Daily national Democrat., 1860-06-14
Expansion.

Inc extreme southern ultra5 seem afralu 10
trust the institution Of slavery to the doctrine
of non-intervention, for the reason that the
larger portion Of the Territory now in pos
session Of the Union is likely TO be settled by
non-slaveholders and erected into free States.
| They do not seem TO reflect that the rich cot
ton and sugar-produeing regions of Mexico
and Central America must ultimately fall into
the hands Of the American Government, and
that Non Intervention puts its into the power
Of the South to spread the institution of slave
ry all over those egons. They seem to have
gained no knowledge from the experience of
the past, but appear TO imagine that there
will be no further expansion of American
Territory. They are undoubtedly as badly
mistaken as those able but, in one respect at
least, snort-sighted statesmen, who, in the
latter end of the last century, supposed that
the extreme western boundary of the Ameri-
can Union would be the Allegheny Noun
tains, and who very patiently negotiated with
Spain for the free navigation of the MisSis-
sippi. All that Thomas jefferson asked Of
the elder Napoleon was a cession of New
Orleans and the Flordas, and gave him to
understand that the United States Govern
ment would be willing to make the Missis-
sippi river her extreme western boundary,
the same to be perpetual. lie obtained what
he wanted and more, for he very reluctantly
agreed to take the entire Louisiana Purchase,
out of which the several large slave States
on the west side of the Mississippi have been
erected. Since that time, how immensely the
country has expanded Spanish and Mexi-
can dominion has fled before the march of
our Republic, and surrendered tract after
tract Of its broad domain into our hands
From the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, our
lines have extended. They must still ex
tend-no further westward, it is true, (unless
the Sandwich Islands desire annexation) but
southwark into the heart of Mexico. There
are Mexican States which must fall into the
embraces of the Union, ultimately, even with
their own consent, for their populations are
too close upon our borders not to become
Americanized in sentiment. But, in one wav
or another, by conquest or by purchase, by
voluntary compact or treaty uecessitated by
circumstances, this result must take place.
Look how eager the Juarez Government has
been to throw the country open to the march
Of our armies and to repose itself under the
protecting and friendly banner of the United
States Comonfort was not averse to the
cesson of territory, and the fact is, without
stopping to prove so plain a proposition the
Mexican States on our borders are ready like
ripe fruit to drop into our clutches. We can
take them whenever we want them.
| With all this chance for expansion by the
South, with all this magnificent prospect of
building up new slave States and giving an
overwhelming preponderance in the councils
of the Nation to the Southern section, it does
seem strange that Southern men can be found
opposing that very doctrine in which lies
their sole power Of extending and perpetu-
ating the institution for which they contend
THAT FAMOUS ADDREss.-We have read the
much talked of Address of certain Southern
Senators and Members of Congress-Jeff.
Davis, A. Iverson R. Toombs, John w. I'm
derwood, and others-to those delegates who
bolted the charleston Convention. 1t
amounts simply to this and nothing more,
to-wit that the delegates ought to go back
to the National Convention, when it meets
at Baltimore, and if it don't then adopt an
Anti.Douglas Platform, again 6oH
If this be not a piece of cool assurance
where will you find it? They are advised
to go back, not as good Democrats to abide
by the will of the majority but to see if they
cant bully the majority into giving them
their platform. If they cant, why then they
are to retire and go on with their Richmond
Convention
We don't know whether these delegates
will take the advice rendered them or not
but if they do offer to stick their heads into
the Baltimore Convention, With the avowed
purpose of boiling if they don't get what
they want, they ought to be politely reques-
ted to retire and give place to better men,
to.wit the Democrats chosen in their places.
The present is no time for nonsense, and if
the Democratic party cannot maintain itself
without bowing down to the dust before a
squad of traitors to principle and half
fedged disunionists, let it be splintered-
We don't believe, for our part, that any such
sqnad of men can hurt the Democratic party
in the least.
TnE nomination of Lincoln in preference
to Seward, is thought in Chicago an acknow
lengement of the weakness of the RepubH-
can cause. The personal friends of Trum-
bull are very indignant. He is owned to be