Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-11
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS,

eflhlT Ot T6E MOkNlNG PRESS.
The National Intelligencer grieyes over
Pickwickian resolution adopted at
late Democratic meeting in Faneuil Hall,
Boston, wherein crude Democratic in
Stincts" led the Harmonious to make
ninnies ofthemselves by resolving in effect
that every body interested would be much
benefited by having the United States
take possession of all the North American
Continent, and its adjacent islands. The
editor thus reasons and chides over their
resolution in question:
60 We could almost wonder that the old
Cradle of Liberty did not topple ON the heads
of its occupants, or the ghosts of their revolu-
tionary fathers did not rise UP to rebuke them
for such an insult to one of the great princi-
Piles embodied in their own Declaration of
Rights, so ably asserted AMI maintained in
that time hOnOred temple, which was never
on any occasion to trespass on the rights of
others. 1t was upon that sacred principle
that our Government was administered. from
the moment of its inception down to the
period when 1T came to be regarded by Pres
1dent as = my Government" From that time
the principle began gradually to lose its innu-
enee, until a war of aggression upon a weak
and supposed helpless neighbor followed.
which gave such an impulse to the Democracy
as completed its destruction The natura!
rights OF man are now regarded as belonging
exclusively to - Young America" No other
people but those who can be classed under
some one or other of the various categories of
" democracy" are supposed to have any
rights at all, either of life Or property The
annoyanees' of our fishermen, whether
hny- e., 81
restrictions or not, must be removed the
slave trade On the Gulf of Mexico, which
washes the shores of three independent ma
lions, all having an equal right to its free
navigation. must be broken up; the difficult
ties and expense" Of settling boundaries must
be got rid Of; and to accomplish these purpo-
ses we must trample under foot the rights of
all nations which stand in the way. from
Behring's Straits to Panama But VIII IN this
shall be accomplished. will the metes and
boundaries of our dominion be any more
dlstnctlyely or permanently marked than thew
are now VIII the 1sthmus prove limit to
the spirit OF aggression and ACKNOWLEDGMENT?
acquisition does but increase the desire for
1urther acquisition. We should be no better
satisfied with the whole of North America
than we are now with the half of it, South
America must come along with it into our
clutches. and = all its adjacent islands, en-
braeing Oceanica within the western half of
the world How tempting prospect to the
instincts OF Democracyn' The empire of
ancient HOne was not circumstance to the
empire of the modern WASHINGTON : but we
trust that before all this shall happen the
name will be changed, that no such blot may
rest upon the pure fame of the Pater Patriq. ::
The onion is again upon Britain's in
trlGues to effect the abolition of slavery
IN Cuba; while the Sentinel gives the Adj.
mlnistration breathing spell for an in
slant, devoting most of its ''independent
support of the day to Mr.. William j.
Brown, of Indiana, whose paper recently
contained sharp paragraph against the
publisher Of that journal. To this end.
besides column of vehement ..inde.
pendent" editorial, our neighbor repub-
fishes from the official record so much Of
the proceedings of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, on the 18th of December, 1851
as reflects on Mr.. Brown personally.
The Sun discourSeS of the result of the
New York election, showing that, after
all, the only victories gained in it. are
Tor the cause of temperance in the choice
OF members of the Legislature, and for
the cause of reform in the affairs of the
Umpire city With many abjurations
concerning the depravity of New York
politicians of all hues, the editor con-
graduates the country on the fact that
IN their eagerness to get office, they
pledged themselves to the two good causes
above mentioned.
The Clipper republishes from the New
York Evangelist savage article against
the Catholics, headed "Roman Catholic
CONGRATULATIONS Deception.