The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-20

OPINIONS OF THE BRITISH AalSTocNACy.
AMERICAN AMsITIOH AND euROes's DILEMMA"
Articles from tho Dablla University Maga-
cine, and Fraxer's Magazine, o.
tho Slavery Question.
/" TACTICS OF THE SOUTHERNS, "
&c., DO, 80.

e. 30, DO, 30.
AMERICAN AMBITION AND EUROPES d.
LEMMA.
lftom the Dublin University Magazine, Juy. 1851
In these tmee, when the infuence OF ACE IL b.
eoning 20 acknowledges in the worlds history, and
Ia asaunzaDg so much importaDc In the prescott COM
plcatione OF European politics. there Is little pro6a-
bty. VIC should think. OF soy one undertaking the
b0ad Of relationship which hnks the British nation
to their felow-iace OF Anglia axons In AmArica.
Tho same in blood tho Same also in the spirit
OF our institutions For the last sevcn pears, also-
ever aimee tho fsmne and the commence mont Of the
Exodus our people have been settling in myrisds
ON the western tide Of the Atlantic, creadng new
ties betreon the kindred peopks; while the siumphs
OF meohaaicsl genius have kept pace with tho wants
of men, and are yearly shortening the time Of tran
ss and virtually bringing nearer aud nearer to each
0eder the British ana American shores. New
Yerk u as near to us now rs DabI,n and Edinburgh
were 70 London in the boy hood OF our fathers Com
merce and emigration How between the kindred
shores in ceaseless ard rapid streams and, were
the eyeotnaities OF war TO demand IL, military
pedittop-thanks ~ the incre ss-d speed and still
vessels-coulo cross from the New World to the
Old with as little difficulty fathers equipped
the expedition to Flanders. twice AS easily as we
sent Wellesley aud bis army to their field OF future
amc In the Peninsula, and three times easily as
Abtrcromb,e's force was landed to reconquer Egypt
from the French. &rs
Providence never does any thing without a pur.
pose. Things move abreast Of one another in this
world on ours in q way full Of the deepest signiG
canoe. And IL one will but look back upon these
last few years. which have thus drawn closer to
each other the two great Anglo Saxon empires. he
will perceive that, simultaneously, there has been
arising peril for freedom and civilization, which
II may be doubted II anything short OF union
Of these tws powers will suffice I, resist. In 1888
We had q year Of rev0ut,ons-au uBrpc, and in some
places unhallowed, but in others assuredly most
pahIa cff ~ For Ehuusfu Hfft ia.
raj. caIne the year Of reaction; and, since then
absolutism has gode streng thening itself until
now 1t Overshadows almost the entire continent.
Britain alone, free from the madness of I848, has
escaped likewise the cold ft VI reaction, and has
proceeded unwaverngly in the path of increasing
freedom and social aMeliorati0n. Day by day the
continent. sway ed by its despots, Is be comng
alien to Us IN spirit; amt, year by year, under the
influence Of those causes which We have specified,
the two free Anglers Saxon empires being placed
in position Ia which they can more etfectually
render that mutual support which is their due,
which they must reI der sooner or later and which
the earlier they do the better for bot h.
On this midsummer day Of 1864, when from East
and West alike, come mu murs OF war and disquiet
dlst'e;s Of nations. with pefpiexity." aroused BY
the troubled medley of intelligence that every hour
flows in upon u.s. let Us endeavor to rise above the
shifting accidents OF the moment, and widening our
eieus until the entire scene il before u.s. endeyor to
discover some OF the leading landmarks of the ques-
ton. and the course which events most likely to
take.
The first glance OF the troubled scene assures Us
that, - the last age the age OF colonial extern
10 the present is ttat Of the march Of empires and
the extension Of their power by land. In the New
World. q in the Old, the phenomenon Is the same
and any one must be stuck by the singular parallel
Powers Of either hemisphere. Russia, the great
military power Of the Old World, has, of late,
been rapidly extending her fronties. North, south,
east and west simultaneously has abe been pushing
Fnsww hrH rt.fy Etnta pofa nI apa.
bas aud the Persian provncies on the Caspian
have succeasivey felt her appropriating hand; aud
now she u mastering the whole forces of her i'm
menss empire, with the daring project Of marching
As2 d simultaneously bidding defiance to the
banded strength Of Western Europe. Ia the New
World the United States, have been progressing IN
a ttmilar manner, though in a somewhat different
spirit Surrounded BY comparative solItudss, they
have rather lad to subdue nature than to conquer
men; and yet they have been about as good at tto
latter process as ut the former. In the boundary
questions they so hnlied and oyerreached us as to
zoe from 81 tain considerable sacrifice OF terri
tory both Ia New Brunswick and Oregon. They
fought the Indians out Of Florida the Spanards out
of Texas, and compelled Mexico, at the point OF
the bsyonet. to cede TO them her golden province
of California. Russia conquers by her massive
battalions and her Machiavellian diplomacy
America by her rowing squatters," at once
the pioneers Of civilization and the oeurs OF sne
all-ahauxbng republic. Overlooking the frontier
limits Of the Union these men squat upon the unoc
cupied lands Of neighboring States band after
band they pour in, until the territory becomes ball
American then come differences with the susn 0sr
rupture, at the end Of which the territory u an
nexed BY the victorious Yankees, and the Union
Ands new star added to its mighty constellation
Thus the great despotic power of the Old World
and t. great democratic one of the New, are EN-.
barked on Q similar career OF copquest-each bear
ing soufhwsrds upon the territories of empires once
powerful, but now sspless and Gillette, and which a.
awake the sSpasS and the shs
tves which now prompt these ambitious Powers to
action are not less kindred in character With Rus
STA, Il Ia dread Of seeing strong Greek or Turco
Greek State establish ifssf in Turkey, which would
no longer leave an excuse for the Cars interferen
cea and which might be able TO set his power at de-
Rance. With the United States the apprehension is
lest Spain, acting in conjunction with England and
France. should proclaim In Cuba gradual enamel
patton Il the siaves-and so bar be put TO the &C
quisltioa Of that coveted island by the American
Republi,, in consequence Of the whole negro race
COO 900 In number, being ready, If SO emancipated
TO fight to the death rather than yield to invaders
who would mercilessly reimpose upon them the fet
As long as the styong States border upon weak
and tho young jostles with the efete, there Is NJ
hope Of lasting pea y. the territorial system whici
embrrccs such arrangements is necessarily transi
tory in It's nature, ana can never exist otherwise
than In state Of unstable equilibrium. We do moi
wonder, therefore, that the tottering as
peos ana internal aiSunlon OF the Mahomme
Jan empires OF the East should tempt Russia
to exert her giant strength against them. nor
that the flibustering oroer Of the Lone Star
should cast the eyes of bandit upon the American
poseeasions of fete SPAIN This was ~ be expect
ed b 1t right or be II wrong, no rising empire
has ever acted otherwise, from the days of Persia
and Rome TO the conquests a our own East India
Company. But leaving the prospects OF Europe 4
be treated OF on future occasion, let US giy'
our attention u the prob Bile results Of American
ambition upon the exile i and internal fortunes Q
the Union aud a. m ST seriously duplicating ths
imbroRiio into which tie whole civilized world seem
on The point Of falling.
In antnmn last IL Was quite visible to thonghtin
Observer that Q feud had broken out between ths
eastern and western States Of Europe, which wouls
NOT easily b healed. Nc such incentive as thi
was needed TO set Young America on the move
for ia ambition Ia chronic, and ever on the lookout
for opportunities; but once new grievance agains
Spain was found the knowledge Of Earope's di