Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-02-23

pThat our readers may have the views of diff
ferent presses of the country, we copy the follow
ing on our foreign policy, from the Philadelphia
Register:
e. Our Foreign Policy.
What should be the policy Of the United States
in relation to the great questions pending between
England and the Continental poweIs2
Our destiny pointed out by nature herself-na-
neSt from the fertility of our soil, the extent of
our territory. stretching from ocean to ocean, the
long sweep of our coasts, the grandeur of our ry-
ers and inland seas, and the excellence and num-
Der OF our harboS-he great maritime pOIorr of the
world. We are already one of the greatest, ow-
ing to the natural advantages of the country and
despite of varying policy which has twice Grip
pied our national marine. Our shipping has stea-
dly increased against all the efforts OF the cotton
interest to crush it by admitting the free competi
ton of foreign bottoms. 1t will increase, even
should Congress, in an access OF folly, adopt the
proposition of Mr.. Toombs, OF Georgia, to admit
foreign vessels to compete with us In our own coast
trade. The same force-the necessity of position
which has made Philadelphia the great manu-
featuring town of the Union will make our coun-
try the mistress of the seas. God seems to have
given us the sublime mission of first controlling
the world by our commerce aid arts, and then re-
generating it by the realization every where OF the
life giving doctrines of liberty and human broth
erhood.
Two obstacles lie in the way of our fulflment
of this divine mission; the demands of the cotton
interest and the nauai supremacy Of England
The cotton interest, directed as it is by about
two hundred thousand persons, whose riches and
refinement make them social aristocracy, Is for
midable by its compactness and activity. Relying
on peculiar labor system, which will not bear
discussion, they seek TO protect by erecting each
State into separate nation and inventing the doc
trine of on-intervention or Stntes Rights. BY
this doctrine, instead of being great nation, Civ
ing law to the action of the world, protecting ey-
erywhere the cause of popular freedom, encour.
aging the aspirations of humanity after higher
civilization and nober life, opening the seas tie
weak as well as the strong, harmonizing interna-
tonal relations according to Justice and Right
instead of all this, we cut up into thirty-one
nations, differing from each other in interests laws
manners and customs. embittered with sectional
jealouSies, and squabbling about petty questions;
even our high mission is doubted, and we go crawl
ing on ignobly withou faces in the dust. But
we are happy to believe that this obstacle is but
temporary: the old-fashioned cotton interest, with
its bulwarks of state-rights. monopoly of official
position, free trade for Others and protection for it
self, sectional fuedS and skepliciSm as to human
rights is fast passing away. In quarter of cen-
fury it will be known only frightful SoleiSm in
past history; and the fertile South will be the
seat of agricultural, manufacturing and mechani-
cal industry and the home of happy frcemen.
The second obstacle is the moral supremacy of
England. All the fuStan and ranting of grog- shop
patriots cannot change the fact that are vast
ly inferior to England OH the high seas. In sin
gle handed contest, she would leave us without
SAIL or sailor. her exercise oil the night OF search
gives her advantage it would be folly to under
value. Under the flimsy pretext of philanthropy,
she exercises what she calls the Fright of search
on every vessel in the tropical regions. Merchant
ships hailed by an English man of war, strike sail
and haul to at once. This submission to despo-
tism on the ocean has grown into custom. Shall
England choose 10 appropriate all our merchant
ships and their rich cargoes, sealed instructions
from the admiralty, to be opened on stated day
by all the captains in the navy would do the work.
Vessels hailed would lie to. The English ships
would not even have the trouble of chase!
England knows that sooner later, a contest is
inevitable between us and is preparing for it. She
has already forced from our trembln. law givers
the best part of the Oregon coast; and her most
able diplomatiStS are employed either to counter
act our plans cajole into concessions. Her
lntrigues thwart us everywhere; she battles and
delays us in efforts to secure route across the
lSthmus of Darieu; establishes herself nsidiously
at all the best commercial points in South Amenca;
and leagues herself with other nations to defeat
our acquisition of Cuba. Her professions of friend
ship are hollow. She eStermS us only as we buy
her manufactures or contribute to her prosperity.
Cancellation is impossible, for the whole English
system, social and poll ical, depends on her mari
time deSpotism and monopoly of universal trade.
Establish the freedom of the and equality of
trade privileges, and England withers away like
fruit cropped from the juice giving vine. There
is not room enough for her and US. The interests
of the worlds future demands her Distinction
Anglia delenda est should be the motto of our TO-
reign policy.