The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-24
Translated from the Steele of Oct. 4.
The Unified States and EurOuc.

There is party IN the United states, SILL pow
erfu, though it has lost much of its power, which
holds for doctrine that isolation, abstenton and inn
FEASIBILITY ought to be the mmutable basis of Amer
lean policy all questions in which the interests of
the Union are not directly affected by the acts of the
governments of the old world. This policy being
indefensible by any arguments drawn from reason,
honor, or morality, however understood, those who
profess faith in it, endeavor to justify their creed
by the authority of precedents and SANDER the
memory of tho Father of his country by qualifying
as the Washingtonian system line of conduct which
can only be understood as the result of egotism--
and what is worse, miscalculating egotism.
The constantly increasing facility and rapidity of
communication have closely united the nations of
the earth and blended their interests, that the pre-
tension to isolation is henceforth species of attack
on the rights of civilization. In all that regards the
internal life of nations there should be interfe
renee of one with another under pain of annihia-
ting the principles of nationality and sovereignty ;
but no nation lives entirely at home, on the pro-
ducts of its own soil and industry. There is an inn
perious necessity for exchange, material and spirit
ual Hence arises the policy of commerce and of
kindred symplthies, which leads direct to another
and greater-that founded on principles. This pol
icy is to be handled discreety but handled it must
be- unguardcd principles being exposed to defeat
more or less durable at some time or another.
document long secret, but a copy of which was
acClQontally IOuuu SOlllc SlICc Ill u DuuulC VI
old papers, clearly proves that in Europe at least
there is one nation which desires the subjugation
and partition of the United States In 1917 Rus
san minister NJ Pozzo d Borgo, proposed to re-
establish Span's dominion in South America, and
to subdue the United States. 1.-The Republic of the
United States he said, founded on the principle
of popular sovereignty, is hot-bed by daily con-
tact with which Europe is menaced with confiagra-
ton. The United States are an asylum for innova-
tors of every kind, who, by the influence of their
writings and example, disseminate poison the po-
tent effects of which we cannot be ignorant Of
knowing as all do that it was the United States
which gave birth to the French revolution. Alrea-
dyn adds that celebrated diplomatist, 'wo feel the
mischievous effects OF the presence there OF the
French refugees"
Undoubtedly the height of power attained by the
United States within the last thirty-sx years. i'm
parts tinge of the ridiculous to this project of NJ
Pozzo di Borgo; but that which Russia did not and
will never attempt by force may she not practice it
at least try it--by tortuous paths
There are events which we, feeling rs Frenchmen,
desire to believe impossible but which it will be
sought--wtich it is now sought-to realize Rus
sia and Austria are manifestly agreed to profit by
the feebleness of Turkey. Prussia, influenced by
her desire to behold Austria become less and less
German power, would offer no opposition to a Goa
lition. which would be- nevertheless first fatal TO
her before all the rest of Europe.
1t would assuredly not be on the day succeeding
her installation at Constantinople, that Russia
would be mistress of powerful fleet, nor send
great army by land to seize upon Syria and Egypt,
and another to secure the Persian route to India.
But once established upon the shores of the Bos
phorus the consequence of her presence there would
be fatal they might, at best be delayed, but it
would be puerile to dssimilate that from that day
Russia would govern Europe, and step by step erad-
icate the last traces of civil and religious liberty
At first amid these conflicts the United States
would remain untouched the autocrat might even
address very fine compliments to them, but he would
shut up the Isthmus of Suez, the free transit of
which becomes every day more necessary, to ena-