New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-31
AMERICAN INFLUENCE.

II was \ aunI5, We believe, VINO cDarscteEZsd
enc OF bis neighbors as having very winning
"wsys to mske people hate him" If be had been
speaking directly Of our American Diplomacy and
Foreign Policy for some years past, he could not
have expressed himself more hspply.
During thsss years, the extension of our intu-
ence, especially on this continent has been the
great ostensible sm Of our Federal policy. To
this end, we have annexed Texas To this end,
We have overrUn and then purchased New Mexico
and California. To this end, we bought the Me-
silla Valley, sad bcmbarded GreJtown. To this
end, we hsra,sed ard rsvsged tby means of our
FIbusters) Ncsrssus AID Costa Rica. To this
end, We have bedgered Mexico with respect to the
Tehauntspec route. To this end, we bulIled
New. Gransda with regard 70 the lsthmus route
and the riots of Panama, and are now pressing
Nicaragua 70 ccncede us rev privileges AMI guar.
antics as to the Inter-OceaDc transit by way Of thu
San Jusn. To this eDd, our adyenturers have once
invaded and for years threatened Cuba. To this
end, an American hotllla is now in tue heart OF
South Americs prepared to take vengeance
on Paraguay for very dubious insult to
our f,g, ard Injustice to our citizens.
To thi. end eur Executive is pressing Congress to
vote him Thirty Millions wherewith TO make be-
ginning toward or open wsy for the purchase of
Cuba. To this end Cuba stealing meetings are
held in Tammspy Hall and elsewhere, aud grave
Senator. tell our people that Spain has been so
often robbed Of her domnOns and driven to acqui.
esce in TIE theft that one more humiliation of the
sort can make no material difference 10 her. This
is surely not the tone calculated to "we the bird
from the tree") So far as rspacity, snd bully.
ing, ard threatening can do it, we ara advancing
very rapidly toward that complete control OF this
ccntinsn, which so maDy regard as our " Manifest
Destiny
Ard yet, this policy mis:raby falls, thus far, to
IF, CT its proclaimed purpose. We have twice as
large an area, With many more waryessels, and
battahons, and cannon, than We had when Adams
ard Clay were in power twen,; odd years ago.
while our population Is more thau doubled aid our
Revenue aud Expenditures quscrnpled; yet our
National inhusuce, especially on THIS continent lie
far less than It then was. Their ne Republics
south Of US locked 10 our Government as their nat
ursl protector sni head; they asked us to meet
them in friendly counsel TO deliberate on
our common interests, duties aud dan. RS;
now they shrink from US as though our touch yas
coptsgion, and American influence is limites
by the range Of our cannon. To-day We have ID
the Administration journals cures, both loud and
deep, on the duPicity Of Nicaragua and her playing
fast ard loose with respect to the Cas- Herran
treaty; ueIt, excavations hesped upon her for ha7
ing lent ready car TO the British envoy Sir Gore
Ouseey, sJe sened treaty with Great Britain
c,pcocted Is IN which leaves rs away out in the
cold. while Crest Britain becomes virtual protector
of Central America; anon we hear that Mons.
Belly lss I'd things to suit hiu, and is about
10 OPP the Nicaragua Canal under Napo-
leonic suspce, next the cry is raised that
Tetusntepec las slipped through our fingers
ard is about TO become European gate
wsy-snd 30 sc CO. Spain has not yet thought Of
selling Us Cuba; all the Republics south of US are
thoroughly !enatei from our Government, and
lend a ready ear 10 every scheme to counternine
or circumvfDt us: all distrust u.s. all cabal against
u.s. In the midst of the continent our rspacity has
completely isolated US: We have not sincere ally
this side Of Russia. Have not our rulers truly
winning Ways TO make people hate them"