Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-07-24

that the rapid waters Of the Missouri are
accessible by steam. This furnishes a
most important era in the history of our in
,arn,I improvements. II opens commu-
n;cat;on TO the interior of the country TO an
extent beyond what imagination can con-
ceiye. An attempt is shortly to be made
=, the waters Of the Yellow Stone river,
and M doubt is entertained of is success.
I" Wsstuard the Star Of Empire points the
,roy" we believe was formerly an ex-
preston of an English poet, while contem-
plating the future destinies of the AmeTi-
can continent. The expression now de-
riyes double force and pungency from the
excess of emigration for, in this point
Of view, the star of empire does indeed
noipt 10 the west. Ii is now ascerlained 1t
is said, on good evidence, that the waters
of the Missouri, are as accessible by steam
as that of the Ohio or the Mississippi
Now. that the grand parent stream IS sub
dued, Us in fact compelled to pass under
the trumphai arch erected by victorious
art, all the tributary streams will be COM
PEELED to pay homage. By this noble con-
nuest the invention of steam will be rem
dered as perennial as the Sow Of the Mis-
souri,. We do not wonder that European
nations should contend with US tor the no.
nor Of this invention the point has been
long subject of alteration. nor is ii even
at this day fully settled by evidence. But
while this point remains undecided. no
doubt at all remains on the question, who
improved the power OF this tremendous
agent and disciplined il to use.-Our rapid
and almost intermirable rivers did not APP
pear scope enough Tor American enter
prize--the Ocean, presented broader
aad more comprehensive field for the ener-
gies of our countrymen. His dominion IS
now subjected to the power OF steam. and
this victory was first achieved by Ameri-
cans. No wonde. that such enterprise has
excited the envy of European wrIters--it
is a subject worthy Of their en'y---"orihy
of the only homage that an envlous heart
can render---lhs homage oil slander. and a
buse European authors have found out
another source OF consolation: they have
laid il down as principle never at least to
be doubted by them, thai such enterprise
acting ON so broad scale as that OF vast
continent, Cannot be OF long continuance.
THIS IS point which these politicians have
established very much to their own salts
faclleu. But unless they have some means
inaccessible to cOmmon mortals, oil consult
ins the records OF tututity, We are utterly
al loss to conceive how they have eSlab-
lished So conciusively, tact, which ihey
nus( confess is not at the present moment
in existence. In the mean time, 1t only
remains Tor cur cOunlrymen 10 disappoiht
these benesoien. predictions, by sin che
IT'S Ing tue government Ut tueir Choice.
Many years, AM perhaps cenlunes NAV
roll aluuna, before The European world
MAJ prescnt such spectacle as 1t has re-
ssLty done. Hnen all Inc cNIilZeu world
va, IN arms, 1t MAS Impossible or Amerl-
Cans, connected as they were by so many
ties, natufa., pOntlcal and commercial, u
rRmaIn calm Spectators of the Contest
TINS lurbuenI Stale of the world, rendered
he political parties IN tins country IN some
measure the representatives OF Tue DeiiiSe-
rent parties ot LWope. Now, party VIII
not assume such all exllrpatlng Character:
Manufactures, commerce, agriculture, sec
tional Interests, will oreaA up Inis iofInl-
dabie coniederaled mass OF party, into
smaii fragments, comparatively insisnih-
cant TO wuAt 1t once was, anu Incapable
Of being joined together again ia soitd
and pernanent shape. All inis Is auSpic'-
Gus BON to tue gro, tn aud concentration
Of our republican nabits.
An Eng lish writer in Attempting 10 usain-
tain ms iavorlte dogma, that the Y. States
cannot remain as an independent nation ID
their present form, mentions this iacl, that
they constitute the only republic now ex'
sting OH tue surface OF Inc globe. How this
fact is brought 10 bear as an evidence the
truth vi MS assertion, we are, we must
confess, utterly al a loss to conceive.
de proves nothing more Than The simple
fact, that the u. States do constitute the
only remaining republic.
tie neither proves that all the monar-