The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-22
lcoNnusleA1ED
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS As THEY Ar
FEET THE UNITED STATES.

belllgefena Of a marine militia. That proposiuoni
coming from the European Congress at Paris at the
cuson Of the ia the Crmea unayoidaby CONNECTED
ITSELF ia my mind, with ntimatious made at the
Of that By the Emperor Of the RTenSh to
his Council Of State aud by Lord Clarendon in the British
Parliament Of Interior intentions Of the alliance to-
ward the land and waters Of America also with pur.
poses touching this hemisphere declared BY the Holy
Alliance in 1922 and with the intermediate attempted
combination in 1872 under the name Of the Quintupls
Treaty. happily frustrated at that time by the energy
and decision Of the then American minister at Paris
The intent Of the proposition abolish privateering
it seemed to me- was 70 drive the Uated States fcm
their equality with other powers the high seas
the maintenance Of naval appointment able TO cope
any notice with the dynlstc nayes Of Europe; the
intent Of the Qsntupe Treaty certainly obtain
Great Britain by what she had and has claimed
and exercised by namely the police OF the
ocean and also the declarations Of tho Holy Alliance
were identical with the monitions afforded 20 by Ma
poeon III aud the British Secretary five years ago AT
the time Of the proposed Quntppe Treaty France had
not the naval strength which she has now and hence
could be dssuaded from entering into the alliance which
the two States then were. would have inu.ed to her
rival Now, the two powers approach equality with
spect TO naval force and enter into like pacts with
mutual audlcy With these ascerained facts, then. of
the declarations the Holy Alliance the objects of the
proposed Quinuple Treaty the menacng declarations of
1853 and the proposed repression of the chief
OF the United States for offensive war, connect the
further asccrtned facts Of the refusal Of the Isthman
States to affirm treaty with this country, while
log treaties broader bases with European powers
of contract with confidential agent Of the Emperor OF
TIE French by which that potenate may occupy mill
tary what we may call the Mediterranean sea of the
lsthmus- -Lake Nicaragua OF manifesto coincident
with that contract from the chief authorities of the two
States Tor supposed Staes) which border the lake
lumniatoTy of this government aud people, and inviting
protection by alliance of European States from al
legged racy Of this country Of the concerted presence
the chief points Of interest ia the Gull Mexico
the Caribbean Of fleets Of England France and Spain
aud of the actual surveillance by them oil those and
adjacent shores. The aforementioned facts, with many
that mightbe citel in pursuance OF the policy and
intent developed in the four named If this coun
try not forearned it say that it has been
forewarned
With this aggregation of political slrldowngs forth
and actual doing the conclusion to the Ameri
mind that the time has arrived when the position of
this republic among nations and the question of its ab
ity maintain its hitherto precnsions, must be deter
mined. The solution Of this question calls the Amer
lean people to decide whether they viii take counsel Of
their fears their patriotic traditions and Of the
to the great destiny that opens to them
The Powers of Europe have their several traditions and
traditional lines of policy and the dynises have col
lecyey their traditional and established policy They
may divide as against each other but they combine
against what may common danger. This is evil
d,aoed in the whole course Of European politics FROM
the beginning Of the first French revolution 1t the
cause Of the discontinue of the first Napoleon 1t was
enphaticay declared by the Holy Alliance 1t was at
tempted against the present Napoleon treaty against
him of combined Russia. Prussia, and Austria in 1852
but with better auspices than attended his uncle and
with rare asuteness, he turned it from himself and has
become party to it, 1t shown in tic bloody drama
In which the Gar enabled the house of Hapsburg sup
press the unhappy Hungarans IL is shown in the force
actual and understood whish represscs the States Of
Italy, These are some examples ont Of many.
The traditional policy Of Great Britain is first to rule
the seas This necessarily from her northern an
cestry and from her insuar position Next MS conse
auence and aid to the rule of the seas the suigaon
of distant empires and their reduction to the condition
of tributary PROVINCES the control of commerce. and
hence the holding Of the keys and avenues of it that
her kees military and mercantile may in every water
keep motion with the ebb and iow OF tide as her morn
ing drubeat is said To be continuous with the reyolu
ton of the gobein short 10 encompass the earth in
her rather rongh embrace IL is an ambition worthy OF
grand people and has been large part successful
Query viii the Braus of to-day be the Briarius of to-
morrow
The traditional policy Of Russia is traaa especially
the south ana west through the AIosenl ennre 10
the Heespont and south and east enctoachng on the
borders of China and Iartuv. The of the Crimes
made ostesly to check those ambitious views To-
ward Constanuopo aud perhaps ii had temporarily that
effect But the tradition aud sentiment that introduced
the Of CONSTANTINE into the Muscovte dynasty Is
lost sight Of and whilst the armies OF France and
England checking the empire the west the EN-
pire quietly stretching its and planting its do
minon the opposite side in manner to affect the
fortunes OF the world occupying and capable terri
tory bected by Of The noblest rivers in the eastern
hemisphere debouchng into the expanding indefinite
of the Pacific SO seems to be solved tho
problem Of the expansion o Russian dominion eastward
ly The western problem remains In view of Ills last
commercial England has shown the most disouisturlc
Perhaps the ambition of France is the intense Per-
haps there may be question whether future ka,a ds
France shall be baptized Ro de Sa5aJod or Muscosite
CJnstantius there take the imperial purple The saga
cous Nicolas Of Russia sought eighteen years ago to avoid
Tor to accelerate y that question
The traditionary sentiment Of France as France il
first hostility to England This is nom remote ages AMI
is as active as ii The completion Of tlr,
works at cherbourg under Louis Napoleon was not less
in that spirit than their commencement under Louis
NV. Their Object was TO provide a safe com,nodous
and ample naval and military rendezvous aud depot front
ing the British coast They were commenced about
the middle of the seventeenth century and have been
continued through every phase Of government with the
application to them Of the best straagetcal engineering
aud mechanical genius that France afforded in the several