New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-28

that they are not intes led 10 lead To any scron.
"Avoaipg q principle is one thing" Gays TA<
Union; "acting is quite another thing We
have long been aware tsat this was
fundamental and very Avorits principle OF
the party Of which The Union is the spokesman
We have seen this doctrine strikiney exempl,hed
in the conduct Of the Administration aud its Con-
o,essionsl supporters in the case Of Kan
su, and also in the matter OF suppres,ng
the slaye.trsde AID putting stop to fllIou.-
tersm. Upon all these topics the Administration
made and makes most satisfactory declaration OF
principles. TIE people Of Kansas were to be left
free to introduce such institutions and TO establish
such law. as they might zee proper. The Presi-
dents proclamsiions Oh the subject Of 6lllbu.terng
have been perfectly satisfactory-a least so says
Lord Malmesbury. Nothing can exceed the
warmth and intensity with which Mr.. Cass and
Mr.. Buchanan deDounce the slave.trsde. Mr. b.,
and We suppose, Mr. c., too. even goes 30 far as
70 find in the continuance Of that trade
by Cuba in defiance Of the sentiment Of
the civilized world good and sufficient reason
why we should at once seize upon that misbehsv
ing and iregulsted leland SO long as Messrs.
Caa and Buchsnsn-and we may say the same Of
The Union and the other Administration organs
confined themselves to the avOwal Of principles,
they come up TO the msrk Of Charles Surface him.
SELF But, as The Union so justly remarks,
"avowing principle is one thing acting is quite
"snother thing" Acting at this moment even
upon the principle which Mr. Monroe syowed-
letting alone the new principles promulgated in his
name by Messrs. Csss and Buchanan-might in
deed be little embarrassing. The doctrine of
Mr. Monroe WAS that this American continent
should not be subject to European colonization.
1t may be perfectly safe, as The Union says-
though We must take the liberty Of adding that
it would carry with it, just now, ridiculous air of
gascODade-for an American statesman to make
that declaration; but, IN the face of tie recent
British Colonies newly established on Vancouver's
Island and Fraser River, and the new Colony
which it is proposed to establish in the region of
Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan, to under
take to carry it out would be rather serious mat
ter. SO also as to the doctrine set forth in Mr.
Casss letters to Mr. Minister Dodge-snd which
The Union now fully admits is purely doctrine of
Mr.. Cass-it may be quite 80 SAFE for Mr.. Cass
to proclaim it; but, in case France and England
should be called upon by Central America and
Mexico to intervene to protect them against Amer.
ican flbusters, and the seizure of Sonora and
Chihuahua by che American Government, as Mr..
Buchanan recommends, We do not see but that
the whole yindication of Mr.. Calhoun in his
speech, which We published the other day,
of the protection of Yucatan by English
arms against the ravages Of the Indians,
snd even the assumption by the English Of sOve-
reignty over Yucatan a. the request of the nhabl-
taDts would apply fully to the case in hand. After
ALL is there any such terrible danger as The Union
supposes, in the establishment of European juris-
diction over MexicOl We have not the least idea
that either the English Government, or the Empe.
ror of France, are fools enough to undertake any
thing of the sort. Just now India is quite enough
for the English, and Algeria for the French. But
suppose the thing should be done, trust that our
institutions are not so feeble that the bare estab
hshment of monarchical government on our bor
ders would, as The Union appears to think, place
them in imminent peril. The Northern States, at
least, haze wthstood, from the first moment of
American inde penden noe, the existence of monar.
chical government along the whole extent of
their northern frontier. Even such awful
and uncOmpromisng Democrats as Mr.. Cass grow
up and come to full maturity within gun-s shot
of Queen NictOra's domnions. In fact We are
by 10 means sure that the opportunity of OBJ.
serving with his own eyes, aud almost without
going out of his house the plain superiority of
republican institutions over the monsrchcal COVER
ment of Canada, has not cont ibuted to add to the
wordy vigor and Pickwickian demonstrations of
Gen. Cass's patriotism. Is there any reason to
suppose that the establishment of q monarchical
government or of European protectorate along
our southern frontier would be attended with any
diff, rent effecti Are our Southern brethren
less able than We to resist the cOntagion OF
monarchy Would they really be i'll danger OF
being circumyented and sobdued by the estab-
lisbment of a monarchy along their borderi
4 story We know, did circulate some sixty years
ago, while Mexico, and not only Mexico but Florida
and Louisiana belonged to the King of Spain. that
some leading and loud mouthed Democrats in the
We,tern country did consent to become the pension
ers of tne King Of Spain. In case Napoleon Ill.
should estabhsh-a Ia Senator Houston aud PresI-
dent Buchanan-a protectorate over Mexico. andin
case further he should be SO exceedingly green as
to take to bribing and buying up Southwestern
Democratic we doubt not that number would be
found quite ready TO take his money. But We can
not think that anything more would come of 1t
than of the bribery formerly attempted in Ken
lucky, or that il would be attended with the small
est danger to our institutions We can, indeed, will