The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-01-05
smANIFEST DESTINY OF THE UNITED
" II

The Paris Constitutional of October %, re-
viewing the great events of the present time
and tracing the future, says:
Nowhere Is tins anticipated history more en-.
/ loved, nowhere easier to construct than in the
| United States. In fact the young republic
/ unanimously adopted, and is now proclaimine
as a-national dogma the ambitious formula OF
President Monroe, according to which the
] manifest destiny of the Americans of the
North is to rule over the whole of the New
| World. Starting from this point, a great news
paperofNew York recently againteok up its ia
| vorite theme of the division of the globe among
the most powerful nations of the world. 1t
felt no difficulty in cutting out of the Old
| World for France, England and Russia, three
magnificent shares, capable of amply satisfy
ing the ambition of each of those nations; but
by way of compensation it claimed for the
| Yankees the exclusive domination over the
whole of the American continent.
1t is also in virtue of this doctrine of their
manifest destiny that the United States show
themselves resolved to repel any foreign inter-
ference or influence at the most important
point of the New World-The Contra Amer
lean Isthmus. Although affecting its willing
ness to guaranty the neutrality of the intereoc-
eanic communications which may be established
by the opening of the Isthmus, the govern
ment of that jealous republic does not wish
this work of civilization to be effected by other
hands than those of Americans. Therefore it
speaks in menacing language to those feeble
States of Central America which, with a view
to resist their aggressive adversary, endeavor
to unite, and invoke the assistance of the
great European nations.
How shall this difficulty of the Isthmus
route, which is already of ancient date, be
solved? Will the United States be prevented
from siezing this route, be it a land or canal
way, and from becoming thus absolute master
of the point of junction of the two oceans ?
Such seems to be their intention and should
it be realized what will be the consequence:
Then they will really be established in the
commercial centre of he world-between Eu-
rope in the east, China and India in the west.
The yet unknown city which will one day
spring up at the point where the two Ameri-
cas- are to join will be the Alexandria of che
future. 1t will at the same time be an empor-
UNI for the Eastern and for the Western world
for Europe and for Asia. The Central
American Isthmus will be the Isthmus of Seuz
of that gigantic Alexandria; but an Isthmus
of suez opened up tc universal trade
And the dream which comedies to America
the future capital of the world, and assigns to
her the political preponderance, what does it
leave to ancient Europe? "a venerable past
nat does IL promise ner! HlOuS Pilgrims,
who will visit and contemplate the famous
places where civilization originated.
X X x x X X
In a political pamphlet, entitled England
and Russia in which the engrossing questions
of the moment are treated with a bold sharp
ness of foresight, Mr.. De Cessna has recourse
to an argument of this kind to predicate the
decline of British ascendency. He foresees
the day "when he who steps in the cars at
Calais, leaving them only to traverse on board a
steamer the Gulf of Persia, will reach the Or
iental Cape, passing through Paris, CONSTANT
nople, Calcutta, and Pekin, and find himself
within within a fortnight at once transported
to the other hemisphere, without having hardly
left the main land And the publicists adds
This will be the death of England, In an
other place he, without circumlocution, says ::
.Before the last year of this century will have
elapsed, the ruler of the oceans will
have descended to the level of Holland. 1na
word, according to this same writer, it is Rus
STA which destiny seems to push on everywhere,
in order to make her great upon the ruins of
British power.