Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-02-17

But Texas will be admitted. We arc already
one in all the essentials, and the outgoings OF the
common heart will soon break down the formal bar
rlers which texist to perfect union. 1t seems
to us that the man look but narrowly at things
who does not see this inevitable result-aye, who
does not the eventual extension of our territory
with her enlightened institutions, from the frozen
regions OF the north TO the sihmus of Darien the
south. Is the spirit dead which has already, from
the Pilgrim rock of New England, sent forth its
thousands upon thousands, people the rich lands
of this far wesl 1t is not, nor will it be- while
within the embrace of the mighty oceans, there ex-
lists loot of fertile soil, calling for the hand Ct ho-
nest labor. Our people will 60 forth as they have
done: they will pitch their tents on the fertile lands
and as they reclaim the wilderness and make 1t TO
bloom as the rose, their numbers and strength will
increase, and being of us-of one heart and rs,ind
they viii ask, what, as brothers we shall be most
willing to grant-a common government and bond
OF union. And should weak and Indifferent race,
as the Mexicans, stand in the way of this natural
and inevitable progress, they must expect, as in
Texas, to be driven from the soil, or compelled to
take the position TO which their mental and physi-
Cal lpierlority naturally tends.
We placed the limit of our progress at the 18TH
mus OF Darien on the south. That will do for the
present: but II is no great stretch Of fancy to give
1t the whole territory between the great oceans from
Cape Horn on the south to Behring's straits on the
north We see how has gradual disappeared be.
fore the progress of civilization, the wild Indian Is
IT not the natural order of things that the inferior
race,incapabe from their nature from attaining any
social, moral, intellectual elevation should dis
appear before the march of civilization, and Weld
up their place to the higher order of beings There
are on the earth five distinct races of beings; the
Caucasian evidently holding the most elevated place
among them. We find singular fact, tina. while
the intellect OF the Caucasian and his peculiar con-
sttution, makes him at home in all and every part
OF the world, the other races have their peculiar
soils and climates to which alone they are physical
y and mentally adapted; and we believe there is
another singular and important fact-that where
yer the Caucasians settle there do the inferior races
give way to their increasing numbers, and like the
Indian, disappear before the spread of the hi Cher
order of Intellect. In the brute world. research
tells US that many genus of animals have become
eA"nN'' 'he' place oeihS supplleu by races better
adapted to the advanced age and changed charac.
ter of the world. Is not this the destiny of the in
ferior races of men, the world progresses from
infancy to age. 1t seems so to us, and we doubt
not that In the progress of time the higher order or
race of men will gradually possess themselves of
the whole habitabe globe the inferior races disap-
pearng before them, and leaving the world to those
whose mental and physical nature is capable of rea-
ching that elevated place, for which Nature or God
has destined it.
Thus we look for the gradual extension of our
people, first ov,r the land of North America, by
common mind making common government; and
this done, we know the weakness and efeminacy
OF the South must gradually disappear before them
and South America also become theirs. While
this Is going here, the hardy Caucasians of Nor
thcrn Europe will be spreading over the eastern
continent taking possession of and peopng it.
The annexation of Texas then, we look upon as
one Of the steps in this progress and to oppose it
with the cry of slavery is impotent. As we said in
the commencement, slavery will disappear through
the operation of other causes and to now throw OBJ
stacles in the way of the annexation of Texas, is
to oppose the great caus. of emancipation through
out the world, from the slavery of darkness and err.
ror.