The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-18

communicating freely with people Yet few years
we absorb this whole acceton 70 our strength The
Immigrants have become assiated with US in labor aud
enterprise in customs and manners N thopght ana IAN
and in aeas mana, o9l s5Ss bus
all the political social and religious hereucs OF the world
10 come and soourn among them without fear OF being
ultimately contaminated and overwhelmed This power
oabsorbng and asmiating foreign elements the strong
est proof Of our historical mission gentlemen would
rather have it. manifest destiny for IT AFFORDS the
strongest evidence of the superior energy OF our people
and the practical advantages OF political institutions
We absorb elevate rule by besowing on the gov
erned share of political power Sir we are destined 70
expand by assimilation and by eleyang those who have
been and oppressed TO the rank ofeemen and
if have the power do that with millions of Europeans
who flock shores if example Is constantly work.
ing revolutions and changes in the political and social con-
dion of the Old World why should we not possess the
faculty here when less powerful States and more
people eager to share the blessings OF our
institutions and laws Rome and the people of Romantic
origin, French Spanards, Portuguese have never colo
nized they merely planted or tanspianted power the
people of England cultivated and improved but held and
still hold their colonies in subecton the Americans alone
for the first time in the history of the world elevate and
egenerate those whom they extend their sway We
conquer that may raise the conquered to an equality
with ourselves TO assimate others with us in
a higher scale OF humanity.
These faculties and purposes OF ours constitute our patent
right extend power and influence over the consu-
emit il is mission to nsl new life into the feeble and
misgoverned people grown on the afbs Oh spanish power
in America and of the colonies still subjected to the wither-
ing influence of her rule but must not expect to fulfil
it in age, century We must not be tempted to
absorb faster than assimate and avoid convu-
sions when the object may be attained by the attract
i've force Of institutions and the decomposing process
going among neighbors Time, which Is against
Them operates in our ayor ana there IS no stride tha
any European power take, and no combination that
any of those powers FORM capable OF thwarhng our
destiny This country is destined to support larger pop
ulation than all Europea population OF happy thinking
se-rclying not mixture OF beggars and princes
and will despite the heterogeneous elements which
tribute to it. be population fall of national American
sentiments energetic free martial whose friendship and
goodwill will be object Of soicude with the different
nations Of Europe The present war in Europe will excite
bitterness of feeling, and beget new national eaouses
which will continue long after the conclusion OF peace and
be eectua bar all joint operations against our grow
ing power England France, and Spain may yet soourn
in different parts OF America. We are at home in it and
shall arrange household as we please.
But while have full faith in the mission Of
try while have apprehension Of any successful inter-
ference of any European power or any combination OF
them in the affairs of this continent; while believe If
may indulge in the expression in the invncbiity of the
United States yet wish that in conduct as great
nation, avoid eyeryt thing like provocaton TO the
weaker powers. Let our mission be accomplished by as
few collisions with our neighbors as possible Let the
world be convinced of mission and let the
world see that that mission is compatible with public
justice
There is nothing so disastrous the rising fortune of
industrious the anticipation OF his income IL
beges loosenes of expenditure and reckless speculation
it, which interfere with the profits of his regular
business, and frequently involve him in embarrassment
and ruin The may be said of nations especially of
industrious nations like Sir our people are pre-
eminenty business people Wefye 1t would appear TO
work. wealth, and to prepare better state for
children than we enjoy ourselves This we call prog
ress and it deserves the We the first agrcu
tura and planting people the globe; the rivals
of England in commerce and navigation and we are rap
idly becoming great manufacturing people The aequ-
siton of territory is valuable to only far as 1t affords
additional scope for enterprise and labor II we over
produce overrade overpecuate the undue expansion is
rapidly followed by contraction destructive to public and
private interests gradual expansion and expenditure
predcated actual income would be preferable to these
oscillations in march of progress.
The extension of territory while easily accomplished
under political and social system may yet be con
nected with serious arrangements in financial
mercia and industrial relations especially X the extern
sion be rendered practicable requires the application of
1t then behooves calculate the cost OF the
QUESTION and its prospective value compared with the
Immediate sacrihce which it would require at hands
We may in the language of Franklin, pay too dear for
the WHISTLE and may not get the whistle at ALL when
by waiting little while, might get il cheap, for
nothing Let US be too impatient TO realize the flu
ture too prodgal Of the means Of shaping it TO our
| ends
We have great example before us which Is not without
its lesson to the United States There the Colossal
power of Russia growing and expanding like ourselves
increasing in population and wealth. and advancing in
civilization and commerce She has expanded westward
and southwark have and she has in this respect
fulfilled grand mission Her march could not well be
rested l she had reached Constantnope and established
her power in the Mederranean All this foreseen by
the rest of the world yet one nterposed Russia, in
1929 advanced within Fifty miles of Constantinople with
meeting with solemn protest from either England
France; but wisely conened herself with the peace OF
Adranope She saw that Consantinope was grayiating
toward her and that the time must when she would
have IL almost without blow But at last Russia became
impatient TO administer in the language of her Emperor,
tine estate of dying man and what is the
quence2 war, the end Of which can foreel and
which during its eyenul progress may destroy her
merce her industry and the financial resources Of the
pre without bringing her any TO the coveted pos
session OF Constannople than she before, She may
temperate the combat and succeed but in the
mean time she will have refrigerated in wealth and COM
mefce in the arts Of peace in short in everything that
could have made her acquisition blessing 10 herself and
the civilized world, BY mere impotence century will
have been lost to the progress Of mankind and to the
ameliorstion Of race solemn warning for future
nations TO- like us reject in folly heed in wisdom
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