New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-21


the President and his Cabinet. who give no sign OF
knowing the first principles of political econOnv that
no Annexation can benefit country until the rich lads
already in It's possession are fully cultivated, and that
il was the ignorance Of this fact ha, ed the ruin Of
every ancient Empire that suPernduced the ReToiu-
t.n Il 1898 and all It's that wrecked Napoleon
from the moment he began bis mad scheme in Egypt TO
which the Russian and Spanish tragedies we're but con-
tnu,ons, though the Historians, and al, treat OF
tLele last campaigns # they mistakes Oy them
.elTes, destroying previously profitable career
Tie growth Of Rome, which began by the ass3ssina-
ton Of every country it. "a, continued ,! the
same means Eternally st war, eternay menactng the
rect Of the world, l was but one great camp. De
Lome ohsrscterzes Roman patriotism ne spirit Of
oppression sid murder Soon Cncinnstus ceased TO
own few acres and the fgs; ended, return 10 the
plov The great Pstrican, wi,h sometimes four hun
drtd slaves under bis domestic roof; these four hun
dred al white men above earicarure in color form, or
BRAIN were erucftd al one time for the single sOcaed
crime Of one of them. Such were the inevitable re-
cults of the Roman policy.
We thought the popular tragedy Of The Gladiator
had rendered this country sufficient! familiar VIII tue
horrors of Roman Military rule to prevent militia
General rising public and as the adviser OF the Pres
den Of tie United States eleysting antique policy IS
alone worthy Of national imitation. country whose
laws were so horribly cruel that crucifxon for theft
vas common: thst was so immeasuraby, so IN
comprehensiby brutal as to drive white slaves
20 despair and on their rebellion cruelty
ten thousand in a row on the APpisn Way
that in war knew neither generosity, nor courtesy nor
remorse uOr magnanmity that RACED Carthage alike
with Jerusalem putting the Inhabitants 70 the sword
whose Consul. Mummius. was ignorant, that when
the Athenan porters despoing at bis order the
matches temples Of their immortal treasures said that
if they broke tie statues they should make others-this
is elevated in the nineteenth century az all-nimabe
by one who claims 10 speak With and for the President
and 10 represt Ut the American People in its highest ca
pacityi How was it with old Rome ?" exclairns the
bully mita-man Gushing "She went on anne1Ing,
according to the law of her existence, and so long as
she proceeded in the application of that law Of her ex-
"istence. 10 earthly power could withstand her pro
Tess"
Facts false General Cushing as your doctrine. She
rotted from the time she began to annex agressivey
with the sword Lsbor-yes, labOr-the very heart of
the nation ceased to throb in any force or dignity
The plow even ceased 10 be respectable. Not only
the coarser arts filed by men bought and sold like
brute beasts but artists OF genius, were put up
in the shambles and sold as hogs and horses. Yes
G,Heral Gushing, the very men whose work you came
to see at New-York would have been sOld so mana
eled crushed and crucifed, had they lived under
the Roman Military rule which you so exalted in your
Newark speech, and which exactly harmonzes with
your subsequent blood eAeryescence.
Rome, General Gushing, never attained to the power
assumed for her BY the drum and fife literature OF Gul
cot in bis History of Civilization. She was rotten
to the core at the time Of Marus and Scya and de-
clntd thereafter. She lived more and more on the
labor Of slaves The TODD of her people became worse
and worse The standard Of wages steadily declined
The quality of agriculture under slave labor regularly
witbered up as Cincinnati ceased guide their plows
The Old comedies precisely represent the starvation OF
the slaves Nero, who Just previous to his DEATH es-
capped from Rome and fed ten miles into the country,
suffered desperate hunger before he could touch the
black bread the sole food Of the slaves upon socon-
.idered magnificent patrican es'ate. Tne raoole oil
Rome we're led by gained by anne1a'ons in Sicily,
Egypt and the Archipelago. Some two hundred thou
sand ruffiaDs Of this kind eloatng ever the death
struggles of eladlators, in the huge numbering oil
the CoiseuIn--in ecstaces as the tragedies IN
that execrabe arena grew thicker with the map OF hell
on their faces they dragged in th gore and beast
Illness at the heels Of some patrican Anaexatoalst,
rich with the plumber Of foreign natlons-these were
fed out Of the public purse the distant corn aud general
seones Of whole peoples Il is this bloody BRITISH
internal system that General Caleb Cushing in bis most
prominent capacity. holds up to the admiration AMI
imitation OF the working American people /, IL THIS
which be finds parallel with our Own career-with the
Purans, Qualers Huguenots Catholics, WHO came TO
these desoate shores nhab.tedb By handful tsa'ages
dEaifed each year more and more by their nternecoe
Wsrs - whose lives were passed between en-layIng
and scaping men Il is this crimson iinpeflai
history of old which he ikens TO the conquest Of ao
original nature in this cOuntry-with our roads made
for individual men, working and producing and Free
and Lot for consolidated masses Of armed soldiers
living on the forced abOrs Of Roman and Stranger
alike and carving desolatOn and havoc IN their tram
1t is this compost Of all the heather forms blending
warrior and priest into one-adoptDg with the laugh OF
Mephistophles all the wild orgies of foreign fana'icsm
provided the victim yielded money, men aud coIn-that
General Cushing places in comparison with the gehlal
and Lalcwed religious philosophy Of this country when
allows each man to practice his faith Individually WITH
cut conditions. and teaches peace and goodwill among
meni
We sincerely wish that the Administration Of Mr.
Pierce may be honorable 70 himself ard useful 20 the
country We would. therefore, mplOre him 20 dismiss
from biz councils those whose sangnsry aud athelstc
doctrines would if carried out reduce his country 70
rank of aggressive barbsrism 10 be followed in time BY