The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-03
rHE UNITED States, RUSSIA. AND GREAT BRIr-

grasping ambition Of Russia and the Unsuitable appe-
tile Of the great American vulre The United States
cannot take single step in the progress Of expansion
either by voluntary annexation purchase ceSson,
this continent though their progress everywhere carries
with il civilization aud liberty, without giving excite
men 10 those eaousies that sleep and new
TO those nyecyes which furnish large porton Of the
ordinary material Of the British press when dealing with
the character and conduct Of the government and people
of the United States They TO think Great Britain
ia exclusively privileged make acquisitions in all parts
of the world and that other nations especially the
United States and Russia restricted by great
principle Of justice inhexble law of Nature
which has no application Great Britain and from which
she is exempted BY special dispensaOn of Providence
peculiar to herself alone.
When the United States, after having once twice. and
thrice declined the application of Texas 10 be
ceved member of this confederation, length acceded
to the request the British government having made every
effort to defeat with which it had right to in
terere appealed the world through the medium Of iS
press against the ausatabs appetite Of the great American
vulture" Ii this period that Great Brain for the
first time gave indications of that policy which has finally
resulted in the consummaton of the entente cordiq After
having previously denounced Louis Philippe of France
almost with him on the of the marriage Of
the Duke of Monpenser with the heress Of the Spanish
Crown she suddenly changed her position She courted
the French monarch, she is doing now, and invegled
him into that famous declaration about establishing an
equilibrium of power in the New World" which has done
much dissolve the last remaining link of those
cent ties of friendship and gratitude that had long sub
sisted between the United States and France.
When Mexico which had been the aggressor in the war;
lay PROSTATE the feet of the United States and they
condescended TO purchase at price than it was
worth to the possessor what they in fact had already
acquired by conquest, the jealousy of Great Britain
reused to demonstrations California, though its
hidden not then suspected had for
been the object of intense longing Her naval officers had
been surveying its coasts making draughs of its harbors
and taking all those preliminary steps which the nva
rabe indications of British policy when mediang de-
its prey The possession Of California and its
BILE harbors would have given Great Britain complete
mand of the North Pacific and the entire coast of America
from the mouth of the Gulf OF California to the Russian
possessions No wonder she painted for this imperial prize
which it is well understood she the very
of cutchng when the destnes Of the United States pre-
vailed and it forever wrested from her grasp Nor ia
it subject of surprise that she is aborng by Of
and strange preensons and suberfuges totally ire
concilable with her high petcnsions to political morality
make herself amends for this disappointment by acqur
ing possession of another portion Of America bordering
the Atlantic which will enable her to control at pleasure
what will long become of the great thoroughres
| of the world. a-4
What but insatiate indispensable craving for little
less than universal empire and instructive conviction
that Of the great obstacles to its qualification is the
United States could have stimulated Great Britain this
course of pocy2 Already her writers reesang the
old Spanish boast that the the British
empire and yet they not satisfied. After every
acquisition they ask, with the London Morning Post
quoted by the other day, "What next-and next ~
Having acquired almost boun5less patchwork empire in
the East Great Britain now under the auspices of the
most active and mischievous busy-body that dis
turbed the peace of the world seeking prey in the
West Without the preence of war any other paus-
BILE preex she has taken forcibe possession Of the island
of Ruatan, apperainng TO State whose independence
had recognised and which may be converted into
other Gibraltar to command the Caribbean sea- the
other does the Mediterranean. At the time find
her perpeiuay lowering about San Juan de
Nicaragua doubtless with view 10 securing the only port
on coast of several hundred miles the mouth of the
only Ientfal aIneTica Whcn aUofdS
a water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Yet IL to believe the declarations Of the British
Premier and his organs all these "rivial matters
which Great Britain little nothing about and
would willingly reinquish II not for the point OF hon
or-as II that consisted in obstnately retaining what
acquired by the violation OF every principle of national
honor and national law II these such "tryis mat
ers" to Great Britain they not to the United States
They matters Of great permanent interest deeply in
voving their future peace and security. II would SEEM
therefore bat just that Great Britain should renqush
what she nothing about but which the United States
only consider of the highest Importance them
and which, IL there be any meaning In plain English
words she is bound to do by treaty This would super
sede the necessity Of those repeated professions of sincere
desire to cultivate the friendly relations with the
United States, which and warbled in
by way Of gentle lullaby 1t not among the least
OF the insults lately henped the people Of the United
States to presume they be blinded Of hostile
bearing by such hollow professions They arc just now
wide awake and beginning 10 through their spec
tacles There is no doubt they can tell hawk from
hand-ssw, let the wind blow which way IL win.
Russia Is the other great delinquent auaigned the
bar OF the world by those vgant public prosecutors the
British journals and like the United States convicted Of
growing fast for the rest Of the world She has been
outawed by proclamation and the nations of Europe not
only invited to combine in great hunt Of the Northern