Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1849-12-25

sive sea-coast; in her numerous and eX-
cellent harbors; and in her geographical
position, presenting, as she does, double
front to the Old World, or holding out,
as it were, one hand to Asia, and the other
to Europe. But such resources and ad-
vantage5 are only valuable when properly
turned 10 account. 1t is only by their be-
ing so that they will become formidable to
us. We have only to look TO the race
possessing them to decide whether they
are likely to be turned to account or not.
The Americans are Englishmen exc ger
ated, if any thing, as regards enterprise.
This is not to be wondered at, as they
have, as a people more incentives than
we have to enterprise. Of this we may
rest assured, th4t the most viii be made
o. the resources and advantages at their
disposal. This is all that has made us
great. We have turned our coal and our
iro1, and our other resources, to account,
and the world has by turns wondered at
and envied the result. The American
stock of coal and of iron is more than thlr-
ty times as great as ours, and more than
twelve times as great as that OF all Europe
Their Their resources are in thesame pro-
portion, as compared with ours. And Ii
our resources, turned to good account, have
made us what we are, what will be the
fabric of material greatness which will yet
spring from the ample development OF re-
sources thirty times as great! ii the IN
dustry of from twenty to thirty millions OF
deople, with limited means, have raised
England to her present pinnacle OF great
ness and glory, what will the industry OF
I5O,OOO,0OO yet effect in America, when
brought to bear upon resources almost IL
limitable ? The continent will yet be An
gIo-Saxol from Panama to Hudson's Bay.
What Anglo Saxons have done, circum-
stanced as we have been, is but faint type
of what Anglo-Saxons will yet do, work
ing in far gree ,er nLmbers, on far more
favorable field of operation.
1t is the consideration that America will
yet exhibit in magnifed proportions, all
that has tended to make England great,
that leads one irresistibly, however reluc-
family, to the conclusion that the power
of England must yet succumb to that of
her offspring. There is, however, this
consolation left us, that the predominant
influence in the world will still be in the
hands of our own race. Tat influence
will not pass to different scene of action.
1t has been England's fate, during her
bright career, to plant new States, which
will inherit her power and her influence
after her. On the continent OF North A
merica, on many points on the coast of
South America, at the Southern extremity
Africa, throughout wide Australia, in New
Zealand, in Van Dieman's Land, and the
Indian Archipelago, the Anglo-SaXon race
will prevail, and the Anglo-SaXon language
be spoken, long after EngIand's gIores
have become historic and TRADITIONAL
These different communities, tlOurlshlng
remote from each other, will all be ANNA
ted by kindred spirit, and will cherish a
common sentiment of attachment TO their
common parent, who will long exercise
moral influence over them, after her pollt-
ical power has been eclipsed. Not that
England will not always be able to main
tain her positionin Europe. The powers
which are destined to overshadow her are
springing up elsewhere, and are of her
own planting. Of these the American
Republic, or Republics, as the case may
be, will both politically and commercially
take the lead, when England, having full
filled her glorious mission, shall have alb.
dictated her supremacy, and the scepte Of
empire shall have passed from her forev-
er.-Nackay's UeStern UOrId.
Forgiveness.