Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-25
STERLING SENTIMENTS.
PROM THE STANTON IVA aEssRsc,

Our DEsTIsY-WHAT is IT?-A strange infatuation
seeas to have seized upon the minds Of the people of this
country in regard to its manifest destiny The opinion
has obtained among the mass and spread itself through
the various ramcations Of society," that it is the des-
tiny Of this country to free oil the nations of the earth
The voice Of reason Of experience and Of history is
Needed and passion and fanatcsm go brawlng the
land.
Well, we are great people, no doubt about it, With
the germ of population in 1776 of three millions Of
souls spread comparatively small territory,
have grown to be great nation of twenty millions Of
people, occupying territory almost boundess in extent
And this in the short space Of sevenysevsn years
Was there before in the history Of the world growth
rapid History tells Of none and tradition stands
COMPOUNDED 1t has sprung up if by magic The tabled
Aaddin's lamp produced such wonders Like q
huge colossus, it rse& in majestic proportions before the
eyes of all nations and kndreds and tongues and by
thousands bids them and partake of freedoms
pitable banquet.
But great as it professionally is, free all
knowledge to be- is there danger? Is there fear
that by reckessness we plunge country and its
free institutions into utter and rretrievable ruin We
think there is Does the voice of history speak upon
this subject And what does it say? In deep mournfu
accents it speaks from the tomb of the past Beware
beware; thus far canst thou go, but farther" Like
produce like effects and all history abounds with
dom and integrity that has extended its dominion over SO
many diverse interests of reckless politicians
desire to embraced in the limits Of this Union EX-
tending from the st. Croix upon the north the
Rio Grande upon the SOUTH from the pnecad shores of
the great Atlantic upon the east to the goden-skired
banks Of the majestic Pacific upon the west it embraces
every variety of soil and climate every production that
can administer to the taste happiness of man, and
every element that go to make up powerful and in
dependent nation; yet before this wide domain" has
become half peOped before onetenth of its vast terri
tory has been subdued and rendered subservent to ue
have among those who, satisfied with what
they have, fly to that they know of-resless spirits
that would rather "rule in hell than In heaven
pratng all the while about manifest destiny as IL
they-yain men !-wieded the desinies of this great
country. flbustiers or Fiibusters, to have
the ren IN the councils Of our country and unless curb
ed in their mad by the rising of the great con-
Sentative element Of the land ship of state must be
stranded upon the shoals the whirlpool Of
recklessness
1t is not enough that are free and happy il is not
enough that yet have for expansion for thou
sand years Of peace; it is not enough that we have
home for the oppressed and downrodden Of all nations
who may desire to and live among us these things
are all as nothing manifest destiny" leads us to
desire more and more must have, despite of reason
judgment every thing Cuba must be annexed Mexico
must swing into the rear and Canada and the lands Of
old King Kamehameha must surrender the strides of
King Progress" Our trade demands il. Our tradei
Oh what time will have when all the world and the
crest Of mankind shall become Democratic and safely
housed under Uncle Sans egis and trade is unfet
tered But seriously have not enough do at homef
Have half developed the Of this favored
land Have educated our children provided for our
poor and removed the stumbling blocks from the paths
of felowbengs which thousands Of our kindred
have stumbled into untimely grave and n probable
he2 Have We bound country together in the strong
embraces Of ron Have fostered commerce and manu-
factures and made country in fact what it claim
ed to be- the greatest country in the wordY We opne
not But Cuba is in way; Mexico is in our way the
Hawaii are in our way; Canada and japan soon will be
in our way Oh what great fellow this Jonathan is to
be sure Stand out Of the way, ali ye nations and give
him ebowrooml You all stand in his way! The into
rests Of his trade demand that you should stand aside:
" manifest destiny" says, "Get out of the way"