The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-25

The Humbug % Tripaytlts Atrargeusen es-
TIVE Relative Pssition Of enc United states
and Euacps.
The London Herald, which rejoices in beiag
the organ of Lord Derby. nov Prime Minister
OF England. takes the ground that An exclusive
iy American influence in Central America is a
thing NOTE be admkted and advises Mr.. Blu.
chsnan to drop the exclusive claims of tine
United States and enter frankly and cordially
with the other great maritime Powers into al
effort to settle, once for ALL this Central Ameri
can imbrosiio-"
We suppose that the British organ. in making
this diplomatic proposition, is prepared to sus-
tain it with all its consequences, and coacede to
us the same things 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
United States, Eagland and France-enter upon
an arrangement for settling on the same basis
all questions Of national progress Let all
claims to exclusive influence be abandoned. The
first proposition that we should probably have
to settle would be our share of the Hindostan
empire. Then the islands Of the Australasiaa
archipelago might be divided out, pro rata. A
third interest in the Australian continent would
accrue to us. Next would come our share of
the Cape ofGood Hope plumber; q third part of
the China difficulty; large interest in the new
gold region of Frazer river; several bastions in
the Notifications of Gibraltar; portion of the
Mosquito Protectorate and the Bay Islands, and
a foothold upon the thousand and one STRATEGY
cal points which England has secured upon the
face of the earth. From France we could
accept a third Of Algeria thirty three
per cent in the Suez canal three or four
of the Society Islands, and pretty strip
of French Guiana This is what the propo-
amounts to; but we suppose that she will not
recognise her own doctrine when she sees it.
The European advocates of tripartite divi.
sions of the world have yet to learn that the
progress of the United States as nation
springs from very different causes than those
which create the growth of monarchical en-
pires. While Europe is pursuing her conquests
by the sword, initiating the old Roman policy
of building up an empire by force, the advance
of the United States arises entirely from the in
crease of individual power within them and
their empire is based upon the free volition of
man. An untrammelled development of the
material resources of the soil and the largest
freedom of individual enterprise is the whole
secret of our growth. We do not conquer ma
tions, though we may absorb and amalsamate
them in our system. This is the secret Of our
moral conquests, not only on this continent, but
even in the Old World.
While the public men of Europe are contem.
plating the possibility of inducing US to accept
partial influence with them in territories con-
tiguous TO our own, the inevitable destiny of
which is to come into our system, it would be
well for them to turn their eyes homeward, and
look a little more closely into the victories
which we are achieving in Europe. The spec
tacle presented at the present moment in the
relative position of the three western Powers of
that continent is On instructive one. England
is accused by France and Spain of having sue
cumbed to the United States upon great ques-
ton, and they are already doubling her good
faith as TO the final result upon themselves. The
PhSSc Va ishbiohus WV, ID uos ~ eatiriicu
with the possibility of new relations springing
up between the French empire and ourselves.
Spain is alarmed at the moral advance of
the United States in the estimation
of European cabinets, and is alarmed at
the prospect of being forced to sell
her much priced 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 onward and
upward, and we care little whether the rulers
Of Europe accept or reject it. We have no
need to fight battles to make our weigh. felt In
the family Of nations Every dny adds to our
moral influence, and brings some new recogni-
ton of II from other Powers. AS for the Cen
trail Amcrican'imbrogiio we shall 90 on In the
policy we have marked out, and settle IL In the
spirit of Justice and with due regard for the
rights Of all.
THE AFFAIR or Mr. CoRcoRAS AND Mr.. Mr.
KuAGA.--We published some days since por-
r. L. ef f..