The Arkansas banner., 1845-04-23
From he Truth Taller. PROSPECTS OF AMERICA.


 yer so good in the U. States as it is just now The acquiring of new Territories-thc ad- mission of new States-the arrival of new Immigrants-the opening ofnew forests, new praries, new towns and villages-aGord to all sorts of people full and profitable employ ment
 This is going on under the influence of a pure Democratic government, without the aid of monster Bank, and in despite of all the Whig prophecies of Democratic ruin, which met us little while ago. The theories oI freedom so elegantly expounded by Jefferson by Jackson, and by the men who set theil seals to the declaration of American Indepen- dence, and cast their lives upon the die oi battle, arc now triumphantly sustainedby the practical prosperity we enjoy.
 History furnishes no example of nation bound together as ours is, with so many va edinerests-so many impulsive ingredients yet so mutually dependent on each other. and so bound into unity by individual inter- est, all tremendously working out each oth- CTS good, and guaranteeing each others safe ty.
 In a land of freedom, fertility and know ledge, of unbounded extent and unfathomed wealth, there ought never to be heard but one continuous song of joy. The instructive page ol history ought 10 be our monitor. IL will tell us how broils and bickerings beget civil war among natons-how they fell and lost theT freedom, and how their glories set, to dawn no more
 Butwe now enjoy all those blessings which i Ill., experienced. The activity of our commerce has carried our nsme and products to ever harbor on the globe, The ingenuity of our mechanics begins to cope with the matured and educated la5our of Europe. Our immense water courses contain in every tumbling wave unmeasured power to aid our enterprize-a power laying on the surface-not to be sought In the bowls of the earth; but ready to be tuned upon the wheels of machinery on which 1t will play for ages, aAording by it's Pefmaneney guarantee for investment and enterprise
 Amonga people thus blessed with all that tllls world can give to make man happy, it IS to be dePlored that any issue shaI arise calculated to disturb them, and therefore in- pair or destroy this happiness. An issue of 6'ff1 and creed has been raised, questions that have set the old worlds by the ears that have dyed the fair fields of Europe in the best blood of it's people, have been indus triously generated here. It is, indeed, de- plorable, that an intelligent and a happy na- tlon should, with all the experience of histo- " Interview, allow themselves to be drawn lnto senseicss quarels upon such mad and hohsensicai topics. But so 1t is. We are threatened with mischief not from without. but from within. The mischief can be re- medIed by the timely advice of the inhuen- ta at all points of the union. By the ehari- , table suggestion of those who christianity by the intelligent conductors of free press by the members of the government. and by the men employed in the public depart ments of government, and by all the good amongst the people themselves.
 If the integrity of this great country is to De Preserved-if its freedom is to be perDc- tuated- d-lf it's people would be respected abroad and be happy at homc-the doctrines ot creed or birth must not be suffered to en- ter into our calculations, in our political or social intercourse.
 There IS not an Immigrant who lands on our shores but brings some addition to our wealth-it is not his gold, be it much or 1 little, that we value. No. It is the labor or the knowledge, or both combined, which he brings that contributes really to our advan- tage Our manufacturers find in the grow Ing west constant and steady market for their products. We observe in our streets on our wharYes a busy preparation for more extensive business. New warehouses are gong up-new stores and more room are re- qulred-cty property is increasing in value but thls does not spring from the internal demand ol our City, or even our State, but rom the great and growing West We find that Providence, Boston, and other cities of New England give evidence of the same swell Ing proPensltles which we boast Indeed more so, for we are informed that the num- Der oi new stores costing from ten to twenty thousand dollars each, to be filled with mer- chant princes, whose transactions promise to exceed those of Change Alley, London.
 All this IS well-happy-glorious It comes from a growing territory and grow ing people. There is not an exile that pass es mic the great West but opens tributary ''i1"iti pi Ntdltl to tllC Atlantic CltlGS. " nv not do all in our power to facilitate and en- courage immigration Why not appoint go- vernment officers on the Atlantic Cities to attend to the Immigrant on his landing give hum correct information-open to him maps of the great West and conduct him from pont to point to a settlement This belongs to the governmental should be undertaken by the government. Besides which an ex- presslsn of protection and welcome thus em. ployed in tangible characters. would tend to draw off from our throngcd cities, some ol the immigrants who so inurouslv to their own interests and those of others, tarrv here. lmbibing vice and disease, losing time and money, and rendering themselves less useful and they otherwise would be if heartily sus- talned. We put these ideas before the think ing men of the country. Let them % for what they are worth.
 CHANGEs.-We believe it is generally un- derstood that the Globe establishment is ahont to pass into the hands of THOMAS RITcutr.