The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-11-01

; One ofour great orators and patriots made
the observation that true statesmen seized CD
portanities and favorable events, to carry for
ward their ends, aid under the color of some
ostensible cause pursue the accomplishment of
their purpose.
This was stated not merely as a fact, but it
was to q certain extent justified as necessary.
The statement is not justly liable to attack as
machiavellian--it asserts something more than
the prudent relation from sight of the actual
motives OF the statesman-it shows that Gov
ernments after all the smooth columns which
have been written on the laws of nations, are
amenable to no code but to subserve the hap
piness of the governed, and carry forward the
interest and veal Of humanity. If this were
not so, tyranny and oppression would be per-
petuated, and rebellion would never rise, tho
pleaded Tor by the grOans of PROSTATE millions
A wicked, weak, and foolish government cain
plead no law in its protection or defence the
humblest individual can appeal to his creator
for the preservation of his life-but not so the
organization that does not fulfill its great Of
fee; its devoted and impartial history awards
the laurel equally to the hands, foreign or do
nestle, that WELD it successfully. The path
of the cOnqucrOr has been hOnOred because his
plough upturned the weeds of empire, and pre-
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is very far from our purpose to spread the flag
OF oppression and conquest. The principles of
this Republic conquer more rapidly and effect
ually than the hOrdes of Gangcs Khan, or
the Cossacks of Nicholas but we protest
against administering our peaceful government
with a pusilanimity. The proud position this
country should occupy, and one she long assu-
med, was that of the Protector and Represent
alive of the entire continent of America. She
held this independently and exclusively, and
the world has sanctioned her Office by giving
her to bear even uNder the name of the cont
ncnt-Amcrica. 1t is to America the Oppres-
sed look Tor reiuge-the name they invoke in
travel. We do, indeed, regret that golden OPP
portunities should have been passed by, that il
promptly followed up. would have led to the
Acknowledgement and happiness of a million OF
fellow-creaiures, who live in daily hope of one
day living enrolled as American citizens
What in the name OF eternal justice binds the
Island of Cuba to the Spanish monarchy? Is
it the freely accorded consent of the people OF
that unhappy country? Far from it, Force,
and force alone, cOnsccrates the dominion of
he Spanish in that beautiful gem of the sea OF
the tropics. More than one occasion has pass
ed away and the decree entered upon the page
of history, of neglect against this Republic
These occasions will doubtless be repeated; the
minons of tyranny take the delicate conscience
or mastery inactivity Of our government for
weakness and cowardce, and repeat their in
suits for those whom God hates, he deprives
of reason.
When thoroughly reused, the nation will
rise as man, and the walls Of the Moro and
the tyranny of Spain, fall together, before the
roar Of American cannon.