The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-12-07

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American Manlfoo1 Dess1nys
n Patris, in An artisls headed " Rsrope a
Iss Asets Unis." refers "a we cobe Of the Wah, =
frigate at Cousiantinopie; and makes 1 yiolen
and most exaggerated attack ON The America
Rspubiic. After stating that Europe he's lone
| bsen accustomed to display great indulgence
towards the United States, fraf, from admirn-
ton OF their efforts to establish themselves =
powerful State by the solemn impulse Of indi-
viduai liberty, afterwards from curiosity. and
lastly, from habit, the article proceeds in these
terms:
ut was generally admitted at this side Of the
Atlantic that . social and political experiment,
Oh the highest interest was being tried at the
other, and that in order not to trouble tire at
tempt IN any way, tolerance should be shown tC
eccentricities and phantasies which would moi
be permitted in any other case. But at presen,
the experiment may be looked on as termina-
ted. The American Union is no longer, in an
ones opinion, model society; and Europe. "a
whom it owes everything, begins to find thai
her almost paternal solcitude meri,ed some
what more consideration and some hat less ar
rogsnce-in word, conduct of a more 6lial
Character towards society which is at least its
senior IN civilization In fact, all the intercourse
OF the young republic with Europe, particularly
OF late years, has displayed on the part of the
Americans tendencies marked by a character OF
exclusiveness, and, above all, of violence, which
1t is impossible to tolerate any longer. There
exists public law, which is obligatory on all
nations mutually; there are besides private
enactments. which are binding on all men, with
out any regard to nationality; there is, finally,
jurisdiction which stops short neither at from
tiers nor at seas, and which belongs to cviza-
ton itself all over the globe. The Americans
4 - MAJ oh 10 m .oh .
and yet they only too often totally disregard it,
| The article then refers more particularly to
| the conduct of the Wabash, which, it declares,
| refused for a length of time TO leave the OAR
danelles, under pretext, as already stated, that
the United States had not signed any treaty in
terdctlng vessels of war to enter the waters of
Constantinople. The writer goes on as follows:
g But this restless and eecroaching Democra.
cy, which wants to thrust itself in everywhere !;
which forces, with its guns loaded, the passages
of the Sound; which trammels in China the
proceedings of our negoriators; which in 1855
offered up prayers for the triumph Of Russia
which interyenes even brutality i'll all affairs,
and almost in every instance to oppose the in.
terests of civilization-this Democracy, we say,
has brought forward against Us a new principle
called the Monroe doctrine, yb virtue of which
she pretends to interdict US from every kind of
Intervention in the seas and coasts of the whole
OF America. 1t seems like dream to hear
such principles insisted on every day in the Jour
mails OF the Union, and even in the official notes
OF the government. 1t Is nevertheless, BY vir.
tue of this theory that Spain was, and is still,
threatened with seeing Cuba taken from her,
and that SO many tiliibustering attempts have
been made for that purpose. Ii is in order to
drive England from the American coasts that
the Clayton Bulwer treaty is Loudly disavowed
at present. and propositions have been made to
Congress to cancel it, If this Monroe doctrine
were admitted, even tacitly, by the great States,
our West India colonies would speedily he men.
aced, for there would soon be no security for
European interests in the seas of the new world |
There is in this conduct something more than |
there is a sovereign want OF fore |
sight; as NJ. de Talleyrand said, is is worse |
than a crme-it is blunder. The great Amer
lean Republic owes everything to Europe her
population her capital, her mechan-
ical progress, and even her existence But for |
the 100000 emigrants who every year leave our
shores, each of them taking on an average 4oof. |
without reckoning their labor, her DEVELOPMENT |
would soon be cut short. Without English |
capital, which carries out the majority of her
she would have neither canals. |
nor railways, nor manufactures. But for the |
piracy which she carries on with impunity OF |
lions, she would be neither manufacturing
nor great maritime nation. And as a return |
or SO many services rendered, she nevertheless
does not hesitate to sacrifice our most precious
interests to her slightest convenience and
he has already exhibited the sad spectacle of |
! whole nation repudiating the faith of pri /
rate engagements, and thus intlicting ruin
IN Europe for the satisfaction of a few bank
,rs."
The article then warns the United States that
hey are going too far, that there are bounds
o everything-in the right of abusing as well
Is In the duty OF tolerating and then very
'ravely alhrms that F" the empire OF the world
n the present day does not belong TO any one.
lther IN America or in Europe" The last
estament of Peter the Great of Russia had.
he Patrie declares, at least as much authority
S the Monroe doctrine, and yet, although Eu.
ope had long, from habit, considered its ac.
omplishment as an inevitable fatality, it was
buried for ever under the walls
i Sebastopol. The article concludes as fol-
ows:-
The United States will not effect in the world
What powerful Russia, with her army of a mil.
ion OF men, with her fleets, with the gen;us of
Ter Cars, and With the discipline and the tena-
lty OF her inhabitants, has not been able to
10 IN Europe. They will not succeed in con
estlng her legitimate share OF influence where
yer she may usefully exercise it. We do not
It all intend to Cypress them, but they must
NOW that Europe will not allow herself either
o be excluded or Inundated II is necessary
hat they should know that we will not abandon
'ther in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean mr.
he Black Sea the cause Of right and of civil
.ation
SEDUCTION CAsE-About three weeks ago
II III.
md two children, from Liberty Township Trum
'ull County, Ohio, to this County He was al
most Immediately followed to this place by a
nan named Fleming, and Mary Minerva Elem.
hg. his daughter. Mr.. Fleming charges John
y Bard with the seduction of his daughter, and
rousht action against him for damages. The
oiiowing are che particulars of the case elected
rom the testimony during the examination.
men was held before Judge Pitzer, in this
lace on the 25th and Goth November.
John s. Bard taught school in Liberty Town.
mp, Irumbuil County, Ohio, at which place