The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-15

science and religion, and adorned with the useful
and the elegant Ars. Three and half centuries
age, this raoe in obedienee 10 the great command,
arrived in the New World and found now lands TO
subdue and fsplsnish. For a long Tune It was con-
aned to the border Of tho new field, Il now mean
the Celtie-Anglo-Saxon division) and even four
score years ago the philosophie Burke was c0nsd-
cred rash man because he said the English col
onlss would top the Alleghanies, and descend into
the valley Of the Mississippi, and occupy without
parchment, If the crown refused to make grants OF
land. What was considered rash declaration
eighty years ago old history, in our young country,
al this day. Thirty years ago said the same thing
Of the Rocky mountains and the Columbia; il
ridiculed them Il ls becoming history to-day. The
venerable MIR. Macon has often told that he
remembered line low down in North Carolina
fixed by royal governor as boundary between
the whites and tho Indians where is that boundary
nowi The van of the Caucasian race now tops the
Rocky mountains, and spread down 10 the shores Of
the Pacific. In few years a great population will
grow up there, luminous with the accumulated lights
Of European and American civilization. Their pres
enee IN such position cannot be without Its influence
upon eastern Asia. The sun OF civilization must
shine across the sen socially and commercially, the
van OF the Caucasans, and the rear Of the Mongo-
ians must intermix. They must talk together, and
trade together and marry together. Commerce is
great eiyilizerT-soclal intercourse gneat-and
marriage greater The white and yellow races can
marry together, well eat and trade together.
Moral and intellectual superiority will do tho rest
the white race will take the ascendant, eleyatihs
what is susceptible Of improvement wearing out
what is not. The red race has disappeared from the
Atlantic coast the tribes that resisted civilization
met extinction. This is a cause of lamentation
with many For my part, / cannot murmur at
what seems To be the effect of Divine law cannot
repine that this Capitol has replaced the vigwam-
this Christian people, replaced the sayages-whita
matrons, tho red sguaws-and that such men as
Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, have taken
the place of Powhatan, opechonecanough, and 9TH
ed red men, howsoeyer respectable they may have
been savages. Civilization, or extinction, has
been the fate of all people who have found them
selves in the track Of the advancing whites and civ
lizahon, always the preference Of the whites, has
been pressed as an object while extinction has fol-
lowed consequence Of its resistance The black
and the red races have often felt their amso-
rating influence. The yellow race, next to them
selves in the scale OF mental and moral excellence
and in the beauty Of form, once their superiors in
the useful and elegant arts, and in learning and
still respectable though stationary-this race can
not tsii TO receive new impulse from the APP
proaeh Of the whites, improved 80 much since so
many ages ago they let the western borders of
Asia. The appantion OF the van o. the Caucus
ian race, rising upon them in the east after having
eft them on the vest, and after having completed
the eireumnavigation Of the globe, must wake up
and reaninnate the torpid body Of old Asia. Our
pitabe reception: political considerations will aid the
action Of social and commercial influences. Pretsed
upon by the great powers OF Europe-the same
hat press upon us-they must In our approach hail
the advent Of friends not Of foes-of benefactors,
not Of invaders. The moral and intellectual supe-
riority OF the white will do the rest: and thus
the youngest people, and the newest land, will be-
come the reviyer and the regeherater Of the Oldest
IL Is IN this point OF view, and as acting upon the
social political, and religious condition Of Asia, and
giving new point Of departure to her ancient civil
zaton, that look upon the settlement Of the Co
umbia river by the Of the Caucasian race az the
most momentous human event in the history ofman
since his dispersion over the face Of the earth.
These the values Of the Columbia river and
ts valley-these the advantages Of its settlement by
Us. They are great and grand, beneficial to our
selves, and TO the human race, and amply sufficient
to Justify the United States in indicating their title
TO the country, and maintaining its possession at all
hazards But Iapprehend no hazard. The excite
men in Great Britain was on account Of the British
settlements on Frazer's river, which our claim to
$40 4V included and menaced. That claim is now
On its last legs. The myriads Of good citizens who
have been deluded into its belief and who have no
interest in being deceived, abandon il as sheer
mistake. The Baltimore convention, and the edi-
tors and orators who were so unfortunate as
to stake the peace and the honor of their
country on that error and who had prob
ably never read the Russian treaties of 1924
and 1925, nor the diplomatic correspondence of
that time, nor ever heard Of New Caledonia nor
taken il into their heads to consider whether con-
dnents were appurtenant to islands, or islands to
continents: these editors and orators NAV still hang
on to their old dream of ffty-four forty from
mortified pride, and the consistency, not Of judg-
ment, but Of vanity: they may still hold on to the
shadowy phantom of their former love; but their
power to involve their country in a war for a line
which has no existence, and for a country that be-
longs TO Great Britain clearly does Canada il
gone. They no longer lead the country into
upon a mistake! and thus the war party at
home may be said to be extinct. In Great Britain
see no desire for war, except with those who have
no power to make -namely, the abolition fanatics,
and the Hudson Bay traders. The former Of these
parties, uninstructed by the scenes of the San
Domingo instruction, and its effects upon the
blacks as well as the whites of that island would
deem negro emancipation cheapy purchased in the
United States by the slaughter of every man. the
violation Of every woman, the massacre of every
child and the confagraton Of every dwelling in the
whole slavehoding half of the Union but, happily,
these fanatics have no longer a French National
convention to organize their crimes; and speeches
and votes must sill be their arms, instead of the
knife and the torch.
The fur traders, now as always, are still ready
for a war, which gives them little while longer
the monopoly Of beaver; but their power is not
equal now to what it has been. They set the In
dams upon us in the war of the revolution, and
in fact began the at Long Point, (mouth of the
Kenhawa,) in May, l774. They nstigated and
kept up the long Indian wars in the northwest
terminated at last by Wayne's victory under the
guns of British fort One of the causes of the
late war had its root in their love of beaver and
their savages, as in the war Of the revolution,
fought the first battle in the bloody drama that was
to follow. As an interlude, when not at war with
US, they fought each other; and nothing in the long
catalogue of Indian massacres can be more shock
ing than those perpetrated upon each other, through
the instrumentality of savages, by the Hudson Bay
and Northwest companies; and all from the love of
beaver The act Of Parliament which united these
two companies under charter assigned it for.
reason of the junction, in the face of the act the
necessity of joining them together to prevent their
destruction of each other. This com pany would
| still find, in their opinion, judging from their past
acts and present writings a compensation for ma
tional war in their own further monopoly of beaver;
but see no sign Of their with the govern
| ment; and for the rest, let them beware The next
| war with Great Britain will leave them not fort
standing, from the Lake Of the Woods to Hudson's
Bay--from the Saskatchiwine to Fort Chpewyan--