Arkansas intelligencer., 1848-10-28
The English View of the Territorial ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Of The United StaleS-V -VanCOaVreS Island.
From the LONDON Times.

From the London Times.
The policy pursued by the government OF the
United States with regard 20 the territorial ag.
grandsementls particularly deserving of fattention.
Prussin, IN her vital struggles through tho middle
the last century, not more desperately bent
upon consolidation and enlargement then is
America at present; and state which still retains
IN It's original possessions sufficient unoccupied
land TO malntain double the amount of its popula-
ton, Is Impressng into It's service all the exped-
entS OF annexation, conquest aad purchase with
rs much determination and energy as if it were
actually gaspng in those eXtremities of political
existence which necessitated the seizure of Sile-
sla, and almost pallated The first partition Of Po
land. This policy may be, perhaps to some ex-
te2t, the manifestation Of that high national pur-
pose occasionally proclaimed by Ams rican states
men, of reducing the ultermost of the continent
under their rule upon the faith and sanction of
scriPturai donations; or it may be simply the ma
tural deve!oPement Of ambition and activity. in a
thriving, uncontrolled, and unquiel people But
with either or both Of these motives we have no
doubt there IS compounded, on the part of fore
casting statesmen, strong desire TO multiply and
extend, as far as possible, those outlets of dscon-
lent ana resiiessness. which are the very lungs of
the body polite, and to postpone to the remotest
practicable period that moment when the rushing
stream OF expansive population must at length be
checked, and wiki a sudden and terrible recoil -
" 't|i'li lS OI ought 10 10 OTrGut BTI-
tain, migration to the United Slates Their colo
MES arc in their western provinces. AlIopinions
concur IN stating that the facilities afforded by the
wilderness OF the far west to the spirit of adven.
lure or change have proved the salvation of the
government, and have been the chief means of
preserving intact, for seventy years, a constitution
which, by the side of more recent incarnations of
democracy, seems 70 wear not few of the fei.
lures of a steady and consolidated monarchy
1 he efforts Of the American government to per-
petuate the existence, and secure the free action
Of this political sa!ety-vaIve. have been comrDap.
surale IN success not less than in sp rit with the
necessities Of the case. Taken wiki the previous.
ly vacant territories Of the United States proger.
we may say that the annexation Of Texas the
acquisitions from Mexico. and the awards In Ore
gon, have placed at the disposal of the authorities
at Washington, tract of hnd at least twice as
spacious as the whole presently inhabited portions
OF their possessions. In fIct, taking the whole
breadth Of the continent. from the Atlantic 10 the
Pacific, between the 30.h and 5Oth parallels as
representing the present dominions of the United
States of America. 1t would be substantially cor
rect 10 say, that the whole space west Of the Mis-
souri,, or, IN other words, two-shirds OF the entire
territory, IS yet untcnanted. and lies in reserve for
the caprIces or necessities of generations to come
II IS particularly Instructive 10 observe with what
summary aud busness-like prom, titud0. cyeryt
acre OF this accumu1tod property is secured in
the government stores, and stamped It were
with national mark, for the undetermined pur-
poses OF the nation. Already that coast, for the
capabilities of which TO pay such little
heed, has been brought within the call of Wash
ingOn, and the ports of the Pacific viii be kept
we'll IN hand by n cabinet sitting on the shores Of
the opposite ocean. y line of mail steamers is to
run forthwith between New York and New Or.
leans, at New Orleans it will Join second line
TO Chagres, on the lsthmus of Panama; from the
lsthmuS third line Of steamers will traverse the
Pacific to and from the Columbia River. The
ink Of the treaty is scarcely dry, and yet, in jan
uary next. the direct aud regular communication
between New York and Oregon. will be such as
at this time last year, had not been established be.
tween London and Ascension. The Americans
want no sharesmen in their operations. The
terms of the convention left certain possessory
rights to the ludson's Bay Company, within the
frontier assigned to the United States.
These rights the States anxious to purchase
Immediately. and it is probable that the President.
without waiting for the re-assembing of Congress,
will negotiate during the recess. at no IIibera va
luatlon, his bargain for the whole of these posses
sions How much of the price paid for Louisiana
or California would the government of Washing
ton give for an island which seems TO have gone
begging for twelve months In London There is
this peculiar interest attached these transactions
on the American continent-lhGt we there see in
actual operation tho course OF those events of
which, in world we can only read. We
may look at the North America of 1913 as at the
Northern Europe a thousand years before, and
may watch with our own eyes the territorial set
tlememt Of continent. There the SpaniarGs
of the sthmus, the rival Saxons in tho centre, the
Slavonians in the north western angle, and pow
eriu element Of Cets nlerspersed. Wo may
imagine ii new race of Franks establishing itself
in Transatlantic Gaul Il new colony of slaves
struggling p TO new Pomerania, or II new swarm
of Huns settling upon new Danube. We have
plvilsed instead of barbGrou9 races 10 deal with
and therein consists the whole difference. With
this variation may fix our speculative eyes
upon continent OF which the distribution and oc
cupation is as uncertain and fortuitous as that OF
Europe in TIE days OF CharIemagne. There may
be one empire or two, of one or two races; or
there may be Kingdoms republics innumorable
Nobody can yet calculate the members of the
American family, when the partition and tenancy
Of the continent shall at length be complete. She
interest felt IN sIrch prospect as this s not dmn-
lshed by the consideration Of the extent TO which
our own national credit is evolved. Orer haif OF
this rdSt territory hare at least n2qnoriok rights.
and 1t as indeed tHing that the institutions Of the
company 10 which ace deiegate SO important tencn-
cy should be satrOduccd 10 general n6lice. 1t should