The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-07

unlimited power in the direful word ..annexa
ton. He looks unon it as vast hot American
.hunderbolf. destined to dash existing govern
ments into pieces, and engorge into one grea'
renabllc ali that it skaters. The only Differ.
enee this writer sees between the foreign policy
Of Russia and that OF the United States, is thai
the one acquires territory BY conquest, the Other
hv annazaEon,-tIe latter bT far the most pow
eri.uI and aggressive principle
We extract the more moderate views Of the
article on this topic:
There is in the west. it IS stated as well as IN
the east, balance Of power which ought 70 be
preserved. We must not allow the states 70
become TOO strong. or they will annex moi only
Spanish colonies, but English-even perhaps
ourselves. We will attempt briefly 10 show
why we have not with this chain OF reasoning
or with this class of fears, the remotest sympa-
thv. Why notz itmay be asked. Why adop:
one course Of policy in Europe, and other in
American And ought We not TO guard our
colonies from the possibility Of attack, in ike
manner as We do India? Probably, in no way
can we better explain our views than by COM
pairing Russia with America. 1t Is notin order
to prevent Russia from becoming powerful, that
we form alliances against her. no effort OF ours
could stay her growth in population, or check
her progress In wealth. but it is because she
threatens TO iniure US. that We strive to confne
it within It's own borders. Here, however, lies
the great difference: In Russia, We have TO deal
with government which conguers,in America,
with a people which annexes. Let the czaf
gain possession Of constantinople or of Copper
Laean and reckless of his old and of his nes
Subjects careless of every consideration except
the preservation or agrandizement OF his an
power, lie Willmake use of the yantage- grosnd
thus obtained, IN order to further those att!cks
upon the liberties of other nations by whih he
strives to divert his subjects from dlscontnt at
their own sersitude. Let the .sstars and stipes"
wave over the heights of Mexico, ard Vera
Cruz would speedily become another rev Or
leans and millions OF fresh customersfor our
manufactures would replace the bandsof anar
chists who now rob travellers of Their money
and capitalists of their loans. IT iussla at
tacks Turkey, il is because she fearsthe grow
ing civilization of the christians ifsle marches
into Hungary, it's toprotect despotim. Every
8here-north, south, and West-n Sweden,
Creassia, Germany, she weights down BY her
brute force the spirit OF freedom-that spirit
which, among other and far more precious
possessions, includes that individual enterprise
upon the existence of which, in other countries
depends so much of the prosperity OF manu-
featuring and commercial peo5le.Eke ourselves.
America, on the other hand, anexes a territory
because she either has filedt or wishes to fill
it, with men more possessed with this spirit of
enterprise than were those who were there be-
fore, with men, therefore whose interests will
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with us would be a great injury. Again, the
whole system of annexation which America has
as it Were invented is after all, not so much ag-
gressive as attractive. Can any one deny that
the inhabitants, or atlest the white inhabitants
of Texas or New MeJieo have gained by ex-
incessant civil wars, of choice be-
tween no government and such a dictator as
Santa Anna, for voice in the senate 1t Wash /
ington equal to thai of New York or Pennsyl- /!
yania? Nor does the new state lose its distinc- /
tiveness we may almost say its nationality. The /
of the states is the very life of the
Union, and however weak The new conner, every
memberof the federal family would. for its own
sake. protect It's independence. II ever this
prineipl of annexation be dropped-ifthis adj
mission to q perfect equality Of privileges, and
10 A complete participation IN governments, be \
replaced by the subsection Of conquered terrific
les to the whole federal Union, or to one par
icuar state, or even BY such sabseryienee to
be parent republic as was that of the Ionian
colonies TO Athens-then, indeed, the immense
md increasing force ofthe Union would become
dangerous to all around it.'' tzrmass
MODERN DIscoFERF.-In the course of a
engtby and able article in the New Y ork Trib-
me we find the following summing up of the
of discoveries within the last
quarter OF a century: within the last twenty
i've years all the principal features of the geo.
,raphy OF our own vast interior regions have
een accurately determined, the great fields of
CENTRAL Asia have been trayersed in various di- :
ectlons, from Bokhara and the Oxus to the
}hinese wall, the half-known river system of !
'outh America have been explored and sur
eyed the icy continent around the southern
ole has been discovered, the northwestern pas :
age, the gnus fatuus of nearly two centuries, /
at last found, the Dead sea is stripped of its ID
abulous terrors, the course OF the Niger is no /
niger myth, and the sublime secret of the !
lie is almost wrested from his keeping. The :
fountains OF the moon, sought for through two S
lousand years, have been beheld by Causa- t
du eye. di IDgiisN STEAMER has aSc6naeQ the
'hadda to the frontiers of the great kingdom a
Bornou, Leichardt and Stuart have penetra- /
ID the wilderness of Australia, the Russians e
ave descended from Irkoutsk to the mouth OF !
lie Amoor, the antiquated walls of Chinese !
rejudice have been cracked and are fast tumb- !
ng down, and the canvas screens which sur q
ound Japan have been cut BY the sharp edge ,
American enterprise. Such are the prne- |
Al results Of modern exploration What quar- $
r Of a century, since the form of the earth 5
nd the boundaries of its land and water were ).
nown, can exhibit such list of achieve i
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CoTTos MANUFACTURE IN THE SoUTH-An q
bic writer, in a northern periodical, saws :
'uthern contemporary, has taken up this sub 9
ct, and shows very eonclusively that all the y
outhern States ought to become the manufac- $
lrers, as well as producers, of cotton for the : :
orld. From facts furnished by this writer, it a
ppears that the cotton manufacture makes up Il
early one half of the external trade of the
ritish kingdom. The United States furnish e
ur-ffths of the six hundred millions of pounds )