The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-05-13
Caleb Gushing upon Manifest Destiny
and FiltbusteTing.

Hon. Caleb Gushing has been making
speech to bis friends and fellow citizens, at
Newburyport, Mass, upon national politics,
and the probable extension Of the U. S. over
the Continent He considers .: the mission
of the American republic tn conquer this
Continent, and est ablisb republican empires
over its whole extent. This ie the inevitable
decree of destiny, the necessary march Of
freedom. But tins work is not to be accom-
pllshed through fraud and injustice, and such
weak and miserable agents as Walker and
other flibustsrs, who retard rather than adj
vance the movement. MIR. Gushing says:
81 reprobate, not war itself, but all iregu.
lar enterprises OF war hold that the great
issues of peace belong to the sovereign pew
er Of The Union, and should not be wsntonly
usuped by individual rashness. glory in
the acts which it has fallen 10 me to per form
towards the repression of all such undertake
ings in The United States, whether on the
part Of a presunipfuous British Minister, re-
eruitmg troops 'cithin our jurisdietion, for The
purpose Of acaJtare in the Crimea, or Of a reck.
less american aduenturer, recruiting them for
the purpose of plundsr and murder in Nieara.
qua. No, let not the small man, Walker, be
honored for this, on account of which the
great man Burr was damned.
Non tall axilio, nee defensoribus islis,
Tempus egel. a
The United States require no such instru.
ments to help them forward TO the consum-
nation of their destinies in America On
the contrary, they impede us, just as Walk
er, without capacity or power of possible
good in himself, has only served to obstruct
national purposes in Mexico, in Nicaragua,
in all Spanish America. All such things
tend to discredit us also. Thus far, if there
be, in all the annals of time, a case of
mighty nation steadily advancing TO its ze-
NTH in the shining light OF untarnished hon
or, it is the United States. So mote it be
nobleness obIge. independence of England,
with our limits of original dominion intact,
we achieved bravely in the field of battle,
in righteous war, with Bunker Hill at the
beginning of the contest, and at the close of
IL duu IOIhtOWH. ouI ouCCceulilE
great step was Louisiana, and that came 10
us by the spontaneous act of our Oldest
and may she never cease to be our constant
ally and friend, generous and glorious
France; followed by the Floridas, NOT ex-
'torted by us from Spain, but ceded to US by
her, as John Quincy Adams once, with his
forcible eloquence, explained in my hear.
ing--ceded US in fair exchange for our own
province of Texas. That again returned to
ms of its own free will, after having been
raised, through the gallantry of her sons,
with Hunter ard Rusk at their head, TO in
dependence of Mexico, by the same identi-
cal right that Mexico was independent of
Spain. And now California is ours, which
we acquired by just war, and might have
kept by the just right of war, but disdained
to do so, choosing rather to hold it by the
tenure Of cession and of contract, with con-
tribution of ample indemnity therefore to
Mexico. say, all this is a record of which
any nation might, with good cause, be proud;
and so may it be continued on hereafter in
the same bright line of glory and of justice
to the end
The true mission Of this Republic is, not
as MIR. Gushing believes, TO become the
masters of this continent like the ancient
Romans, conquering by force, but 10 show
such an example of justice and of good gov
eminent that the various peoples Of this con-
tnent will be ready 10 follow our example
and desire to share our prosperity.