The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-30

The attitude OF England towards Spain; their
strong protest against the appointment of Don
Domingo Moostich as Governor Of Fernando
Pc, on account Of his alleged connection here
tofore with the slave trade; their Intervention
in Porto Rico; their abrogatiou of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, their great projects of dominion
in China; the success Of Gen. Walker in Gen.
trail AmeGca; the anarchy Of the Mexican Re-
public; in fact their offensive assumption of
authority over Spanish American affairs, and
their known hostility to the United States, have
served to give peculiar Significance to the re-
lations between US and the Queens govern
ment
In fact no question concealed in the future
Of American progress is more important than
hat which involves the relations between the
United States, England, Spain, Mexico, and
Central America; and it is doubtful if there
is one that the history Of the past is more
likely faithfully to interpret. The differences
which have risen up between the North and
he South, having their origin in the In
rigues OF politicians and pace-hunters,
and exposing our system TO periodical levers
ton, amount to nothing compared to the great
question OF annexation imposed upon US alike
by the position, population and resources of the
Union; its enterprise, its peculiar industry and
advancement, and it's consiguisy to the neigh
boring republic Of Mexico, and its relationship
to the Island Of Cuba and Central America.
There are those who deride the popular
dogma of manifest destiny; but ia truth it only
expresses the inevitable progress of oar indus
try, the action of the superior upon inferior
races, the actual conquests Of American labor
and enterprise. To set limits to these c0nquests
signifies nothing less than that they shall be put
in subsection to some power competent aud able
to govern them Such power certainly does
not exist in this country, and if exercised at
all, 1t must be by the governments OF Spain and
Mexico, or by the direct intervention Of the
great States of Europe, with view of main
tanning existing territorial soveregaties on this
continent 1t is enough TO refer to the past
and to the obvious condition of Spanish Anne
rican and Mexican affairs, to show that neither
OF these sources offer any substantial resistance
to the tide Of population which flows onward in
its resistless course.
1t is then to Europe--to England, in fact
that we must look for active interference 10 orr
internal affairs. The London Times mas just
now pompously avowed the purpose of its 60
vernment promptly to suppress any further
movement Of our people; and that paper tells
US that the Palmerston Cabinet had determined
to anchor its navy in mid ocean to intercept
the buccaneering spirit Of the country. This
is all very we'll. Mid.ocean is a safe distance
from the scene of active operations on the from
tiers Of Mexico, where, if anywhere, offensive
aggression is going on. 1t viii require some
thing more than the Baltic fleet to stay the
hang of frontier industry; to strengthen the
crumbling Spanish monarchy, or intensity "the
dissolying views Of Mexican nationality. A
holder policy and o more direct action on the
cessary to stop the progress of this country,
and especially to prevent its early conquest of
Cuba, Central America and Mexico. That is the
issue, and We warn our transatlantic cousins
that it is the tendency of the existing state of
things in the United States, under the simple
laws of population, to produce this result
Diplomatic protests and remonstrances will
have no earthly influence upon those laws
Their action has been steady and uniform since
the first adventurous, fifty years ago, pene
trated the great forests of central and western
New York, when the lakes of Cayuga and Sen
eca were given to the dominion OF our people,
and " the white woman's tract" was the object
Of eager conquest, down to the day when Texas
and California became States Of the American
Union. Nothing short of the nterposition Of
n power capable of controlling these laws, cs-
pable in fact Of overthrowing this government
will be sufficient to check the onward move
ment of our industry and enterprise
These, in truth, are the great weapons of our
aggression. They are the expressions of our
system. To admit that they can be controlled
is an admission not only of our dependence
upon some other power but that that power
is capable of producing On overthrow Of the
federal constitution. That constitution, as
the organic law of our people, secures to us oil
absolute freedom of industry and trade amongst
all the inhabitants of the Union. 1t is, in fact,
to this great principle of our system, to this
free covenant Of our polity, that we are ~
debted for the marvellous progress of our la
Dor and its endless conquests over the aborigi-
nees and over every other inferior race with
which We have been brought in contact. Sue.
cessful Intervention to prevent the operation
of these laws signifies revolution and the down
fall Of the republic.
1t is not strange, perhaps, that the politicians
Of England should mistake the rapid move
ments Of our population for a lawless spirit OF
adventure and aggression; but it is marvellous
ly strange, in the face OF the great results we
have laid before them, in the extension of our
commerce and manufactures, in the yastness
Of our agricultural productions, in the I'M
rivalled system of our education, in the adj
vancement of our literature, in the utility
ar arr iuvapftnpa in th, nVtapt 81 ~...