Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
From The Washington Union.
"The Ocean-bOund Republic

From the Washington Union.
"The Ocean-bound Republic"
BY +. RANDOLPH HUBERT.
81 would make this an FOcean-bOund Republic, and have
no more disputes about limits, or red lines upon the maps"
Judge Douglass Tezas speech. January 6, is45
This continent is merely large enough for our re-
publican experiment. We have the right IRON nigh
Heaven,"from destiny, to all of it.-every inch Of IL -
Hon. Mr. Sarysr's Oregon speech, February 3, 1916.
The . ocean-bound RepubIc ;, how beautiful il looms
From Patagonia's distant shore to Melville's arctic glooms
With her myriad plains and valleys, her myriad hills and
mountains,
Her cleaning lakes and rivers long, and thousand sparkling
fountains.
With her moral, physic beauty unfolding every grade
OF intellect, or happy form that nature has display'd,
With her varied skies, aud climate, and each production rare
or aliment for every taste and good that man should share.
How can we fail TO love her '-how can we choose but win
This :" Ocean-bOund Republic " to nurture freedom in,
And leap to glorious destiny which God enstamP'd our birth,
The PharOs Of the moral world, the wonder Of the eaIthf
Ay, look along the pages Of our own ancestral line,
And see the proves they ~di.play'd in days of " Aud lang
syne,"
And say If their descendants should shame their noble sires,
By quenching cen a single spark of freedoms lustrous fires :
Or rather not enlarge them to Del FuegO's isle,
Till the llanos and the pampas, the prairies all shall smile
Till the red man of the North and the South shall meet in
love
One common destiny below, one common bliss above.
Till the East, the West. the centre, like the hearts arterial
play,
All interfus'd and glowing shall feel this happy sway,
And every child of nature, however rude and low,
Shall feel the thToes of liberty, and be the tyrant's foe.
For liberty a Hampden, a Sydney, Russell fell
And water'd with heroic blood the Saxon valleys well;
And the shoots that sprung from English soil transplanted to
our shore
Have struck their roots full fathoms deep to live forever
more
Then out with every vestige Of d~espotism here,
God gave to US this heritage for freedoms hemisphere;
For virtue and true nobleness whose only nature springs
Beneath the eagles sweeping flight, the rustlipg ofhis wings
Then gid upon your banners. ye men of iron mould,
Those thrilling talismanic words, so stirring to behold
Ay, wave them through all trial, and bear them through all
time,
The " oeean-bOund Republic, . that shall circle us sublime
The N. o. Commercial Times picks the following
learned exposition of geography from a late number
of the London Mercantile Journal:
"The truth is, that this war question in the United
States is perfect fratricide. The uneasy spirits of the
West do not care what the most civilized States, from
the northeast to the south, may suffer. From the ex-
IRENE point in the nOrtheast-Lowell, the American
Manchester, to New Orleans, there is not one repre-
sentative legislator for war with this country. Ken
lucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri,
and Arkansas furnish all the belligerents. And rank
towards as well as fools are they. They are towards,
because they are squatted so far in the interior, that
the operations of our war are never likely to reach
them; and they are fools, because if this country was
to knock BGlize down, the mouth of the gigantic Mis-
sissippi would be stopped. How would then the
sharp fellows in the West get their produce to Eu-
rope Where would be the use of the Missouri,
runs for 100 miles from Lake Superior into
the Mississippi near St. Louis !! Of what use would
the Ohio river be, which Joins the Mississippi near
New Madrid, after skirting Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Kentucky and Pennsylvania up to Philadelphia Of
use would the Alabama be, which runs from
near Savannah, In Georgia, through the State Of AL
aba ma to New Orleans, which is exactly one hun
dred miles from Balize! OF what use would the Po-
be, which runs from Washington to Charles
town in South Carolina =! As we are now looking at
the map, and admiring the grandeur of the bounty
of Providence to that part of the world, we are
shocked to think that such gifts may at least, be spoil
ed within six months by one single six-and-thrrty gun
London is nearer for all practical purposes
to Balize than Washington is-perhaps Mr.. Polk for
what a pretty leg of a continent Florida is in his
way-and the mouth of the Mississippi shut, Ameri-
ca reverts TO the melancholy barbarism of a State bar
And really it would be a just retributiOn, if they
are such ambitious fools as Gen. CasS. If thea riu
ostracise the whole of the old world, let them. Cotton
can be grown without them, and Corn too"