The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-12
For the Southern Press.
Relies Of Scraps and Musings.

Relies Of Scraps and Musings.
No. 81.
THE REUNION OF THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER"
Methinks | see the early dawnings of deep
laid plan of intervention on the part OF the.
United States, in behalf of England, in the event
of her Internal safety, or mara:ime supremacy
being placed in jeopardy by combination Of
the continental powers of Europe 1t is EVIL
dent that great apprehensions are entertained in
England, and that being left without friends Or
allies in the old world, she is beginning to
look elsewhere. The despotic old mother, who
first drove her offspring to rebellion by
her oppression, and who has ever since consid-
cred them disgrace to the family, is now striv-
ing by interested wheedngs, and hollow pre-
tensions of eternal regard, to revive those
flial feelings which she herself extingushed by
her own conduct towards her offspring, whom
she ut first neglected, then oppressed, and final
! ly warred against, because they would not sub
nit to her expressions.
! Whether this idea of a reunion of the mother
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es of Mr. WALKER, which were received with
grateful applause in England is of no conse-
quence. 1t has been extensively propagated
by the intervention of Mr.. Kossuth in our do
nestle affairs; and have noticed that more
than one of the sternest opponents of interier
ence in behalf of any other European nation,
make an exception in favor of England. The
ball has thus been set rolling, and will probably
gather momentum and velocity, without the
aid of Colonel BENTON, who is as great ball
roller, as certain indefatigable insect, which
Gouvernieur Morris pronounced the only indus
trious animal in Virginia.
In this age of temperance excitements, Abo-
lition excitements, Hungarian excitements, and
rights of women excitcments, nothing is so easy
as to start balloon inflated with gas, especial
ly if it can in any way connect itself with pol
itics ard President making. 1t is, therefore
Just as likely as not, that an excitement may ere
dong be got up in behalf of the liberties of Eng
land, in the event of an invasion of that country
(free country, where some nineteen twentieth
of the people are excluded from the right of suf
frage) and that the United States will be called
on to intervene in her behalf in defence of the
| liberties of mankind, but most especially on tn.
ground that she is the great buwark of Christ
ianity, as clearly appears from her anipathy tt
popes and cardinals, because one wears triple
crown, the other a red hat
Now, should this great concert of action take
place-as have scarcely doubt that it will bt
attempted--should England be hard pressed by q
coalition of the continental powers, it is clear
that the United States must play second fiddle
in the duetto. England would sound the key
note, beat time, select the music, and lead thu
band. The policy of the United States woult
inevitably become subservient to that of Eng
land, and, it seems to me, that they are old
enough, and have had sufficient practice to
become leaders themselves. They don't want
England to teach them their gamut, either as
respects their duties to themselves or to other
nations. The United States stand first in the
| New World, and should be second nowhere
They must be principals, not auxaries; they
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hunting of the jackal and the lion.
Besides, England is not now, never was, and
never will be, our friend. AT this very moment,
while making indirect overtures for cooperation
to check intervention in one quarter, she is
prosecuting a system of Intervention in another
directly menacing the great interests of tn.
United States in Mexico, Honduras, and Mica.
ragua. She has, with perverse ntrepidity
almost without parallel, attempted to convert q
distinct, plain, and incontestible REIMBURSEMENT
of the protectorate of the Musquitos, on Lei
| part, into an acknowledgment of its Legitimacy
on the part of the United States; and thus tc
people, of an utter incapacity to comprehend
the plainest words Of their own mother tongue
BY this barefaced perversion of languages, sh,
still clings to her usurpations in Central Ame
RIGA, under pretended claim derived from tn,
old buccaneers; retains possession of the only
practicable outlet Of an inter. oceanic canal OF
the Caribbean sea; levies duties justly apper
tanning to the State of Nicaragua, in the name
VI nei H'uslioua PioteBee, anu ies into ~
American steamer for not paying them. AL
this time-as if dealing with children and fools
she has the effron'ery to attempt to cajole
the people of the United States with hollow
professions of fraterna and paternal regard, in
order to catch the gull by sprinkling fresh
salt on his tail, and calling him cousin. The
| d. take such cozening"
GEoRGIA BoNDs.--The Legislature Of Georgia
at its last session, appropriated S725,000 to the
reconstruction and equipment of the State Rail
way, extending from ATLANTA, the terminus of the
Charleston and Savannah roads, to Chattanooga,
in Tennessee. or this amount Governor Cobb
sold 100000 in bonds payable in Georgia, re-
deemabe in ten years at the option of the State.