Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-28

on the side Of the new power just Gre
exists capable of wtlsstanding its progress This
new federal republic han come INTO ve hig PlSmys
so to speak and in order 70 attain its indepen&enev
has needed the suP9o , ana BE dsy is At hand
when in those regionsi Will De santIa terLIoie
Colossus Then ii will forget thspenehts which |
it has received from u.s. and VIII tenk only OF us
facility of establishing new pOpulatShs in i'm |
mense territories. and the peculiar advantages |
held forth by the new Government, WIN attract |
thither cultivators and artizans Of all nations,
since rush in pursuit of fortune; and thus, in
a few years, we shall witness with sorrow the !
menacing existence of the anticipated Colossas.
grown to strength will beto possess itself of the
Flordas, in order to command the Gulf of Mexico
After having thus nterposed itself In the way of
commerce with New Spain, IT will aspire to con-
quer that great empire, which it will not be pos
sible to defend against a formidable power, es-
tablished on the same continent, and, what is
more, contermnous with 1t. These apprehen-
SONS are well founded, and cannot fail to be re-
allied within few years, unless, indeed, before
then, revolutions still more disastrous should
break berth i'm our Americas"
Is not that remarkable? The Count Of Amanda
saw the white cloud in the sky; when it was no
bigger than man IS head, he knew that tempest
was wrapped up in its folds and he sought to
ward of the imminent peril by constituting the
Spanish colonies at once into semi indepenttenm
monarchies governed by vassaf Spanish Princes
under Charles as Emperor of Spain and the In
ment only of the islands Of Cuba and Puerto Rico
If those prOvident couRsels had prevailed, twenty
years of revolution and Of civil war would have
been spared to Spanish, as by timely application
Of the same policy they have been to Portuguese
America. Just SO it was tfet, thirty years pre-
viously, Thomas Pownall, the Royal Governor of
Massachusetts,, sought to anticipate the indePend-
Of the thirteen British colonies, by raising
| them to the condition of federal members of
great British union, grand marine dominion as
he terms it-so as to bestride the Atlantic, with
II nrP nff M hp rnGft nm Enrn and
the other on America. If the far reaching views
Of either Thomas Pownall or the Count of Amanda
had been adopted, how different would be our
present condition But the wisdom Of kings is
nothingness and vanity, when weighed in the
balance against the purposes of Providence. The
STUNT OF Amanda well knew that the results which
he aP,Srehended in regard to the Floridas and
New Spafr Were still more certain as to I.ouisi-
ana. The arnezation of that province to the
United States Was not as too many suppose it to
have been, a mere Democratic ambition of the
times of Thomas Jefferson. There is a memora-
BILE letter, addressed, years before that, by Alex
ander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis, in which
Hamilton strongly expresses the longings after
Louisiana entertained by the men Of Washing
toms part ocular school, and avows the conviction
that the possession of it is Indispensable TO the
continuance of the Union. He did but see and
feel as to Louisiana what, in similar cifcum-
stances, others, at later day, distinctly saw and
felt to Texas, and be Il now declared, as to Cal
ifornia also, the necessary companion Of Oregon.
WALKER AND AARON BsRR REGULATED.
pray you not to misunderstood me. i repro
bate, not war itself, but all irregular enterprises
of war. hold that the great issues Of peace be-
should not be wantoniy usurped BY individual
rashness. ] glory in the acts, which is hns fallen
to me perform, towards the repression Of all such
undertakings in the United States, whether on
| the part of a prssmmptmous British Minisfsr, re-
erniting troops icifhin our Jurisdiction fcy fhe
purpose Of ~arfare an the Crimea, or Of rex
purpose of plumber and bloodshed in Nicaragua.
No, let not the small man, Walker, be honored
for this on account Of which the great man, Burr,
was damned.
Tempus eget.
The United States require no such instruments
to help them forward to the contamination Of
their destinies in America. On the contrary, they
impede us, just as Walker, without capacity or
power of possible good in himself has only
served to obstEuct national purposes in Mexico in
Nicaragua, in all Spanish America And such
things tend to discredit us also. Thus far IL
| there be, in all the annals of time case of
mighty nation speedily advancing to its zenith in
the shining light Of untarnished honor, it is these
United States. 80 mote it be-nOblsSse obIige.
Independence of England, with our limits of
original dominion intact, we achieved bravely on
the field of battle, in righteous war, with Bunker
Hill at the beginning of the contest, and at the
| close Of it Saratoga and Yorktown Our succeed
ing great step was Louisiana and that came to 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 extorted by from Spain, but
| coded to US by her, as John Quincy Adams once,
| With his forcible eloquence. explained in nv
hearing-ceded to us in fair exchange for our swn
province of Texas. That again returned to us Of
| its own free will, after having been raised
through the gallantry of her sons, with Hunter
| and Rusk at their head, to independence of Mex
leo, by the same identical right that Mexico was
independent Of Spain. And now California is
| ours, which we acquired in Just wa and mig Int
have kept by the just right Of war, but dsdained
to do so, choosing rather to hold it by the tenure
of cession and Of contract, with contribution of
ample indemnity therefor to Mexico. 1 say, all
that is 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 SHoENAKERs.-Journey shoemakers
are, by long odds, the worst paid mechanics of
our country One dollar per diem is a fair
average of their wages year in and year out.
None work harder-few as hard-as many
hours in the week. The increased prices of
leather has increased the prices of the articles
they make, but there has been no increase in
the remuneration of their labor. Indeed, we
do not know that on an average their wages
have increased five per centum in ten years
past; while all they must necessarily buy has
increased in price an average of, say twenty
per centum, in that time. The only RENE iy
for the disabilities under which they labor, as
explained above-and they are most distressing
ones indeed-seems to US to be, in the general
adoption Of the custom into which they have
fallen in Massachusetts. That is, for them to
combine farming, in a small way, with the pros
ecutiOn Of their trade. There, each ble-boded
member Of the shoemaker's family is engaged
in working of nights, or when farm work can
not be prosecuted, on pegged or other work for
the Southern or Western markets. Their labor
is so subdivided and aided by labor-saving con-
trivances, and is so executed at odd times, as
that it is far more profitable to them than that
even of the journeyman boot and shoemakers
in the cities engaged on the best description Of
custom work, who alone make, at the South
more than the meagrest conceivable wages
Why is it that no one engaged largely in the
trade in the South essays to manufacture pegped
4 wark II 10 dana in