The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-13

power in every form !" against the consent Of
their representatives {" the performance of
military service, except for their own exclusive
defence i" bot, above all, he holds the provis-
ion, that Slavery shall not, at any time here
after, be permitted to exist therein" to be the
most obnoxious. ~ 20 So ri q A.. gs-
Now, do not believe that the people of the
Y nited States will allow Mr.. Buchanan to wage
war against Great Britain to establish Slave.
~ in the Bay Islands, any more than thew will
allow him to establish it in Kansas by force of
arms. Nor will they countenance his hostility
to freedom of religious belief in the Bay Islands.
nor to the elective franchise, nor trial by Jury.
nor the right of ha6eas corpus, nor of voting
the taxes to be imposed on them, and proyi.
ding exclusively for their own military defence.
It Is q scandal to the age, that an American
fresident objects to the guarantee of the
American bill of rights, to secure the freedom
of any people. H
Instead Of opposing, think we should follow
the example of England, and carry to the main
land OF Central America such of our free color.
cd population as may be willing to go, upon
the invitation of the Liberal party in that coun.
try, and extend our guarantee of freedom over
them and the whole section of country which
our government may acquire, by purchase, for
their reception. There is a necessity that some
great civilized Power should step in, to restore
order and industry, under the guarantee of fee
and stable institutions. England tenders the
security OF her crown, aud the best usages that
have ever grown up under a crown. We should
otter the support of our Constitution, and the
earnest OF prosperous freedom which it has as.
sured to our Northern Republic. Which they
would choose, the Southern Republics have al.
ready evinced, in the forms they have adopted /;
and the encroachments of our transatlantic
brethren would never have been attempted, but
for the departures manifested in late movements
from the principles of the founders of our Gov.
eminent. While Great Britain has been break.
ing down Slavery and monopoly in the West
Indies, the hand that has been felt from this
quarter was that of the filibuster. Cuba was
ready to hy to the embraces of the United
States, when she was repealed by two successive
lawless expeditions, Enthusiastically marked by
the features of the buccaneers who rayaged
that island of old.
And what have been the concomitants of
Gen. Walkers invasion? A proclamation, re-
voking the constitutional decree delivering the
greatest mass of the people from Slavery; and
the principle thus manifested was ftly illustra
ted by military executions, butcheries in the
streets of the cities, and, lastly, by the conha-
grafton of one of the Oldest These atrocities
had the effect OF uniting the people of these
distracted States, at last, in one common OBJ
Ject.the expulsion of the oppressor. Happily
tor the fame of our country, the renewal of this
horrible enterprise has been thoroughly rebuked
BY the patriotism, courage, and decision, of
Commodore Paulding. The name has acquired
new lustre, to emblazon that which it iDherits
from the Revolution. If the Commodore's act
had the sanction of the Administration in ad-
vance, or shall receive it now, some proof will
be gwen that 1T is not altogether degenerate,
and much will have been done to remove from
US the aversion, the want of confidence in tie
justice of this Republic, and the fear that it
countenances design to fix a yoke on Central
America, instead of rescuing it from usurua
tion-results to be hailed as tending to fit our
Government for the relation it should hold to
wards the Republics of this continent.
If on the other hand, the Administration
takes part with Walker, and the faction in this
country that supports him, it will show to all
the world that the scheme for the propagate
OF Slavery by the sword, of which it has given
strong indications in Kansas, is extended to
the whole regions of the South. Such scheme
can never succeed, unless the principle avowed
as the basis of it, by Walker, shall prevail.
The triumph Of military rule" over civil in
situations in the slave States, and their separa-
ton from the free States, North and West,
must be won as the first step to conquest; and
then, as the next step, the whole power of the
free Republics on this side of the Atlantic, and
the hostile feeling, if not the direct force of
Europe, must be encountered.
The connection of the Atchison- ansas con.
spiracy with that of Walkers against Central
America is visible in the instruments who put
them in motion. The same men, North and
South, encourage both. Funds were raised for
them in the same quarters; and such men as
Colonel Titus are seen to emerge at one time
in Kansas, at another in Nicaragua. The |
masses of the people, nor their elevated states
men, neither of the North nor South, of the |
East or West, not even the great body of the |
have any heart in the propaga |
ton of Slavery. Apart from the politicians. |
who use the question for their own advance |
ment, the design has no support but in the |
enemies of the Union, who hate free govern |
ment, from the bitterness of their hearts, or |
from vanity they would dignity as aristocratic
pride.
In my opinion, the propagation of Slavery
can only be successfully resisted by the propa.
CATION of Freedom. 1t is this mission, AFRO.
gated by Great Britain as peculiarly hers, which
has conferred on her the preponderance she |
holds in almost every portion of the earth. She |
has swayed it with an iron hand, but every |
where of late years Anglo-Ssxon Justice, civil |
zation, and Christianity, wherever they prevail. |
ed, have allowed every man TO feel the comfort |
Of laboring for himself, and he has labored all |
he better for his country. |
Great Britain has her hands full in christian. |
zing, civilzing, and improving, for commercial
usefulness, the old continents She must leave
o US the regeneration of the new one; and |
his find, from paper in late Westminster
Review, marked by the editor with an unusual
notification, ascribing it to san able and dis
inguished contributor" seems to be the opin |
ion OF some Of the great men of England. This
eloquent writer, describing the missions of what |
ne calls /" the four Empires" RUSSIA, FRANCE, |
GREAT Britain, and the UNITED STATES, as.
signs its Office to the latter. in the following
passage:
!" And it may once for all be assumed, that |
the human race, whatever Cabinets or Parlia. |
ments may think Of it, will not be driven from |
their inevitable. course. The work which has |
begun so largely will go forward. The Asatic |
independence which survives will narrow down |
and grow feebler, and at last die. The will
and the intellect of the more advanced races
will rule In due time over that whole continent.
The genius of France will follow the shores of
the Mediterranean; the line of kingdoms which !
divides the empires of England and Russia
will grow thinner, till their frontiers touch. In
spite of Clayton.Bulwer treaties, and Dallas.
Clarendon interpretations of them, the United
States will stretch their shadow ever further
South. Revolution viii cease to tear the EN-;
pire of Montezuma. The falling Republics of
Central America will not forever be a tempta-
ton, by their weakness, to the attacks of law.
less rufians. The valley of the mighty ANA
ION, whiah would grow corn enough to feed
thousand million mouths, must fall at last to
those who will force it to yield its treasures.
The ships which carry the commerce of Amer
ica into the Pacific, carry, too, American jus.