The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-20
SELECTIONS.
ARICH REPORT IN THE SENATE:
A specimen of the TranscendaIist.
Correspondence ofhe Baltimore Patriot.
WASHINGTON. Mnr 1l--laAa

.M kAAtlAOk IEN
ram rom informing you of an amusing mat
ter which for several days last week was verv
much discussed and commented upon.
You must know that Senator Semple. of Hi.
nols' a very good n%atured, well disposed man.
who once was Charge d'A fairs to one Of M
South A merican Republics-I forget which
and who is Chairman of the Post Office Com
nl'tee OF the Senate-had recently made a Re-
poft' winch has been printed by order of the
senate Its style is of the super graadilooueai
OF nigh some Jol,cai, as you may see from the
following extract which ! make. The Repor,
fills a pamphlet Of fOrty-six pages The first
fifteen or twenty pages are filed with s%tatisti-
cal tables, and then follows a great dissertation
upon great things in general matters of great
nature. AS parexample.
"Ihe American people have, during two
centuries grown from nothing to 3O,O0O.OO0
people. their annual production reaches A.
5oo,OO6,O0O; their marine is the most powerful
complete, and efficient of any in existence ;
their commerce, resting exclusively on the re-
sources OF their compact and magnificent terri.
tory, as the largest in amount, the most vigo-
rous, safe and understandable Of any existence.
1t bears a very trifing ratio to the pyramid of
production on which it rests, and is capable Of
unlimited enlargement, without endangering
its solidity. 1t is nov far too cramped and
Limited to draw off the increasing surplus of
agriculture. The choking ofold markets, com
bined with the tearing rapidly with which the
neutrality-suspicious. absorbs the wilderness,
partially indicated by tho annual sales of the
national domain, operates as a double depres-
sion upon the value Of produce, which is con-
tinually augmeniing."
"This occupation of wild territory, which has
been incessant and uninterrupted, proceeds
with all the ~solemnity of a providenlial event.
i is at this moment sweeping onward to the
Pacific with accelerated activity and force, like
deluge Of men rising unabatedly, and daily
pushed onward by The hand of God, This de-
luge Of beings, which nothing interrupt, and
no power can restrain, is easily understood.n
'It has never been known to stop or to re-
cede; wherever.it enters, it occupies. We see
countries more extensive than the Empires Of
Alexander or Napoleon overruu and settled
throughout in the lie of a single generation,
Distinctions disappear before the rolling vol
ume as stars are swallowed up beneath a thun-
der-cloud.
"The Seminoles were pressed by encroach-
ing settlements, the government delayed the
removal of that handful of Indians, and be-
come compelled to wage a war desperately
costly; whilst generals furnished with splendid
arRies, were, during the eight years, defeated
and held at bay. Whilst a portion of Maine
was sold for money which our government
paid, the pioneers conquered and annexed the
glorious territory Of Texas as by immortal VIC
tories and coDsumate military prowess,n
"Canada was annexed, but not consumma-
ted. The purchase of Louisiana opened an
unlimited range TO the west in the line Of the
great bulk of progress The TANKS ofthe Mis-,
sisippi have been secured BY the acquisition of
Florida and Texas. Oregon remains to COM
piete the symmetry Of the whole, and give us
sixty States"
Causes, very numerous and pressing, are at
This moment operating to drive ahead with ac-
CELEBRATED velocity the rolling column Of pion-
eors which is absorbing the vacant western
half Of the continent with a velocity to whicq
the pastfurnishes no precedent. We have seen
that whilst the western limit Of the republic re-
manned open, the average increase has been a.
bout twentY-three miles per annum that wher-
ever this advancing column has struck upon an
obstacle, such as the Cherokee and Creek ma
tons Of Indians, the line opened, proceeded
with proportionate rapidly on the shortened
lines, passing beyond the obstacle, reuniting,
surrounding it, and afterward l~eizurely absorb
ed the beleaguered space.p
"We behold the great American republic be-
com in factthe most powerful people among
the nations Of the earth; her over-
reaching that Of GreatBitain herself in every
sea, andthat commerce as yet only in the ST.
newy vigor Of the infant Hercules. The COM
merce of England has reached its eliminating
era; the vital saPimperceptib ly stagnates ,%retain-
ing only thefungons evergreen of the misletoe
and vergingt to the turning edge, when follows
a headlong decadence. A tremulous, fretful
jealousy, common from the old towards the
young, shakes this antique aristocracy. A
helpless sense of growing decrepitude gnaws
their vitals. War has Frustrated France, Hol-
land, and crushed all other rivals. Success in
crushing by war the Of America is
doubtful, and a failure ends her career. In the
natural current of things, her doom is certain
and near at hand. Wal might p%recipitate her
into headlong and irretrievahle disaster. Amer
lea, by the as cending celerity. Of her progress,
is daily placing all other nations far down the
Slope below. and rendering all rivalry impossi-