The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-01-12

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tyity Of business. would, ere long, do their
work. and convert the population into zeal
Gus and patriotic Americans. AS to the
general subject Of annexation, / have no
new views TO disclose.
1t is pretty well known that l have a ca
pacious swallow for territory, though ! am
free to confess that / can wait a while pa
tiently, if necessary, and spend the time in
digestiRg our last acquisition. They sit
lightly upon the stomach, and promise TO
promote the heal.b Of the body polite to a
degree surprising the sanguine expectations
Of those who expected most from the meas
ure. And We cannot employ this interval Of
waiting better than by the adoption of wise
and efficient means to bind our recent acqui-
sitions to the rest of the confederaey by the
ties Of interest as well as of affection. And
il is my decided conviction that one Of the
most important messures-the most import
ant, indeed. for this governments the
construction SO far as our constitutional au-
thority permits of a railroad from some point
upon the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean
| say some point upon the Mississippi, for it
is perfectly Indifferent to me where it is, and
| trust the friends of this great object will
not fritter away their strength by mere local
questions of direction and termination. Let
those matters be settled by commissioners,
or in some other practical manner, but let us
bend our undivided force to the great work
itself. When completed, as it is sure to be,
it will bind this great Republic together lit
orally by bonds of iron, and by the still
stronger bonds of confidence and interest,
and San Francisco will be practically nearer
the seat of government than Savannah was at
the adoption of the constitution. We are
often asked by the timid and the cautious
where is to stop? That question
will not be answered in my day, and | leave
its solution to those upon whom may devolve
the duty and the responsibility of deciding
it. A general government to conduct the
external relations with foreign powers, and
to regulate the interior relations of the mem
bers of the Union, and State governments to
provide for the great objects of freedom and
security, and for the various political want
of the community, this American scheme of
political organization opens a wide field for
its operation-indeed, an almost boundless
one. 1t is certainly far easier to preserve
amicable relations between neighboring
States, acknowledging a federal head, with
the necessary provision for the peaceable
q adjustment of difficulties, than it would be
to preserve peace amongst them if indepen-
dent, when force and not reason must be the
arbiter of their disputes. But | repeat, sir,
that ! denounce any acquisition but an hon
est one. And we can look back with graft
fying pride to the course we have pursued
upon this subject, and safely challenge
comparison with that of any other nation,
and especially of that nation, which, in the
spirit of the Pharisee, arrogates to itself the
crown of self-righteousneSs above all the
other people of the earth. We have made
four acquisitions--two by peaceably pur-
chase-one by voluntary annexation, and
the forth by conquest in a just war, and by
the payment of a vast sum of money after
giving up a large portion of the enemy's
country which was in our possession.
And when did England-who boasts that
the sun never sets upon her dominions--
when did she acquire one foot of territory
but by the sword? And yet such is the in
consistency of human nature, that she is
ever Wanting her own moderation and ar
raigning our rapacity. John Bull belongs
to a curious species ofthe genus homo. He
cannot discover the beam in his own eye,
but he can look across the ocean, three thou
sand miles off, and discern the mote in JON
athan's eye, then announce it with self con-
graduation to the world. ON wicked pro,
'~pensity for acquisition has been with her a
~fayorite theme of reproof and reproach, and
very lately we have'ha some beautiful spe-
cimens of this spirit in the London papers.
The britannia says that American diplo-
NANCY requires only to be known to be de-
spised." american diplomacy and Amer
can d%uplicity are first cousins" ''There is
but one principle in American diplomacy
again" The London Sun, speaking of our
course, remarks that whenever the wolf
wants a colorado pretext for injustice, he can
readily find or make it," The London
Chronicle is not a whit behind its co-labor-
ers in this agreeable work Of national abuse.
1t says: "Such is the state of The case, which
illustrates the grasping character of the uni
versal Yankee nation" The very last ad-
vices from Eastern Asia have brought us a
striking commentary upon these aspersions
and upon English moderation and disinter-
estedness. Another of the native powers of
Hindostan has fallen before the march of a
t great commercial corporation, and its eight
or ten millions of people have gone to swell
, the immense congregation of the British sub
= jects in India. And what do you think was
the cause of this war which las Just ended
in the swallowing up the kingdum of Bur-
, nah? The whole history ofhuman contests,
o since the dispensing of the family Of man up
on the plains of Shinar, exhibits no such nd.
e tional provocation followed by such national
, punishment.
Political arithmetic contains no such sum
II as that which drove England to this unwel.
: come measure. Had we not the most irref-
y ragible evidence, we might well refuse ere
dencc to this story of real rap acit, Blu
the fact is indisputable, that England wen
to war with Burmah, and annihilated its pol
q iticai existence, for the ron-payment Of
disputed demand Of E99O. So says tn
y London Times, the authori tative e~xposito
y Of the opinions and policyof England. ''T'
VI appreciate" says that ~impersonation Of Brit
' ish feeling, correctly the character of thi
compulsory bargain, the reader must recol
lect That the sum originally demanded Of tn
P Burmese, for the indemnification of our inju
red merchants, was $3.50. and Lord Dal
pa housie's terms, even when the guns of GU
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