The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-24

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would she not go TO war with usl And does not our
growth threaten TO disturb the relations nations quite as
much as that OF Russia does Nay peculiarly favored
geographical position enables become more danger
ous enemy to England and France Why then shall not
our growth bring down upon war as the jealousy Of
| Russian power has brought down upon Russia?
Turn again TO the map and wonderful analogy is
found between the position of Arabia and Egypt essen
tally provinces ofTurkey in relation the British East
Indies and the relation of Central America TO her Pacific
commerce and possessions The former are efete weak
exhausted powers Their neghborhood to Hindostan
threatens danger rahcr facilitates the overland
intercourse with it. So while the West Indies are chiefly
and the sthmus entirely in the possession Of the present
owners interruption is TO be dreaded in the route to
the Pacific. In the East Egypt and Arabia divide Eng
land from valuable and rich provinces and
yet by their weakness unite them TO her in the West
West Indies and Central America perform the same Office
| for her Pacific trade and possessions. s htt
When Mehemet Ali resuscitated Egypt and by his mill
tary genius the point Of freeing his country and
Syria from the dominion Of Turkey and by his civil
genius putting them among the commercial and powerful
nations Of the world, by infamous coalition with ur-
key England hwared the purposes OF that great man.
held him in state of suzerainy to the Sultan Why7
Because she needed wreched feeble populations as con-
venen pathway, and as innocuous neghbors to India 1t
was necessary for her comfort and safety that moral
| and political desert should there continue
An equally opposite population in state OF appropriate
degradation is planted in her path the Pacific and her
policy will be to keep that population there and exclude
unless her maxims of wisdom have changed since she
applied them to the discontinue of Mehemet Ali. I
seems them clear that in progress towards the
complshment Of our great destiny, in con-
nct with the interests and political principles Of Great
Britain, and that she will in conflict with This
would be logical deduction, from her past policy and
present position, which might safely act But it is
| confirmed by recent events H9#
The audacous proposal Of triparttc treaty, by which
Cuba should be guaranteed to SPAIN shows determine
ton to set at defiance policy which have pledged the
national honor to maintain forcverof excluding from all
concern in the political affairs of North America every
European power In the face OF policy deliberately
adopted long maintained, often announccda policy
which has become one Of the sances of our govern
menthe proposition shows ripened purpose to try
clusions with in other fields than those of diplomacy
The circumstanal evidence forcby arranged by Mr.
Sde in his late speech in the Senate Of treaty between
SPAIN France and England TO confirm the former in the
possession of Cuba and the rumored Africanzaon of
Cuba in that shall become necessary for the
purposes of Spain accumulate the probabilities of
hct with more than European power, which it is
suggestion of prudence to anticipate Indeed, the
bance between the affairs in Eastern Europe and those in
| the Gulf of Mexico is SO strikng-dferng principally in
this that in the latter Spain to be protected whereas in
the former Turkey the object of the joint Of France
and England-that il is impossible not to consider the
ves Identical and the story in the Mediterranean repeated
in America only with the substitution Of the of
Spain for haof Turkey As such motives do exist in
terfere with progress and policy how do stand af
fectcd to Russia the hand and to the
Turko coalition on the other2
Russia in her extreme northeast touches the British
| American possessions. From thence she fall upon
English commerce in the Pacific
If the map be regarded again Russia touching the gulf Of
Finland in the northwest Of Europe extends in
southeast line, till it presses Persia which lies in the di
1 II a tn.
possession of Constantnope by the Russians would be fol-
lowed-a in good timely the final conquest of Turkey,
and the establishment of provincial relation in Persia
With such neighbor scenng in every southern breeze
the spicy perfumes of India England would find it
sary husband her for any emergency that
might arise in Asia and not waste in the prosecution Of
American schemes vaor and treasure that might find full
occupation in keeping within her grasp her East India pos
I sessions
We sometimes hear upon the breeze the of
rebellion coming from the land of Hyder-Aly. The
massacre in AGghanistan Of the Ango-lndan army is
event remote TO forbid the surmsc that the
neighborhood of powerful enemy Of England would
alone be sufficient TO stimulate India by
blow to cancel the vengeance due to the accumulated
wrongs Of century
It. then does seem, whether regard the general inter
ests Of commerce the emancipation Of millions OF Chris
ans from Mabomedan oppression, the progress Of large
part OF involved in the complete overthrow OF the
TURKISH empire, our reRafus ior power Nncn mas peeh
always good friend, just anger against two gov
ernments but recently detected in candestine league
against our interestst does that sympathes
| have been withheld from friends and avshed upon
| our enemies
To South America this Is pregnant with issues no
less important than the United States II she shall
ever experience the blessings Of good government il must
be by of influences that shall proceed from these
States The fate that has long imbitered the exist
ence those Mediterranean countries that confess the
Ottoman sway which England and France striving TO
perpetuae threatens unless influence be suffered to
predomnate be that OF the southern portion Of our
tnent Equally II to the interest Of the European allies
that Central America should check by the interpoon Of
barrier of degradation the flow Of northern civilization
southwark The present type OF misery in all that region
south of happy country is the very type that beat
accords with the designs and interests Of France and Eng
land and il the former feels that interest in the affairs
OF the Sandwich islands and onterains that Jealousy of
our influence in their counse with which she is charged
then the temptation to interfere with our progress h TOO
| obvious TO be overlooked. .s.
Unless the reasoning Of this paper s atogether iaia
cous the immediate discontinue OF the Russians and ter
mnaton of the would be events that might prove in
the sequel very inconvcnent 70 u.s. With navy at their
resscss by any power possess flushed with
victory over Russian obsolutsm and expansion the
occasion 10 strie at American liberalism and progress
would be too opportune not to be adverted TO. ,EI
For one the writer dare that he wishes success to
Nicholas and that be shoud not prevail now, he viii
fail only after bis enemies wcaricd BY along and exhaust