Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-01
POST OFFICE SUBLIME.

The English press, which laughs at Prince AL
berts German wardrobe, the Royal Duke OF Cam
BRIDGES speeches, Lord Broughams bottle and nose,
the Premlers embarrassments or blunders of any
Sort all the peculiarities Of John Bull himself and
even those OF the two highest and most general OBJ
Jects OF its respect and Affection the Iron Duke and
the Queen herself, has got hold of certain beauties
OF one OF our Congressional reports and is delight
ing itself very greatly with them lis selection from
these not very appropriate spendors is, indeed, not
bad. They are certainly transcendant specimens
OF magniloquence, putting to shame even the gran
deur OF our Mexican friend, Gen. MIcHELToKRNo
when, marching to dspossess Com. JONES at Mon
tercy, he wished himself thunderbolt Longinus
and Burke in all that they writ on the sublime and
beautiful, had never seen any thing like such flowers
of the superative as the following:
The occupation of wild territory which has been inces
SAINT and uninterrupted, proceeds with all the soemnity
provdenta event II at this moment sweeping onward
the Pacific with accelerated activity and force like deuge Of
rising unabatedy and daily pushed onward by the hand of
God This deuge OF human beings, which nothing inter-
upts and no power restrain, easily understood II
has been known TO stop recede wherever enters
occupies we see countries more extensive than the
pres OF Alexander Napoleon and settled through
out in the life Of single generation DISTINCTIONS disappear
before Its rolling volume swallowed up by thun
dercloud "The Seminoles pressed by encroachng
settlements the Government delayed the removal of that
handful Of Indians and became compelled to wage des
peratey costly whilst generals furnished with magnificent
armies, during eight years. defeated and held at bay
Whilst portion of Maine sold for money, which
Government paid the pioneers conquered and annexed the
glorious territories OF Pexas by immortal victories and
summaie military prowess. Causes very numerous and
pressing at this moment operating drive ahead with
accelerated velocity the rolling column Of pioneers which
absorbing the vacant western half Of the with
racty which the past furnishes precedent We behold
the great American Republic become fact the pow
eriu people among the nations of the earth her
overeachng that of Great Britain herself in every sea- and
that commerce only yet in the newy vigor of the infant
Hercules The of England has reached its culm-
mating The vital sap mperceptbly sagnates retaining
only the fungous evergreen of the metoe and vergg the
turning edge when fows a headong decadence. tremu-
lous eul jealousy, from the old towards the young
shakes this antique arstoeacy helpless of growing
decreptude gnaws their vnas War might pre-
cptate into headlong and reevable disaster America
by the ascending celebrity Of her progress daily placing all
other nations far down the slope below and rendering all ri.
valy impossible Before they Of their eebeness
unmeasured gulf yawns before them not much from
their slowness by the ncacuable apdy of progress
What longer binds to hang in stupid ceremony
upon the Haunting barbasms of Europe, where mankind,
hurled in each generation round the circle of revolution
in deuges of blood and hearhs ncanadned with do
mestic slaughter to again into the orodden me of
oppression !"