Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-01-29

last year f17,4l3.564.
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EVeretl'S Letter.
The reply of Mr.. Everett the Secretary of State
to the Communications of the British and French
Minister'S Mr. Champion and NJ. Sartiges, inviting the
United States to enter into treaty with England and
France caiming desire intention to possess Gu
ba and guaranteeing that Island to Spain contains
many sentiments which we cordially endorse
In long and very frank and able letter he has review
ed the Cuba question: setting forth the disposition and
policy of the United States, the Importance of Cuba
in various respects. Mr. Everett refers to the
ton of Texas, and the with Mexico and he justi
ies both. He evidently belongs to the young Amer
ca class of politicians and believes in the manifest
Destiny" and progress Of the American institutions
No power short of Almighty, can stay the advancing
tide of national progress and liberty, which, this
hemisphere, already sheds the light Of joyful promise
Cuba and must long lift that beautiful Island,
and much other soil of the New World, from accused
bondage. Let England and France, and Spain, turn
their thoughts to propping their Empire in the Old
Word-they have no aid from the United States
to subugate the
| He says:
That convention, such is proposed, would be
transitory arrangement to be swept by the
irresistible tide OF affairs in country, is to the
apprehension OF the President obvious to require
labored argument, the project upon prnci-
piles applicable if at ALL to Europe, where information
al relations are in their basis of great antiquity, slow
y modified for the most part in the progress of time
and events and not applicable to America, which, but
lately waste, is filling up with immense rapdity, and
adjusting, natural principles its territorial relations
which on the first discovery of the continent, in
a good degree foruitous.
! The comparative history of Europe and America e.
ven for single century shows this. In 1852 France,
England, and Spain generally different in
their political condition in Europe from what they now
are They were ancient, mature, consolidated States,
estab shed in their relations with each other and the
rest OF the World the leading powers Of western and
southern Furore. Totally different was the state of
things in America. The United States had no exist
ence as people line O. English colonies not num-
boring over million Of inhab. fants stretched along
the coast-extending from the Bay 81 St Lawrence
to the Gulf of McKee, and from the Ale TO the
Mississippi, beyond which westward the conti ent was
occupied by wandering sayages and subject to con
iict and nominal claim on the part of France ant
Spain.
! Every thing in Europeans comparatively fxed-ev-
erything in America PROVISIONAL ncipent, and tempo
rary except the law of progress, which is organic
and vital in the youth of States of individual
A struggle between the provisional authorities of
France and England, for the possession of petty
stockade at the confluence of the Monongahela and
of which the great European powers, not materially
affected in their relations at home had undergone
tonishing changes this continent France had dis
appeared from the map of America whose Utmost re-
ceSses had been penetrated by her jealous missona-
ries, and her resolue and gallant adventures Eng
land had added Canadas to her transatlantic domin-
IONS Spain had become the mistress of Louisiana,
so that in the language Of the Archbishop of Mex-
co, in 1910, she claimed Siberia the Northern boun-
dairy of New Spain. Twelve years from the treaty
of Paris only elapsed and another great change took
place, fruitful of still greater changes to come
i The American revolution broke out. 1t involved
France, England and Spain in tremendous struggle,
and at its close the United States of America had Ia
ken, their place in the family of nations. In Europe
thencient states restored substantially to their
former equilibrium, but element of incalcula-
bic Importance in relation to the territorial arrange
ments, is henceorth to be recognised in America =
Just twenty years from the close of the American rev.
oution, France by treaty with Spain, of which the
provisions have never been disclosed possessed her.
selfof Louisiana, but did only cede it the u
nited States and in the same year Lewis and Clark
started on their expedition plant the flag of the u
nted States the shores of the Pacific 1879 Fler-
ida was sold by Spain to the United States whose ter
ritorial possessions in this way had been increased
three-fold in half century. This last acquisition
was much matter of course that il had been dis
tincty forseen by the Count Aranda then Prime Min
lister OF Spain, so long ago 1888 but even these
momentous events but the orerunners of new ter
ritorial revolutions still more stupendous
N
on and Spain, commencing in 1908 convuised the Pc
nnsua, the vast possessions of the Spanish crown on
this continent, viceroyalties and Captain Ceneral
ships, hlng the space between California and Cape
Horn One after another asserted their Independence
no friendly power in Europe that time was able. or
1t able, was willing, to succor Spain or aid her to
prop the crumbng buttresses of her colonial empire
so far from IT, when France in 1823 threw an army
OF hundred thousand men into Span to control her
domestic politics, England thought it necessary to
counteract the movement by recognising the ndepen-
dence OF the Spanish Provinces in America; in the
remarkable language of the distinguishes minister of
that day. In order to redress the balance of power in
Europe he called into existence new world west
somewhat overrating perhaps. the extent of the de-
rangementin the whole world and not doing full us
tce to the position of the United States in America
or their influence the fortunesof their sstekpub
4 lies on this continent. asis19 $50 ssts - =
Thus in sixty years from theaclese of the last re-
mains of her once imperial possessions on this CONT
nent the United States meantime, were by the acts of
peace and the heathfu progress of things, rayidIy
enlarging their domnions and consolidating Their
power. The great march Of events still went on.
Some Of the new Republics from the effect Of asniz