Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-11
HOW MUCH SHALL WE BEARs

Il has come to be q question of serious import
whether or not Great Britain shall be suffered to tr
de longer with the interests Of the rePresenati,e
power of the Western continent, Shall she be al
lowed to plant her flag on every island in the gulf
and establish supremacy in every neighboring
StateP Shall she be longer suffered to manufacture
and use pretexs for interference in the internal ut.
fairs of the Central American States interference
which British Machiavesm SO readily converts into
q sway as absolute as despotism can desire? Shall
contumelious upstart dynasties in North or South
America be allowed to rob and murder our citizens
and when asked for redress and idemnty to threat
en- US with British powerp Viii! the American
Government make good that holy declaration that
second gospel which was proclaimed when Liberty,
fair, pure and young, first MARKED America for her
home? Are we an independent nation among the
powers Of the earth is our independence an emp
ty name only? Is there a meaning in our banner OF
the stars and stripes, or is it but plaything for
speech.makers and song-wrters?
1t is to matter of increasing surprise that the
attention of the whole North and the whole South
should be fixed upon the squabbes of Abolitionists
in Kansas or the filthy crimes of horde of Mormons
in Utah. while the wrongs and aggressions of for
muir Of complaint. The American people look on
with supine indifference while rival nation builds
up in Central America Southern Canada, and hear
asserted, without indignation and almost without re-
monstrance, claims Of sovereignty and dominion
where there is not the least right or shadow like to
already debauched sister republics to its all de-
vouring lust for dominion. Its agents. secret or OPP
en-, already constitute the ruling power in Central
America and New Granada British war ships viii
ten their Pacific and Atlantic shores. Any island
where British subjects tempted to land is straight
way assumed to be British colonly, and the pre-
text of protection to British subjects is sufficient to
call forth the most arrogant assumptions of power
Ships bearing emgrants to Central American State,
whittier they have been invited from this country
by the supreme authority, have been subjected to
stoppage and search under claims against which the
mos: earnest protestations should be raised while
mongrel negro-Indian natives of Costa RIGA proudly
and insultingy assert that they British subjects.
We have convcrscd much of late with gentlemen
who have been in different Central America States,
to whom they seemed no more nor less thap British
Provinces or ready become colonies at The first
invitation. They appear TO be in the situation where
interference by the British is not only tolerated, bat
courted They are ripe already for absorption, and
only wait for some pretext which shall give color of
justification to the act which shall make them de-
Tendencies Of Great Britain in form, as they are now
almost in effect.
The English are crowdng into Central America
by thousands; Americans are prosecuted and driven
away even when invited. Every facility is afforded
to Enelishmen to carry on business profitably and
peaceably there; Am ricans meet with nothing but
hostility from the time they land until the British
and gredsers expel them. English influences, rami-
flying throughout that whole region, increasing
and strengthening. while the last vestiges of Ameri-
can influence are fading away. right Of passage
across the narrow sthmus is still open to us, but
even that would be closed except that our war ships
our rights to be still respected there. The
currcnccs OF the last three years have caused that
manifest destiny which We fondly looked upon as
the substantial reality Of glorious future to fade
away like the shadows in dream. 1.-THE same
process continues unchecked but little longer our
Monroe doctrine will become tradition of the past
and all our hopes for the spread of our republican
liberty will serve on as laughing stock to Euro
pean monarchs. New Orleans Courier.