Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-23
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appeals of bleeding Europe, poured forth IN tones
81, cb as the worldwill never hear again. We do
moi offer reiterate those efforts; what they could
not accomplish is upon that field, beyondth the sphere
of human powers. M,
fact is loo clear for us TO be unperceived and we
dsdain to shrink from its acknowledgment. But
with men in whom purpose has become absorb
ing one failure is but harvest OF experience Tor
future efforts. We have searched the causes OF
defeat, 10 make them means of victory /; and we
have found them.
Yout sympathies were chilled a. the outset by
want of uniform, settled, and tangible purpose
in the action of the European republicans WIN
whom you were asked to cooperate. The hope
less confusion of jarrng interests, the din of dis
cordant traditions, and the clans OF warning theo
RES presented contrast TO the calm starry, feVo
buttons of your political system, winch could not
but repel you. .re-s
There was another obstacle, for which we have
been disposed to blame You; unjustly, as more
mature reflection has convinced u.s. The pursuit
Of happiness is recognized as the legitma!e pui-
pose of an American. Wealth IS the material eie-
ment of happiness and the American pursues
wealth as such. The proofs are abundant that he
is ever ready to apply that wealth to the attainment
of the worthier objects of life and the welfare OF
his species but the objects SO favored must De
those leeitimaely within the sphere OF his purpo-
sec those which. interviewer and combined form
a unity of his aims and objects. In his giving and
his taking, his unity of purpose IS never iorgotten
Political purposes, above all Others are the IeClp
tents of your endowments; but to be SO, they
must fall within the sphere OF your political SYM
pathies; and the political synpdthies Of america,
are confined to the mission Of the American feput-
lie.
/ II we have been disposed to make this cause
-. No.
could not rightfully ask you to transfer your sym
pathies 10 the far lis ant steppes of the Thesis and
the Danube so long we had not reared the bridge
on which the American mind could easily traverse
the void between. Your destiny is vast enough,
and comprehensive enough for the energies OF any
people. We do not require you TO go beyond 1t
But we do ask are entitled TO ask, that you
should embrace your whole mission, and iulhl II.
What is the mission of the American Union!
In the year 1887 thirteen free States upon TINS
continent found themselves suffering Tor want Oh
u common commercial legislation, united posi-
office, equal coins, weights and measures UNI
form copyright and patent law, security against
national bankruptcy, an lrrevocable Alliance iof
peace and war, the abolition oil hereditary othces
and standing armies The eXtradltlon OF CRIMINALS,
the eventual recognition of matters OF record, q
suitable guarantee of republican institutions. II
was then that Alexander Hamilton told them that
it was left for the people OF these States 10 decide
whether governments were destined forever to be
the results of force and accident, or whether mt II
were capable of forming States upon reflection
and choice.
They executed the task; and at the head of their
labors they inscribed the motto Il pluribus unuln
They say that as the ends of government are COM
mon to humanity should there lie unity oil gov
eminent among men to obtain these ends; they saw
that a multiplicity of sales dividing society, which
is single whole, is the result OF imperfect civ-
zaon and that it is the task OF rational progress 10
displace il by unity OF the state.
nd
vanced unconsciously ut times, but ever TreSiSti-
bly,. In the acquisition oil LOUISIANA the ather oil
our INDEPENDENCE was compelled TO set his seal
upon it. Texas and California followed the same
inevitable bent. Cuba aud Canada are conscious
of the impending necessity. In Mexico we observe
the formation OF ecclesiastical party DESTROYS OF
annexation to the Holy Alliance, and similar or
ganZat.on, eager 10 obtain admission INTO the
American Union. Even the Islands OF the Pacllc,
in the awakening dawn Of their political life,
manifest the same attractions. "The continent is
ours" is fast becoming ecognlzed principle oil
our policy.
But what has principle to do with continents
Principles are universal.
America is now more intricately connected with
the European world, than were, at the time oil the
formation of the Union the Amencan States among
themselves. The lightning Is not yet the connect
ing medium of thoughts but already the number
of letters forwarded between the divided worlds has
become incredible. Postal arrangements have
scarcely time TO be ratified, before new ones are
necessary. The commercial relations are becoming
more and more complicated, the rval products are
driving each other from the market. The ciashns
laws of copyright and tpatents are becoming more
and more IN just in their operation, the inpuni-
ty of criminals is growing more fragrant and more
dangerous from day to day. The emigration oil n
few short years is equal to the population OF all
the states that formed the Union. Every laboring
family in Germane Europe Is represented III Amer
lea. .s .f.
ALL TIE CLASSES OF EUROPE THAT SUFFER FROM
TIE PAST AND PRESENT HAVE SET THEIR HOPES OF
TIE FUTURE on AMERICA.
Kossuth was their great plenpotentary.
1t is becoming daily more apparent, that the
monarchs, having learned to look upon trade us a
conductor of ideas, resolved to close the terri-
tory they cucumber against American trade. The
internal commerce OF America exceeds the external
by proportion which hardly leaves to the latter
figure in the scale. Yet the European states are
inhabited by n people infinitely more numerous,
more Scantily supplied, and equally willing II able
to return labor for merchandise, with any in the
Western continent. The whole enormous differ
ence is n tax upon our industry, 10 which America
submits without representation. a.,rg.a IT, d.
The political lnsfortuneS of Europe exert coll
tinental influence upon her commercial situation;
her commercial situation reacts upon ours.
Our BROKERS ARE ABLE TO MEASURE THE PER :
cExrAGE OF EUROPEAN OPPRESSION, AND OF AMER
IcAN SUBSECTION.
American prosperity demands The disenthralment
of European trade; American liberty requires the
liberation of our European brethern; the American
Union demands its extension over the States of
Europe. The time has come for the strange dlyice
"E Pim-iLus Unum,' to cross the Atlantic.
We call for the spread of American liberty. 1t
NAV succeed without the cost of American blood or
treasure. But thanks be to the God of battles, it
is more likely, that, Greece had her Trojan war,
which transformed her from fishing coast, into
the light of civilization, the Crusades OF Wcs-
tern Europe, woke her from the night of ages, so
America will have her lliad and her crusade to
achieve her place among the nations, as the focus
of humanity. A war for the spread OF our insiitu-
tions is not war of conquest; for, the spirit of
governments the principle of self government, or
rather, OF government, its extension involves
not the introduction, but the abrogation of force
and violence its purpose is to restore the sovereign
ty of the individual by removing the shackles a.
gainst which he is YainlY struggling. - =