The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-04-09
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northern limits Of our territory o1
+ Washington up to the Arctic SEQ, GOV.
ering an area Of about one hundred
thousand square miles, lies country
called New Caledonia. IL is a cold.
J bleak, barren land and entirely worth.
less to any power for any colonization
purposes. This country has very re-.
gently been trahspired by England 10
France Why, or for what purpose,
or for what cons,tletattos, we belIeya
no one on this side Of the Atlaniie
preiends to know. It will be renem.
bered by all who read the celebrated
reply Of Mr.. Everett on The pnt Of
our government, to the Tripartite
treaty proposition of France and Eng
land. that Mr.. Russells rejoincd such
asst was contained the significant t,e-
claraiion, that England and France
must take the only alienation left
them in theipre misses. This deeiara-
ton may be taken as u Ley to some Of
the movements recently made by both
those powers relative to Cuba, and
may further explAin The assertion
made lately by Lord Clarendon That
the alliance witt, France had reference
not onl y to alf4irs on the Eastern, but
also to matters Of mutual concern on
the Vesie,N continent Now the
enquiry very naturally arises; nchat
are tho mutual interests Of France
and Epglaud upon the western CONT
nent, or within its waters. The con
| quest If the Canolas, in 1856. and the
sale Of Louisiana to Tho United States
inthe carly part ofthis century, strip
ped France OF all her valuable pesses-
aions and rights upon this continent,
aud the subsequent loss Of Hayti left
her but a very sn,alt and unsnbstan-
Iial interest in this region of the world
But while VIC are asking these gues-
lions Of ourselves, and debating in our
minds the motives that may, or do in
tluence France in her alliance for the
protection OF Cuba, we are startled |
with the news that France has sudden
y rcganed territory on this cont.
nept bordering our own, equal in ex-
tent to her ancient possessions IN Can.
ada, aud that both France and Eng
land are in close unity ofaction, ia re-
laflon to affairs IN both heaeisphcres.
This state Of affairs becomes. more and
more interesting and he must be
blind indeed, who does not nan See
the motive spring Of the Anglo Frank
alliance. And just at this time too,
American sympathies and feelings afe
courted and enlisted in behalf Of poor
Turkey, whom the Gar Of Russia is
about to 'crust out OF existence. II
is but about twenty-five or three years
ago that we heard all over this country
the cry Of save the Greeks "saye the
Greeks' from the hands of the bloody
Turks The face of Messelonghi,
the butehery at Scio aud the slaughter
at Crete are still fresh in our memo.
ries. Nor haxe we so soon forgotten
Marco, Bozzarris, Colonies and Byron,
nor the cause for which they fought.
What is there in the governmental
policy of Turkey to excite our extreme
admiration, Or to enlist fol her our ac-
tive sympathies Little, very little in
deed; certainly not enough to make
the American people forgot their own
safety, while watching the contest be.
tween Turkey and Russia. And how
stands the case with Louis Napoleon.
La a moral point Of view ne has before
God and witnessing world Commit 1
ted crimes ofperiiry aud murder, and
will it be much OF a choice, as between
The overruling Influence of the Gar at [
Constautinople, and that Of the bloody
handed soul perjured Napoleon And (
BY what right, moral Or abstract, do {
aud France undertake to "ye- t
strain the bouuds' Of the Russian ,
Empire Have they not equally as i
good a right to RESTRAIN the bounds"
,f the American Union as they have {
hose Of Russia? We must now re. j
that there is on our north, not
only British but also French
and in the Spanish main lie 1
Jamaica and Trinidad, while upon the !,
main land there are both English and ,
French possessions. With these facts !
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