Washington telegraph., 1853-05-11
"Peace has its Tr;umphs."

Ii War has its triumphs. SO has Peace This
iact was beautifully illustrated by Mr.. EVERETT.
in'the peroration of his speech in the Senate on
the Central American question In speaking of
the righteous sources of national aggrandize,nent
ms spirit klndled with fire that must have burii-
ed his patriotic lesson deep in the hearts of all
Who heard him:
In our views of the glorious future that awaits
our country said he. We are too apt perhaps 20
turn our thoughts to its geographical extension as
the measure and the index of progress. do not
deny the correctness of this idea, to certain ex-
tent as 1t IS necessary to the formation of the
highest qualities of national character, that they
should be exhibited upon grand extensive scale
They cannot be formed and exhibited within the
bounds OF petty State. Neither. sir. does this
idea of geographical extension necessarily carry
with 1t the idea OF collision with other powers
although it may, perhaps, by natural association.
suggest it. But think there need be no fear
that so far as geographical extension is NECESSARY
we shall not, III the natural order of things nave
as much Of it and as rapipy as the best interests
of the country VIII require or admit
I'm the meantime, if we wish real solid sub
stantlai growth-a growth which cannot by pos
sibility bring into collissisn with foreign pow
ers-we shall have it in twenty five years to our
hearts content; not by the geographical accession
of dead acres, not by the purchase of Cuba not
by the partition of Mexico, but by the simple,
peaceful increase, of ot.r population. Have YOU
considered, Mr. President, that this mysterious
law of nature, which promulgated in the
sixth day of creation Re fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth that this great law in
twenty-five years of peace and unlon-lor it is al-
wrapt up III that=3will give us, aided by foreign
emigration, another America of living men equal
to that which we now possess Yes. sir so far
as living men are concerned it will give us all
that the arm of Onnipotence could give us. if it
should call up from the depths of the Pacific and
join to our western border another America as
populous ours. And il. by any stroke of pow
policy. you could extend your jurisdiction
from HudsonS Bay to Cape Horn. and take into
the Union every State, every government, and
all their population it would not give greater
amount OF population, including your own than
you will have at the end of twenty-five years by
the simple law of increase, aided by immigration
from Europe.
Sir, shall not live to see it. Ny children NAV.
The Senator from Illinois, tMr. Douglass) in all
human probability will live to see it; and perhaps
no one is more likely than he, to impress his views
OF public policy upon It's growing millions and TO
receive from them in return all the honors and
trusts which a grateful people can bestow upon
those whom they respect and love Let me ad-
ure him then. sir to follow the generous impulses
OF his nature and after giving. ike true patriot
his first affections to his own country. let him be
willing to comprehend all the other friendly con-
tries OF the earth within the scope of his generous
consideration; and above ALL to cultivate the spirit
and the arts of Peace.
IT Is the opposite spirit-the spirit of military
aggrandizement and conquest. that has forged
those chains OF Europe which he has SO eloquent
" deplored. II is this that brought down Asia to
the dust in the morning Of the world and that has
kept her seated there IN sack-cloth and ashes ever
since. This blasted Greece. This distroyed the
liberties of Rome. It was not the foreign enemy
that laid his axe at the root of her freedom. 1t
was her pro-consuls, coming home from the sue
cessful wars of Asia Gorged with TIE gold of con-
-,
and of military conquest have done the same Tor
Europe, and viii they not do it If We indulge them
Let not the Senator think that suspect he wishes
to indulge them-yill they not do it for u.s. VIII
they not give us vast standing armies, overshaJ-
owing navies, colossal military establishments,
frigtltu expenditures, contracts, Jobs corruption.
which it makes the heart of patriot sick to con-
tenplatee How simple republican insti-
tutions. popular electionS-ouT annual or bien-
NAL choice OF those who are to rule over US in
stead OF rule of hereditary Succession, supported
by pretorian guards, how can they subsist under
Influences like these!
"Do not mistake. sir: counsel 10 pusillaninous
doctrine of non-resistanee. Heaven forbid. Pro-
violence has placed us between the two great world
oceans, and we shall always be maratme power
OF the first order. Our commerce already visits
every sea- and wherever it floats it must be pro-
tected. Our immense inland frontier viii always
require considerable army and ii should be kept
in the highest state of discipline The naval
school at Annapolis and the military school at
West Point ought to be the ioster children of the
Republic. Oar arsenals and our arnories ought
TO be kept filed with every weapon and niunition
of war, Every vulnerable point upon the coast
ought to be fortified. But while we act upon the
maxim. in peace prepare for war; let us also re-
member that the best preparation for war is peace.
This swells your numbers This augmentS your
means. This kRits the siuews of your strength.
This covers you all oSrer with panoply of might;
and, then, if must come IN just cause, no
foreign State--no sir. not all combined can send
forth an adversary that you need fear to encoun-
ter.i