Washington sentinel., 1854-03-01

ism OF all our statesmen, operating and co-ope
rating harmoniously and for one purpose, and
to one end
! have said that day by day our relations
with foreign nations are growing closer and
more intimate, particularly with those neigh
boring nations which are composed of different
races, and in which the law Of their welfare de-
pends upon the possession of power by that
which IS the superior of them all, the race
which, If left to itself, will certainly seize the
supreme power, and which alone can WELD il
SO as to improve the people and develope their
resources. If, then, we would exercise a bene-
heent influence over them, one which will be
ielt as a kindly, generous, and advantageous In
fiuence, we must act in relation to them upon
the great principle of non-intervention, which
would leave the power in the hands that WELD
It now, which would respect the natural re-
lation of the races, and not seek to disturb
the authority of those who alone can con-
duct the people to prosperity and happiness.
How are we to do this, if we deal in this narrow
and bitter spirit Of exclusion at home? If we
discriminate between our own State organiza.
tons, without regard to equality of rights, how
can we avoid carrying that spirit abroad, as the
English have done? Shall we so initiate the
English, who have so often appeared of late
amongst nations composed of different races
as Intermediates and architects of ruin, and
whose influence is used to wrest the rule from
the superior, although the certain consequence
may be to substitute anarchy for government,
and restore barbarism at the expense of civil.
zatlon? 1t is in this spirit that they would de-
vote some OF the tairest portions of the globe to
he use Of wandering savages, and lock it up
from the occupation of any race which would
improve it, and make it contribute somewhat
TO the purposes of civilization and the common
good OF mankind. They are even now engaged
in the project of Africanizing some of the most
beautiful islands Of the world-islands which lie
at our very doors, almost within sight of our
southeastern coast 1t would seem to be their
fixed policy to expel the white race from those
islands, and to devote them to the exclusive
use of negroes, who are fast returning to con-
lition Of barbarism, and making that fruitful
country wilderness. Suppose they succeed in
expelling the white race, and Africanizing that
country. How long will it be permitted to re-
main in that condition? Only, sir, until some
new swarm from the reat Caucasian hive Of
North America is ready to settle upon that
land of flowers. And when they go, with what
purpose viii they settle? viii they go to ex-
terminate, as they have done here, or 10 rule,
as they do, the negroes? Surrey, humanity
cannot De long in finding an answer to that
question.
| think, sir, it must be obvious that, in the
course OF the expansion of the great wave of
the Anglo-American population, we shall have
to establish some law which will respect the
true relations of the races. 1t is plain that, in
the course OF this progress, ours must rule all
inferior races who may be considered as oc.
cupying adjacent lands as Stockholders until
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relations are to be preserved with the parent
race in the course of this settlement and ex-
pansion, know not. Whether our population
is to spread like the expanding circle Of one
great subsiding wave, or whether it is to be
dispersed into fragments by external or in
ternal forces, ] cannot undertake to predict
But that our race will expand beyond its pre-
sent limits would seem to be fact fixed as
tate itself; and if there be any law which can
make that expansion consistent with the hap
oiness OF the inferior races with which ours may
ningle, it will be founded upon Just respect to
he natural relations between those races. But
low are we to regulate that law of expansion,
we deal with it in the spirit in which we are
low dealing with it at home In order that
he white race of the nonslaveholding States
may exclusively occupy the territory of the
United States, the dogma is set up that slavery
IS wrong, and that, therefore, it must be shut
out. How viii it be when the expansion of
that very race will require you to tolerate
slavery? We shall then have different sermons
preached from the same text. Is is not plain
that here are questions now crowding upon us,
or soon to arise, with which we cannot deal, if
we are governed by the narrow and intolerant
spirit which seems now to actuate some of us
in regard to our own State institutions?
Mr. President within the bounds Of this con-
federacy we have every variety of soil and of
climate. We have, also, different races and DIFF
lerent interests. The scheme of our confede-
racy provides that the people of its different
portions may choose such system of social
organization and domestic culture as will en-
able each to develope its own genius in a man
ner most acceptable and fitted to the people
who adopt it. That is the scheme of our con-
federacy and if it is pursued, each Of these
social organizations will present some distinc
tive feature and perhaps some peculiar excel
lence Each may exhibit specific difference,
founded on nature or circumstances but they
will preserve the great generic form which con-
stitutes one great family of the whole and
each will come with some offering peculiarly
its own to increase the reputation and the
power OF the common country. 1t was the
SohipctAtoh alhOuS tuC llSC AotdltS vi duCieIb
Greece which gave even to that ill-compacted
confederacy, its surprising excellency in arts
and letters. What may we not hope from the
free competition Of such moral agencies, and
such forms of social culture as we can bring
into play? Human genius, thus left free to
follow its own impulses, would charm the
world with more varied social culture, and
apply to each zone and race the law which is
best suited to its improvement and develop
ment
When look to the high mission upon which
we are sent; the great destiny which is within
our reach, and which is now certainly within
our view; and contemplate the nature of the
obstacles which areinterposed betweenthe coun-
try and its true path to glory and power, ! can
scarcely feel the patience which becomes me in
dealing with those who have interposed such
difficulties. But win not be banked in my OBJ
iect, which is to reason with them. would
ask them to look at the consequences of their
own policy, if they could carry it out. would
suppose that all power was within their hands.