The Kanzas news., 1858-11-06
From the n. T. Herald.
EEOLH tLe N. 4 41ct1INs
Mission OF the Four Living Powers
What we Should do. and do at Once.

nat We SnoulqQ Qos ana 90 6t once.
A single glance the map of the world
shows that there are but four great, living
and advancing nations now in existence
These are the United States. England. France
and Russia. Ali the rest present second
ary and initiative ratio of increase, or un-.
mistakable evidences of decay and dis
ruption.
The policy that animates and guides the
advance of these progressive nations is
identical in all, and is, ia fact, one Of the
laws of their national life. From the time;
of Peter the Great, Russia has gone on ex-
tending her possessions in every direction.
Sweden yielded to her the shores of the
Gulf of Bothnia; Poland fell before her
policy; Turkey has lost large portion of
her European, and no small slice of her
Asiatic dominions; the trans Caucasian
countries have been subdued nearly to the
western boundaries of China, and Siberia
and Mantehovria have been absorbed to the
very shores of the Pacific ocean. At this
very moment she is building up settle
ment on the Amoor river, under system
that looks to and is eminently calculated
for extension southwark. Military and ira
ding settlements are formed at the mouth
every strategical point. New harbors and
routes are opened to commerce, foundries
are established, machine shops set up, tele-
graph shops set up, telegraphs constructed,
and every element of the mechanical civil
ization that is revolutionizing the world is
brought into active play.
A like policy animates the living pro-
gress of France. Hemmed in by the dy-
nastic divisions of Europe, she has sought
extension in Northern Africa, and contem-
plates the building up of an empire there
that shall rival the ancient African empires
of Carthage and Rome. She is daily ex-
tending her boundaries there, subduing
alike the Arab and the desert by her me-
chanical ingenuity. One single example
will suffice to show how successful our me-
chanical civilization is in effecting this sub
jugation. By constructing srtesian wells.
France converts the desert into fruitful
land, and the wandering Arab into the set
tied inhabitant of q community. With
England the like policy holds. She is an
nexing all over the world, everything that
the waves wash. Islands in every sea bris-
tie with her arms and afford harbors Of
call or refuge to her commerce. Peninsu-
las, stretching from every continent, ae-
knowledge her sway, and afford base for
the exercise of her policy. Nearly all of
Southern Asia is now held by her, and the
extension of her boundaries is going on
rapidly. .sl1r sz.eh
A like law of existence holds with the
United States. They must grow, and the
Uuion must extend. There is no help for
it. We shall in due process of time abb
sorb all of Mexico, Central America, Cuba,
st. Domingo, Porto Rico, and all the other
islands of the Caribbean Sea. European
resistance to this manifest destiny is Con-
tinually decreasing. The living Powers
there see that this result must follow from
the very laws which they and We obey, and
that its consequences viii be of great and
practical advantage to them. The stagnant
and decaying communities that now exist
there must be brought, through US, under
the active influence of the civilization Of
mechanics, and become part of the great
fellowship of the four living Powers. This
fellowship exists through the bonds of mu-
tual interest and sympathy; and while it is
tenn of mutual recrimination between the
leading Powers of the earth, it is banding
them in cooperation together on another.
These four living Powers have appeared to-
gether before the oldest, the most populous,
and the most exclusive nation in the world,
and have forced it to open itself to the new
order of things. @ 4n
But while the living and progressive ma:
tions are thus really acting in concert in
changing the face of the earth, each must
work out the details of its progress without
reference TO the others. Thus Russia in
Siberia and trans Caucassia, France in Al
geria, and England in her insular possess
ions and in India. take little heed of the
progress of, and seek no cooperation from,
the other Powers. So we must proceed in
working out our destiny on this continent.
The time has come for us TO enter upon
policy of action; and it is because our Gov
eminent has not obeyed this necessity, that
the people have moved under its impulses,
and we have witnessed the znWise, fiiibus-
tering expeditions from our shores, that
have characterized the last ten years of our
history. We have urged upon the Presi-
dent TO take action in the matter, and to
bring the subject before Congress and the
nation as it should be brought, in his COM
ing message. 80
The representative body of the nation
should not only authorize the purchase of
Cuba, and appropriate money at once for
contingent purposes, but it should also au-
thorize and provide for the appointment of
commissioners to meet others on the part
of Spain, IN case she should consent to ap-
point such. or those from Mexico, st. Do-
mingo, or any other country that IS rips to
move In the matter. The Cuba question
must now be brought to an eeariy solution.
with Mexico something must bssdone.-
The routes of transit across the American
Isthmus must be put in state of security
that shall command the confidence of the
whole world. Every thinking man in the
country recognizes the urgency Of these
necessities. yet the Government is not pre-
pared TO mest them. nor Is the PrssidentiH