Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-04
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The Inteltigencer contains an able
leader against fillibustering. Taking a
recent craek-brained and disingenuous
apology for the brigandism of Walker in
Lower California, as the editors text,
that pestilential spirit of the age is very
severely dealt with, indeed. In the course
of this article the htellgeneer says:
But let US look little further into the
logic of the article above quoted 1t is at
tempted to justify the expedition into Lower
California and the occupancy of its territory
by the 'lberators,' on the ground that there is
neither political nor moral guilt in wrestling
from the savage territory whose resources he
Is unable to develop Though we have within
the present limits of the Republic a pretty
wide area of unoecupied territory, to rest sat
isfed with orr present boundaries is, 1t seems
TO be regardless of the wants of the human
family;
Now in the name of Terminus and all the
gods who preside over food and field, have we
not for some years to come got room enough to
grow IN Are We so cabin d, cribb'd, con-
nm d within our present limits generally
deemed quite spacious) that, in order to dom
lclilate the hundreds of thousands Of immi-
grants yearly seeking our shores from the OPP
justified in demanding that sufi ;ient provision
OF territory shall be made for their accOmmo-
dation : Are we under any immediate ne
eesSity OF closing our ports and declaring that
the precepts of international law forbid our
growth, and therefore exclude accessions of
foreign strength y
We are not regardless of the wants of the
human family, but we do not fall into the
mistake of surprising that the people Of the
United States and the human family are
identical, Is does the journalist of the Ma
tional Democrat and as do others of his
school. The fact tn the human family in
ereases seems to US but a lame and insufficient
apology for such buecaneeripg exploits The
argument Of the article upon which we ami
nadvert turns entirely upon the idea that we
OF the United States are the human family
whose needs and requirements demand
larger area 1t never seems to have occurred
TO the writer that Mexieans could possibly be
part of this family, or that they could pos
sibly ever need any reserve of territory on
which to settle their accruing population We
have an undOubted right to hold as much I'D
occupied land aswe please, but that Megicans
should hold any is deemed preposterous
The Union contains contains letter
from Mr.. John Cochrane, Surveyor of the
Port of New York, rejoining to the state
ment of Benjamin Galbraith, well known
as Benefits attorney, who has done any
quantity of swearing for him when in a
tight place in the last twenty years. 1t
seems that Galbraith is the Indepen-
dant witness whose testimony, accord
ing to Bennett, was to disprove the cor
rectness Of that of Mr.. Cochrane, relative
to IS roorback about the Pierce letter of
164S, All New York know Galbraith
as Benefits ready witness on all &C.
casions, for years and years. We
have no intention of charging Gal
braith with Intentional misstatements,
but it strikes US that Bennett himself is
we'll aware that the New York public
have long since come to understand that
G.. lacks capacity to hear or see anything
in connection with an affair in which
Bennett is interested, that may not make
for Bennett interest or side of the ques-
ton. This fact has been demonstrated
over and over again in open court, it will
be remembered. The Union also COM
ments with force on the fact that the
South present an unbroken front on the
Nebraska question. This is the first
time such an attitude has been held by
her on any such issue, since the adoption
Of the constitution.
Our neighbor of the Sentinel discourses
Of Washington life, to-day, rather than of
politics.