The Arkansas banner., 1843-12-09

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 1880 500000O0 1890 65O00000
 1900 S4,000,0OO /"
 1910 '' l09,000,000 $
 1920 1I2,O00,00O "
 1880 [" IS4,000,00 ' s
 I940 240,000,000 |"
 Who, we repeat, shall question the proba- bllity that the ratio of increase of our popu- lation will be, and must be, through an inde- finite series of years, in the awful depths of which all imagination is bewildered and lost that which we have assumed-a ratio less than has therefore marked our progress ?- What assignable cause Is there that can arrest it. With boundless expansc of fertile ter ritory, within that region of the earths sur face most favorable to human life and the healthiul development of all its faculties-a climate which must ever increase in salubritv from time to time, with the extension of cul- tivation-an intelligence and enterprise of national character, which will not fail to im- prove, to tic utmost, every natural resource and advantage-the gigantic steps which the science of the present age Is daily taking ill the development of all the arts of utility, by which the physical sustenance and enjoyment of life can be facilitated and enhanced-the exemption from all possible danger of war. and from the heavy superincumbent pressure of accumulated misgovernment by which the nations of Europe have heretofore been de- pressed, and stun;ed even in the natural growth which their physical circumstances and national characters might otherwise have pcrmitted-the perfect freedom, alike of the moral and the animal man, to grow to the full stature and capacity of his nature, with ample room and verge enougho to spread freely Ill every direction-in such a state of things, what assignable cause is there, we re- peat, that can arrest the progressive increase oi our population, at similar rate to that which the past half century has witnessed?
 It IS in this anticipation that we find the chief reason for the deep, the intense solici- tude, which every friend of American liberty and union ought to feel for the broad and strong establishment of sound principles, as the basis of that grand structure of political and civil society, which We thus see rising upward towards the heavens before our eyes such principles as will be adequate to sus- tain so colossal fabric. It is for this, that the patriot would struggle to reform every vicious institution, the operation of which is found, or is calculated. to exert demoraliz- ing i;:a.aiIence on national character. For this, that he would lament to see the baleful poi son of that universal passion for wealth, so often ascribed to us, sappng and corrupting the roots of all that is truly good and great, accompanied with that spirit of dishonest gambling, at the grand national table of ss the credit system," which we call by the more spacious name of "speculation.o For this, that he would frown sternly upon every at tempt to SOW discord and jealousy between different sections of the country; and would anXiously cultivate those feelings of harmo- ny and brotherhood, which can only be maintained between great conlederated com munities, by the peaceful pursuit, by each, of it's own industry and its own interests, with out encroachment on those of another. by the advantages of partial federal legislation. and without an offensive interference with each others domestic concerns and mstitu- tions. And for this, that, in the working of our complex political machine, he would be anxious to restrain, as much as possible, the central action of the Federal Government, and carry out to the fullest extent that diflu- sion of power, at the greatest distance possi- ble from the centre, on which the preserva- ton of the Union wholly depends.
 If we should be asked if we believe it pos slble that this Union can hold together hun dred years hence with population of taco hundrcd and forty millions, or even fifty years hence, with one of sify-fne millions, spreading from Atlantic to Pacific. and north ward and southward as their free natural growth should eXtend-we answer Ves, pro- yided the theory of the State-Rights doctrine be but fully and fairly carried out into prac- tce. But, administered on any other princi- ples-on such principles as have, for the most part, heretofore governed its action we must unhesitatingly answer, no. Too strong an action has been propelled outward from the centre, to afford possibility of its working successfully on scale so vastly en- larged. Thus continued, it must infallibly dislocate and dlssever the system, so soon as the distances and the masses increase to pro- portions considerably beyond their present dimensions Such collisions of interest be- tween great sections of country, as we have seen to grow out of the vicious federal legis- lation of former, and, indeed of our own times, on Tariffs, National Banks, Sc, would inevitably break up the Union, so soon as the weight and momentum of its parts receive considerable increase by the progress of po- pulation and power. The central superin- cumbent pressure of the Federal Government must never be felt as heavy burthen, or even as very sensible weight--else it will un- occasionally be cast of by the section op- pressed. It must possess and exercise only vital energy sufficient to hold together the cohesion of the parts, by subserving the few simple concerns felt and confessed by all to be of common usefulness and necessity. If it shall attempt to legislate upon, and for spe- cial interests, however large and powerful they may be, it must inevitably go to pieces and if that political school whose theories