The Arkansas advocate., 1832-09-12

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 event. weaId i4laolue tlie ns.eessits of preventing eha repelniions of tlse easils around fgye son and apon its axis, and tic whole co7rse of hFte4e. To mourn over it, involves the extreme folly 0f fepining at the happy Iot Of majority
 ol the nation-aDd of our poste19tY lor~ ever. From tiic growth fsf liai.s lltsainrl-. the lover of liberty has nothing to Gea,ss because our people from tIesf cradles are taught 10 be republicans. They are such, as if by instinct, and those principles which tend 10 make them MEN, are taught them from the first moment they see the light, breathe Americanair, and taste their mothers milk.
 The same remark might De made of all the country west of the Wabash, ex- tending from the Mexican c ulph 10 the Frozen Ocean; parts of Louisiana, 8 where the pine woods are, and also where some persons wish .o locate all the Indians, excepted. With the ex- captions already made from the Wa bash directly westward-and from the Mississippi below lat. 37 degrees north, that whole region is one vast natural meadow. Its soil is as fertile as any lands can be, and when planted with trees, and cultivated by good husband men, it will furnish food enough for three hundred millions of people.--- Grass enough now grows there for all the tame animals, whose food is grass. now in the world.
 This yastresion, nits present sta.c, IS of little value, but the lime will arrive, when it will be covered by farms and animated with countless mil lions ofdomesticanimals. There, gold en harvests will wave before every brcathofair that moves over its surface there, great and splendid cities will rear thcirtall and gglitteringg spires, and there, countless millions of happy hu- man beings will live and move, and disr play talents that will enoble man, and virtues that will adorn and render him happy. m
 The longest, the mos. durable and best rivers in the world, intersect and pass through this country, standing on whose banks, there will yet be some of the largest cities in the world. Compa- ratvely speaking, but few persons in the world have ever beheld this coun- l try. No tongue, and noauthor, have described it; built is there-it willbc seen--it will be described, and it will be settled, improved and occupied by countless millions of the human race. lis rivers will be cleared of the impedi- ments to navigation, all the way to the Rocky Mountains; the roaring of the guns Of the steamers, the stage drivers horn, and the loud huzzas of happy throngs, will soon be heard along all these rivers, and at the very foot of these mountains.
 Infinite wisdom and infinite goodness never created on this earth, so fine a country as this, and to suppose for moment that it will not be thickly set- tied, used and improved by unnumber- ed millions of men, involves so poor-- so contemptuous an opinion ofmen, that l instantly and indignantly discard it from my mind.
 Such an opinion sinks man even be- low the horse, the deer, the bison, the bear and the wolf, now roaming in un. numbered droves over this vast mea- dow. Here, every farmer in the world may become freehoider, and live in rural bliss. No poor man in the east ern States, who has feet and legs, and can use them, has any excuse for re- maining poor where he is, a day or even an hour. He who made him and gave him locomotive powers, created this country for his use and bene6t-it has been given to him by God, who has commanded him to cultivate it and enjoy it, and fine continues to disobey ttiii this reasonable command, he deserves to suffer all he docs through his own obstinate indolence, laziness and stupi- dity. Such a creature would starye in Paradise. He deserves no more pity than he would who complained for want of light in the brilliancyof noon day, while he closed hiseyes. The country is there, and he who has legs to walk with can reach it, and when there, withhis hands, he can cultivate enough of it with ease, to enrich himself and his children after him. And there are thousands of spots, where the groves are-where there are valuable mill sites where there are mines of lead--