The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-03

inyeerae enemy from the European shores OF the BLACK
She has made tributary those Tartar tribes TO whom
she tributary She has after struggle Of almost
half century reduced partial subsection those hardy
and hitherto invneble barbaans Of the Caucasus, who
sell their children slaves for the Aussulman harsms
and whose ancestors resisted and finally baned the ar
mics Of Cyrus Alexander Darius Pompey Lucullus and
others Of the most famous captains OF antiquity She has
annexed part Of Poland which held her in subec
ton and acquired possessions the Gul Of Finland
and Bothna that indispensable 10 the safety Of her
capital
These are certainly very important acquisitions and
may reasonably awaken approximations of the future pre-
ponderancy OF Russia in Europe and Asia But they bear
comparison political and commercial point of view
with those of Great Britain during the period The
possession Malta the two
ia the world gives her the command OF the Mediterranean
She has wrssed the Cape Of Good Hope from Holland the
discovery of which gave direction to the commerce
of the world and occupied the Falkland islands lying
almost directly in the route from the Atlantic TO the Pa
cifc without any claim by right of discovery or any
other right but that Of the STRONGEST seized on Aden the
key 10 the Red sea and the Calf Of Persia aud which
should the canal the isthmus Of Suez be completed
position whose Importance scarcely be estimated
Then the islands of Ceylon and Bornso each com
prsng the dimensions of an empire the vast continent
Australia teeming with gold the Kingdoms OF Barmah
Assam Beran Scnde, the Pupjaub, Moutan Pegu, Mag
pere Aft hanistan, which opens the way to Persia and
lastly Dude which completes the conquest Of the empire OF
the Great Mogu erewhie the richest in the world COM
prsing one million three hundred thousand square miles
and estimated at this moment after century OF piunder
and devastation to hundred and forty millions
| of inhabitants. a
The British ministerial organ the London Morning Post
recently boasted that with the Nabob Of Dude fell the last
of the ancient Emperors Of Hindostan The
conquest of 100000 square miles of territory and l40
900 900 of people has been accomplished and Great Britain
has now no rival in the East but Russia. That barrier
removed and then, the ministerial organ asks "Wha
nexand next2" The question is significant and suggests
its
One might reasonably suppose that government stand
ing in this position before the world saturated with the
spos of nations and staggering under load of asurpa
TONS would be the last to appeal to the grand tribunal Of
that world against the grasping ambition of Russia and
the Unsuitable appetite of the great American vuture But
Great Britain has so long imposed, if not Others, at
herself the idea of her superiority in all that con-
stutes the standard of excellence moral physical and in
,eecua that she have become either blind her
appear to believe that these assumptions Of
superiority perpetualy reiterated by subsidized press
and responded to by national vanity quite sufficient
to impose the ereduy of the rest of the world, and
Justify all their camorous denuncatons of every nation
stands in the way of their vast schemes of ambition
or awakens their Jealousy by its progress In thing
at least they have succeeded They have deceived the
people of England and gradually opened the eyes of the
| rest of the world.
Yet Great Britain which in the course of the last and
present century, has made greater at least more valua
be acquisitions than all the rest of the world besides in
different quarters, forward as the great cham
pion of an equilibrium of power She calls on the
grand inquest Of nations to condemn the United States
and Rpssia-one in the New the other in the Old World
the only transgressors against that code of morality
moderation and magnanimty inculcated by her prcceps
but never exempi6ed in practice.
The power Of Russia and the United States whatever it
may be now or whatever it may be in future is half
SO dangerous to the rights the independence and the
pose the world that of Great Britain does either
Of them possess her of making inroads every
quarter accessible by sea- and in'imidang or coercng
weaker powers into abandonment of their commercial
policy either by threats by force. The leading maxim
the foreign policy of the United States that of non
Intervention in the Affairs OF Europe or any DINER quarter
of the gobc and this principle has been uniformly acted
on by every administration since the days of Washington
All they require is that other powers shall not interfere
with them in their natural and peaceful progress which
governed by beyond the reach Of any Intervention
but that Of the Great Arbts OF Nations and that others
distance shall refrain from all attempts to their
immediate negbbors this continent perfect system
Ia the West similar that which has enabled Great Britain
to subugate or control go large portion Of the East
The nature Of this confederation renders all distant
acquisitions undesirable and inconyenient The United
States hold any remote dependencies and their
pansion must necessarily be contiguous with the single
exception Of Cuba which lies door The maxirns OF
the government as well the interests OF the people fur
ns the guarantee that they win attempt TO
qure possessions in any other quarter Of the globe and
whatever their future may be- there is just
son 10 apprehend they win attempt to interfere with
the policy or interests OF any European power which
trains from interfering with them II at any future period
they should become sufficiently powerful to dispute the do
mnon of the seas with Great Britain, II viii be not to
subjurate but free to all the world for this has
been one Of their great objects from the first moment Of
their Independent existence
If the United States are now and have often been, en-.
tangled in the web of British policy, is not Of their seek
ing II is becau that policy has always been either open
" hostile nsidousy injurious II is because that gov
eminent is perpetually exhibiting morbid jealousy Of
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