New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-25
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npHes 70 oa,count IN numbers and outvie in strength
- parent etates Of Europe.
say that n the work appointed OF God Tor NJ 10 90
-, with the blessing Of God upon us, that wors
- VA DO II nvers acrosa our path, We vi, ~,
bridge them; IL mountains rise up - stop ne, we VII
tannel them; n deserts appear, we will reciaIn'' y,
eHftivate them; II oceans intervene, we wih no i.,
Ehem to which last end, hong as there ~ o,n a
On earth gallant ships shall continue 70 oe a,,ioi
Into the waters Of this our herrimac; No ,hi. fsr
sbs,scle can arrest our progress. we ~ ;,s con.
nature which lies before us, and we WOO u -; o. ~ ,b
sueror Ike the vikings Of the old tlne Ne - = ~
- S ~ 500 in omen combat. / cay THIS IN 'he
same confidence Of conviction ~ one ""o' s"o w
ann set forth from the portals OF IN" r,S1l' n'iy
anal OF its onward course To the west ,or Hne
spt ~ ,hs Hated states were but weak htt]e coli
enies Of England scattered along tue -" sVre' Ihsn
tbey overflowed the Aleghan,ea mo 'he VeIey OF me
Mississippi Next they aos9,peu 'he .asI ~ uoial p ~, u
Meuco ard Westward 10 Oregon. Next they po1-
$500 themselves Of the two Flondas, and then oi
Teaas. And finally they have marched on shfo"s"
NV. Mexico into remote California.
But in our conquest Of nature with our stHi"A..
anns and with dsuntless hearts TO PACK u1'n
happens that men, nations, races, may must, "'i' p
bh before VA. That ia inevitable lheie eau oI 81. ="
change for the better at the expense On "' wc
i-one generation gives place to anotheri oat OF
decay springs ireth lie. The tribes OF Indians who
hunted over the land, without occupying II, retire oe
e. ne Le the hunted deer and the buffalo themselves
dn.r mud deeper into the innermos recesses of the
continent And the Hispano- Mexicans, wasting away
nv epparent incapacty of selfgovernment are suffer
ing one province after anOther Oi thers 10 eiaPse INTO
st,ne desoation and thus 10 become prepared to re.
eeiye the people and the laws of the United States.
An that Is now history. Yet wise men saw long be-
fore that il was 10 be- From the present they IN
frred the future and spoke Of il with the pO,ivcnes
and precision of inspired prophecy.
OF this most remarkable proof Is TO be FOUND IN
The secret memoir but recently published, which The
Count Of Amuda confidently addressed to his scver-
eicn Charles Ill o! Spain, occasion of signing, in
1888 the treaties acknowledging the independence OF
the United States.
~ have Just concluded ard signed" he says "a
treaty of peace with England and this negotiation has
left in my mind painful sentiment. We have recog.
nized the independence OF the Engl-h colonies, and
that is TO subject OF gref and OF dread France
has few in Americas but she oughtto have
remembered that Spain, her intimate ally, has many,
which now remain exposed 10 terrible convulsions. |
viii not stop TO examine the opinion of statesmen, a.
well comrymen foreigners, who agree with me IN
estimation of the intrinsic difficulty of preserving our
domination in America. Without entering into those
considerations suices merely To speak Of the perlls
with which we are menaced, on the side of the new
power just created in u part of the earth where no
other power exists capable of wihstanding It's pro-
gress. This federal republic has come into being
pgmy, TO speak, and in order to attain Its indc-
pendenco has the support and the forces of two
great powers, France and Spain. The day is at hand
when in those regions II will be gant-a terrible Co
lossus Then il will forget the benefits which ii has
received from US, and will think only of its ag
grapdisemen The liberty of cOnscieDce-the facility
establishing populations immense ter1ltOrleS
and the peculiar advantages held forth by the new
Government, will attract thiiher cutivators and aru-
sans Of all nations since rush in pursuit of fortune
and thus, in few years we shall witness with sorrow
the menacing existence Of the anticipated Colossus
The first step of this power when IT shall have grown
10 strength will be TO possess itself OF the Flordas in
order 20 command the Gulf of Mexico After having
thus nterposed itself in the way of commerce with
New-Spain il will aspire TO conquer u at great empire,
which II will not be possible to defend against for
nidable power established on the same continent and
what IL more conterminous with il. These apprehen-
sOns well founded, and cannot fail to be realized
within few wears unless indeed before then revolu
tons still more disastrous should break forth in our
Americas"
Is not that remarkable The Count of Amanda
the white cloud in the sky; when il was no bigger
than a mans hand he knew that a tempest was
wrapped in Its folds and he sought to ward off the
Imminent peril by constituting the Spanish colonies at
once into seml-independent monarches, governed by
va sal Spanish Princes under Charles as Emperor OF
Span and the Indies the latter retaining the imnedi-
ate government only of the Islands of Cuba and
Puerto Rico If those prOvident counsels had pre-
vailed twenty years OF revolution and of civil war
would have been spared TO Spanish by timely ap-
plcation Of the policy they have been TO fortu-
Just 80 il was that thirty years previously Thomas
Powrell the royal Governor of Hassachusetts
pought to anticipate the independence of the thirteen
British colonies by raising thom to the condition OF
federal members OF great British union, grand
marine dominion, he terms it-so as to bestrde
the Atlantic one foot OF the Colossus resting on
Europe and the other on America.
Iftbe far reaching views of either Thomas Pownall
or the Count Of Amanda had been adopted, how
different would be our present condition But the
wisdon of Kings is Dothingness and vanity when
weighed in the balance against the purposes OF
Providence.
which he apprehended in regard 10 the Flordas and
New-Spain were siin more certain as TO Louisiana.
The annexation of that province to the United States
not as too many suppose 1t to have been a mere
tin ami al A Thomas
son. There is a memorable letter, addressed years
before that by Alexander Hamilton TO Harrison Gray
Otis in which Hamilton strongly expresses the long.
ings after Louisiana entertained by the men OF Wash
mgtons particular school, and the conviction
that the possession Of il is indispensable to the
tnuance of the Union. He did but and feel to
Louisiana what in similar circumstance, others, at
later day, distinctly saw and felt as to Texas and be
II now declared TO California, also, the necessary
companion Of Oregon.
pray YOU not TO misunderstood me. feprobae,
not war itself, but all irregular enterprises of
hold that the great issues of peace belong to the
reign power Of the Cnon and should not be wantony
usurped by individual rsshness i glory in the acts
which il has fallen to me 10 PERFORM towards the re-
preston Of all such undertakings IN the United States
whether the part OF presuInptlous British minis
ter, recruiting troops within our jurisdiction for the
purpose of warfare in the Cnmea, Of q reckless
American adventurer recruiting them for the purpose
OF plunder and murder in Nicaragua No. let not the
small man. Walker, be honored for this, on account o
which the great man, Bun was damned.
Non tall AxiliO, defensOruu' isti'
Tempus oset.
The United Statos require no such instruments to
help them forward 10 the consummaton OF their des
TIMES in America. On the contrary, they impede u.s.
lust Walker without capacity power Of possible
good in himself has only served 10 obstruct national
purposes in Mexico in Nicaragua, in all Spanish
America. And such things tend TO discred us also.
Thus far if there be, in all the annals of time
Of mighty nation steadily advancing to its zenith in
he shining light Of untaynshed honor, il is these