, 1859-01-15
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE IN ENGLAND
Severe Comments Of the ss Thunderef,s -


9a6eAUAa4b 4&hhAiE IN Eh4LAh0
Severe Comments Of the 's Thunderer.''
lFson tho London Times, Dec II
Thu hesaaze Of thu Pzeaident Of the United
1ses<s. OF these, half arc devoted to foreign
and half to domestic politics-A proportion
rather startling to rs in England, whose habit 1t
IL to look at home first, hnd only devote 70 for
ej8n affairs 10 much attention ii we have to
spare after very maturely and minutely cousid-
ber, however. thst lsrgo portion Of the domes.
tic adAlrs Of the United Ststes does not como
under the jurisdiction of Congress; but still,
after ali dus deductions tnsde, the proportion Of
foreign to donestic busineaa il not little strik-
ing. How comes it that China, Jspan, Nicarn-
Mexico should occupy the attention Of Congress,
to the exclusion Of interests 20 much nearer
home, and 80 much more valuable to q people
whose occupation is to increase rather than to
conquerf
The Aessnge, or rather manifesto. ofthe Pres.
ident, is studlously moderate in its toms, but
still, somehow or other, we should think that
the Inhabitants Of the patty republics with
wbose interests it deals 10 largely cannot read
it without BONO internal tremors. 1t presents
ccrtalnly c1rious phenomeuon. Here is
martial and adventurous race, spresd o1es an
eH%eANAo A~sAANSAF} AA9PoR4A6 VI 4AlAltlA Ao-
val and military resources. They profess BY
their President teAt, except By fair purchase,
os in the ease of Louisiana, or bY free annexa-
ton, aa = little more doubtfully in the case Of
Texas, they will never acquire any accession Of
territory. They breathe nothing but kindness
Mexico, prosperity to Costa Rica, and nore
strength to the elbow ot New Granada Did
the world ever see picture Of 10 much strength
tempered and adorned 6y 10 much moderation?
Nor is this Ill. The United States h&ve had
losses; they have b. cen robbed by Mexico.
cheated BY bra.ll laughed At by Spain, desPoii-
Cd By Paraguay: hnd gFieyoualy tornentea by
Costa Rica and Nicaragua. let, still the great
Republic opposes her patience to the fury Of the
Wasps and hornets of thesa fiery latitudes and
calls gods aud man 70 witness her patience, her
| turbeGrance and her tenderness. Ii ia moving
spectacle, and our first feeling on witnessing it
| Is, how unworthy the sulky, perFerse, domi-
neering natives Of these distant isles are to be
the progeuitors Of q race which exceeds Us az
| as much in the mider virtue8 Of Cancellation aud
| tolerance as it does already in the extent Of it,
territories and will shortly in the amount Of
| its population. When ne come, however, to
| look little further, We see some symptoms tha.
the quarrelsome spirit Of the E-El.sh has not
| wholly died out in their dencend2nts. The old
grievance Of the ClaYton-Bulwer treaty is still
| kept hanging over Great Britain, and We do not
| aea that our frank concessions in the matter OF
| the flGh1 OIL 6E81Cu uAF6 Inspired LQe TEe6lQeQk
| with The slightest wish to meet us in q cores
| ponding apirit. He burma With the puress de-
sire to e1t;nguish the slave trade nay, in q
transport Of holy zeal, ha would snatch Cuba
| from the hands Of Spain, in order that he may
st once put an end to the slave trade from al.
r!ca, or rather may con6ne it to Virginia and
| the other breeding States Of the Union. But
| when great Britain proposes 70 him to devise
some means to replace that power Of checking
the slave trade which search apd visitation gaYe
| her, he is unable to deTise any expedient. and
tells us frankly that any plan she msy suggest
is sure to lesd to grave embarrassments To
hand over Cuba to America ia his only remedy,
and be will hear of no other.
Spain, too, has behaved extremely i'll. She
draws out her negotiations to inordinato length,
and seeks to compound her obligations at the
rate Of six-8ude eightpence IN the pound. Am
erlcx has borne it all with patience. and ever
now the only revenge she seeks ID the purchase
Of Cubs, Ii S pain will not eeli it, the President
contemplates the seizure Of the ietand under the
imperative and overruling law Of seltpreservs.
tion. Of the existence and application Of such
| Law, America hergelf is to be the judge
Mexico cannot keep the peace on the frontier
sha has levied contributions on American cit
zens, and her lawless tribes impede the passage
Of the California mail Therefore the United
|. States shouid assume temporary protectoratt
over two Of her provinces-C -ChibunbuR aud So
nora-and hold them till = good government
can be estab!shed-a tenure certainly amount
ing to freehold, end very probably to fee sim
pie. Nor hare the States of the Isthmus, Nj
caraeua and Costa Rica, reason to accept TOT
literally the protessed moderation Of the PreEl
dent. They are told that il al arm OF the Sc:
ran through their territories uniting the Allan
tic With the Pacific, they would have no right t
obstruet the unvig. ton Of all uatiobg through
| it; and, though there is no arm Of the sea, bu
only road lending through their dominion
from one ocean to the other. this makes no BOT
Of difference. The application Of this principl
over neighhor's lind draws with 1t the righ
Of enforcing it, aud that right the President re
| quests he may be empowered to exercise with
out the assent of Congress. Paraguay is to b
compe!1ed ut the swords point to give just aat
infection.
Ne hare said enough to show TINT We ough
not be too much cazzled By the moderation Q
the President, and that if bis voice il the voic
of Jacob his hands are undoubtedly the baud
, ! Of Esau. We will only add one other reflection
:: Can it be that the whole American Contuen
has entered into vile conspiracy to insult, de
spoil and illuse the United States; that th
, | weaker ia in all caaea the aggressor, and th
stronger in all cases the attacked and injured
Is il not, at any rate. very remarkable that tn
| United States should be at this moment pre-
vided With euus Jeli against almost ever
State from the Gulf Of Mexico to Cape Horr
and that, though ia spirit OF tolerant moders
ton they content themselves ior the preseI
year With merely sezlug Two provinces of Ae1
leo, taking armed possession Of the Trans
| route from ocean to ocean, and s:nding aolilE
up the Parana to inrade The dreamy repose {
Paraguay, they have grievances ond cia'ms
store for anY humber Of Presidents Message
and for apv number Of strictly defensive expt
ditions? Is the wolf always SO entirely in th
rights Are the lambs always so completely i
, | the wroug1