The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-15


glorious birthday, of our National independence
andIindivldual liberty now being celebrated with
songs, and shoutings, and the roar Of artillery
two thousand miles west Of this where the snow
capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains rise above
the clouds! the stripes and stars, the blessed em-
blems of our happy Union, spread their gorgeous
folds from the heaven. kissing cliffs of the noun.
tains, over the hardy emigrants whose hearts di
late at the sight below. But the spread of our in
stitutons, the conquering enterprise of our citizens
cannot be stayed even by the Rocky Mountains
The torrent Of emigration is pouring through the
mountain passes! Hail Columbian ., is ringing
through the valley of the Oregon! That glorious
declaration Of - the rights of man, which YOU
have to-day heard read, is perhaps at this moment
being read on the banks of the Wallah Wallah |!
The standard of the American Republic is planted
on the shores of the Pacific; her proud banner
floats over it; her arms encircle il; her vessels
will master the seas, as her people conquer the
wildness of nature in her own Businesses.
In that band Of emigrants celebrating to-day
at the Rocky Mountains our ''5onny Buckeye
State' is not unrepresented. Even our county
has its delegates in that assembly who this day
celebrate our Independence, canopied by the sky,
and surrounded by the wild works of nature. They
feel that they are part of this mighty republic.
They know that the prayers of people are as
cending for them. Their hearts swell and glow
with the part they are soon to play in extending
the influence and sway of our Republican insti-
tutions. When shook the hand of young HU-
BER, as he bade adieu to his friends, and dashed
the parting tear from his eye, /" we SHALL" said
he, " commune together onthe fourth Of July, for
on that glorious day, in the region of the Rocky
Mountains in the pure element of nature, shall
drink to the perpetuity and spread Of our glorious
Union, and you will give us three cheers for Or
egon" Yes, we will give three cheers for Ore
gon, and three more for that magnificent Union
which is deatined soon to encircle the whole
Oregon, Texas, and California will TEEN with
American citizens, and constitute independent
soveregnties, members of our Union. The hum
of civilized life, and the busy clamor of politics
will have usurped the wild haunts of the Indian;
citey will rise in towering grandeur on the coasts
of the Pacific; our merchantmen and vessels of
war will occupy the harbors of Oregon and Cali
fornia; that country will become the mart of
trade; the wealth of the Indies will be poured
into it; while the enterprise of our citizens will
bring Astoria and New York within fortnight's
travel of each other, and "his Celestial Majesty"
the Emperor Of China will be near neighbor of
the Republican President of the United States.
At the end of the next half century 1.-THE whole
boundless continent will be ours. A territory
sufficient to support thousand millions of inhab-
itants! More of native wealth than all the rest Of
the world A people who by their indomitable
enterprise and energy will control the commerce
Of the world; by thelr intelligence will control
the diplomacy and politics of the world; by their
integrity will win and wear the respect and love
of mankind.
The destiny Of our glorious government is yet
in the unfathomable future; there is no telling
what it may be; but we may justly hope that it
will tower in grandeur and beauty for ages to
come. Like the little stone of the Prophet that
was cut out of the mountain without hands, it
will roll on and fill the world like the tree in the
dream of Nebuchadnezar it will extend its arms
until the nations of the earth come and repose be-
meath its branches. 1t will embrace united
people the bounds Of whose territory will be the
oceans and that la sh the iron coasts of North
America; animated by one mighty heart, sway
ing one mighty arm for the peace, happiness, and
enfranchisement of the human race.
"The age which anticipate, no less
Shall be the age of beauty, and while whems
Calamity the nations with DISTRESS
The genius of my country shall arise,
cedar towering Ger the wilderness,
Lovely In all its branches to alleges,
Fragrant as fair and recognised afar,
Waiting Its native incense throughth skies"