Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-29

The Morality OF Peace and Commerce
A few years ago. when the ultimatum OF nifty
four forty" was thought likely to bring about
war between the United States and England, MT
Elihu Burnett declared there would be no war,
for that the morality of peace had become estab-
lished in the minds of the people of both coun-
tries-that it was no longer the morality Of the
Bible alone, but the morality of the Legr also.
In speech made by Mr.. Abbot Lawrence, our
Minister at London, at the Lord Mayors dinner,
on Easter Monday, that gentleman, speaking for
the diplomatic corps, said:
deeply do we feel the prosperity which ex-
lists here, inasmuch as the countries we respec-
lively represent deeply interested in the pros
perity of the city of London. Cheers. Inc
glorious links of commerce have united us
speak now of all foreign countries hear In
bonds stronger than those that can DO made by
treaties and we desire, and hope, and believe,
that If we are agreed upon nothing else, we arc
agreed that it is for our moral and our material
interests that peace should be preserved not
only with all tho world but particularly with
Great Britan-[gr cheering land especially
with the heart of Great Britain-the city OF Lon
don. Loud cheers and laughter"
That peace is the true policy of the whole
world we do not doubt but we very much doubt
that the whole world will 80 understand it at any
very near epoch of time. The leger will not al
ways be uniform in its teachings. Between the
great nations of the earth it will often incucate
peace, but toward the untaught millions of India,
Africa, China, &c., it will for many years to come
teach little else than aggressive oppression and
devastating warfare.
The facilities nf accaas In the most distant
gions of the earth are increasing in a ratio far
greater than are the principles of justice, TRUTH
and religion; and while the most enlightened
Christians are far from the condition of order,
meekness, and forbearance, demanded by the
tenets of their faith the partition walls that have
separated US from the heather world are fast
crumbling to dust. Invading armies must perish
in Africa-the people Of China will deluge every
nation-the opulent splendor and superstitious'
immortality of japan will be exposed to the world.
The conflicts of nations may cease, but the
still more pernicious influences of the comming-
ling of races will be around us
The slavery of the African race in this country,
mourned and regretted by many of the purest
and best men of our land is to both parties in
terested in it infinitely superior to the condition
of society likely to arise from the causes to which
we point.
The assimilation of the people of the different
nations of the earth, who have met together in
the United States, has been perfect, and, instead
of deterioration, the most marked improvement
in the common stock is everywhere acknowledged.
But this cannot be the case where different races
unite in one community. 1t is within the expe-
rience of the present age that physical deteriora
ton is the sure result of this, with regard both
to the African and the Indian on this continent.
Nature has proclaimed her law in language too
plain to be inexperienced.
We must, therefore, witness the decline of the
human family through the causes we suggest, or
the constitution of society at large with the re-
cognition of several distinct gradations
1t is useless to declare these views chimerical.
The facts are before US. The human family is
approaching condition of fusion; and whether
the Christian religion, aided by the wisdom of
of science and all the lights it has fostered shall
prove ascendant, we can only know through its
own predictions. The wisdom, however, of those
who have been, and those who now are, among the
heathens of many climes teaching the religion
and morality of the Bible, and of all who have
aided them in their work, will be approved by the
whole family of man, when they who have scoffed
at or opposed them shall have been forgotten, or
shall be remembered only as the enemies of their
kind
In the meantime the morality of the leger viii
do much good so long as its light is borrowed
from the true fountain, but little good from any
thing inherent in itself. Yet may the com
merce Of the greatest nations Of the earth forever
flow in prosperity over oceans unstained by hu-
man gore yet may the GLORIOUS links of COM
merce still unite u.s." and our "moral and ma
terial interests" still bind us lin bonds stronger
than those that can be made by treatiesl'