APPENDIX. 
No. 1. 
A SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER ON THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, THE CA- 
LIFORNIAS, AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES 
IN REGARD TO THE ENCROACHMENTS OF ENGLAND. 
If there is anything that peculiarly distinguishes the statesmanship of England, 
it is the prospective wisdom with which its Ministers (while guarding the mo- 
mentary interests at home,) seek new vents for the labor of its population and for 
the surplus of that population, also, when it becomes too crowded within the limits 
of the British Islands. It is the want of this vigilant policy that peculiarly char- 
acterizes our own country. In the midst of a vast territory, with ample room for 
the expansion of our inhabitants for hundreds of years, we are careless of the 
future, and we do not look with wariness to those geographical points of vantage 
around the earth of which England is gi-adually possessing herself, for the exten- 
sion and guardianship of her commercial interests. We thus permit a grasi^ing 
and ambitious rival to monopolize positions which, if they do not directly affect 
the people of our own generation, cannot fail, especially in the event of war, to 
injure and annoy our posterity. 
We have seen Great Britain add Affghanistan, Scinde, and the Chinese Empire, 
to her control within the last two years ; at the same time fixing her power 
steadily in Canada, by the suppression of every symptom of rebellious spirit. We 
have seen her firmly planted within her fortresses at Bermuda, establishing her- 
self at the Balize, and encroaching on Guatemala ; we have seen her holding the 
key of the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, and the power of the Straits at Malta and 
the Ionian Isles ; we find her in the southern Atlantic, at St. Helena, and in the 
Indian Seas at numberless islands ; and we learn that she at last pounced, with- 
out warning, on the Hawaiian group, with the same spirit that animated her con- 
quests in China, (although she has since officially disavowed the acts of her offi- 
cer.) Britain has thus encircled the globe with her power, and in this greedy acqui- 
sition of territory, and prudent husbandry of resources, our Statesmen should 
at least perceive a warning of danger from a bold and ambitious rival, if they do 
not learn a lesson which, under similar circumstances, they would be studious to 
emulate. 
The temper of our Republic is entirely too much devoted to the interests of the 
passing day. We writhe under debt, and we rush into repudiation. We suffer 
under financial distress, and we adopt some palliative expedient that saves us from 
momentary ruin. We dislike the policy of the hour, and we attribute it exclu- 
sively to Executive misrule ; and the continual distractions of the whole scheme 
of our popular government seem but to nourish an unceasing nervousness as to 
who is to rule, and who to control the national patronage. This spirit is creating 
a vacillating system, v/hich, in the end, must become nationally characteristic. If 
