Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11

L. rieht in admitting it, and making il tho basis
Of the Joint treaty. And what is the objection
Simply this that England has no right at all in
che matter, that she is always thrusung herself
forward, and that she is II universal cOrmorant of
advantages and possessions. Now the famous
Monroe doctrine is nothing but the Application Of
this very British policy to American affairs. 1t
was simply taking the refusal of THE continent.
England had the start in the East, and so America
asserted its claim to the West. On the ground of
principle, in the matter, both nations stand pre-.
eisely alike. America assumes the right, and,
perhaps, only bides her time, TO treat Cuba and
Central America precisely as England treated
India.
In the present case, the claims Of Great Britain
10 o practical interest in the question have already
been allowed to us in the Cl0yton-Bulwer treaty
and even had they not been so, the interest of the
first commercial power in the world. in any fresh
facilities of commercial communication is sufficient
ly evident. Beside this general interest, the
curious inquirer will learn, that England has long
enjoyed distinctly conceded rights in Honduras,
and that the chief commerce of all the n~eighbor-
ing states of Central America is almost mUnop'
olhEed by her. BY it's situation, and peculiar for
nation, Central America is one of the most i'm
portant points in tho world. Every commercial
and enterprising nation on the globe is directly
interested in the impartial settlement of the right
Of way through the country. England justly re-
sists any exclusive claim of any f0reign power
upon that soil and the treaty of Mr.. Dallas, so
far as its is known, fairly expresses the sentiment
Of the intelligent and patriotic mass of the Amer
lean people.
There is still, happily, q moral sentiment in this
country. which is distincti,ely American, and
honors that name so much, that it would willingly
fight rather than see it deseCrated. That senti-
ment was fully aroused ana interested in the
recent presidential election, and will not again
fall iEto political Indifference. So long M n
country of popular institutions has a conscience,
represented by a considerable body of voters, that
country is safe. Within the last two years-as
we believe-we, as q people, have passed the
greatest peril with which We were ever threatened.
The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and the
Kansas Nebraska bill, were the high.water marks
of a slave despotism. Those were happily driven
back, before the harvests OF the future were total
~ submerged. The shock, which the good sense
and patriotism Of the country received, showed it.
self in the vital excitement OF the presidential
election, and scored itself upon our history in that
prodigious combined vote of the opposition,
amounting to more than two millions, against the
eighteen hundred thousand that elected Mr.. Blu
ehanan. The great battle is still to be fought,day
by day, but that shock will keep the public con-
science alive. Men who have hitherto scorned
politics will now consent to mingle in them, con-
scious that politics can be purified only by ming
ling principle with them. That process develops
a patriotism Of which General" Walker is not a
representative which loves its country as the
great means of future civilization and human
progress and that patriotism would fight to the
death rather than that country should, by a single
meanness or crime, dishonor its divine intention,
and disappoint forever the secret hope of hu-
mainly.
We repeat, the great battle is still to be fought
and, if we thought SO last summer, how much
moro so now, after our Presidents inaugural and
the decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the bred Scott case. The maddest dog
ma of Mr.. Calhoun has now received the deliberate
sanction Of the highest official legal authority in
the land. The decision was the true inaugural Of
the first President ever elected by u sectional vote
in the country. The result Of the decision is the
loss of respect, in all manly minds, for a repub-
lican tribunal which, in spirit, decides against hu-
mainly, and, consequently, against God.