Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-07
How Much Shall We Bear?

It has come to be question of serious inn port whether or not Great Britain shall be suf tered to trlt1e longer with the interests of the representative power of the western continent Shall she be allowed to plant her lag on every island iii the gulf and establish a supremacy in every ueighboring State? Shall she bo longer suffered t. manufacture and use prcteH ts for interference in the internal affairs of the Gen. tfaI American States, an interference which British Machlavellsm so readily conyert into a sway as absolute as despotism can desire? Small c1ntumel.ous upstart dynastes ill North ol South America be allowed t1 rob and inur- der our citlzeAs and when asked for redress and Indemnity to threaten us with British power? Will the American eover.men make 5ool that holy decaretou that eeonJ gospel
 which Was proclaimed when Iibcrty, far, and pure and young, first marked America for her home? Are we an independent nation among the powers of the earth or 's our independence an empty name only? Is there a neo7jD1 in our tanner of the stars and atue~ or is t but a paythihg for speech-makers and soug-wri- | ters
 t is to us matter of increasi Z surprise that the attention ot the whole North afd tue Whole | south shou.d be ixei upon the >It.bllas of lboIiton.a iu Kansas or d.; filthy crimes of a 1 horde of Mormons in Utah, while the wrongs and aSgresslouS of d foreign power upon our | rights scarcely excite a mImur ul complaint. l The American people look ou WitL sumue ill., 1 difference while rival nation builds up in | Central America Southern Canada, and hear asserted, without indignation auI almost with ! out reWouetrauce, claim, oi sovero gty and ao- mihion where there is hot the lc.l.t right, for shadow iike to right" to support them. A 1 foreign monarchy hAs already debaucAcd our ! story ltp. f., ,il .l
 miulon. lts agents, secret or opeu, .,rrtl, cnn- 1 sttute the ruling power in Central America and
 New Granada. British war ships 0u.ceu their Pacific and Atlantic shores Any island where | butiah su jects are tempted to land Is raj sbt- way assumed to be a British colony, and tine lrettXt Q! LIotect.u" :.. ..'.-.: -'.!..-"-;
 cIent t. call forth the most arrogant as.ump- 1 t"uS of power Ships bearing eml4rart> to | Central Amercan ; a'e, Whither they lave ! been invited from this couurry Wv the supreme authority, have been subjected 10 Stopp4ge and | search nnder claims against which tae most l earnest prptestatiars shori De raised: N bile i moHgrcl neHo Indian natives of Casll Rca ! proudly aut itsulin!v assert lAas they .ue | British subjects. We have convrrsei much of late with gentlemen who have been in diff | Iereut Central American States. t1 whom they seemed no more nor less thau British provinres. | or ready lo become colones at tho first invita-
 ti"n. They appear to be in tue situation where Interference by the Brt>ni uot oily tolerated.
 but courted. They are ripe already nr nDso D. won, and only wait torsome preteXt which shall
 give color of justification to tue act which shall make them dependencies of Great Britain in
 form, as they are now almost n effect.
 The English are crowling into Central
 America by thousands; Americans are persecu-
 ted aud driven away even when uvited.-
 Every facility is atforlel to Eugnshmen to carry on business proftably and peaceably there; Americans meet with nothing but hos uilty from the tune they land uuti the British and grease,s expel them. English influences, ramliying throughout that whole reigon, are in- creaS1ng and strengthening, while tile last ves- tlSes ot American influence are fading away. A right of passage across the narrow sthmus Is still open to Us, but even that would be clo- sed except that our war ships cause our rights to be still respected there. The occurrences of the last three years have caused that manifest destiny" which we fondly looked upon as the substantial reality of glorious future to faie away ::.& 2 the shadows in a dream. If the same process continues unchecked but a little longer our Monroe doctrine will become tradition of the past and all our hopes for the spread of our republican liberty will serve only as laughing stock to European monarcns.-N Q. Courier