The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-05-16

II.
On chargers, black US sable pail,
Well armed from top to toe, come all;
Nor less, nor more, than six feet tall
We want a chosen band;
Who'll feel no coward guilt or fear,
BY day or night, remote or near,
10 WELD the rife, lance, and spear,
Without trembling hand,
On Orizcmba's+ cloud-capt walls,
From which Missouri forms and falls,
Where Natures work mans soul appals,
In those wild regions drear;
Whepce Thunder, from his awful throne,
Hlurls his red bolts from zone to zone,
And elemental war is known,
Through the revolving year.
Wen plan, our countfy's banner there,
AS on we pass tn regions where
Wen make our future homes with care
In that bright, genial cline;
Hard by where Astor built his fort;
Where Winter seldom holds his court
And when he does, It's but in sport,
For some few days Of time.
A mighty city there we'll found,
Where nature has so broad, profound
Lay thrown her grandest works around
Through every grade complete:
Where she in gorgeous beauty reigns-
Gay flowers and verdure clothe the plains,
And balmy winds bring timely rains,
To temper summers heat.
Texas is ours by dcstiny;
The CALIFORNIA; soon will be-
Our country flag, from sea to sea,
Ger mount and vale shall wave;
Round San Francisco's splendid bay,
Our c0untrymen will soon bear sway
A citys broad foundations lay
a home for irceEen brave;
Who at their coun,ry's call will 60,
From California drive the foe,
And herd them in Oil Mexico
II is their dcSiiny:
And when that hybrid age of knaves,
Has passed from earth into their graves,
On Daricn our banner waves,
A signal from each sea.
From Patagonia TO the poles
From east TO west, where oceans roll,
All tyrant power shall cease control,
Ere one short cent'ry's DER;
Then this vast continent shall he
One re0Lm--unitcd, hcs,. and free,
Sacred to Peace and Liberty,
Till time shall be no more.
TX.
Come, who to OnEGoy will got
We want no coward hearts, you know,
But sialwart men, whose hosoms low
With patriotic fire.
Well teach the British Lion bold,
His empire there he cannot hold,
BY force or fraud, intrigue or gold,
And make him soon retire.
MErRoDoRUs.
'These stanzas were suggested by reading Nj
Wcntworlh's speech on the Oregon question:
were written at the time, and are now pubshc
by request Of mutual friend. The author full
in the extended view taken by Mr.. "
of the vast importance of maintaining our right
and extending our control and protection owe
every inch If our territory. however remote; fo
while education, the avs, and internal imprcv,
mont keep pace with the spread of our population
there can he no fear, which has either truth, pr,
ccdent, or analogy for its foundation, that the eS
tension OF our government over so vast a country
will weaken ITS power or facilitate its dissolution
No-Iet education sweep the gloom of superst
tion from the mind let the arts refine; modcr
railways, canals, and electromagnetic telegraph
interchange and comminglc both the thought
and bodies of the people, and we may extend OF
government, and equal laws wide as the land, ii
all the myriads of this vast continent shall uw
their henigA sway, without risk of dissolution
Looking down the stream Of time through III
bright visit of the next half century, how suhlim,
ly grand, magnificent, and peculiar is the panara
ma which our country presents What imagina
ton can grasp the mighty strides she is destlnc
to make in her onward march t. glory, greatness
and power What bright visions for the lutur
welfare of mankind, hurst upon the enrapturc
view of The philan,hropis,! Her gorgeous cap
to at 81. LOuis, a thousand miles from the ocear
IN the centre OF vast continent and bosom of tn
largest and most fertile valley on the globe, to an
from which steam palaces, in countless number.
will continually arrive and depart, t,aversing mi
jestic rivers to aud from nearly all points of In
compass for thousands of miles; splendid cars. /
myriad trains, will course each other along the
iron pathways with the velocity OF the wind, no,
through vast and fertile plains densely populate,
now flying in mid air over broad rivers, no,
climbing the mountain range anon piercing il
cloud-capt walls and again emerging from the |,
rid pass, and flying downward over yawnin
chasms to the plains below, till they reach the ia
,herest verge Of the continent; while the philos,
phic clerk OF the Secretary of state, seated in hi
easy chair, in some appropriate apartment of Ii
capitol, will transmit the mandates of the exec,
tive through every department of the vast repul
lie to the shores of tho surrounding oceans, wit
the same celebrity tina, the lightning desccnds fro
the clouds.
The "MissisSippi Valley is destined to becou
the centre Of the mightiest nation tina, ever shoe
the ear,h--a nation OF republican freemcn whiC
will hold, not the balance Of power among tho N
tons OF the Garth but he power, both moral az
physical, to control their actions and sway the
deslinies for the beueli, of the human race -
power, before which the thrones and dynasties