The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-03-07
OUR NATIONAL GREATNESS.

An examination Of copious files qf Eng
lsh and French papers, says the PhilsdeI-
phis Saturday Courier, by the last steamer,
has brough. most !orcbIy to our minds the
rapidly increasing importance Of our pol ii
cal and social institutions, especially in the
|eyes of The most powerful AS we'll as of La
Belle France. A quarter of century ago,
nay Ear less Ihan that very short period in
the history Of naions, land scarce The
number of a iozen lines per month, relating
to the United States, could be found, even
with The aid Of microscope, in any Of the
journals of naughty, self sufliccn. Britain.
And the sneerlLg and insulting qoeslion oi
Who reads an American Bookl' WIS pro-
pounded on all occasions. Our poets were
deprecated, our legal decisions unnouced
or misreprsssn,ed, and nought save the
frontier and semi-bai barisn breaches of
peace and law noticed in e1tenSo These
liest qualification 10 the monsrchisl and ami.
Republicans, were rolled abou, under the
tongue, like a precious morsel, and with the
round assertion that they formed the gener-
al character of American Society, were
held up sos. OF 4 told you so" to the adj
voca,es Of seIfsgovelnment Now, however
the case is slrlk'ngy glorioUcty changed,
All other themes appear to have been Tor,
gotten. EVerv book-lsbe and IibararJ
groans with the creations Of Cooper al
Irving. Prescott, the Everet,s, Bowdhch
a Neal, James, LongfelIow, &c, &c.
Their Halls OF Science are lighted by the
discoveries and researches of a Siliman, an
Edwards, aud hos. of othersj their legal
halls resound with the profundity and WIS.,
dom of Kent Livingston, a Marshall, d
Story, 10 whose memory The English Bar
have resolved to erect a marble sialue;J
their pu pits brighten with the thoughts oi
a Hobart. Beecher, Claiming, White
&c, g.; the Continental Railways and hills
echo with The ,hunders of American loco-
lmonVes, lar ouistrlpping and overlapping
IN speed and power their best efforts I,
compete with Yankee skill and ingenuity
+ The Legislative Chambers Of France ,ot
ate all alive to the doings in America, mt
; now in the BRITISH PARLIAMENT itself -
, while The morning salulaion of every cli
: zsn is, What do you think Of Americsl' o
f Have you read the news from United Sta
les, every local subject is given the 60 b.
= until the allsbsorbing one of our relation
with the United States Of America hav
2 been discussed argued in all lheir bearings
u rhe Gear conveniently blind prese. tou
has 60, i's eyes open, and 10 the excluso
Of all other topics, its columns TEEN wi!
ehec ions upon the affairs Of the MoDE
REPUBLIC and sre filled with The livelie.
" demonstrations Of frien dship and consider:
!, ZION, (kind sOuls) and the utmost soicitud
= tha! nothing may occur 10 interrupt The am
e cable relations between the Two na,lont
e Successto america! Saturday CourieI
--
WisconSin and Ioua- -Wisconsion
:, tpreparing 10 come into Ihs Union. III
iquesIion is 10 be submitted TO the people
, The April election. and will be carried b
foil nine tenIhs Of the whole vote Ther
is difference as regards The details Of III
step. though but one opinion expressed i
reference TO It's expedienCy. A state ceI
sus is TO DO taken in June, delegates are
:, be elected on the couD,y system in Ser
ember, and tho Convention is 10 sssembI
y, in October. Iowa also intends to My he
:, hand again. The second attempt, they sa
, will be successful
II Commercial Policy Of Sir Robert Pee
,s "A London letter thus condenses into brl,
Q limits a sketch OF the new Commercial DO
=. cy proposed by Sir Rober Peel. IL. n
abolition of all duties upon coarse article
of manufactures in wool, cotton and line
duties on lhe finer SORTS reduced from 20
10 per cent
rs 2. Reduction of the silk duties OF 80 y,
ID cent and upwards, to fixed duty of Is p,