The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-13
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America

The benefits 10 the whole civilized world,
which were predicted to follow the successful
experiment of ocean steam-navigation, have now
commenced taking effect. and are participated In
by the nations of the old world as well as by
those of the new To the United States these
benefits will be, and are Of incalculable advan-
taqe. We have been brought within fortnight
sail of Europe--and people of different tongues
are drawn into iuxtaposition, and mlngle together
as members of one great family.
The advantages which we at present derive
from ocean standardization, are insignificant
when compared TO those that ARE yet to
come Ocean steam navigation Is yet to pene-
trate the China seas, and make the millions
of inhabitants of the great East our near
nephbors The waters of the Pacific have ere
long, to bear on their bosom the marine engine
and the stately and majestic steamship, laden
with the productions of Asia. The marts OF
trade in America are ere long to be frequented
with the long-queued Chinese, and the people OF
America are 10 hobnob in the cafes of the fur
thermost town in India.
If the United States will gain by this revolu
ton, SO will the nations OF Europe. Hitherto
estranged from each other, and from the CONT
nent of America, distance between them Is, COM
paratvely speaking annihilated. What was
considered at one time an undertaking OF the
most serious and perilous kind-requiring prepa-
ration for weeks and months before hand, is now
reduced to an excursion, rather to be coveted
than dreaded by their inhabitants.
Europeans have become acquainted with the
republican people of America, who tried and
successfully carried out a magnificent expert
ment in the government Of man. They are
drawn into close connection with nation of free
and independent sovereigns, who glory and de-
tight in government of their own making, and
which they can alter or amend without the inter
yention of hireling soldiery, or the danger OF
revolution and disaster. The contact canno
but be advantageous TO the people Of Europe
they will to a certain extent share in the bene-
fits conferred upon ourselves by American insti-
tutons and politics.
In order 10 hasten this agreeable state of
things, the NeU York Herald has determined to
use what little influence it may have, by giving
in every number of the Herald for Europe which
will be conveyed to the continent of Europe by the
French steamships, American line, of which the
Washington is one and by the Prussan line,
which are about to be built, and which are in
tended to ply between New York and Gluckstadt,
a summary of American news in the French Ian
guage, from the sailing of one vessel to that of
another. In this way the minds of the people of
both hemispheres will be brought into direct con-
tact, and they will converse with each other in
their own peculiar vernacular That this enter
prise will confer vast benefits on tb- people of the
two continents there can be no question, and
as we are determined upon doing our part Of
the work, we begin this new piece of news
paper enterprise in the Herald for Europe, which
we shall send by the French steamship Philadel-
phia, TO sail on Sunday morning.
The world has recently entered upon a new
stage Of existence. The theories and fallacies
Of past ages have to disappear before the inlu-
ence of practical knowledge, and the man is liv-
ing who will see mighty revolutions in the old
world, brought about by the influence of Amer
loan institutions. The power the press is with
out limit-so is that Of steam. Neither of them
has yet reached the eliminating point of its in :
fluence-when they shall, the great declaration
that all men are created free and equal will be
the political creed of all men, of all nations, OF
all tongues.