Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-07-15

deck was the altar OF the living Loo.
Prayers, from Bonded knees, morning and
evening mingled with the voices of the o.
cean and the signing winds through her
shrouds. If prosperous breezes filled her
sails and carried the pilgrims forward to
their unknown homes in distant land, it
awakened in them new anthems of praise;
and if the elements were wrought into flu
ry--if the sea tossed their fragile bark
from bllow TO billow, like a reed or fea-
ther not all the power Of the tempest, not
the darkness and the bowling of the mid
night storm, could shake a man or woman
from the firm purpose of soul TO undergo
all, and to do all that the meekest patience,
the boldest resolution, and the steadiest reli-
ance on heaven could enable human being
to suffer or to perform. loud and long
continued cheers) For they knew that
while they had perilous duties to perform,
and unknown destinies to encounter, yet
that the power Of Almighty God was al
ways over them, and that living or dying,
on the sea or on the land, they were always
comprised in the arms Of everlasting love.
Great applause)
Some differences may doubtless be traced
through all the course Of their history, and
even in this day between the colonsts of
Virginia and New England, owing TO the
different circumstances on which the set
Elements were made. But these differences
arc only enough TO create a pleasing variety
in the members OF large family.
| "-fscies. non omnibus, una,
| Nee dinersa, tamen, qualem eccet esse sororum.'
| (Applause on the platform,)
! The hopes, sentiments and objects OF
| both soon became modified by local causes,
growing out of the condition of the new
world, and the differences SO apparent at
! first, gradually disappeared in the progress
of time. The necessity of some degree Of
union to defend themselves against the
savage tribes tended to promote mutual re-
gard. They fought together in the wars
against France. Then the consultations of
common religion created new links Of
concord--fully, happily, glorously pre-
served in the form of government, which
now makes them the great republic of the
world, and proclaims to the whole earth
that for them there is only one country, one
constitution and one destiny. Great cheer
: ing)
The colonization Of the tropical regions
Fl IF this continent was on other principles
other motives followed BY far other conse-
! uuBlCbs. FROM lIIt iitiI- VI us ulSCONSi =
the Spanish Government diligently pushed
f forward lis settlements in America, not
, only with spirit but with eagerncss-for
, long before the first English settlements in
the United States. Spain had conquered
=, Mexico, Peru, and Chill, and had extended
her power over all she had acquired on this
continent. As early as 1880 or 80, jus,
y, about the time of the settlement of this
!, colony of Massachusetts. Spain had taken
, possession, actively, or formally. Of every
i foot of territory between Florida and Cape
! Horn. The rapidly of these conquests
was greatly TO be ascribed to the eagerness
=, of bands Of adventures anxious TO subdue
r and take possession Of great regions in the
. name of Spain, expecting to discover mines
T.. of gold and silver.
Fl From these facts we see that the love of
n gold--not produced by industry or COM
merce--but dug from its native beds Of
earth, and that earth ravished from its
: rghtful possessors, by every possible de-
gree of crime and oPpression--formed long
! the governing principles Of the Spaniards
in America Even Columbus himself did
! not escape this thirst for gold. We find
, him enquiring everywhere for gold, as if
! God had opened the new world 10 the old
only for base and sordid purposes, and The
n sacrifice Of millions by the sword. And
yet Columbus was far in advance of his
age and his country. He was man of in.
a domitablc enterprise, Of high hopes and
noble aspirations, and Of intellectual talent
! of an extraordinary character, as his histo,
l.. ry shows. Probably he was in the habit Of
i addressing mercenary motives TO others
f not so much because they iniiuen ced him
self, as because they were most likely to
e operate with effect on those on whose as
>. sisance and cooperation he was obliged
. TO depend. No doubt. however, he looked
q on the world newly discovered, as one &c
4 be seized, and ready to be enjoyed.
). The robbery and destruction of the ma.
l. tive races, was the achicvment of standing
Il aTmics--a power which despot:sm has al
!. ways endeayogod TO retain. As there wa
IS no liberty in Spain, Spain could transmit
:. no liberty TO America. The coionists o
! New England, on the other hand, were o
The middle, Industrious, hardy, prosPerou!
: Observation-Disclosures Of commercial ant
f manufacturing cities. amongst whom lib
!. erty first revived and icspired after sleeE
{ of thousand years in the bosom of tht
i dark ages. Spain descended on Americ,
/. in the mail-clad limbs and terrible visage
l. of her despolic monarchy-Engand in hel
J. more grateful garb of popular rights anc
is personal freedom. England transplantec
y liberty 10 America--Spain, despotc power
r. England colonized her settlements with in
: = duStriCns nioneers who recoCni1eI tbs