The Arkansas banner., 1845-04-02
F.om the .Mbann .Are US.
OUR PRESIDENT AND OUR COUNTRY.


 President of the United States. On such ali occasion 1t seems not unbecoming to take brief chance at the wonderful sesources of our country. Its position is now so eminent m the eyes of the civilized world that we may feel a natural and proper pride in dilating upon it's vast extent and resources. The few colonists of Plymouth and Jamestown have already expanded into millions, while the wilderness which they subdued, from few acres has gradually and steadily enlarged into as many states-ft seats of future empires, not i'll government, but in wealth, power and population.
 Though our Republic is still in it's infancy, it stretches from the St. Lawrence and the great Lakes on the north to the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio del Norte on the south-while our western border is advancing with steady and irresistible pace to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Such is the splendid extent of our country. 1t embraces an area of 2,000,- GOO of square miles, not less than the twelve kingdoms of Europe, while in the variety of its productions it far surpasses even their favored cimes
 In the East, the product of the seas and the
 
 dance. In the N North and West millions of acres are yearly bearing the ''Safl of Life7- while in the sunny South, we have thou sand fields white with the beautiful cotton plant whose product is now becoming the master spirit of commercial empire Neither are the dark leaves of that narcotic wanting, which are so eagerly sought after by mah ill every cline, to solace care and assuage pain. In the South-West, as if to complete the circle of our national independence, we have the famed sugar cane, whose juice is luxury not less grateful to the palate of the sick than the healthy. and which has become an indis- pensable enjoyment even to the lowly cot of the poor.
 In the Centre, we find inexhaustible mines of coal, almost on the very surface of the soil,-easily and cheaply worked and which for extent, variety and quality are superior to those of any country on the earth. Side by side, rest immense beds of the richest iron ore, which will eventually turn out as much wealth as the famed silver mines of Potosi.
 Such are the natural productions which have been lavished upon our favored land by the hand of Providence. Neither has man been found wanting in applying these extra ordinary gifts, forstI highernational advance ment and prosperity. The noise of the shut tie, the wheel, the loom, the saw and the ponderous hammer resounds upon the water falls of the N orth and the East and the Centre. while the fabrics of their mills are not only exciting the wonder of the arrogant European manulacturer-but are clothing the natives of the far India and China.
 But 1t is not the wide extent of our coun- try, the boundless fertility of its soil, the gigantic strides of it's manufactures, and its lucrative and ar-spreading commerce that dis tinguishes the United States Still more and above all, it is tke People who inhabit its soil-who cover 1t with their republican insti- tations, who give life and vitality and extra. ordinary energy to its system of government. This is what makes 1t the promised land of the world In their industry, genius, energy and irrepressible aspirations to better their condition-whch induces them to voluntarily brave the sullerings of the wilderness, the knife of the savage, and the still more sub duing power of fever and pestlence, who does not see the giant greatness of our Republic :? WOfIH of the past or of the present? Let history be read-let the character of all other nations be scanned, and the impartial verdict will be- that in every element which constitutes the great and extraordinary and inymcibe, not only in arms, but still nobler in all the arts and refinements of peace and plenty, there is no race that can compare with the American people
 It's over such country, such institutions and such People, that JAMES K. POLK is inauguTated Chief Magistrate, chosen to stand as the Head of our Republic in the eyes of mankind. Trust of more importance than any crown in the world. It's responsibilities are at this time augmented by the great mea- sufes agitating the foreign and domestic po- llcy of not only our nation but of others. thousands of miles distant The Annexation ol Texas and the occupation of Oregon are placing the United States in more marked elevation in the public opinion of the world than at any time during the last twenty-five years. These measures make more manifest the onward strides of our nation. The twenty millions of people in 1915 are more important, Tn the estimation the monarchies VI .-HIV'Ci billI lilG lGu IlllIOllS m the days of Madison and Monroe
 The present movement of the American congress upon these questions, at once brings home the future greatness of our Republic to those who have long denied the power or doubted the permanence of our Union.
 The next four years will he pregnant with great events. Texas will be the mother of states, and Oregon will be occupied by our government These measures will create some feeling in England, but President Polk IS the man for the crisis. In his extended pat riotsm and sound judgment his countrymen fePose that confidence which gives him the power to act with effect, while in his firm ness, integrity and attachment to his native land, foreign nations will perceive that he will 'ask nothing but what is right and sub mt to nothing wrong.n This commanding moral attitude will at once secure the riqhts. while Il will preserve the peace of our coun-