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IHE 1RUE fOLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
In his recent eloquent and most able speech in
the Senate, on the Central American Treaty
Mr.. Everett laid down some sound maxims OF
State policy, and suggested thoughts which may
well claim the attention of the citizens of the
United States.-The following extracts from
his speech will give the reader an idea of the
policy which he maintained:
The Senate will infer, from what have now
said that do not apprehend any disturbance of
the peaceful relations between this country and
Great Britain, in consequence of the state of
things in Central America. In the last speech
which had the honor to make in the House of
Representatives, pss eighteen years ago, ex-
pressed the opinion that there was no danger
of war between the United States and France,
with whom our friendly relations were Seriously
menaced in consequence of the delay of the
French Chambers to make an appropriation to
carry into effect Mr.. Rives' treaty of indemnity.
am not sorry, in raising my voice for the first
time as a member of the Senate, that it is for
the purpose Of expressing similar sentiments in
reference to Great Britain.
1t is not because either in this case or in that
l am Indifferent to the interest or the honor Of
my country. Far otherwise, sir; it is because
do not think they are in danger. l agree with
the distinguished Senator from Illinois Mr..
Douglas THAT England does not love US. In
the relations of countries which are governed
by Constitutions by Parliaments, and by Con-
crosses, there is no room for love or for hate, or
for any sentimental influence; enlightened re-
gard to the public interest is the only rule of ac-
ton. 1t is only under absolute governments,
under monarch who, like Louis XIV, can
say 81 am the State, that there is no room for
love or for hate. Between US and England ,and
the rest of the Constitutional Powers of Europe,
there is room only for the influence of the die
tates ofan enlightened regard to the public veal.
But this viii say, am persuaded at this time
that with ell parties in England mutually ben
efcial, peaceful intercourse with the United
States is considered cardinal principle of the
policy of the government; and think that on
our side toward England, and toward Europe,
we ought to consider mutually beneficial,
peaceful intercourse as a cardinal principle Of
our policy.
SIR in our views of the glorious future that
awaits the Union,we are apt to regard geograph-
ical extension as the measure and index Of our
couutry's progress. I 90 not deny the general
correctness of that impression. 1t is necessary
for the formation of the highest type of nation
al character that it should be formed and ex-
hibited upon a grand and extensive scale. 1t
cannot be developed within the bounds Of "a pet
graphical extension necessarially carries with
Though it does, perhaps, by mutual associa-
tion-that of collision with other powers. But,
sir, / think there is no fear, so far as geograph-
ical extension is necessary, that we shall, in the
natural progress of things, have as much of it,
and as rapidly as the best interest of the coun-
try admit or require. In the mean time, if we
wish a real, solid, substantial growth--a growth
which will not bring us into collision with for
eign Powers-we shall have it in twenty-five
years to our hearts content, not by the geo
graphical accession Of dead acres; not by he
purchase of Cuba, or by the partition of Mexi-
co, but by the simple, peaceful increase of our
population.
Sir, have you well considered that that mys-
terious law which was promulgated on the sixth
day of the Creation-"Be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth"-will, in twenty-five
years of peace and union-for it is all wrapped
up in that-aided by the foreign immigration,
give us another America of living men as large
as that which we now possess? Yes, sir, as far
as living men are concerned, besides replacing
the millions which will have passed off the
stage, it will give us all that the arm of Omnip
otence could give us, if it should call up from
the depths of the Pacific, and join to the I'm
ion another America as populous as ours. Ii
by any stroke of power or policy you could to-
morrow extend your jurisdiction from Hudson's
Bay to Cape Horn, and take in every State and
every Government, and all their population, it
would not give you a greater amount of popu
lation, including your own, than you will have
at the end of twenty-five years by the simple
law Of increase, aided by immigration from a
broad.
shall not live to see it. My children proba
bly, will The Senator from Illinois, in all hu
man probability, will live to see it, and there is
perhaps, no one more likely than he to impress
his views of public policy upon the mind of
those growing millions, and to receive from them
in return all the honors and trusts which CRATE
ful people can bestow upon those they respect
and love. Let me abjure him, then, to follow
the general impulses of his nature, and after
giving, like true patriot, his first affections to
his own country, to be willing to comprehend
all the other friendly countries of the earth
within the scope of liberal consideration, and
above all cultivate the spirit and arts OF peace
of peace.
Do not mistake me, however, sir l counsel
no pusillanimous doctrine of non-residence.-
Heaven forbid Providence has placed us be-
tween the two great world oceans, and we shall
always be maritime power of the first order.
Our commerce already visits every sea, and
wherever it floats it must be protected. Our
inland fro,t;ar Will oluovc ranrira