The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-01-27

lure nau Oroke.
Our people are spreading out with the aid of
the American multiplication table, Go Ia the
West and see young man with his mate of eigh-
teen; after the lapse Of thirty years, visit him
again. and instead of two, you will find twenty.
two. That is what call the American multi
plication table, We now twenty millions
strong and how long, under this process of multi
Plication, will it take TO the continent with
our poslerity from the Ishmus of Darien TO Beh.
rings strats2 The greater portion of this vast
multitude always had their faces set towards the
West. Westward no! was their cry You
could no more arrest their progress than you can
close up the Missouri, while the SHOWS are melt
ing on the mountains in which il has its RISE
Where shall we find room for all our people,
unless we have Oregon? What shall we do with
all those little white headed boys aud grls-God
bless them!-ihat cover the Mississippi valley, as
the flowers cover the western praries2 Their in
terests al lead them that way. 1t was true, as
the. gentleman from South Carolina had said, that
there might be danger in a combination of Euro
Pean powers against us. They may feel disposed
10 combine In unholy alliance to check the
growth OF free institutions. Ii there is any dan
ger at all, it is from that cause and Oregon NAV
be put forward as pretext for commencing an
onset upon US. Our revolutionary fathers planted
the tree of liberty in American soil, and watered
il with their blood. They had linked these States
,"scther in confedoraed system, TO protect them
ff"n danger from without. The representatives
o! l"gtlmacy looked on upon this experiment with
great concern, and not little fear of its ultimate
consequences. For long time, they fiattered
themselves that it would prove a failure-boning
that spirit OF rivalry might grow up between the
North and the South, and the Eas, and the West
that might destroy the Union. But, within the
last ten or htieen years, they have become salts
He'd that our institutions were as firm as the pran
lie hills. Having become satisfied of The firmness
and stability OF our system, they again star
NJ he oyh Nc
sion, as shown in the admission of a free and in
dependent nation into the circle of the Union
Ihls was with the European governments the
passage OF the Rubcon.
That was the beginning of movement the
END of which VIII be to place under The protec
ZION OF the American eagle that vast American
continent which stretches from Cane Horn In
Behring's straits. If the representatives of leoi
umacy in The Old World, for the purpose of pre-
venting the contamination Of this our inevitable
destiny, choose to put themselves in battle array
against us, either singly collectively, let them
40 So and upon their heads be the consequences
his nation and this generation will neither seek
nor avoid such a contest; but if comes, the
Crisis would as in the events of our revolution
and vi The French revolution, raise up a host of
men VINO were equal to it, and able TO carry us
through ii in safety. Why is it that, after all,
we should so dread the shock of war? We ali
nave TO die, whether in beds or in the battle
clsngor OF GabTel's trump would not rather an.
pear IN all the bloom of youth, bearing upon your
'front.' the scar of the death wound received in the
defence OF your countTy's rights, than with the
wrinkled front of dishonorcd age?
Where live, (said Mr.. X. this is no party
question There Is no difference between wings
and democrats on this subject. In question in
voving national rights, we know no party differ
ences. The gentleman from Alabama, TMr.
fancy, had suggested, that if we went into
this struggle, it would result in our taking DOS
session of Canada, and in leaving Oregon in the
hands of Great Britain The gentleman seemed
10 suppose that we of the West would demur tn
any result which would add to The power and ar
rogance of New England. Not so, sir.
II patch of territory should be added TO New
England, let her have it, Should the West seek
TO enlarge and extend her field, let her do So
Should the South choose TO take in Cuba let her
follow on. do not go for the aggrandizement of
any particular geographical section, and | fear not
the preponderaiing influence of any particular
section-for we are country and one people,
and nave one interest, and one destiny, which if
we live up to, though 1t may not force US TO fol-
low the British lion around the world in blood and
slavery, will end in her expulsion from the con-
lnent, which he rests not upon but to pollule
Our first conflict with Great Britain was in the
war of the revolution, which ended in tearing
from the British crown thirteen of lis superb lew
eIs-wrlnglng from her stubborn heart the ac
acknowledgement that these colonies were, and of
right ought to be, free and independent The
second was the war of 1912, which has been
called the second war Of American independence,
IN the course of which we humbed the pride of
her Navy, and ended in blaze of glory in the
plains of New Orleans, where thousands of her
bTavest troops were made to bite the dust in con-
flict with the raw militia Of the Mississippi yd
ley. The third and last conflict is not vet. But
no man can doubt that is to come When the
history OF that war is written it will record the
downfall OF the British empire. Fall she must,
and fall she will, as sure Adam fell. Against
the people Of England have no i'll feeling on the
contrary, love them for their aspirations after
liberty and only reproach them that they do
not arouse and turn into the storehuuse of aces
The lumber OF their principles of legitimacy But
the British government is different thing. +,
was the greatest government on earth for il has
some pretence TO liberty, but nothing Of its sab
stance. Csnnibal like, il fed one part of its sub
jecls upon tho other She drinks the blood and
sweat, and tears the sinews Of its laboring mil
lions, to failen miserable arstocracy. England
Is now seen standing in the twilight of her glo-
ry but sharp vision may see written upon her