The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-03-16

d., =, lac, there shall nothing abide but truth,
and that whatever YOU or | may say TO day.
vben we shall have gone down TO our graves,
,,;,h the exoectztion, like the foolish bird
,.h;cb xhen pursued. hides its foolish head
in ,I,. sand and supposes IFS poor foolish
81 10 moi seen-w hen we have crawled in-
- he grave. believing that by this falshood
-. saye imposed upon this world, all will be
Uncovered and made hare to every body, aud
,,,nL;nd. instead of believing US that we
sought room for growing population, viii
cas- that we endeavored, under that hyPocrtt-
zeal preteuce, of obtaining land we dad not
want, BY iniquity and force.
NJ. President, this uneasy desne to aug
,.crt our territory has depraved the moral
sense and bI;shted The otherwise keen sagac-
,,y of CUR people. What has beeo the fate
az all nations who have acted upon the icea
,h,, thew must advance! Our young orators
cherish This notion with fervid, but fatally
mistaken zeal. They call it by the mysteri-
ous name of destiny Our destiny they
saw. is onward, and hence they argue, with
ready sophisuy, the proprieiy OF seIzing up
on any territory and any people that may lay
IN the way of our 'faIed' advance. Recently
these Prosressives have gtOwu classical;
some assiddous student Of antiquities has
belned Them to patron saint. They hav wan
d,red back into the Gesolated Pantheon, and
there. amongst the Polytheistic relics OF that
.paae mother Of dead empires they have
found god whom the Romans, centuries
you. By, baptized Terminus
Sir, have beard much aud read some
what Of this man Terminus. Alexander, of
whom have spohen, was devotce Of this
divinity We have seen the end OF him and
his empire Ii said to be an attribute Of
This god that he mus. always advance. and
never recede So both republican and impe-
rial Rome believed. 1t was, as they said.
their destiny. And for while it did seem 10
he even so. Roman Terminus did advance.
Under the eagles of Rome he was carried
from his home on the Tiber TO the furthesi
East, or one hand, and 10 the far West, a.
mongsr the theu bsibOrous tribes Of western
Europe. on the other But at length the time
came when rctributive justice had become
"a drstiuy.' The despised Gaul calls out TO
the condemned Goth. and Attila, with his
Hons, wcred back The battle shout TO both.
The 'blue-eysd nations Of the North in sue
cession. or united, pour forth their countless
hosts Of warriors upon Rome and ROme's al
ways advancing god Terminus And now
this battIe-axe of the barbarian strikes down
The couquering eagle Of Rome. Terminus
at last recedes slowly al first. but finally he is
driven "a Rome. and from Rome to Byzau
i,um. Whoever would know the further
fate of this Roman Gciry. so recently taken
under the patronage Of American Democra-
cy. may find ample qualification Of his curlos-
ity in the luminous pages OF Gibbons DE
cline and FALL Such will find that Rome
thought, as YOU now think, that it was her
destiny TO conquer provinces and nations ard
no doubt she sometimes SAID as you say, u
will conquer peace And where now IS
she. the Mistress Of the World The spider |
weares his web in her palaces, the owl sings
his watch-sons in her towers. Teutonc |
power now lords it over The servile remnant,
the miserable mrmento of the old aud once
omuipotent Rorie. Sad. very sad. are the |
lessons which time has writteh for U.S.
Through and in them all see nothing but
the infexible execution Of that old law which |
ord1ns as eternal that cardinal rule, Thou
shall not covet Thy neis hbor's goods, nor any
thing which is his Since have lately |
heard so much about the dismemberment Of
Mexico, have looked back 10 see bow; 10 the
course Of events, which some call 'PIOvi-
dencc.' il has Jared with other nations who
engaged in this work Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
See that in the latter half of the eighteenth
century three powerful nations, Russia, Aus
ira aud Prussia, united in tho dismember-
ment of Poland. They said. too, as you say,
its our destiny They wanted rpom.'-
Doubtless each of these though with his
share Of Poland, his power was too strong
ever 10 fear invasion, or even insult. One
had his California, another his New Mexico,
and the third his Vera Cruz. Did they re-
main untouched and incapable Of harm
Alas. no-flr. very far fiom it Reiributive I
justice must fulfil its destiny too. A very i
few years pass of, aud we hear of a new man, ,
a Corsican lieutenant, the self named armed
snldier Of Democracy Napoleon. He raw.
ages Austria, covers her land with blood, c
drives the Northern Cesar from his capital, I
add sleeps in his palace. Austria may now {
how her power trampled upon Po- {
land. Did she not pay dear, very dear for {
her California But has Prussia not atone
neut to mahcl You see this same Napo- I
con, the blind instrument of Providence, at I
work there. The thunder OF his cannon at {
lena proclaimed the work Of retrIhution for
Poland's wsongs; and the successots of the
Great Frederick the drilI-serg cant Of Europe,
are seen flying across the sandy plain that I
sarrouds their capitol, right glad if they may
escape captivity or death. But how fares it
|, it'll the Autocrat Of Russiai Is he secure
IN his share Of the spois of Poland Mo-
Suddenly we see, sir, six hundred thousand
armed men marching to Moscow. Does his
Vera Cruz protect him nowl Far from il.
Blood. slaughter, desolarion spread abroad
over the land. and finally the cOn1agratiou
Of the old commercial metropolis Of Russia
closes the retribuiion she must pay for her
share in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of her eak aud
mpotent neiehbGr. Mr.. President, a mind
more prone TO look for the judgments Of
Heaven in the duinss Of men than mihe, can
not fail in this TO see the providence of God.
When Moscow burned il seemed as if tue
earth was lighted up that The nations might
behold the scene. As that mighty sea Of {
IRE gathered and heaved sud rolled upwards.
and yet higher till its flames licked the stars
aud hired the whole heavens, il did seem as {
though the God Of Nations was writing in ,
characters of flame on the front of his throne
that doom tha, shall fall upon the strong ma :
lion no tramples in scuru upon the weak. ,
And what fortune awaits him, the appointed I
executor Of this work, when it was ali done ,