Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-05

That the reader may see that these are
no idle words concerning Mr.. Everett's
views, we quote his eloquent and popular
Cuba despatch of December LIST, 1852, as
follows, viz:
"The United States on the other hand.
would, by the proposed convention disable
themselves from making IN acquisition which
might take place without any disturbance of
existing foreign relations, and IN tie natural
order Of things. aaf r... tsa
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"Thus, in sixty years from the close of the
scVen-years war, Spain, like France, had lost
the last remains of her once imperial posses
sions on this contenent The United States,
healthful progress of things, raptdty entarg-
ing their DIMENSIONS and consolidating their
pOver. - ~.
: 1.-The great march of events still went on.
H* 91* At last the annexation
took place As domestic question. it is no
fit subject for comment in a communication to
foreign minister as question: Of public
lar, there nerer scas an extension of terrific
ry more matnrattv or jnsttfabiy nnaote
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"Without adverting to the divisions of opin-
ion which arose in reference to this war, as
must always happen in free countries in ref
erence to great measures, no person surveying
these events with tie eye Of q comprehensive
craftsmanship can fail to trace IN tire main
result the unaoubted operation of tie lasc Of
oar political eylstence. THE consequences are
before tie world. Vast proutnces. whtch had
kangafshed for three centuries n1lder tie tead-
en- s1raY of q stationary system, are coming
qtu1ler tile Influences O. an 0ctire etrtlteatton.
Freedom of speech and the press the trial by
jury, religious equality. and representatives
government, have been carried by the Consti-
tuition of the United States in extensive re-
gions in which they were unknown before.
X II
aBut, whatever may be thought of these
last suggestions. it would seem impossible for
any one who reflects upon the events glanced
at in this note TO mistake tile lar of american
gro,rth and progTess, or think it can be ulti-
mately arrested by convention like that pro-
wonld be as eaSy to throav a dam from Cane
Eortafa to Cnba, az tie hope Of stopping tie
HOw Of the .gnlt-stream, as to attempt by
compact like this, to fix the fortunes of Cuba
: now and for hereafter or, as expressed in
the French text of the convention, for the
present as for the future pour lie present
CONNIE pour Parentr) that is, for all coming
time X
We continue to quote Mr.. Everett's
more recent progressive demonstrations
which are SO strictly in keeping with
those of General Gushing in every essen
tial point. Thus, hear him on the 18th
ulto., prophecying in Faneuil Hall, when
discussing our country's future, as fol-
lows, viz
"Behold them dilating with the grandeur
of the position, radiant in the prospective
glories of their career, much cheering, cast
ing abroad the germs OF future independent
States, destined, and at no distant day. not
merely to cover the face of the thirteen British
colonies, but to spread over the territories of
France and Spain ON this continent; over
Florida and Louisiana !; over New Mexico and
California beyond the Mississippi, beyond
the Rocky Mountains, to unite the Atlantic
and the Pacific oceans, the Arctic and the
Torrid zones in one great network of con-
federate republican government. COntem-
plate this, and you will acknowledge the men
of seventy six to have been the boldest men OF
progress that the world has ever seen. En-
thusiastc cheers
LET US reverence them as they reverenced
their predecessors-not seeking to build up
the future on the ruins of all that had gone
before, nor yet to bind down the living,
breathing, burning present to the Wondering
relics or 'c I'D past, cheers but deducing
inc RUE o, OF oola and safe n-- &C.,, ~
IGreat applause X
I'VE have TO foreign yoke to throw off, but,
in the discharge of the d~tyderoircd npom rs
By Providence, we have to carry the repubi-
can independence which our fathers achieved
with all the organized institutions of an en-
lightened neutrality-suspicious. ofreligion,
law, educa alton, charity art, and all the thou
sand graees of the highest cuIturc-beyond
the Missouri, beyond the Sierra Nevada per
haps in time around the circuit of the An
titles; perhaps to the Archipelagoes of the
Central Pacific. Great cheering .,
But We have him still again, when
worshipping, but yesterday, at the Ply
mouth blarney-stone; saying of our coun-
try's progress u.
But the work is in its infancy. It must
extend throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and what is not done directly by
ourselves, must be done by other governments
and other races, by the light Of our example.
The wOrk-the work must 60 on. 1t must
reach at the north, to the enchanted cave of
the magnet, within never melting barriers Of
Arctic ice 1T must bow to the lord of day
on the altar-peak Of Chimborazo 1T must
look up and worship the southern cross. From
the easternmost cliff ON the Atlantic, that
bushes in the dwindling dawn, to the last
promontory on the Pacific, which catches the
parting kiss of the settsng sun, it must make
the out goings of the morning and the even
ing to rejoice, in the gladstone light of morals
and letters, and arts
Now, where is the man with his faith
pinned to the elegant and accomplished
Mr.. Everett, who can hereafter open his
lips against the views of the emphatic,
vigorous, effective, learned and equally
eloquent Gushing in the same connection.
We may tomorrow discuss, as briefly
as possible, recent speech of Governor