The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-12

1 from these acquisitions carried u
! from the KANSAS bord r2arlto ol,
4 John Brown, to Fort Sumter and t,
/ 4ppQmattox Coqrt House Thre.
ndretlsthousand Union soldiers
! graves. and a national debt of -twen
/ ty-fve hundred millions otmeneg
attest to-day the cost OF. these an
nexations. This, too, after Gen
Scotthad declined the offer of Mex
ice. itsel asbeeaasefof hisfeals of thS
slaYely qHestioh.s But our cpmben
sations from these new Territories
have been so great aud so amazing
and their promises for the future SC
glorious that our people we're hun
/ gsring f5r mere ten tory till Dir
Stewards purchase of Alaska and
his narrow escape from the YoIcanic
Iisland of St. Thomas. Then from
this Rrctc and this tropical iRis-eu-
| rut@ tliere WAS 4 reaction, and il
was made manifest in the significant
| Opposition to Con. Grants fascina-
ting st. Domingo scheme. e'The
people began to inqtire, IF We an
mex all these outside barbarians.
what can we do with them2 Hence
the failure yefr rSty Domingo, with all
its lhrds Of Briniant plunago. its
coffee tFeess BPlaha groves and or
qnge blossomsi and this foseo
should stand as a warning TO The
administration that the fever Of an
hezation has died out in this coun
try, and that the American people
have land enough and scope and
verge eaough foy the largest designs
in moral and material progress, and
that We dFe safe'on1y IN holding our
god Terminus t, car Present boun-
daries.
Oar late terrible experience with
fire and sEord. has taught US the
wholesome lesson that We are not
exempt from the pefils Of those in
ternal discords suffered more or
less by ali other natiens Human
nature and its fFailties are every
where the same. And what are the
lessons which they teach. Us con
cernihgs this mania Of anhe2ation?
The ancient Egyptians, tile Assyri-
ans, the BabalOnians, the Medes
and Persians, Greece, Carthage and
Rome, al give. US the same warn
ing. The Kingdom Of Israel tells
US the melancholy story. King Da-
vid, a successful warrior, enlarged
his boundaries on every side, and
the spIeadors and giofies OF Solo
mon foIlowedj but next came the
revolt of the ten tribes, and then to
Judah and Israel their civil wars,
and then to both the foreign in
yader and conquest and captivity.
And from tile SaFacens to the
and from Charlemagne toithe
First Napoleon, and from him to
Napoleon the Third, it is still the
same suicidal folly of annexation,
with the same penalties. Napoleon
the First undertook the subiuga
ton. of=EupoBes rand he died on the
desolate rock Of St.-Helera Napo-
leon the Third sighed for the en-
largement of his Rhine frontier and
now he awaits IN exile the doubtful
chances of an imperial restoration.
Our white bear of Alaska has
proved a Write elephant but he
viii pay for his keeping if we profit
nom his Instructions and go no
further after this will-o-the-wisp of
''manifest destinny, Let us sup
pose that We Havesannezed the Can
adas and British Columbia, and Gu
ba and St. Domingo, and Mexico
and Central Ameriea-for this is the
manifest destiny of Mr. Seward
and let Us. suppose that all these /
countries and peoples, to the mum
Der of thirty or iorty new States
and. Territories, are represented in |
what would follow? The |
3Qnfusion Of tongues which dis |
oegsed the builders of Babel, for |
such a Congress Of lunatics could |
act hold togCther. Alaska has set
led the business FOR us. 7Wewantt /
10 more -a8nexatious. Our country ,
s large enough. To make it larger
here can be neither unity nor har !
nony a. tie heart. OF extrenities.
Hence sectional quarrels, civil wars, /
and anarchy viii come /
20 plague us, General GRANTS true |
American policy is to shut the door
1f annexati5n and to invite and en-
courage our neighbors, North and /
south, to follow our example of !
self-government Her aim should |
be a chain Of independent American |
on the land and the sea,
rom tbe GsHRdians to the Ar2en /
ines, 4sat- all 13oahd together IL !
commercial reciprocities and in po /
ititat objects FOR their common 1
geiTaf4 and proteetig,n. Thhsswith /
,1r 5Sn Unioa OF states, we may [
laye the United States Of Canada, |
md Of the West Indies aud Of Sick
co, and the Republics of Central
Amefica-each free and indep6nd 4
ant but al harm.onionsly working /
ogether as in a grand American
Confederation. This, in our judg /
nent, shoald be the American poll
" Of General Grant England, in (
ApstFalia aud il Der NesE Domin- /
sn, is tending towards thissblution I