The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-02
BALTIMORE.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1858

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1858.
Strip from the address of the Hon. CALEB CusH-
ING nj the Richmond Agricultural Fair, the false
coloring under which his propositions are dis
ouised, and what remains but a bare-faced plea
for an immediate intervention in the affairs of
Mexico, and sophistical defence of the Ostend
Manifesto? He tells us that f'the interests of the
sITnion-the honor of America-the welfare of
smankind-the cause of Republican government
srelieion and of peace-the sympathes of our race,
"of the noble blood of Europe-invoke us to send
oforh the too full of our own vital force for the
exemption and regeneration of unhappy Mexico"
that ''the will of God seems by evident signs and
"portents to call upon. US to intervene-that our
spredestined line of expansion is to the West and
"South; that if Cuba lies in the path of that
sdestiny so much the better; but that Mexico
"must and does he religiously believes, and he
"would have it so; not in the sense of luminosity,
t'but of friendship; not Of hosities, but of COM
smercial union and protective alliance; not by the
"act of private invaders, but by the deliberate
ooffcial action of the government of the UNITED
ESTATES" The project for prOtectorate is not
new 1t has been frequently preached during the
last twelve months, and its mischevous tendencies
have been as frequently exposed. OF what elements
the nation is composed that we are called upon to
absorb-for protection, as every one knows is but
the prelude to absorption = is, therefore,
necessary that we should examine. Mr.. Cushing
himself assures us-that Mexico 'is
s'plague spot of social war all over; is
east losing all the attributes of civilized
Estate, and relaxing into aboriginal barharism
t'Those of the Departments nearest the UNITED
ESTATES are already half depopulated by the
fand more populous departments, are overrnn by
cred guerrilleros and robbers while the
"Southern Departments are at the mercy of
their resident Pueblo and Sierro Indians
The truthfulness of this sketch we not
disposed to dispute, and assuming it to be
correct, it shows the work that the UNITED STATES
would be called upon to perform in taking upon
herself the onerous duties of protectorate. Mr..
CUSHING tells US it is not a question of hostties,
but merely of commercial union and intervention
-'protective alliance as he calls it. But he can
hardly suppose that we could accomplish the paci-
fcation of Mexico by a treaty of alliance offensive
and defensive to be followed up merely by paper pro-
carnations launched against the border savages-
the robbers and red guerrleros of the Central De-
partments, and the Pueblo and Sierro Indians of
the extreme South. If we undertake to protect
Mexico we must be prepared to suppress insurrec-
ton, at whatever point it may show itself, by an
armed occupation of that country. But the MeX-
can people have not yet uPUn I
of assistance, and it is doubtful if they ever will
knowing as they must do, that it would lead in
eviably to the extnguishment of their nationality.
But if we simply to intervene for the purpose
of restoring order in Mexico and not at all with a
view to territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT, where was the
necessity for being told, by Mr.. CUSHING, that
tthe occupation of any portion of the earth by
tthose competent to hold and till it, is providen-
stal law of national life?'' And why should he
have coupled it with the "double proposition
'irst, that the people of the UNITED STATES DESIRE
'expect and intend, sooner or LATER to inerpose in
'Mexico; and secondly, that the interpostion will
'be in good will towards her, and with conviction
'of the common utility of such intervention as
'well to Mexico as to the UNITED STATEs?" Why
not say at once that Mexico is weak, and the UNI
TED STATES strong-that Mexico has a fertile terri
tory which the people of the UNITED STATES are
competent to hold and TILL and that as expan-
sion is "a providentia law of national life' they
under the necessity of fulfilling 'the condition
"of their existence by spreading themselves
over any portion of the earth's surface that
they desire TO occupy? 1t is useless to
envelope so plain n meaning in maze Of words.
Andyet, strange to say, while Mr.. CUSHING covert
ly advocates immediate intervention in Mexico,
which can have other result than to lead, first
to an armed, and, finally, to permanent occupa-
ton of that country, he eulogises the "benefcent
policy and noble forbearance" of the Polk Ad-
ministration, as evinced by rejecting the tempta-
ton to annex Mexico, after she had been conquered
tnso "oolu not ne less nODle now.
Then, Mexico might have been annexed by right
of conquest; now, we must resort to the plea OF
"the law of national life" and how shallow that
plea is, must be known to every one who reflects
upon the vast extent of vacant territory that yet
remains open to settlement within the present
limits Of the UNITED STATES. Whether we should
be justified in ovcr-spreading neighboring terri
tory, when own soil becomes too densely
populated, may be left for future casuists to de-
termine; but, certainly, are not so pressed for
room at the present time, that an extension of
our boundaries becomes an imperative necessity
condition of our existence" But it is not the
acquisition of Mexico, only, to which Mr. CUSHING
looks forward. He is disposed to believe that
Cuba, also, lies in the path of manifest Des-
tiny"
"lnsatate archer would not one sufice9''
He asks, whether the doctrine avowed in the Os-
fna.Ih M ,y-t-