Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-04-27
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1ore expansion, territorially, until the
- Spangled Banner" and other nation
q "a can be sung aud played, under our
Gag, without being Kissed. We want
nch elements as Cuba, or Canada and
ther British North American provinces
a bring us, until we can visit the tomb
n Washington, without insult because We
<e worn the blue. Unless it can be
<|6.rly demonstrated, as we think it can
be, that such expansion would tend to
ne our internal troubles, we should re-
inch acquisitions as We did the spread
DE deadly poison of African slavery.
~ nation has government well
gh settled and strong enough to do its
citizens equal and exact justice through
lis own domain--and how vast is ours
K <>ady-it should not be ambitious of en-
\ ing its borders. Wait at least until
lave had real substantial peace for
~ period of four years, before we swal-
I6N the whole world in our eager benev-
tlenoe. To England the Canadas are un-
060btedly an expensive charge; to us,
undor our present circumstances, they
would be likely to prove a positive curse.
I Lct1is first establish the fact that we can
govern ourselves land we think General
GranFs administration will do it) before
~ bread our tired bird too extensively:
ssOur relations with Spain are in a
{ lo9f critical condition. There is great
l}|S6zer that our two strong national pas
1otA one for the acquisition of all out
yidt territories, the other. for aiding
1I6|e or less actively every revolt against
ac1archical institutions, may plunge us
1fo d war. The American people ought
N tave a wiser and sadder appreciation
Nc miseries Of war than they had ten
@&Is ago. The horrible tragedy where
8 Nj sons and brothers have played their
1s SO nohly to the catastrophe, over
Il Xjch we have no cause to weep, need
De repeated, to make this generation
G|r as daily prayer, Gen. Grants
xim-Let Ws hare peace.
Dor old Spain distracted with rovol-
Ilta, seems, and perhaps is, a contempti-
foe. The prestige of good soldiery
|01e the times when thousand Spanish
I1IEntry chased ten times as many Hol-
l1Sders over their dykes has passed to
6lher nations. We class Spaniards with
lexicans, and remember how easily we
>oaquered their capital with forces that
we're mere corps of the grand armies, we
lid against our rebellion. We laugh at
tho idea that the Spanish navy can hold
ITO seas with our gun boats and monitors
f>(hered in one formidable squadron in
fhe West Indies. But les us remember
that Spain has claim upon the strongest
le4nrs in the world, and that in this quar-
1etWith us they would eagerly aid her.
6poIean has not forgotten the humilla-
0 put upon him by Mr.. Seward or
0es Watson Webb. He would gladly
ont in Cuba the abrupt notice to quit
served on him in Mexico. Great
lain would rejoice in a way out of a
sat humiliation to which we have just
ned her rejecting Reverdy Johnson's
<1&<ty. We have just given her enc Of
lI{ee alternatives; reparation for our
lily great wrongs, the least we can ask,
{ which she cannot give without con-
ING to completely in treacherous at
zpt upon our national life, chronic
vance to be used against her fatally
Ter first hour of distress, or war. She
ca gerly embrace the last, if she can
a, in alliance with all the maritime
ers of Europe in furnishing us for the
wrongs towards Spain for which done
krds ourselves we are demanding in
nifty.
ban our public and private credit bear
w imitation Of currency, pushing up
riees to beyond the worst crisis of the
ellion, and an addition to the national
that would compel its reputation ?
rom our national administration, left
provide for the emergencies as they &C.
without an opportunity Of consulting
Representatives of the people, we ex-
i, and have good right to expect,
hing but prudence.--Of course our ma
al honor must be respected, the rights
: american citizens in the lawful pur-
a of commerce must not be lawlessly
nded. But let us remember our own
Iculties. In the agony Of self preser-
ION against invasion or rebellion, gov
[ments sometimes violate the rights of
ol<er governments. We have done it
zc<ITpclves. Let US ask for redress prompt
but let us not doubt the prestige of
~ name aud strength to obtain it by the
I|4S Concession of the nation that has in
1<d US. We can afford to be patient.
y just to give timeto refer our demands
~ dependency to the central govern
zbt. 1t is just to give ample time for a
Investigation.
Df course our sympathy for the Cuban
publicans will continue. We shall re-
pize their belligerency and their III
Evidence just as soon as according to
pice code Of international honor and
ice, which we have just been studying
lhoughtfully in our controversy with
land, we have right to. And while
fepress all open attempts to set on iojt
ltary expeditions auxiliary to the war
independence, if indioiduals sec fit to