The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-23

people. Her ambition became the policy
of the British nation. She aspired to
monopoly of the profitable manufactures,
and the rich commerce of the world. To
this end colonies were essential, especially
in the tropics, the region of servile labor by
inferior races. The acquisition of colonies
required large and we'll appointed navy.
This she proceeded to form.
Spain, which then controlled the servile
labor of the tropics, and was therefore the
mistress of the ocean, took alarm at the
ambitious designs of England, and resolved
TO crush the aspiring Queen. The Spanish
armada was sent to destroy the British
feet, but terrible storm dashed that great
navy to pieces, and with this ruin, fell the
commercial supremacy of Spain.
1t was from Italy, Portugal, Spain, and
Holland that England learned the value of
tropical commerce to modern nations; how
to win and retain it; and how to avoid
errors and follies, whereby she might lose it.
1t was England that gave us our system
(for we have no national policy,) of terri
torial agrandizement and servile labor upon
which we have grown so great and happy,
bat we have neither appreciated its advan-
tages or comprehended it's blessings. Our
greatness is thurst upon US, and we know it
| not.
We must 60 back to the mother country,
and there study national policy, and that
sublime selfshness of race and nation,
which everywhere distinguishes the English
character. We must go among the fallen
empires and dead republics, and learn how
they rose, and why they fell. We will
thereby find out the essential conditions of
national wealth, prosperity, unity and pow
er. If we are not willing to accept these
conditions. if they contain elements obnox.
ious to our political theories, or notions of
moral duty, sufficient to cause their con-
demnation and rejection, we will only con-
firm the opinion of monarchists, aud demon
strate the fallacy of democratic institutions.
TO recur again to the Elizabethean era
it then became the settled policy of Eng
land to monopolise the most lucrative man.
ufactures OF the white race, and the most
valuable servile labor of the dark tropical
populations.
Religious wars on the continent favored
this wise domestic and foreign policy.
Silk weavers from France wooleD man.
ufactures from Flonders, and other trades
men, prosecuted protestants, fled from the
continent to England, and soon gave pro.
digiOus impulse to her manufacturing in
dustry, while her newly acquired posses.
| SiOns furnished at the same time the pro-
ducts of every climate for commerce, mar
kets for home made fabrics, and capital for
every lucrative enterprise.
1t was then that English statesmen dis.
covered the commercial value of toleration,
and the deep interest of their own country
in all the conflicts, and revolutions of the
continent. They soon perceived that upon
the internal strites and follies of other pa.
tions, depended the measure of greatness to
be achieved by their own. Hence inter-
venti0n in the affairs of other countries by
war, diplomacy or manufactured public
opinion, to unite or divide, to cultivate
peace or foment revolution, as her material
interests might dictate, became, and has
continued to be the settled policy of Brit
ain.
In one sense, our august mother deserves
the appellation given her by the people of
the continent: "Perfdious Albion" for
she has despoiled, or wronged all nations;
but she deserves this encomium, of which
few others can boast: she has cherished and
taken care of her own people. The Eng
lish labOriDg class, is the best paid, and the
best fed, in Europe. She wronged strau-
gers; she subjugated dark races, but it was
to clothe and feed her own children. For
this she robbed spain of Jamaica, and other
territories, melted revolution in Spanish
America, drove the Portuguese, the Span
ish, the French, and the Dutch from their
richest possessions 10 Asia, Africa and
America; fomented insurrection among the
slaves of st. Domingo, and also abolitionis,n
in the United States.
Having possession of the servile labor of
the East Indies-lOO OO0,O 900 human beings
she encouraged photography, emancipa.
ted her 100000 negro slaves, and paid their
owners for them, in the hope and expecta>
tion Of thereby abolishing negro slavery in
America, and becoming the almost exclusive
possesSor of the servile tropical labor of the
world. ......
In those enterprises she has illustrated
the devotion of Englishmen to their own
country, and revealed the secret motive of
their action, which is only national aggran.
dizement.
Now, what lesson shall we learn from
England? What part shall we play in the
dramatic history of nations
We have within the Union, if the impend-
ing dissolution can be averted, every ele.
ment of national prosperity acquired by
England during ages OF conflict and after
all her wrongs to other nations, with many
advantages super added. Our 100000
well.fed slaves are worth more, in product.
i've labor, than her 100, ,000 600 half-starved
Asiatics. How gladly would she exchange
her dark servile laborers, for ours
To appease false, or at least doubtful,