Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-09-10
CARROLLTON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1916.


army of Anglo-Saxon emigration has BE-
gun 10 pour down upon it. armed with The
plough and the rifle, and mlrking lis trail
with schools and colleges, courts AMI &c
preventative halls, mills and meeting
houses. A population viii soon be in ac-
tual possession of Mexico, over which il
viii be idle for Mexico. TO dream Of do
minion. They win necessarily become
independent. All this without the aeea-
cy Of our government without the respon-
sibility OF our people-in the natural now
of events, the spontaneous working of prin-
ciples, and the adaptation of the tendea-
cies and wants OF the human race % the
elemental circumstances in the midst Of
which they find themselves placed. Aad
they will have right 10 Independence
self government--to the possession Of the
homes conquered from the wilderness BY
their own labors and dangers, sufferings
and sacrifieeS--a better and truer night
than the artificial title Of sovereignty in
Mexico a thousand miles distant, lnheriiing
fromSpain a title good only against those
who nave none better. Their right 10 IN
dependence will be the natural RICH, OF
self government belonging to anv comml-
nifty strong enough to maintain it--distinct
in position, origin and character, and free
from any mutual obligations Of member
ship IF common political body, binding il
TO Others By the duty Of loyalty and COM
pact IF public faith. II viii be their IL
tie to independence ad BY this title,
there can be no doubt that the population.
now asst streaming DOVE upon California,
will 10Th assert and m1int7in that indepen-
dence Whether they sill attach them
selves to our Union or not, Is not to be pre-
dlcted with any certainty. Unless the pro-
iecte1 railroad across the continent TO the
Pacifc be carried into effect, perhaps they
NAV not; though even in that case, the day
is not distant when the Empires of the At
lantc and Pacific wonld again flow togo
Their into one. as soon as their inland hor-
der should approach each other. Bat that
great work, colossal as appears the plan
on lis first suggestion, cannot remain long
unbuilf It's necessity for this very puT-
pose of binding and holding. together in
lis iron clasp our fast settling Pacific re-
gion with that Of the Mississippi valley
the natural facility Of the route-the ease
with which any amount OF labor for the
construction can be drawn in from the
oyercrowdcd populations Of Europe, to lie
paid in the lands made valuable by the
progress of the work itself-an9 lis I'M
mense utility to the commerce Of the WORE
with the whole western coast of ASH. alone
almost sufficient FIR the support OF such 4
road-these considerati ms give assurances
that the day cannot be dIStaut which shal
witness the conveyance of the represent
atges from Oregon and California I,
Washington within less time than a fev
yelrs ago was devoted to similar journey
by those from Ohio; while the magneti,
telegraph will enable the editors OF IN,
Is San Francisco Union" the Astori,
Evening Post" or the "Nootka M0ruia.
News" TO set up in type the first ha,f q
the Presidents inaugural, before the echoe
of the latter half shall have died away De
meath the lofty porch Of the Capitol, a
spoken from his lips.
Away, then, with all idle Fsench tan
of balances of polrer on the American
continent. There is no growth in Spsnisi
America! Whatever progress of popula
ton there may be in the British Canadas
is only for their own early severance o
their present colonial relation to the it'll,
I island three thousand miles across the At
laniic; soon 10 be followed by Annexa
ton, and destined TO swell the still accumu
lating momentum of our progress. An
whosoever may hold the balance, though
they should cast into the opposite scale al
the bayonets and cannon, not only o
France and England, bat of Europe en-
tire, how would it kick the beam agains
the simple solid weight of the two hun
dred and fifty, or three hundred million
destined TO gather beneath the fntter q
the stripes and stars, in the fast hastenin
I year OF the Lord 1915!
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