Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-03-29

4 on inns point ne COulu speak TOT nUTlSSU only,
but he would speak without reserve. lie be
iieved that the UNION of these states would not
be Jeopardized by the occupation of that river,
bot that it would De the means of planting the
germ OF and independent power be-
You'd the Rocky Mountains. There was
beginning, and natural progress IN the order
OF ali thugs. The military post on the Column
bla would he the nucleus ot settlement. Far
mers, traders, aud artisans, would collect about
1t. When arrived At some degree of strength
and population, the young society would sickeu
OF a military government, and sigh Tor the estab-
hshinent o, civil authority. A territorial go
vernment obtained, the full! enjoyment OF state
nghts would next be demanded; and these &C
quired, loud Camors would soon be heard against
the hardship coming SO far TO the seat OF overn
Inent. All tins would be IN the regular order
OF events, and the consequence should be fore
seen and provided for. This Republic should
have limits. The present occasion does not re-
quire me to say where these limits should be
found on the North and South; but they are fix
ed bv the hand of nature and postcritv will nei-
ther lack sense to sec, nor resolution TO step up
TO them. Westward, we can speak without re-
serve, and the ridge ofthe Rocky Mountains may
be named without offence, as presenting con-
venlent, natural, and everlasting boundary
Along the back of this ridge the western limit OF
this Republic should be drawn, and the statue
of the failed God Terminus should be raised
upon ITS highest peak, never to be thrown down.
In planting the seed of a new pc er on
the coast of the Pacific ocean, it should be
well understood that when strong enough To take
care of itself, the new government should sepa-
rate from the mother empire, as the child sepa-
rates from the parent at the age of manhood.
The heights of the Rocky Mountains should di-
vide their possessions; and the mother Republic
would find herself Unidentified mr. hpr cares and
expense about the infant power, in the use of n
post IN the Pacific, the protection of her int.
rests IN that sea, the enjoyment OF the fur trade,
the controul ot the Indians, the exclusion OF mo-
narchy from her border, the Illustration of the
hostile schemes of Great Britain, and, above ALL
in the erection of a new Republic, composed OF
her children, speaking her lang, inheritiug
her principles, devoted to liberty and equality,
and ready TO stand by her sidv against the com
bined powers of the old world. Gentlemen may
think that this is looking rather deep into the
chapter of futurty; but the contrary is the
fact. The view | take is both near aud clear.
Within century from this day population,
greater than that OF tAe present United States
will exist on the West side of the Rocky Noun
talns. do not deal in paradoXes, but in propo-
sitIous easily demonstrated as he rohlenls In
Euclid. Here then is the demonstration: Di-
yiding our portion of this continent into five
eqna parts, and tie ill he .ould i'm The valley
OF the Mississippi, three parts; on the East side
of the Allegheny Mountains, one part; on the
West of the Rocky Mountains, one pat. Pc
pulaton will distribute itself accordingly; three
parts in the valley, and one part on each of the
appurtenent Slopes Within a century th,
Population OF the whole will be one hundred and
SIXTY nIliions of which an hundred millions
will drink the waters which flow into the Mis-
sisippi, and sixty millions will be found upon the
streams which flew East and West, towards the
rising and the setting sun. the calculation
is reducIble TO the mathematical precision.
We double our numbers once in twenty five
years, and must continue to do so until the action
ofthe prolific principle in man shall be checked
by the same cause which checks it in every race
of animals--the stint Offood This cannot happen
-titst.i every acre of our generous soil shall be
put IN requlsihon, until the product Of more than
thousand millions of acres shall be insufficient
TO fill tlle mouths winch feed upon them. This
will require more people than century can
pU''iuce even at tie rate Of doubling once in
evenly five years a rate which will give us one
hundred and sixty millions in the wear 1920
tbat Is to say, twenty millions more than the
Roman Empire contained in the time of Angus
tus Cesar. y century is but point in the age
oa nation. The life of an individual often spans
1t: and many the children now born, who
will see the year 1920, and the accomplishment
Of the great events which their nurses believe to
be impossible.
Upon the people Of Eastern Asia the estab-
lishment ola civilized power upon the opposite
coast of America, could not fail to produce great
and wonderful benefits. Science liberal prin-
cpes in Government, and the true religion.
might cast their lights across the intervening
sea. The valley of the Columbia might become
the granary of China and Japan, and an outlet
The inhabitants of the Oldest and the newest, the
most despotic and the frers GOVERNMENTS, would
be neighbours, lnt re, ldycn,ure, the friends of
Zach other. They have the same enemies. and
By consequence, should stand togethera as friends
Russia and the legitlmates menace Turkey, Per-
STA China, and Japan; they menace them for
their riches and domnions; the same powers
menace the two Americas for their popu-
lar forms Of governments. To my mind
the proposition Is clear, that Eastern Asia, and
the two Americas, they would become neigh
bOurs, should become friends that they shonld
stand together upon a sense of common danger;
and |, for one said Mr.. B. had as lief see Amer
lean Ambassadors going to the Emperors Chi
ma and Japan, TO the King of Persia, andeycn TO
the Grand Turk. as TO see them dancing atten-
dance upon those European Lcgtirnates, vino
hold every thing American in contempt and de-
testatiOn.
MI. B. concluded with saying, that thove
were speculatons ofhis own, shooting far ahead
ofthe proposition under debate. The proposition
is io execute the Client Treaty, TO expel the
British from the Columbia river, to perfect our
title, by reducing the disputed territory TO pos
session; and whatever use we may make of il,
afterwards, whether we shall hold il as a military
post and naval station, settle it as colony, or
found new Republic upon it, there were GER
tain preliminary Ponson which Mr.. 3. beiiev ed