Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-07
THE .DAILY"EIMES
PEACE AMONG THE NATIONS-THE|
GRAND POSITION AND DESTINY
or THESE UNITED STATES,

| millennium among the various nations and races
of men and animals inhabting the face OF the
earth, that happy epoch hen men shall beat their
'swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks, and shall cease the dirty work Of
cutting each others threats at the bidding of
| their masters. The transcendental philosophers
and spirit rappers of these latter days second
the motion of the prophet, and tell there is a
"good time coming" The universal peace So
ceties are exultant at the suspicious signs of the
| times.
| As in the days, the golden days Of King Solo
| mon and Augustus Caesar, there is a general
peace prevailing throughout the world, with
some trifling exceptions which shall pre-
sently recaptulate,) and gold is more plen.
| tifully supplied to New York and London than
it ever was, in all its glory, to Jerusalem or to
| Rome.
| We say that peace prevails in the four quar-
| tors of the globe. The revolutionary elements
\ of Europe appear to have utterly wasted their
energies in the disastrous convusions of 1S48 40
| The Continent is quiet even to extraordinary
| dunesss The emeute at Milan was suppressed
| in massacre-the Montenegrine war is ended
! the entente eordtake between England and Franco
has been restored by deputation of London
merchants to Louis Napoleon. Austria and Prussia
| are quiet as the strong hand of all.powerful
| despotsm can make them-Italy is parayzed,
and PROSTATE at the feet of Radetsky and the
Pope-Hungary is cut up into fragments every
thing IN the politics of the Contir ent is stale,
stupid, dull and heavy, excepting TIL interesting
negotiations pending between the gents of the
naughty Gear and the apparently ioomed, but
| courageous Sultan of Turkey. Thu much for
| Europe But for the enterprising ano indeatiga-
! BILE Nicholas, in pushing forward the Ango-Sax-
on idea of expansion and annexation the affairs
of the Continent would be like the Sluggish Bit
ter waters OF the Dead Sea- scarcely stirred into
| ripple by the passing winds.
In Asia there apears to exist the same gene
|
berating expedi IS of the British armies among
tina heather nations around them, and notwith-
standing the progress of those ludicrous revolu-
toDary movements in the midst of the Genital
Fowery Kingdom True, the Holy Land is still
the bone OF contention between Christians and
infidels, with some prospect in the future of the
revive Of the CFusades a small scale; and
there said to be rupture Matching between
the oIah of Persia and Queen Victoria, at the
| instigation of Russia; but, upon the WHOLE the
| condition Of Western Asia and the Far East is
| that of iuglorious, extraordinary, and monoto-
| nous peace.
! The affairs of Africa are exceedingly fiat. The
| progress making in the suppression of the slave
trade, and the quiet prosperity of Liberia, are
satisfactory evidences of the prevalence of prac
teal benevoleuce and humanity in that section;
| but the style in which her Britannia Majesty's
! Rife Rangers carrying the war into Afri
ca among the Kaffirs, and the adjacent black
the specous but hypocritical negro philanthropy
of the Duchess of Sutherland, the Stafford
House, and the House of Commons. But AL
| giers is finally reduced, Morocco is quoted,
Egypt is asleep, and The Cape of Good Hope is
| but the theatre of another Florida war. There
is but little stirring in the line of any special
! Importance or interest in Africa
The long extended continent of America, from
the Polar regions to Cape Horn, is just now, and
promises to be for thousand years to come, the
most interesting quarter of the globe. But
even here the universal epidemic of peace is
predominant. The fishery question, and the
! guano question, have been temporarily settled
latter little blowing and little tip-toeing,"
| like Sam Houston's description Of the misunder-
| standing between the two green turtles-and
without bloodshed, and without any material
loss of Goldfish red herring guano, on either
side. The Cuban filbusters appear to be COM
pletely cooled down; while Carvajal, the vagrant
| liberator of the Rio Grande is in limbo. The
late warlike proceedings in various parts of Cen
| trail America have been reduced to the arbitra- |
ton of peaceful diplomacy pro tenn. Over the
whole of belligerent South America-where Pre-
sdential elections, annually or semi-annually.
/ for quarter of century, have been carried at
the point of the bayonet there is pretty gene
raj peace excepting among the bloody factions of
| Buenos Ayres, and the remnants of the Argen-
| tine Confederation. Even in Mexico, where
peace since 1924 he's been but passing interval
| of few days between one revolution and ano-|
ther the work of mutual butchery has been byI
common consent suspended to welcome the re-
turn to power of the greatest butcher of them
all. very little speck of war hangs over theI
boundary dispute of New Mexico, but that, we
suppose will be accommodated without another
invasion.
Such are the prevailing peaceful relations now
subssting among the various nations of the four
quarters of the globe. And it is at this happy
conjuncture of events that the present admins
tration enters upon the business of our interna-
tional affairs Yet Gen. Pierce has compiled
ted, delicate and difficult line of operations be .
fore him. The curious, suspicious and crtlca
condition of things in Mexico, call at once for the
exercise of the closest vigilance, promptitude ane
sagacity TO circumvent the self evident designs
England France, and Spain; our first duty is tt
prevent Mexico from becoming dependency
any European power, or protectorate OF any
Holy Alliance. Our next duty is to secure from
Mexico such concessions by treaty as will guar
antee to her II support and protection agans
any outside encroachments upon her national III
dependence or her soil. And then there is tina
inexplcable catalogue of foreign entangement
to be righted, in which the last administrator
has involved us, bs.ween England and the State
| of Central America. That is another decat
piece of work, unless the best way OF uudoin
: this Gordian knot should be found by our Cab
net and Major Borlard to be to cut IT IN twain
AND there is every lSason 10 pIeulct tual tue ..
luton for Certral America will be to cut loos
from an aliauce of joint protection and neutral
r ty with England, and to set up IN deed and
= practice the lclg-neglected Monroe doctrine
Cuba we can trust to ''manifest destiny" bl
still we shall have to overcome, with patiencd
firmness. and ma snanimity, not only the pre)l
dices of Spain and the Spanierds, but the Jea
: ousies aud immediate interests of England an
9 France.
. . The spirit of the age, the character of Y
d American people, the tendencies of our instit'