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

Hon. Caleb Gushing has been making
speech 10 his friends and fellow citlzens, 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 to conquer This
Continent, aud est ablish republican empires
over its whole extent. This is the inevi'sbls
decree Of destiny, the necessary march OF
iieedom. But thus work is not 10 be accom-
pllshed through fraud and injustice, and such
weak aud miserable agents as Walker and
| other iilibusers, who retard rather than ad-
vance the movement. Mr.. Gushing says:
'I reprobale, not war itself, bit all irregu.
lar enterprises Of war. hold that the great
issues OF peace belong 10 the sovereign pew
er OF the Union, and should not be wanlonly
usurped 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 :he United Suites, whether OIL the
par, of wesumPuous British Minister, ,s-
cruitmg troops within our jurisdietion, for the
purpose Of rayfa,e in The CIimea, or of a REX.
less american adrcniurer, recruiting them for
the purpose Of plunder and murder in Nieara.
qua No, lei not the small man, Walker, be-
honored for this, on account OF which The
great man Burr was damned.
Non tall axio, nee defensorbus isis,
| Tempus eseI.
The United States require no such instTG-
ments 10 help them forward 10 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 10 obstruct
national purposes in Mexico, in Nicaragua,
in all Spanish America. All such things
tend 10 discredit US also. Thus far, if thero
! be, i'll all the annals of time, case of
mighty nation steadily advancing 10 its ze-
NTH in the shining light of untarnished hon
or, it is these United States. So mote it be
nobleneSs obHge. 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 tho
beginning OF the contest, and al the close of
it Saratoga and Yorktown. Our succeeding
great step was Louisiana, and that came TO
US by the spontaneous act of our oldest
and may she never cease 10 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
iorcible eloquence, explained in my hear
mg-ceded us in fair exchange for our owu
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 and Rusk al their head, to in
dependence of Mexico, by the same denti-
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 10
Mexico. | say, all this 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 true mission of this Republic is, not
as MIR. Cushing believes, 10 become the
masters Of this continent like the ancient
Romans, conquerng by force, but 10 show
such al example of justice and of good gov
ernment that the various peoples of this con-
tinent will be ready TO follow our example
and desire 10 share our prosperity.