The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-24

the Turkish and Italian questions, dis
turb the councils Of European States. I'm
til the issue shall have been precipitated and
our designs and purposes made executory ia
this respect, our relations with England and
France will continue to be distracted, the in
terests of trade depressed and alarmed, and
the cause Of humanity itself crippled and pa
ralyzed. Meanwhile, the basis OF our action
has been fixed and our destiny determined
we are to absorb Cuba, Mexico and Central
America, aud bring them into the great league
OF American States, and secure the absolute
political unity of the continent of North Ame-
RIGA. Carada has already assumed an indie
pendent position, and been brought into actual
political social and Industrial connection with
our people.
Having thus settled the fate of the States Of
Mexico, Cuba and Central America, and given
full scope to the operation Of our political,
commercial and social ideas, we are prepared
to build up great naval and commercial
Power-a Power be it remembered, based up
on industry, upon peace, upon non-interven-
tion-upon tho essential foundations Of indie
pendent labor and productions. 1t will give
us a monopoly of the great staples of sugar,
cotton, rice and tobacco, from slave labor; OF
wheat and corn, Of pork, beef and fruits, in the
free States. 1t will build up an internal trade
between the States of the Union greater than
the present external commerce Of the world;
an educational system capable of enlightening
every mind. 1t will foment invention, stimu-
lata ~
morality, religion and order, secure peace, and
above all, mark ont upon the map of the world
"the land of the free and the home of the
brave" These are among the fruits to be
gathered from an early determination to ex-
tend our political system over the States
named from an early closing of the great
controversy now agitatipg and disturbing our
political relations with the European govern
ments. They will be followed by our restora-
tion to a constitutional and uniform currency.
Anticipating these results, aud looking with
the eye of the prophet and the statesman to
the future, it is the duty of Congress promptly
to signalize their coming by reorganization
of the tariff, so as to give permanency to TO-
reign trade and home manufactures. Our legis-
lation in this respect has undeniably been too
fugitive and experimental in its nature; it has
been directed largely by personal interests, by
class demands and profits. 1t is time that it
should be settled upon principles looking
more to permanency, 70 justice, to equality
to the triumph of a great nation resting its
foundations on the popular mind and working
out its destiny by its Independent labor.
1t is thus that we have grouped before US
the prominent inducements for the utter and
final overthrow Of the abolition agitators-
great enemies of our free institutions
The HoLpAYs ARE HERE AGAN.-This
joyous season has fairly commenced, aud it is
well that we have something this year to
make us glad, whether we live in q twenty thou
sand dollar house, brown stone front, and feast
our friends on boned turkey and champagne,
or inhabit more modest tenement and indulge
in crullers and new cider. Everybody has
enough to eat this year, and something to
spare, and consequently, everybody really
will have merry Christmas and happy New
Year. This is the juvenile millennium, and
even the old fogies fuse with Young America
in holiday times. Nobody cares whether Con-
gress is organized or not; all the members will
come home for the holidays with pockets no
fuller than ever, and necessitated to draw on
the banks for the funds wherewith to purchase
gifts for their juvenile constituents. Nobody
cares much about Kansas and Nicaragua is
nearly done up until the holidays are over.
Broadway, from the Battery to. Union square, is
filled with purchasers Of articles suitable for
gifts, and the appropriate advertisement CO
lums in the HERALD is scanned by thousands of
inquiring eyes, whose owners are puzzled for
solution to the important questions, what
sball / buy? and where shall buy it? But
there ia everything here that one can desire,
graduated to all purses, and Wall street, being
in good humor, comes down literally. So
are the hearts of the female and juvenile por-
ton Of the community rejoiced-so do the
fancy goods book and jewelry trades thrive
apace. We don't know of anything more
pleasant than stroll through the Broadway
shops on the day before Christmas. The trea-
sures of the whole world are spread out before
you. Cleopatra never wore such laces and we
will venture to say that the Queen of Sheba
never saw anything equal to MORE antique
dress pattern. Then the illustrated books, and
the German toys, and the French clocks, and
the wonderful India Rubber dolls, and but the
variety is too great for description.
The markets will make fine show to-day
and thrifty housewives will be up to their eye.
in preparations for great family feasts to-mor-
row. Let US enjoy the good things prepared
for us in all moderation
CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE SLAvEs.--ft was only
the other day that we heard Of an effort being
made to divide religious tract society into
Northern aud Southern sections, on the ground
that the reverend members of the Northern half
had ideas Of their own on the subject of negro
labor which exercised them so severely that
they could not recopcile it to their consciences
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