Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-03-18
National Dangers.


Washington in his Farewell Address, i'm
pressively warns his countrymen, against the
"insidio1ts wiles Of foreign influence,
intrigues and underground agencies by which
the despotic powers of the Old World, will
necessarily seek to guide the policy and CON-
troll the destiny of this great Republic. Like
all the counscls of that great man, this advice
has permanent and undecaying worth; and
there never was time when it better de-
served attention than tile present. The des-
potisms of Europe have an abiding hatred of
the United States. The influence Of Repub-
licanism, rs it is presented to the world in
the Constitution and character of the Amer
lean Union, must always be hostile to the
very cXstcuce of those Governments in
which the people have no voice and no rights.
There is not one such Governmentin Europe,
which is not growing weaker every year, in
consequence of our example. Thousands
and hundreds of thousands of their subjects
are annually quitting their shores, and bccom-
ing citizens Of this free Republic. Their
people are constantly taught by our institu-
tions and our career, the essential fasehood
Of the systems of Government, under which
they nre living; and the real strength Of
those Governments, the loyalty of their SUBJ
jccts, is gradually wasting away.
That this process will be suffered TO go on
without resistance by the dominant despots
of Europe, is not to be supposed. They will
Go everything in their power TO countcract
and nulIify the natural influence Of the Uni
ted States upnn their people and their policy.
They will seek, by all possible means. to en-
list our national representation abroad upon
their side, and where this cannot be done. to
deprive it of ali Republican activity. They
will infusc into the minds of American agents
their own views Of order and their own dread
of liberal movements. They will seek 10
instil into them The same dread Of the pco-
plc,-the same fears of democratic tendcn
cics,-thc same fevcrsh terror ut republican
aspirations on the part OF the people Of
Europe which they themselves feel or frisn.
That these "insiiious wics of foreign in
flucncc," against which Washington so cm-
phatically warned his people, are steadily
praciiscd. passing events afford abundant
proof They can be traced in the diplomatic
correspondence Of our Government, and in
the movements of American agents and Off
eeI5 duloiiu. AHct C''H ue 'Ci' ~ viz .e'oit
maneuvrcs of foreign agents among us, and
in the steady and incessant cndcavors 10 re-
sist all sympathy with the liberal movements
in Europe What diplomatic agents of this
Republic make themselves willing tools Of
foreign dcspoiism,-whcn the whms OF
French pretet outweigh al the duties Of hos.
pitality,-whcn American officers in naval
uniform are afraid to listen to cheers to the
American flag from the people in n foreign
portland when III iIustrious victim of des-
potic hatred meets in Americans, sent to re-
lease him. jealous jaorship, more in!ocrant
than that of the Turk, we may well bcthink
us Of Washington's warnings, and beware of
the insidious wilcs' against which he en-
hor'cd us to he on our guard.-Ncw York
Weekly Times.