The New York herald., 1872-11-23

ing this mania Of annexationf The ancient
Egyptians. the Assyrians. the Babylonians.
the Medes and Persians, Greece. Carthage and
Rome, all give us the same warning The
Kingdom Of Israel tells us the melancholy story.
King David. q successful warrior, enlarged
his boundaries on every side, and the splen-
dors and the glory of Solomon followed but
to Judah and Israel their civil wars, and then
to both the foreign invader and conquest and
captivity. And from the Saracens to the
Turks, and from Charlemagne to the
First Napoleon, and from him to Napoleon
the Third, it is still the samo suicidal folly of
annexation, with the same penalties. Napo-
leon the First undertook the subjugation Of
Europe, and he died on the desolate rock Of
St. Helena. Napoleon the Third sighed for
the enlargement Of his Rhine frontier, and
now he awaits in exile the doubtful chances Of
an imperial restoration.
Our white bear Of Alaska has proved white
elephant; but he will pay for his keeping if
we profit from his instructions and 60 no
further after this will-o' -the-wisp Of 'mani-
fest destiny" Let us suppose that we have
annexed the Canadas and British Columbia,
and Cuba and st. Domingo, and Mexico and
Central America-for this is the manifest des-
tiny of Mr.. Seward-and let us suppose
that all these countries and peoples, to
the number of thirty or forty new
States and Territories, are represented in Con-
gress, what would follow? The confusion Of
tongues which dispersed the builders Of Babel
for such congress Of lunatics could not hold
together. Alaska has settled the business for
country is large enough. To make it larger
there can be neither unity nor harmony
at the heart or extremities. Hence sectional
quarrels, civil wars, dissolution and anarchy
will come to plague us. General Grants true
American policy is to shut the door of annex
alton and to invite and encourage our neigh
bors, North and South, to follow our example
of self-government. His aim should be
chain of Independent American republics, on
the land and the sea, from the Canadians to
the Argentines, but all bound together in COM
mercial reciprocities and in political objects
for their common welfare and protection.
Thus, with our own union of States, we may
have the United States of Canada, and Of the
West Indies and of Mexico, and the repub-
lies of Central America-each free and
independent, but all harmoniously working
together as in grand American Confedera-
tion. This, in our judgment, should be the
American policy of General Grant. England,
in Australia and in her New Dominion, is tend
ing towards this solution Of her colonial en-
barrassments, this settlement Of independent
self-governing States; for England is adapting
herself to the march Of modern ideas. Give
her, Mr.. President, and Spain too, to under
stand that this is our American policy, and the
way to Canadian and Cuban independence
will be opened at Washington.
In any event, and for all useful or orna-
mental purposes, we have territory enough,
exclusive of the four hundred and eighty seven
thousand square miles in Alaska, which go
for nothing. We want no more. Our mani
fest destiny and our true glory will be achieved
in assisting to build up around us an Ameri-
can Gordon of republics, with ours, their
eldest sister, as the head of the family; and
this we would earnestly commend to him as
the American policy Of General Grant to the
end Of his administration. "Let us have
peace" is his motto and this is the policy of
peace.