Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-10-14
VOL Vino. IS.
From the Charleston Courier.
The United States a Continent.


relation 10 the vas, and almost Indefinite
expansion of our republic of coufeder rated
States. blended nlo one mighty nation for
great and common purposes, and yet pre-
serving their separate identity in reference
TO local and domestic affairs! When we
emerged from our colonial state. through a
war Of revolutions. peril and suffering, into
The triumphant condition Of national indie
pendence. we numbered but Thirteen
States, with population of but three mill.
ions, and owned a rerrfery encompassed
by the stormy Arlantic en- the East, the
fathes of rivers on the West,ihe great lakes
on the North and a foreign power on the
South, bordering the Mexican Gulf and
commanding the mouth Of the Mississippi.
the great outlet of our Western commerce
In less than seventy years with what OF.
gantic strides have we marched to strength
and greatness! Oar Northern and East.
err boundaries remaining as they were. in
the great outlines impressed by the hand of
nature, the acquis ton Of Louisiana and
florida, obtained ey peaceful negotiation
and purchase. has given US the mouth of
the Mississippi. and the secure material
boundary ofthe Gulf Of Mexico, and both
maratime discovery and exploration by
land and river have yielded US a title to
transcend the Rocky Mountains and claim
the vast pacific Us our Western boundary
s<ecent neSoiiatica, too, has added TO cur
already vast dominion the fair and fertile
plains of Texas, peopled with those who
are bone OF our bone and flesh Of our flesh.
our kindred and bre,hrea in blood and in
sl'utioHs. The original number Of our
sister-republics-the glorious old Thirteen
which biaZed in emblematc and starry
effulgence on our revolutionary banner,
are more than doubled in number-our ter
ritory has expanded in we, larger ra,io,un-
I'll laved by two oceans, and as we'll by
the great Southern gulf. as the vast inland
seas Of the North-and our population has
swollen, in seven-iold increase, from three
10 perhaps twenty one millions! Cores
ponding, too. has been our progression in
all the elements Of national greatness and
renown, and the umqnhie colonies of Eng
land now rank in the national scale with
the mghtiest powers Of the earth, and will
not shun comparison with the mother
country, from which they wres,eh their
independence. Our population continues
TO increase in scale of progression unex-
ampled in the history of the past, and new
States crowd on the field and heighten the
lusture Of our s,ar-spanged banner. BIes-
sed, too, are we with political constlu-
ton, framed with such profound wisdom
and skill, that il seems capable OF expan-
sion, in we'll balanced rule, over at least
all contiguous ter tory-beng so admirably
constructed and exquislely poised that, ac-
ccrding 10 Mr.. JEFFERSON, every new
State added TO our republican family at
once increases our national power and
YIELDS the more securely our national IN
| ion--as, 10 use his own idea, in case domes-
tic dissention there will only be the greater
number Of sound States 10 face the disaf'-
ected ones. Who, then, can set bounds
TO our territorial expansion, short of the
continent on which our destiny is cast
what earthly power shall say to Us $50 far
shalt thou 60 no farther" within that am
pie area Coming events cast their shad-
dows before Louisiana is ours, Florida
is ours, Texas is ours, the Oregon must be
ours, inundated, in the course of nature,
by the advancing tide Of our population.
Mexico threatens a war, which will pro-
woke, if not inv te, her annexation-Can-
ada will in due season fall like ripe fruit
into our lap-and all the rest will then fol-
| low Of course, till the lsthmus Of Darien
from our equnoctial and the Aartic Sea
our polar boundary. Coming events cast
their shadows before ! Time vas when
our republic, although far short of her now
colossal proportions was deemed already
too vast and unwieldIy For one government
when it was thought the far west would
naturally and necessarily fake off and
form an independent empire-or when at
least the national capital must tower on the
Missouri instead of the Potomac, to prevent
our ovcrgrown republic from breaking in
TO fragments. All such fears and specu-
lations are row as tale that is tod, as
legend Of the past. The d sccvery ard APP
pication Of the uses of s,eam-iha inven-
ton Of the steamboat, the railway and the
locomotive-to say nothing of atmospheric
pressure and electromagnetic power, preg-
nani with mighty issues-and above all
the magnetic telegraph, able TO fash intel.
ligence with The speed Of lightning, from
ocean to ocean, and pole 10 isthmus-lit-
orally annihilating distance. and bringing
every part Of our vast republic practically
into posiion-seem 10 be the appoint
ed means and appliances in The hand. of a
woodworking Providence. 10 effect the
Expansion of our republic. until the whole
continent OF North America shlll join in
our free institutions and from one vast and
enligh. ened naiion-des ined, perhaps. TO
play mighty and blessed par, in that
miiienniol contamination devouily to be
wished, when universal shall be the reign
Of peace on earth and good will toward
men.
| In the course OF an Grafton in The French
Chamber Of deputies, General Foy, chan
ced TO use the word arisloc,acy. A voice
from the ministerial side asked for def
milton of il. "Aristocracy," said be, in
the nineteenth century. is the league, the
coalition OF those who wish to consume
without producing, live without working
occnpy all public places without being com
peteni TO fill them.aFd seize upon all hon
ors without meriing ihem-lhat is arisioc-
racy."
Duelling aud tight laclng are two fash
onable modes OF slaughter In the one case