New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-19

onehaf while the rapidly travelling land hss been
three times greater than was ever known before.
Within the same period man has chained me very
lightning OF heaven, and brought down ans maze u so-
minister TO the transmission OF human thought nsoucn
that may with truth be said that our ideas are not only
transmitted with the rapidy Of lightning out Of ight
siag itself. Magic wires are stretching themselves
in all directions over The globe and when their mys
nc meshes shall al length have been perfected, our
globe itseit VII De endowed with sensyeness Wnicn
will render II impossible touch II on any one point
and the touch not be felt from one end OF the word 10
the other All this progress all this GROWTH OF human
happiness all this spread of human light and knowledge
like this for Oregon And this work Is as yet but COM
menced; it is but the breaking Of the dawn OF the
worlds jubilee. 1t promises DAP OF more refinement
more intellectual brightness more moral elevation and
consequently Of more human felicity than the world
has ever seen from It's creation.
Now the United States and England are two nations 20
be prominently instrumental in bringing about this hap
Pr change. because consider them as being the most
advanced in the scale of human improvement and moet
in circumstances to farther ths ameoraton, because
they have the control Of the grestest and most extensive
commerce at present in existence. We have been mus
distinguished 81 Providence for great and noble pur-
pose, and trust we sha fulfil our high destiny.
Again ! am opposed war, because hold tnsi 1t Is
now be determined whether such nations as these
shall exist for the future friends enemies decara
ton OF war OF one of them against the other must be
pregnan, with mseres not only TO themselves, but TO
the world around them.
Another Is, that mighty put into
the hands OF both to cement aSd secure perpetua!
peace by breaking down the barriers Of commerce and
uniting them more clossly in an intercourse mutually
beneficial il this shall Se accomplished, other nations
will, one ser another follow the fair example and q
of general prosperity heretofore unknown will
gradually lutte and bless the nations OF the world.
And far more than that An intercourse like this points
that pirng day which philosophers have hoped for
which poets have in the bright visions OF fancy end
which prophecy has in holy vsionwhen men shall
learn war more. Who contemplate state Of the
world like this and feel his heart exat at the pros
And who d0uht that in the hand OmDlDO-
tent Providence free and unrestricted commerce shall
prove OF the greatest agents in bringing 1t about
Finally, an, against because peace-peace Is pre-.
eminently our policy There are nations In the world
who may resorto for the settem ent OF their differ
ences and still grow great but that nation IS not ours
Providence has cast happy inheritance where It's
frontier extends for tweny-three degrees OF latitude
along the Atlantic Coast 1, has given land which,
in natural advantages is perhaps unequaled by any
other Abundant in all resources-exceuent IN cin-
ae-fertilc and eXuberant in so-capable OF sustain.
ing the plentiful enjoyment of ali the necessares OF
life, population of two hundred millions OF souls
Our great mission as people Is TO occupy this vast 90
main-there to fulfil the primeval command to increase
and multiply and repenish the land with an industrious
and yiruous population: level the forests and let in
upon their otudes the light day to clear the swanps
and morasses and redeem them TO the pow and the
sickle spread hill and dalethe echoes OF human
labor and human happiness and contentmen to NIL the
land with cities and towns and villages TO unite lis OPP
pose extremiiies by turnpkes and railroads. to scoop
out canals for the transmission OF its products, and
open rivers for It's internal trade War can only i'm
pede the fuhlment Of this high mission OF Heaven It
absorbs the wealth, and diverts the energy which
might be SO much better devoted to the improve
ment of our country. AL we want Is peace-esta-
bished peace; and then time under the guidance OF
wise and cautious policy will soon effect for us all the
rest Yes tme-ever laboring tme-will effect every
thing for US Our population increasing at the annu'
al average of six hundred thousand Let the next TWEEN
tyfve years elspse and increase will have reached
a million year and at the end of that period we
shall count population Of fortyfve millions. Before
that day, it will have spread from ocean to ocean,
The coasts of the Pacific will then be as densely
populated and thickly settled with villages and
towns as the coast Of the Atlantic is now In ano-
thcr generation shall have reached eighty mil
lions of people. and il we preserve peace, who
shall set bounds prosperity or success' With
one foot planted the Atlantic and the other on the
Pacific, shall occupy position between the two old
continents OF the world-a position eneny calculated
TO secure the and ipfuence OF both II we
abide by the counses OF common serse-it we succeed
in preserving our constitutional liberty we shall then
exhibit spectacle such the world never saw know
that this great mission Is encompassed with dicu
ties; blu. such is the inherent energy OF our political
system and such its expansive capabty that may be
made to govern the widest space If By war we become
great cannot be free; il we will be both great ana
freon ooicv ia