The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1853-02-05

! President, however. has patiently submjtte
to these evils and has continued faithful
to give 10 Cuba the advantage Of tho.
principles Of the public law, and under tn
shelter Of which she has departed in hi
case IRON the comfy Of nations. But III,
incidents to which alluds, and which mr.,
shll In train, arc among many others which
point decisisely to the sxpediency of som,
chance in tho relations OF Cuba ; and m.
President thinks that the inhcanee OF Eng
land and France with Spain would be wei
employed in inducing her 30 to modify the
administration Of the government Of Cuba
a. to afford Tho means OF some prompt
remedy for the evils Of the kind alluded
to, which have done puch to increase the
spirit Of unlawful snterprixs against the
lsland.'
In order ~ Illustrate the transitorv char.
sctcr of such = convention a. that pro.
po'ed, Mr.. Everett: takes an interesting
ro It Of European and American ter.
,esuisiion.
comparative i'r'orv Of Europe
sna 'mr-'ca. even f' single century.
show. this !" 1852 Gng.and l'sncc,
and Spain, were not mate..... N fihcfonl IN
their political position in Europe from VIVA.
they now are. They were ancient, mature,
consolidated States, Established in their re-.
la,ions with each other and the rest of the
world-the leading powers Of Western and
Southern Europe. Totally different was
the state Of things in America. The United
States had no existence ~ a people. A
line Of English colonies. not numbering
much over million ofinhsbitants, stretched
along the coast France extended from
the Bay Of st. Lawrence to the Gulr OF
Mexico, and from the Alleghanies to the
Mississippi; beyond which, westward, the
continent was wilderness, occupied by
wandering savages, and suhjsct to con.
ilcting and nominal claim on the part o:
France aud Spain. Every thing in Europe
was comparatively fixed: every thing in
America provisional, incipient and tempo>
rary; except the law Of progress, which is
as organic and vital in the youth Of States
as of individual men. A struggle between
the provincial authorities Of England and
Frasce Tor the possession Of petty stock.
AIDE at the confluence Of the Monongahcla
and the Alleghapy. kindled the seven years
war; ut the close Of which tho great Eu>
ropoan powers not materially affected in
their relations at home, had undergone ~.
tonishng changes on this continent. France /
had disappeared from the map of America, |
whose inn,ost recesssG had been penetrated
ly her jealous missionaries and her reso.
lutte aud gallant adventurous England had
added the Cansdas to her transatlantic do.
miuions, Spain had become the mistress
of Louisiana; so that n tho language Of
the Archbishop Of Mexico in ITO. she
claimed Siberia a. the northern boundary
Of New Spain.
Twelve years only from the treaty Of
Paris elapsed. and .,other great change
took place, fruitful Of still greater changes
TO come Tho American revolution broke
out 1t involved England, France, and
SPAIN in tremendous struggle, and at its
close the United States Of America had |
taken their place in tho family Of nations.
Ia Europe the ancient States were restored I
substantially to their former equilibrium;
but new element Of incalcnlablo impor.
lance in reference W the territorial arrange
ments 10 henceforth to DO recognized in
America.
." Just twenty years from the close Of the I
war Of the American revolution, France,
by treaty with Spain. Of which the pro.
visions hav" never hecn dissolved possessed
herself Of Louisiana, but did so only to
ccde it to the United States; aud in the
same year Lewis and Clark started on their
expedition to plan, the flag of the United
States on the shores Of the Pacific. In 1919
Florida WAS sold by Spain to the United
States. whose territorial possessions in this
way had been increased three fold in halt "A
century. This las. acquisition was 90
much a matter OF course. that II had been
d,.tiuctly toresesn by the Count Arands,
Prime Minister u Spain. so long ago ~
1883.
Z" But even those momentous events, are
but the forerunners Of new territorial rsvo'
buttons still mere stupendous. dynasuc
struggle between the emperor Napoleon.
and Spain. commencing in ls0s, convuised
IN. Peninsula. The vast possessions OF
tho Spanish Crown on this contnent-vice
royalists and captain generalships Killing tho
space between California and CaPe Horn
one after another asserted their indePend>
euce. No friendly Power in Europe Al
Tint time was able. or il able. WAS willing
to suceor Spain. or aid her to prop III"
crumbling buttresssss Of her colonial en-
rire. So far from il, when France in s23,
threw an army Of 100000 men into SPAN