The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-08-06
THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE
UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.

UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
lFrom the New York Herald.l
The London Herald, which rejoces in be
ing the organ of Lord Derby, now Prime
Minister of England, takes the ground thai
an exclusively American influence in Centra
America is a thing not TO be admitted, arc
advises DIR. Buchanan to "drop the exclusive
claims of the United States and enter frank.
y and cordially with the other great mari.
time Powcs into an effort to settle, once
for all, this Central American imbrogio."
Ne suppose that the British organ, in ma
king this diplomatic proposition, is prepared
to sustain il with all its consequences, and
concede to us the same thing that it asks us
to concede TO the great maritime Powers.-
In this view we like the proposition hugely.
Let the three great maritime Powers--which
we suppose mean the. UDitsd Statcs. England
and France-enter npon an arrangement for
settling on the same basis al questions OF
national progress. Let all claims to exclu-
sive influence be abandoned. The first prop.
osilion that we should probably have to set
tie would be our share of the Hndostan EN-.
pire. Then the islands of the .iustralaslan
archipelago nigh, be divided out pro RAID
A third interest in the Australian continent
would accrue TO US. Next would be our share
of the Cape of Good Hope plunder; a third
part of the China diffisulty; large interest
in the new gold region OF Frazer river; sever
u portion Of the Mosquito Protectorate and
the Bay Islands, and fooIhold upon the
thousand and one strntegcal points which
England has secured upon the face of the
earth. From France we could accept third of
Algeria; thirty-thre per cent in the Suez ca
nal; three or four of the Society Islands, and
pretty strip of French Guiana. This is
what the proposition Of the Mrs. Harris, of
the London Herald, amounts to; but we sup
pose she will not recognize her own doctrine
when she sees it.
The European advocates of tripartite dvi-
sions of the world have yet to learn that the
progress of the United States as a nation
springs from very different causes than those
which create the growth Of monarchical en-
pres. While Europe is pursuing her con-
quests by the sword, initiating the old Ro-
man policy of building up an empire by force,
the advance of the United States arises en-
tircly from the increase of individual power
within them, and their empire is based upon
the free voltion of man. An untrammeled
development of the material resources of the
soil and the largest freedom Of individual en-
terprise is the whole secret of our growth
We do not conquer nations, though we may
absorb and amalgamate them in our system
This is the secretof our moral conquests,
net only on this continent, but even in the
Old World.
While the public men of Europe are con-
templating the possibility of inducing us to
accept partial influence with them in terri
tories contiguous to our own, the inevitable
destiny of which is to come into our sys-
TEN, it would be well for them to turn their
ewes honeward, and look a little more close
ly into the victories which we are achieving
in Europe. The spectacle presented at the
present moment in the relative position of
the three we, tern Powers of that continent
is an instructive one. England is accused by
France and Spain of having succumbed 10
the United States upon great question, and
they are already doubling her good faith as
TO the final result upon themselves. The
press of England, too, is not at all satisfied
with the possibility Of new relations spring.
ing up between the French empire and our
selves. Spain is alarmed at the moral ad-
vance of the United States in the estima-
ton of European cabinets, and is alarmed at
the prospect of being forced to sell her much
prz ed colony of Cuba. When the advocates
of the tripartite influence shall weigh these
things duly, they will find that we have no
need of extraneous assistance in our ad.
vance. Our course as nation is upward and
onward, and we care little whether the rulers
of England accept or reject it. We have not
TO fight battles to make our weight felt in
the family OF nations. Every day adds to
our moral influence, and brings some new
recoppition of il from other Powers. As to
the Central American imbroglio, we shall go
on in the policy we have marked out, and
settle it in the spirit of justice and with due
regard for the rights of all.
Curious DoINes IN ''ExAs.-1he Jefferson
(Cass county, Gazette of the 7'h inst.' says:
Thirty men recently armed and equipped,
went from Grimes over into Polk couniy,to
recover horsethat they asserted had been
stolen from ey st Gibony. According TO
their report, th ston opoed in the neighbor-
hood of Living Nr. and struck camp ana
sent Two of their party to town 10 recomo''re
or parey rs might be necessary. These
found sixty or seventy armed men in town
who were prepared to meet them. they
then returned TO camp. The sheriff of Polk
soon after made his appearances at the head
of one hundred men and with bench war
rant from Judge Maxey for their arrest. They
were then all very quietly taken charge OF
and marched out of the county, ana to'u 10
10 home and behave themselves! 1hr FOLK
marty said they did not d'"h' ~ '" 'he
horse was stolen but here were NOT ID 0