The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-04
Expaasiea or tho United states-Mexican
Tresblcs-The st. Lawrence River.

Expaasiea or the United states-Mexican
TresbIcs-The st. Lawrence River.
Continental expansion of the area Of freedom,
once secuted az the dream Of yislonaries, has
become practicable possibility. Parties once
opposed inch by inch every movement for the
extension Of our territory; but who would ven
ture such opposition now, in the changed con-
diions Of social existences All the argument
in favor Of cramping national growth-sup-
porting the pent-up Utica system OF develop
ment-was drawn from the history Of other
ages. Asiatio empires and ancient Rome sup
Piled the staple Of comparison. Governments
with greatly extended territories were giants
without bones !" their deficient vitality, the
result Of their size, involved their easy dismem-
berment in times of trouble. Doubtless all
this was once true, and Its truth depended upon
the fact Of imperfect communication between
the parts Of IN empire. An Emperor Of Rome
might have been dead and his successor named
for year before tho news had penetrated into
the remOter States subject to Roman rule;
but when the vote for President is cast
over the whole area OF tho United
States the result Is known ut New
York within day. This would be the
same If the area Of the republic were twenty
times greater than it is. The telegraph, that
wonderful nervous system Of nations, puts all
he parts in close and constant relation, COM
pac!s the vas. mass into unity OF sensation and
thought, and max IS great empire subject to
the same laws of life that hitherto governed
small ones. railroads. and steamboats, are its
powers Of the age have destroyed all argument
against extended empire.
Is 1t not then, for the obvi GUS advantage Of
the human race and the worlds progress that
the best example Of government on contnen.
should bs extend I'd to all the people it con-
tainsi Hero is Mexico, sill in tho butchery
and throat cutting, of quarrels that hardly pre-
tend to purpose. Spaniard and Indian
commingled, the wors. compound of history is
daily proving itself in Mexico and some other
places an i'm ,rac icable mixture for develop
mont in civilized life, and exhibiting its ten
denotes to barbarism. Would it not be in all
respects an advantage for the United States TO
occupy at once this beautiful country that
tends to become an uninhabited waste by the
mutual murderings Of its parties and people !?
Should we not extend in that direction the
benefits Of the order, civilization and energy
Gus people on the earth, and thus
open new and splendid channels for the vast
European emigration that still pours in upon
us and forces the extension Of our frontiers
whether we will or no! What advantage was
it to the world or humanity that we frowned
away Europ ,an attempt to establish order, if
we are not ready to supply an adequate sub
satutef On our northern borler we are con-
fron.ed by an attempt to build up one more
government on system that even in Europe
only lives by the inability Of the people to
take mutual action agains. it. 1t will fall by
its own wei 3ht soon enough, and its people
will fall into our arms; but in the meantime we
must not permit it to become nuisance by
the agitation of such small point of hostility
as lies in the question of the navigation
Of the ST. Lawrence river. The way to
prevent this IL by buying or taking, on
the large law of national necessity, all the
country between the Maine boundary and
the ocean that lies to the south OF the ST..
Lawrence river. Every inch Of the continent
gravita.es toward the Stars and Stripes; but
our convenience, on one hand, and common
humanity on the other, require that in the cases
Of Mexico and the ST. Lawrence country we
should take action to hasten the operation of
the natural law.