The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-26


II Is a careless OBJ ,eryer that does not see ia
the position Of these States matters OF peculiar
interest to the American people and goyera-
mept IN 1thing are politicians, of whatever
county, more remarkable than for concealing
the operation of the laws Of population, and
disappearing the tendency of those laws.
| A little more than year ago aud the Turk
ish Empire, threatened by the colossal power
| of Russia excited in the minds of all men the
| liveliest interest and the deepest solictude for
its safety. Subsequent events have gone far to
prove that the Turkish people possess few Of
| the true elements of civilization in all
| most every respect they are inferior to nearly
all the nations by which they are surrounded,
and that their decline has been fixed by the
| contact in which they have been brought with
their superior neighbors At this day 1t must
be apparent that the Sultan's government is
| destined hereafter to be dependence of some
! Of the great States of Europe, and ultimately
| his territories partitioned between them. The
| history of the settlement and subsequent con-
| quest of Texas, the settlement and conquest of
California now constituting two prosperous
| agricultural and commercial States Of the
| Union, and intimately identified with the gene
raj prosperity of the country bear striking
analogy to the present position and the proba-
bic future of the Turkish empire. The differ
ence between the two countries, in their popu-
lations, in their habits of lfe their pursuits, and
their ability to become great producing com
munities. arise from the radical difference be-
tween the American and European mind 1t
is, however, only one of degrees the superior
| acting upon the inferior there, as here Iu re-
ference to the absorption Of Texas, it will be
remembered, large portion OF the people of
the United States were utterly opposed to it.
Our government again and again avowed its
purpose to prevent it. A large majority were
hostile to its acquisition.
Meantime it vas rapidly settled by our rare
its institutions were formed on the model of
our States-its civil polity was essentially
American. Its intercourse, its local institu-
tions, its commerce, its general industry, and
above all, its thoughts and feelings were Anne
rican. The laws Of population had accom-
plished all this they had done more-they
had settled the question of its annexation to
this country, and sooner or later, with or with
out war, Texas was destined to come into the
federal Union. The dogma Of manifest des-
| tiny concealed the immutable law Of progress.
| 1t had decreed what timd statesmen felt must
take place, but what they dare not avow.
! L1hough exciting questions of internal dis
| cord and strife now weigh upon the country, the
! time is not distant when the fate Of both Mex
| leo and Cuba must be settled by the American
Ac, no ~ fha
mind is straining itself to put them off. Com.
| merce and capital ever cautious and fearing
war, is avowing hostility to any further annex
alton. They tell the Americ an people that we
already have enough, that this government
is extended until its parts no longer feel its
central authority until antagonists are war
ring upon its harmony, fretting its councils and
threatening its stability. Meantime, the an
swer to all this is apparent; the States added
to the Union are firmsst in their attachment to
the Constitution, and among its most success
full in every branch Of industry Population
is rapidly advancing its frontier limits, and
political power as rapidly transferred from the
East to the West. The influence of this trans
formation upon the general policy of the
Union will soon be felt in holder and more
fearless expression Of the purposes of the ma
tion in reference to contiguous states giving
effect to the superior industry and enter
prise which has already subjected Louisiana,
Florida, Texas and California to its dominion,
and win in the end absorb both Mexico and
Cuba. A
This question, it is evident, has an intcrna-
tional bearing as we'll as local interest to
the American people. 1t is important to see
that Mexico and Spain are in rapid and Ger
tain decline that all the conservatisms in the
world of the balance of power and the status
gao cannot save them. They are, like Turkey,
| falling piece by piece into the hands of poll
teal administrators. Vitality in their sys-
| tens is no longer visible their extremities
are parayzed. They can interpose no resis
lance of themselves to whatever may be re-
| CURED by their ncighbors While this is un-
deniably so, it is not strange that their heirs,
or those that claim the inheritance of their
estates, are particularly active in looking after
| their concerns.
The governments Of Europe, perhaps with
no view Of securing benefits to themselves
and with the sole purpose of gripping the
| power or preventing the extension of the
| United States, have determined that Cuba and
| Mexico shall not be absorbed by the American
| Union. They have undertaken, in the Ian
guage Of Lord Clarendon, to regulate affairs
| on this continent which means that they have
combined to prevent the further progress Of the
| free institutions of our system over any more
territory. This is the question. 1t is question
| which must be decided in the United States,
| for we have the right and the undoubted abb
| lily to determine what course we will pursue.
| and whether we will or will not acquire both
| Mexico and Cuba. This is q problem rising
above oil ilibustering expeditions and projects
"a great national interest, to be settled by