The lynx. (Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1845-1845, 1845-10-18

population has swollen, in seven fold in
crease, from three TO perhaps twenty
Que mi lions Corresponding too, hos
been our progression in all the elements
Of national greatness and renown, and
the umquhiIe colonies Of England now
rank in the national scale with the
mlghliest powers Of the earth, and will
not shun comparison with the mother
country, from which they wrested their
independence. Our population contin-
ues TO increase in scale Of progression
unexampled in the history Of tho past.
and new STATES crowd on The fed and
helghten the luslre of our star-splnglei
banner. Blessed, too, are we with q
political constitution, framed with such
proloGud wisdom and skill, that il seems
capable of expansion, in well balanced
rule, over at least all contiguous corr
tory-belnG so admirably CONSTRUCTED
and exqulslIely poised that, according
10 Mr.. Jefferson, every new State ad-
ded 10 our republican family at once
increases our national power and YIELDS
more securely our national Union-as,
to use his own IDEA, III case Of domesllc
dssention there will only be the greg,
/ To or L
disafected ones. Who, then, can sc:
! bounds 10 our territorial expansion
| short oithe continent on which our des
tiny is cast--what earthly power shall
say to US so far shalt thou go and no
farther" within that ample area? Co.
ming events cast their shadows beforei
Louisiana is ours, Florida is ours, Tex,
as is ours, the Oregon must be ours, in.
undated, IN the course of nature, b.
The advancing tide Of our population
MEXICO threatens a war, " hich will pre-
woke. II not invite, her annexation
Canada will in due season fall like ri-g
irult into our lap--and all the rest ui.i
the follow of course, till the IsthmuS :
. DarIen form our equinoctial and the
q Arctic Sea our polar boundary. Com
! ing events cast their shadows before!-
Time was when our republic, although
r far short Of her now colossal proportions
was seemed aIeady too vast and I'm.
y wleldy for one government-when i,
i. was thought the far west would natu.
i rally and necessarily flake off and form
% an independent emperor when a
, least theu ational capitol must tower OF
the Missouri instead Of the Potomac
- TO prevent our overgrown republic
r, from reakiLg into fragments. AL
a. such fears and specuIations are now a
"a a tale that is told, as legend of III
ne past. The discovery and application
nj OF the use of steam--the inventnn c
a. the steamboat, the railway and the &c
&c comotlve--to say nothing Of atmosphe
Of ric pressure and electromagnetic power
,e pregnant with mighty issues and q
h. bove all the magnetic telegraph, able t
is flash intelligence with the speed ofIight
of nIng, from ocean to ocean, and poe t
is hmus-literally neutrality-suspicious.
and bringing every part Of our vast re
v public practically into juxtaposition-
sem TO be the appointed means and ar
pIiances in the hands OF a wonder-wor
~ king Providence, to effect the expansion
y of our republic, until The whole cont
- nent of North America shall rejoice i
VI our tree institutions and form one va
!" and enlightened natton-destined, pc
"o haps, TO play mighty and bIest pa
"s in that millennal consumation devoutI
10 10 be wished, when universal shall
VIC the reign Of peace on earth and goo
'e' will toward men.-CharleSion Courie
nd