to make safe
and to ADVANCE comparatively humble and ne
cessarily limited commercial interest. But Eu
rope-rhat Europe which not only supplies the
trade on which our government exists, but gives
us her art, science, literature, and all the bound
less riches of her civilization, is henceforth tc
be despised object in our diplomacy, and We
are to trife with cur peaceful relations with the
foremost of her governments at the beck of de
fented demagogues from abroad, and to afford
topics Of oratory for aspiring demagogues al
home!
lMPoRTANT ARRANGEMENT--Tbrou Tho
; exertion of Governor Paine, president Of the
Vermont central railroad, an arrangement has
been effected between the authorities in thu
United States and Canada, by which foreign
goods are allowed to pass over the railroads II
the United States under lock- and without the
Intervention of custom regulations, until they