The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-08-08

could be charged with any mission for good.
My friends, il we can escape the .MeaisiroD,
Of domestic ruin for one quarter ola century
more, perhaps the most incredulous will see
that 1t is not all fanaticism. When / see
new ideas of government, and Of the un;ver-
sal moral duty which man owes to lis fell
low-men all over the world, spreading with
the progress Of our empire and knowledge
of our character, am led to this belief that
He who created nothing in vain, has a great
work for us to do.
But the great, the ever to bs admired fact
is, that we obtained California in pursuance
.of q just demand.
Should be asked if / claim appreciation
for acquisitions which we're the results of
force; answer. that depends on circum-
stances. Nations have no comm on arbiter;
and therefore each must procure the mea-
sure Of redress for itself. Ii is true. the
mole may be right, Or il may be wrong y
But when one nation has admitted claims
upon another, for the fuIfllment Of whic h,
she has wnired long years with patience:
men the debtor nation has feigned excuse
after excuse. and finally is about 20 deny the
duly altogether. think the moral Of the
question mny be found IN the last resort Of
nations. Should il be said that the bIexi-
can war originated in no such condition of
things; answer, that the acquisition of the
territory of the Pacific did.
tbs matter generalization that the increase
|ofmoral light has dinmed the false glory ar
war. But There be one nation which vet
fingers in the twilight Of moral day, and Ell
thcr does not understand or will not per-
form the right, do not know that another
is obliged to make herself either the subject
or the example Of pusillany nous submis.
sion. lfit be impossible but That wars and
offences will leone, let it be RENE m bered
that the woe is upon him through whom
they come.
The commitment of California to the il .
Tisdiction otour free institutions; her settle-
sment to the energy, and the expansivness OF
ADglo-Suxon blood, opens new era in tile
extension ofcommerce, and knowicdge--and
in the relations Of the world. Perhaps there
are those who will smile at the ext-ava
gapce ofthe thought. presume it might
have been regarded as q much more fanci-
ful iGca ses enty years ago, that in less than
the measure of mans days, the little ma
ton ostlGee millions, would exceed in her
maratime strength, nations most powerful
which measurd their growth by centuries.
California as the western border of the
U. States, with her bays and harbors, the
the best in The world, will be to China, what
the great commercial cities OF the Atuatic
are to Europe. England and the u. States
are and must continue to be the two great
marattme powers ofthe earth. They are
to send abroad, and operate influences the
most direct, sensible and lasting upon the
condition aid destiny Of all nations.
The channels of commerce are the chan
nels Of every thing else which mould and
modify the characters of communities and !
nations.
With English and American commerce,
will 60 the English language; English and
American literature, science, arts practical
and morals, English and Ameri.
can ships will surperabound IN everv port,
and their sailors and their books commin-
gle with every people. But in all these the
ascendency from the Pacific coast will be
ours;-ours the dominion, and ours the nc
countablity for it's exercise. Those noble
harbors were not made to mock the spirit
of enterprise in the hands of the listless,
tickle, semi barbarian Mestizoes who claim
eG them.
scarcely know what the soil of Califor-
MA is, or what it promises.
But what it may lack in black mould it
may make up in yellow. And here | think
see the hand Of a higher power. in dsclos-
ing the inducements TO an early and rapid
settlement, in her mines Of gold. 1t cannot
be long ere Il channel across the Isthlnus of
lchuan.epec, or some other will bring the
Atlantic and Pacific into neighbour God
The necessities. the Unborn spirit of our peo-
pie will demand it. Then the manufactures
.! the East, the untold productions of our
own valley. the productions and gold Of Cal
ltornla itself, meeting the rehuent commerce
OF China and the East, will! cause the cities
of the Pacific to lift up their heads with
their sisters Of the Atlantic. The ti>rest Of
masts will be the indication of their wealth,
the Gin OF business; the music Of their SONG,
and the towering spires, the heralds of their
religion.
The day hastens, when London and Par
IS and New York will not alone be the great
eatrepots OF commerce;--but San Francisco
will be numbered with them. Then will
be fulfilled, in part at least, the declaration,
"deep calieth unto deep"
The WIcst Of the Union will respond to
the East IN the interests of trade, education
and the Bible and protract the response to
japan and the Islands redolent with their
savory spices, to the Celestial Empire, and
Blrmah. and Hnhostos, where the crucl-
ties of men and Satan reign without re-
striction; until the influences Of that trade. .
and education and Bible, meeting the like
Influences from the Atlantic border shall
renovatusthe character of men and nations
That these stu pendous consequences will
be accredited 1.-The acquisition Of Califor-
MA aiones do not assert; but that they
will besgreatiy speeded thereby, cannot.
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