Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-03-01

unless lt IS Supported by nnohev and sfmss
When have the rights Of nations been res.
pccted merely because they were iustp-
When has an individual or oyereirn DOW.
If, tained RESPECT Of Justice Tor ITSELF by /
pusillanimeus desertion oftheir own rightsp
n allnsion to the future destiny Of the Amer.
leans possessions which border the Pacific Col.
B. makes this prediction:
Within q century from this day, pop
ulation, greater than that Of the present
United States, will exist on the west side
Of the Rocky mountains. / do not deal in
paradoyes, but in propositions as easily de-
monstrated as the problems Of Euclid.--
Here, then, is the demonstration: Dividing
our portion Of this continent into FIVE equal
parts, and there viii Be found, in 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
part, Population will distribute itself ac-
cordingly; three parts in the valley, and
one part on each Of the appurtenant slopes.
Within century, the population Of the
whole will be one hundred and sixty mil
liens; Of which hundred millions will
drink the waters which fow to the Missis-
sippi, and sixty millions will be found upon
the lateral streams which flow, east and
west, towards the rising and the setting
sun. The calculation is reducible to matli-
cmatical precision. We double cur num-
bers once in twenty-five years, and must
continue to do SO until the action of the
prolific principle in man shall be checked
by the same which checks it in every race
OF animals-the stint Of food. This cannot
happen with us until every acre Of our
generous soil shall be put in req,iisition;
until the product Of more than a thousand
millions Of acres shall be insufficient 10 fill
the mouths which feed upon them. This
w;llrequire more people than century can
produce, even at the rate Of doubling once
in twenty-five years; a rate which will
give us one hundred and siSty millions in
the year 1920: that is to say, twenty mil
lions more than the Roman Empire con-
tanned in the time of Augustus Cesar. A
century is but point in the age of ma
ton. The life of an individual cf.en spans
it; and many are the children now born,
who will see the year 1920, and the accom-
plishment Of the great events which their
nurses believe to be impossible.
Upon the people Of Eastern Asia, the
establishment Of civilized pc wer upon the
opposite coast of America eonld not fail to
produce great and wonderful benefits
Science, liberal principles in government,
End 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 to their inn
prisoned and exuberant population. The
Of the oldest and the newest,
the SHnx7 nfsnUrlr ann me TrecSI puyrrn.
ments, would become the neighbors, anu,
peradventure, the friends Of each other.--
They have the same enemies, and, by con-
sequence, should stand together as friends.
Russia and the legitimates menace Turkey,
Persia, China and Japan; they menace
them for riches and doininions; the same
powers menace the two Americas for the
popular forms Of their governments. To
my mind, the proposition is clear, that Fast
ern Asia, and the Two Americas, as they
have become neighbors, should become
friends; they should stand together upon a
sense of common danger; and !, for one,
said Mr.. b. had as leave see American en-
bassadors going to the emperors Of China
and Japan, to,he king Of Persia, and even
to the Grand Turk, as TO see them dancing
attendance uponthos ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
who hold every thing American in con-
.empt and detestation.