The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-02
BALTIMORE.
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1859.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1853.
Strip from the address Of the Hon CAlRn CraI- I.
ING, ut the Richmond Agricultural Fair, the false /
oooring under which his propositions are dis /
guised, aud what remains but barc-iaced plea /
for an immediate Intervention in the Affairs of
Mexico, and a sophistical defence Of the Osicnd
Mauifslo2 lie tells us that 'the interests of the
'unon-thc honor Of America-the welfare OF
omanknd-thc cause Of Republican government,
treligion aud Of pcncc-thc sympathics Of our race
''of the noble blood Of Europe-invoke us to send
Forth the too full of own vital force for the re-
"demption aud regeneration of unhappy Mexico
that 'the will of God seems by evident signs and
''portents to call upon to intervene-that our
t'predestined line of expansion is to the West and
"South; that if Cuba lies in the path OF that
edestiny so much the better; but that Mexico
''must and does he rcligiously believes, and he
t'would have it so; not in the sense OF amnesty,
tbut of friendship; not of hostilities, but OF COM
tmercial union and protective alliance; not by the
''act of private invaders, but by the deliberate
s'offcial action of the government Of the UNITED
ESTATES" The project for n protectorate is not
new 1t has been frequently preached during the
have been as frequently exposed. OF what elements
the nation is composed that are called upon to
absorb-for protection, as every one knows is but
the prelude to absorption it is, therefore,
necessary that we should examine. Mr. Cushing
himself assures us-that Mexico lis
t'plague spot of social war all over is
''fst losing all the attributes of civilized
estate, and relaxing into aboriginal barbarism
tThose 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
HSouthern Departments at the mercy of
their resident Pueblo and Sierro Indians -
The truthfuness of this sketch we are 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 a protectorate Mr..
CUSHING tells Us it is not question OF hostilitles,
but merely of commercial union and Intervention
-'fprotective alliance as he calls it. Bnt he
hardly suppose that we could accomplish the paci
fication of Mexico by treaty of alliance offensive
and defensive to be followed up merely by paper pro-
carnations launched against the border savages-
the robbers and red gucrrilleros of the Central De-
pafunenIS, ana tne IueDlO ana SlcTrO lHuidHS Of
the extreme South. If we undertake to protect
Mexico must be prepared to suppress insurrec-
tion at whatever point it may show ITSELF by an
armed occupation of that country. But the Nlexi-
can people have not YET rirIIeu upUn
of assistance and it is doubtful if they will,
knowing as they must do that it would lead in
evitably to the exnguishment of their nationality.
But if we are simply to intervene for the purpose
of restoring order in Mexico and not at all with
view to territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, where the
necessity for being told, by Mr.. CUSHING, that
'the occupation of any portion of the earth by
"those competent to hold and till it. is providen-
'tial law of national life p And why should he
have coupled it with the "doube proposition
''irst that the people of the UNITED STATES desire,
"expect, and intend, sooner or LATER to nerpose in
t'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 STArEs?" Why
not say at once that Mexico is weak, and the UNI
TED STATES strong-that Mexico has fertile terri
tory which the people of the UNITED STATES are
competent to hold and TILL and that as expan-
sion is "a providential 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 a maze of words
Andyet, strange to say, while Mr.. CUSHING covert
ly advocates an immediate Intervention in Mexico,
which can have other result than to lead, first,
to an armed and, finally, to a 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
trr,.o "ouite NOT ne less none 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 our own soil becomes too densely
populated, may be left for future casuists to de-
termine; but certainly, we are not so pressed for
room at the present time, that an extension of
our boundaries becomes imperative necessity
a 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"
''lnsatiate archer, would not one suffice ?"
He asks, whether the doctrine avowed in the Os-
tend Manifesto was really deserving of being
denounced as political heresy, and endeavors to
show that WASHINGTON expressed ''the same idea,
lin one of his letters to LEE anticipating twenty
years beforehand, the acquisition of louisiana"
yet his own quotation from the letter referred to,
will not bear out any such Interpretation. WASH
INGToN wrote to LEE with reference to the free
navigation of the Mississippi, question upon
which the public mind was at that time profound
ly agitated, in view of the treaty of peace then
pending between Great Britain and the United
Colonies. Whenever the new States" said he,