The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-16
Amsrican Fila,bsstsrins
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Never nation more entirely misunderstood IN,
Mae grounds OF lie own strength, the true BE-
~ u ns o.G glory, or tho true elements Of r.
s .s.en. ana iatars prosperity than did the Unitet
ss;,sS men men ,nsy suffered thsmsslses 70 bs pre-
vsilsd upon te 80 alibussoriog. We are no
ss,sa,ag -, s 20. from moral, but only from poll.
AIsrica has nothing 20 do, like the Laird o
yumoso,ass ~. trees, to grow up while We sleep.
srinl TO protect life aud property, II she continu,
10 dosbIs her population at the end Of eyery tvsr
ty-nve years. she has destiny before her vbich
lesves nsr no reason to envy ths lands or tbs
ments che cootains within herself are ufdoisnti,
homogeneous TO fuse into single patton; md
that nation must, IL thinss 20 on ~ thor are nov
proceeding. become In no very long time a. nume
rous ., the Cnsoese themselves, aud far more pow.
erful than all the States Of Europe pot Together
10 tt not strange that the heirs OF this msruiA 1.
oent Inheritance should have been 90 blludsd hv
vanity, by party spirit, or by ambition, % to be-.
lievs that they could accelerate the destiny which
90 clearly working out In their favor BY pratt,
cal inroads upon negbboring natiousf The miss
sion OF America being, ~ We have said, 20 grov
aud increase, how can she more efFsctually couu.
tsract 1t than BY sending her sons to contend with
deadly c!imates and hostile populations for the
possession Of land Ia all respects inferior 20 that
which she enjoys 10 such abundance at home p
Why should America, Inhabited BY q race which
evidently hourishes best In the northerr part oi
the temperate zone, Geek TO force her way into
the regions where her son',if they establish them.
selves, must become In few generations enervated
and degenerate, and very probably unable to main.
tain ths possessions which they have acc uired p
hundred years hence the thsn people OF America
may nnd emigration, II not necessity, at any rate
conveience,o ,out even then we thiHk they will ssek
Tor their new settlements rather in the temnersts
regions OF Ssnth America and Northern Asia. than
Ia the burning and inssluorious juneles Of the
tropics. Let America look at our experiences and
pfx~s e.
the States themselves among the pumber. hnvs
peen incredloty successful. Within the tronics
our success has been much more cbeckered and
ou. great tropical empire Of Hindoostan is held
which makes us often half inclined TO reorst tbe
success OF the British Ilbusters of the
century. -
Entertaining these views, we have read with
the most lively satisfaction the anti-Walker nro
clamation Of President Buchanan and tha .rrc.I.
lent article in the Washington Uniop, for which
1t has furnished tho occasion. 1t will be a banny
day for Americs if she can prevail upon herself
10 act according 10 the policy Of the President
aud to adopt the principles Of his organ in the
press. She may take 1t As the feeling of ali her
we'll wisbers on this side of the Atlantic that
nothing would tend to raise her 90 much iu the
eyes OF Europe, as to see her people, we'll az her
government, separate themselves smphaticallv
and entirely from any appearance of sympathy or
interest in the transactions of such Hecond rate
adventurers and reckless homicides as the 40.
called Generals Walker and Henniugsen Eu.
rope is not so straightlaced that there would
not DO In many quarters a secret, or, per-
haps, an avowed sympathy for the splendid
iniquities Of Cortez, a Pizarro, or an Alva-
rado But America would be little fattered
could she be made acquainted with the remarks
that one hears On the delusion of a great nation
which suffers its character to be soied before the
world by the outrages OF . set of stupid braves,
who do not even understand their own miserable
trade. and which is betrayed into demonstration
q sympathy for men who have dragged Its fag
through the dirt without offering is 10 return the
SLIGHTEST moral and political advantage.
The decided stand which Mr.. Buchanan has
made In thistmatter, s tho more crsdtabie to him
because, in making it, he 10 by means to be con.
sdered 40 the representative Of the party to whom
he owes bs'eection- Such countenance as the lli.
busters have received in Americas mainly owing
believe, to the desire of the South to bring
slave States into the Union.