The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-04-02

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Bat have sill higher reasons, an
opposed 70 var - friend 10 human I'm
proFemeni, 10 human eiviliEaii0n, o hui
man progress and sdvansemeni. Never
IN lie history q The weird has there oe-
cured persod 20 Rmafksble = ihs peace
which followed he babe Of Waterloo for
the Great advances made 10 lhe condition
OF human society. and thsi in various
forms. The chemical and mechanical
powers have been investigated and appll-
"a 20 advances The comforts Of human life
in = degree faT beyond al that was ever
known or hoped before. Civilization has
been spreading iis influence lar and wide,
and The general progress Of human socitty
has Ouislnipped all that had beenpnesisssly
witnessed. The invention efman has seiz-
ed upon and sshiugaied two great agencies
Of Inc natural world w.s;rh never before
we're made The servants Of man: refer 10
steam and 10 sleesriciiy. under which, Of
course, include magnetism in oil il phe-
nomena. Steam has been controlled and
availed OF Cor all he purposes Of human
intercourse. and by is resislless energies
has brought nations together whon nature
had seemed 10 separate By insurmsunlable
barriers. Il has shortened the passage
arross the Atlantic more than one-half,
while The rapidiiy Ofirayelling ON land has
been three times greater Than ever was
known before. Within the same period
man has chained the very lightning Of hea-
ven. and brought il down and made il adj
minister In the transmission Of human
thought, insomuch that il may with truth
be said that our ideas are not only trans
miited with the rapidly oflighling, but by
lightning itself. Magic wires are stretch
ing themselves in all directions over the
globe. and when their mystic meshes shall
al length have been perfected, our globe it,
self will be endowed with sensiliYeness
which will render il impossible to touch il
on any one point and the touch not be felt
from one end OF the world TO the other.
AL this progress, all this growth Of human
happiness, all this spread of human light
and knowledge, will be arrested by war.
Aud shall we incur result like that for
Oregon! And this work is as yet but COM
menced; il is but the breaking Of he dawn
Of the worm's grea, jubilee. u promises
a day Of mere refinement, more inielleciu-
al brightness. more moral elevation, and
consequently Of more human felicity, than
the world has ever seen from its creation.
Now the United States and England are
two nations to be pre-eminently instrument
lal in bringing about this happy change, be.
cause ! consider them as being the most
advanced in the scale of human improve
ment, and most in circumstances TO furth-
er this amelioration, because they have the
centred Of tie greatest and most extensive
commerce at present in existence. We
have been thus distinguished by Proyi-
dence for great and a noble purpose,
and trust we shalIfu our high destiny.
Again, am opposed to war, because I
hold that il is now 10 be determined whe-
Their two such nations as these shall exist
for The future as friends or enemies. A de-
claration Of war Of one Of them against the
other must be pregnant with miseries, not
only to themselves, but 10 the world
around them.
Another reason is, that mighty means
are now put into the hands Of both TO &C.
ment and secure a perpetual peace, by
breaking down the barriers Of commerce
and uniting them more closely in an inter-
course mutually beneficial. If this shall
be accomplished, other nations will, ono
after another, follow the fair example, and
state of general prosperity, heretofore
unknown, will gradually unite and bless
the nations of the world.
And far more than that. Anin.ercourse
like this points TO that inspiring day which
philosophers have hoped for, which poets
have seen in the bright visions Of fancy,
and which prophecy has seen in holy Vi
sion-when men shall learn war no more.
Who can contemplate state of the world
like this, and not feel his heart exult a,
the prospect! And who can doubt that. in
the hand Of omnipotent Providence, a free
and unrestricted commerce shall prove one
of the greatest agents in bringing it about.
Finally, am against war because peace
peace is pre-eminently our policy.
There are nations in the world who NAV
resort to war for the settlement of their dil-
ferences, and still grow great; but that ma
ton is not ours, Providence has cast our
happy inheritance where its frontier ex-
tends for twe1iy-three degrees Of latitude
along the Atlantic coast. II has given us
a land which, in natural advantages, is per-
haps unequalled by any other. Abundant
in all resources; excellent in climate; fer
tile and exuberant in soil; capable of sus-
tanning, in the plentiful enjoyment of all
the necessaries Of life, population oriwo
hundred millions ofsouls. Our great mis-
sion as people is to occupy this vast do
main--lhere TO fulfil the primeval COM
mand to increase and multiply, and re.
plenfsh the land with an industrious and
vlrtuous population: to level the forests,
and let in upon their solitude the light