The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-30

Who are In the possession Of power And do not be-
which can have other foundation than returu
70 the old original principles OF our government and Of
The scrupulous regard to justice and god faith IL not
0essrete 10 Ut least snvsoped in gloom dArknsssf
We know that there has been in the ad ninisraos OF
the country, wrong injustice and bad faith. But it has
therefore, hope for the future The people OF the free
States have been reused to common pitch OF indg
nation am aware that In country go vast with in
tsrests 80 immense and dfversifed, where opinion,
speech, sne acton free, that seldom loox
for the quiet and rpose which might expect under
different condition OF things But common discontsnts
like ripplss winch disturb only the s,race while
from the causes existing from the partial sectional
and unjust action Of the government there has srssn
an agitation OF another character, suc emit perhaps to
alarm the waverDg, and TO drive the timed from par
tcipstion in public affairs And this is the true danger
rghtsot internal dsvelopemsnt and progress. Win bat
act Iefolutely together, al yet BE- safs. 70 in
clude all in one pnrafe SO comprehensive ~ to embrace
every thing which vel mesn the great mssD OF
TIE people Of this State-have learned to love and
reverence must return to the original wise and com
Vino iosnass our present sys!% y Vp We
must oistrast those VINO would persuade that the
great gs.sps,S Of ntssD. and orsga policy held By
ton in its infancy but that We should now discard
them unfit for people sbisn has assumed its posi-
They hold out 70 U.S. instead Of healthy and peaceful
growth and progress, our social condition and al
cenmsndlng pace in scale Of nations and
maintained and dplomscy foreign couquests and
ssgrsne at the expense Of neishborng nations,
and, as directly connected with trese ths expansion
and predomip of the syfem which rests its basis
UPON fervile labor Now, IL 10 well hDo sna clear his
torical fact-that every leading wno among those
who established our government, with Washington It
their head and acting in this the true
Of the people herd our true policy IN our re-
la,ions with all nations, to be OF peace, founded
on the most exact justice, and Of just commercial
intercourse. they held that should q
ut IN their .ars They could rot have con.
ctived OF as possible that taking repubh ian Rome,
should become eonqu.rng people. .nd that We should
reach At length that point thar should
Dread al contact WITH US ssn sss copa 5nsy have
purpose Of extending the srea o. slave labor They
it be most clearly and abundanty shown by his
toricai civic ence REGARDED slavery an evil unfortu
natey introduced into this country by fault Of its
people, and which to b tolerated and endured be-
cause human wisdom had discovered means for Its
extirpation. They would have been struck with aston
hhment at the suggestion that to be encouraged
Ito be fostered-that foreign acquisitions were to BIZ
part the blood treasure Of those who would
its existence AZ great national misfortune and wong.
tenn was to become aggressive, and emboidsned by
to attempt, after having exhausted their por
ton OF the common territory OF the nation to seize by
surprise upon that part which, by legislation and ths
common consent Of the whole country had bsen obtain
ed for settlement by the redundant population Of the
free States But all this and has been attempted
and with partial success. If it shall wholly succeed,
great civil revolution will have BEEN effected in pub
lie policy and in the whole character Of government
most mperceptibs degrees, and sometimes by bold and
OPEN and we'll timed demonstrations of iorce can be dis
sunmated, we must not only resist this attempt to
change the character of governmentthis attempt
to render every thing subordinate to the Southern
been accomplished in this direction shall be uudone
Our claim should be for redress for past well
" sss n s as, o redress ss
defence? Does any thing remain for but to
unite in most determined opposition to any FUR
$ka oS
whether its Southern frontier in We IndesS
And it 10 clear that that resistance will be unsvang,
annex Cuoa-devised q mere executive measure.
millions offered for Its purchase without the slightest
attempt to consult the public opinion, with perfect
ignorance OF the voice Of the Pile having any
legitimate control its rulers could have
under the government OF Nicholas of Alexander And
have really nothing TO do with the matter bat to
furnisn the ssns And is this the true theory OF
government Can the executive, without consulting
the wishes of the people bind us to the payment OF
of the poor well the rich to purchs foreign tor
rtory, which large proportion Of those who must bear
the burthens incurred BY its acquisition, believe will be
an unmitgated to country? bWould
ary ruler of any other government calling Itself
limited constitutional have dared to have ventured
this way upon q nomentous in its conse-
quencetp will not pause to ask asy who believes
in this right of men everywhere to control their
sasirs-tse right OF teh government7how b. can aavo
cate the transfer Of million Of people, without asking
obtaining their rssnt to foreign country, with
vhose language Institutions and they have ne
ourselves whether this people, whether of Spanish or OF
Arcsn eloS. are ss ssa american s czsns Such nss
sure SUCCESSFUL, must ireutsb.y be followed not
only by introducing amongst dscord and dissension
in Its most em5itter-a forms, but by great and dan
gerous increase in our military and naval establish.
Dents, and corresponding increa.e Of executive
power Looking at the consequences OF almost unuin
sled evil that to result from such measure
csn the worst +nemy Of this ceuptry invoke upou il
beaver than to have people alien in
feeling, genial in every thing, upon
burthen and snareS And where will the sticklsrs
for strict and literal Interpretation of the
find spy in that for this increase
Acquisitions made by conquest 1t has sometimes been
said, are legitimate, BECAUSE conquest is common Incl
dent of wsr but there is certainly provision Ia
constitution which coners this power OF the indentte
extension Of frontiers by purchase When Louisiana
was acquired, it less exercise OF q constitu-
tutlopal baIrers justified by the necessity OF the case
and If that precedent has been followed in few other
ipstances they cannot avail to changs the original
gsnic law OF the country. Our system as We all know,
does not, like that OF england, rest at it's basis
prescription ard usages-one growing MP almost imper
ceptbly after another. is the contrary . writer
is Interchangeable pit in the manner provided in the
nstrum ent Itself dark and portentous day it will
evils flowing from civil discori and strife when, in
defsnce OF the wishes OF large classes of our
thus applied to purchase the territory of foregn
nation. That 1t would be psrilous to the union Of the
States, may be argument OF no weight with many of
its advocaes There is some reason indes to fear that
dsunon IL the very result at which OF those aim
who favor tails measure and that they urge on this
system buying and conquering every thing within our
reach this eide the Isthmus at least the ready
and direct mode of ef.ctipg It, From what it merely
proposed, let to the great act of aggression
already perpetrsted upon Northern rights and the
timent Of the free states-ths Kansas Nebraska bill
This audience, assume, does not require argumen
TO safety them this both unjust and Their
convictions upon this port are, trust strong fixed
and immov cable. What Ia demanded, them is not
50 much argument as action firm and decided action.
We do not conceive Alright believe that there
any fair stmblance Of argument to sustain this most mi
qutous measure. There was 1t s true In the whole
history OF the world there always have been In like
cases, prstexts more or less plausible put forward,
with the hope Of psIiang the enormity of the act.
Excuse me in g'ancBg few moments at some Of them,
in order to determine II am right in applying to them
this epithet The great erourd OF Defence and
the only ground which urged in this latitude
from what Is denomnated the sovereign right OF the
people Of the Territories to shape their institutions
they may choose. II standing phrase but let
whether in its application to this IL is not also
hollow and unmeaning ONE. Now, who looks at
this b and the laws of the country can deny that
Congress have granted the settlers the sovereign right