New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-05


Il" sun will shine as today. and the eternal princi
" pIe will continue to subsist. Beyond that all is
4" Illusion" Mr.. Gushing is a true Hindoo. He
beI;sves If no. in the transmigratiOn of souls at
least in a perpetual reproduction OF the same old
dasds There is nothing for US, in bis opinion, but
70 kill copouer, 6llibuster and enslsve, as hitherto
all powerful and energetic nations have done De-
fore rs. We are the children Of manifest destiny
destiny which it is in vain for us to attempt 70 re-
sst-snd that manifest destiny is to be accomplished
a. IN the old barbarous times of the past, BY con-
ouest annexation and territorial extension. 80 lar
Mr.. Cushing and the Hindoo philosophy OF MS
NewburypOrt manifesto.
Now. we too az well as Mr.. Gushing believe IN
manifest destiny. The United States have man
ifest destiny to accomplishment that viii raise
them to the highest distinction and leadership
among the nations. Granted. But our idea OF
that manifest destiny somewhat different from Dir,
Cushing's. 1t does not follow, as he holds, ana
makes the basis of his politics, theoretical and
practical that because the world has hitherto been
governed, and the highest positions attained,
mainly by force or fraud or both combined that
80 it always must be. The world is much changed
in two centuries past and in spite of such Sad
ducees as Mr.. Gushing, is still rapidly changing.
Napoleon l. and Napoleon III. had and have many
admirers but neither the one nor the other Is likely
10 be deifed as Caesar and Alexander were, nor
even TO be canonized like ST. Francis, st. Dominic,
or ST. Ignatius Loyala. The manifest destiny of
these United States is, to our mind, not repeti-
ton of old barbarisms but new developments oil
progressive civilization. 1t is, We firmly trust and
faithfully hope, our destiny, yet to be fulfilled,
not so much to conquer our neighoors
as to subdue and govern ourselves That
manifest destiny of these United States
which fo.eshadows itself to our hopes is not
the conquest Of new territories to be cultivated by
slaves but the expulsion of Slavery in those parts
of our present territory in which it continues TO
exist. We cannot go back with Mr.. Gushing to
Sanscrt poetry and Hindoo philosophy nor yet to
the vikings, the Norwegian pirates and hlhousters
of the middle ages nor yet to the bur"sneerlng
spirit of Queen Elizabeth's time, nor even to the
commercial wars of the last century. Political
economy has made great advances III the last hity
wears. 1t is now well understood that productive
science and industry are shorter, surer and
cheaper road to wealth than robbery, conquest and
plunder 1t is not her Indian conquests that have
made England what she is. Whatever Mr.. Cush'
ing may think or say, the invention Of the steam
engine, of the spinning jenny and the power-loOm,
has contributed more TO the present greatness of
England than all her military and naval
heroes from William the COnqueror downward.
1t is the same with us. 1t s to arts and ideas, and
not to arms, that We owe our present rank among
civilized nations. The first paragraph of the Dec
araton of independence has done more to make us
known and respected than would have been done
by forty Mexican wars-and, by the way, Mr..
Cushing's own personal experience in that line, IN
which he gained nothing that we have ever heard
of except an ignoble tumble into ditch, might, we
should have supposed have served to teach him
that camp is not the ittest place for educated
men like himself.
1t is. we trust our manifest destiny still To move
forward to the complete fuifment of the great and
novel IDEAS of the founders of our Republican Union
1t lie. we hope our manifest destiny, in spite Of so
many poE,ica AarOns SO many worshipers OF the
Golden Calf among US, yet to enter that promised
land seen by Washington and Jefferson only as it
were afar off, from mOuntain-tops. Though the
tablets of the law have been broken, yea, ignobly
trampled under foot they may yet be replaced.
The children of Israel wandered forty years
in the wilderness, till every one of that wicked
generation had died; yet they entered the promised
land at last In spite of the 'slave-driving
Slavery extending and fllbustering hands into
which the control Of our national affairs has tenn
porary fsllen-chehy through the treachery and
selfshness of Northern politicians of the Cushing
school-we trust yet to see the manifest destiny Of
these United States fulfilled, Slavery abolished,
emgrant-runners baggage smashers, poicy-brokers
and grog.shop keepers gone to join the vikings,
Sham Democracy replaced BY the real article, and
our country setting forth the bright example to the
eyes Of an admiring, applaudng and initiating
world, Of equality industry, plenty and happiness
at home, and Of justice and in case Of weaker ma
tons and races, beneyolence and generosity in all
cur foreign relations. Mr.. Cushing who finds the
conduct Of Massachusetts so ridiculous, will doubt
less find our profession of faith still more So We
shall stick to it for all that.
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