The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-02-11

ton us agains. forming dangling alliances
with foreign nations, in fact to attend to on
!o#n affairs, and let other nations attend 10 thel
own concerns, and this policy more, PerhaP:
! than any thing else has conduced TO the pre-
gress and greatness OF the United States.
was with feeling Of astonishment that tn
American people heard the announcenentths
! the Pierce administration had rePadiated TIL
time honored policy Of the patriot-tathers, an
been cajoled by Great Britain into ''tansIin
alliance" for the aroWed purpose OF nlanagin
the private affairs Of Central America. TIL
whole continent, We may say, is The natural her
/ itaee Of the AngloAmerieans, and it is thel
destiny to oyerrun it, and TO spread republlca
institutions from its northern 10 IFS southern ex
trcfnity; and no thinking mind can for mo
ment entertain the idea than any European pow
| er Gan oppose insurmountable obstacles to thl
ordination of fate. They may dam the stream
for time, but the pent-up waters will SWEEP
away all barriers, and bear along upon thei
pillows civiIisation and republican institution:
to the verge of the continent. L II vain fol
president Pierce, Mr.. Dallas and the British
ministry to form alliances for the management
of any portion Of America. Who gave them
the Joint right TO rule over Central America?
Great Britain is merely an intruder, the mere
TEMPORARY possessor of usurped territory, and
should be treated as such All treaties entered
into with that government, in respect to Amer
lean: affairs, are wrong in princip Pile, and nothing
less than a total abandonment Of the Monroe
doctsine," which president Pierce has 50 often
declared he was determined to carry out. b.
the treaty recently negotiated By the president,
through Mr. Dallas, Great Britain and tie q.
States have bound themselves TO intervene in
the settlement Of tic boundaries of neighboring
States, to the erection Of free States and free
ports out OF portions Of their territory. and tied
down the Americans hereafter 10 certain line
Of conduct in regard to Nicaragua. San Juan
is to be taken away from its owners and made
a freetrade city, and the Mosquito Indians
erected into nation By tits treaty; bile the con
tracing parties, Great Britain and. the United
States, are each to the other pledged not to ne
5otiate with Nicaragua Or Walker except ac-
,ordi7g 10 the line chaIked out BY this singu-
ar c3mpact. Pray, what right has the United
States to join Great Britain and become party
0 either Of these things? What right have
hey TO define boundaries, TO dictate the form
# government which The people of San Juan
md the Mosquito islands shalIiye under, or tx
be civil and political relations the mongrel races
# Central America shall sustain to each other7
LII this is according to the principles Of the
holy alliances" which the crowned heads of
Id Europe form for tic protection OF their '.di-
inc rights" and the enslavement of their sub
scts;. but is alien to the princi pies and policy
Americans. Our sublime declaration Of in !
ePeEdence declares that, :'it is the right Of the .
eopI2 to alter or 10 abolish and to institute .
ew government, LAYING its foundation on such
r'nclPIes, and organising its powers in such
nm, as to them shall seem most likely 10 cf-
Ct their safety and happiness" That docu-
ent IS the sheetanchor Of our republican in
ltutlOns, and the Dallas treaty is at direct is
le with the tenets il proclaims, and cannot re-
i've *be sanction ofthe American people unless
icy are prepared to discard the teachings and
1licy Of the past, as well as the surrender of
| hopes Of the future Can the L. S. senate
,nsent to this? We must also admit that We
ave Jet to learn that a treaty can make ne
70 OF the Mosquito islands capable ofthe exer
Sc OF the rights and duties of governing a free
ate The United States and Great Britain
t both powerful and great; but they cannot
charge the spots Of The leopard or the skin Of
e Ethiopian" We hardly expected, while
aiding president Pierce commentaries on the
Monroe doctrine, that he would 50 soon tram
& 1t nndcr foot, and join Great Britain in an al
'nce to conrayene in American affairs.
The New York Herald publishes table of
Mercantile Failures in 1856" said 10 have :
nanated from the Mercantile agency Of the
y o. y. York, an institution known THROUGH
1t the country as the "SIaughter House. - :
this document We are informed that 27O5 ,
ercanhIe failures occurred during the year,
which "a were in Louisiana, and IS in Tex !
= Ihe largest number Of failures, 7O8, &C. {
fred IN New York; Ohio stands second On the {
i, giving 241, while Arkansas has the honor {
footing the bill, only eight of her merchants
wing failed. Of "swindIing failures" 81 oc- t
rred in New York; Is in Illinois; and in
'uIs'ana Of houses reported TO be "n a pre-
nous condition" l19 exist in New York: 81 {
Virginia; 3 in North Carolina; and only ;
Louisiana and in Texas This speaks well
the condition Of our merchants. No men
N IS made Of Mississippi in the reports. The
@r"ld says that the reports were made M at
e Mercantile agency" and has no doubt of
ar correctness, as the facilities which tina,
peculiar northern institution has at command
'eP 1t well posted. The 27o5 failures re-
'ried last year, it would not be extravaoantto :
erage at $4,000, which would give An ao-
egate of S54 100 600 The crad;tors ,f,l,