The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-15
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Ysnuud 10 US De oldftHHE hipustcitsin now uiu nap
men thai the Insagsner failed 10 be frightened by Mr.
Everett, Blu, the wing organ may pretend that the real
c.u,e of It's fright President Pierce is that he is not
controlled in his policy by "timd iorebodings Of evil
from territorial expansion" We know that this has
been The federal WING bugbear for fifty years past Yet
since the wbk Secretary of State announced the future
policy OF his party this respect thought that the old
whg horror OF territorial expansion had taken its place
among the other 'obsolete ideas" OF the wing party
which now lie scattered like the fragments OF great
wreck all along the through which the country
has advanced to prosperity and power. Reviewing the
..terroria expansion" OF country from 1900 down
to 1884, and surveying all our acquisitions during that
period, including Texas and California. Mr. Everett
says;
.These accessons of territory have probably caused no
unsssness to the great European powers, they have
been brought about by The operation OF natural causes and
without disturbance OF the international eaohs Of the
principal States They have been followed also, by great
increase mutually bens fetal commercial intercourse be-
tween the United States and Europe"
Speaking Of the successive territorial expansions
Mr. Everett in another passage OF the letter, thus
explicitly yndcaes their advantages, and refers them
emphatically to " the isw Of our political existence
..Without adver,ipg the divisions of opinion which
ro,e in reference this war; mnst always happen in
free countries reference great measures no person sur
viewing those with the OF comprehensive states
manship fail to trace in the main result the undouoed
operation OF the law OF our political existence The con-
.eouences are before the world. Vast Provinces which
had for three centuries under the eaden sway
or stationary system coming under the influences of
an active civilization Freedom OF speech and the press,
the trial BY Jury religious equality and representative gov
ernment have been carried by the constitution OF the
United States into extensive regions in which they were
unknown before"
Referring again to Cuba and speaking Of the Spanish
po.session Of the island. MIR. Everett says:
But can IL be expected 10 last very long! Can il resist
this mighty current in the fortunes OF the world Is de-
.r.he that il should do sol Can It be Tor the interest oil
"a cling 10 possession that only be maintained
bv garrison Of twenty-five or thirty thousand troops
p,weru naval force, and annual expenditure Tor both
arms service OF at least twelve millions OF dollars
rba at this costs more to Spain than the entire
.y.l nd military cstabshm OF the United States
the federal So far from being really injured
hv ha loss of this island. there is doubt that it
peacefully transferred TO the United States, prosperous
commerce between Cuba and Spain resulting from
Giant associations and common language and tastes
would be lar productive than the best conrved ys
tam If colonial taxation Such VIGOROUSLY has been
remltto Britain Of tho establishment OF the independ
ence Of the United States"
This, and much OF similar and stronger purport
"a IN. official language Of an administration which the
National Iateagnesr from first TO last has lauded and
sustained In the light Of it, how gatui,ousy and wan
,only absurd the which that journal affects
declarations OF General Pierce which it forced to Carl
cature before il can dare to condemn 1t is true,
indeed that President Fillmores administration had
unos this subject the merit Of self-contradicon Ii is
,rus that the Cuban policy Of the message was one
thing and the Cuban policy Of the Cuban letter quite
another thing But the Inisgsnesrs misfortune that
il accepted and approved them both 1t liked the tmid
forebodinrs Of evil from territorial expansion which
nd Ekadiu af yal tha
political philosophy which in the Cuban letter pro-
nounced that same territorial expansion unspeakabe ad
vantage 10 u and 10 the world and essential element
in the law OF political existence! The policy which was
wiss satesmanke and in the letter Of wing
Secretary OF State becomes TO the startled" Inteigener
fat fbustersm was committed, when announced
in the Inaugural of democratic President The
try will promptly form its judgment OF the force and
substance OF such political opposition this. The
President has made declaration, falsely charged
by the Inlssnesr OF his purpose TO acquire Cuba with
in the next four years But if he had done 30. and
If his administration in the OF contingencies which
no man can foresee, 10 be sgnazed by another OF
those grea, steps in the just and natural expansion Of
our territory. either The Atlantic or the Pacific eide.
which Mr. Everett has proclaimed as part OF the law
OF our political existence. not how the organ Of
wbg administration which has produced the Cuban let
Ter can without gross contradiction, affect TO be
scared al the probability Of such result.
One point more shall complete exposure for to-day
Of the whg organs mode Of assang the Presidents In
augural 1t will scarcely be credited that near three
quarters Of the Intigenesrs articles purporng to be
elaborate review OF the Presidents adl> is in fact de-
voted to the doctrine the phrase of msnfest destiny"
TO which the Presden, has not alluded, but which is
cited from editorial OF a newspaper published at
Rochester in the month OF December last, just three
months before the address was delivered We have
patiently exposed the Inhgeneers classification of the
Presidents meaning long il even pretended TO keep
the language OF the Inaugural in sight But when I'M
der pretsncs Of examining the Presidents declared pol
icy, the wing organ rushes of to Rochester to find
come new editorial manifestations" under date of De-
cember last. over which TO be frightened, we must
really decline to follow il. There puertcs which
1t Is idle 10 refute even TO castigate and az to
all the Rochester portion Of The InisHigeners TRADE
shall content ourselves with hoping that somebody
may be amused by it, For ourselves, we should have
supposed that utterly to mihepresent the Presidents
own declarations would have been enough to satisfy
the IntAigresr for day. The in,erpolaled para
graph from the Rochester journal was surely gratuou.
Blu, the poor trick will least have the effect of reveal
ing 10 the peope the methods by which the President
In announcing hs purpose I, maintain a, once the faith
the characler the interests and the rights Of the coun