Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-08-17
" Giants In Those DAYS"

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In the East there is arising a colossh
centaur called Russian empire. Viii
4 civilized head and frent, 1t has tile thew
aud sinews of a savage barbafic body
There one mans brain moves 10, 0DU,O0
There all the traditions of the people af'
Of aggression aud conquest in the West
There but two ranks are distiiiguishable44
serfs and soldiers, There the map Of til,
future includes Cotistantinople and tiennt
as ottposts Of st. Petersbiirgh.
In the West, IN opposing aud ztill more
wonderful empire is emerging, We Island
ers have no conception Of the exttaorii
nary events which, amid the silence Of the
earth: are daily adding to the tpwef ahd
pride Of this gigantic iietion, Within three
years territories more extensive than these
three kingdoms, France and Italy put to.
gether, have been quietly and in q most
"inatter of course . fashion, annexed to
the Union. In seventy years seventeen
new sovereignties the smallest Of them
larger than Great Britain, have peaceah'y
united themselves TO the federation, No
standing army was rnised, ne national debt
sunk, no great eEettiDfi made-but there
they nre. And this lnst made brings us
news Of the organization Of three more
great States about to he joi,,ed to the
Embellishments in the Northwest /;
Deserct in the Southwest and California
| on the shores Of the Pacific. These three
States will cover an area of eartlrequal to
one-half of the EUROPEAN continent.
Nor is this n mere addition of dominion
on the map. il is not riIiilg barren Pelion
upon uncultivated Ossa. II is nm actual
conquest Of new strength and new resour-
ces. Already Minnesota has hs capitsl-
st. Paul-wbieh has it's churches, schools,
journals, parties, interests and speculations.
The Mormon founders Of Deseret are doing
what the Ptritians did in Massachusetts,,
two centuries ago-atalingS taare to possess
themselves Of the best Ia ttds and waters in
their new State. Instead of becoming a
lawless horde Of adventurera, the settlers
in California are founding cities, e~lecting
delegates, magistrates, sherii1s and CON
gressnhn, as methotlirally aud i~nten,ly as
il they still trod the beaten paths or life on
the Atlantic shore Of the continent.
And with this increase of territory there
is a commensurate Increase of industry in
the older States, BY recent statistics, we
perceive that manufactures are rapidly
increasing in what were "tle Southern
States "--most 30 in the Carolinas and
Georgia. The cotton mill is now built
beside the cotton ield-a formidable sign
for Liverpool shippers and Manchester mill
owners. In the northern and eastern
States, every torrent is trained to work
Samson like "iu the mill"
The census OF 1850, about to DO taken
III The United States, will show a growth
numbers, territory and industry, entirely
nneXamplcd in human history. Let I" the
great powers" of the Old World hook to
the statesmen of France, Germany
and Russia read that census carefully,
though it should stertle them. Let dos.
potisln count every man of those millions
as a mortal enemy, and every acre of that
vast commonwealth as the Inheritance of
mankind most gauged to the cause of
freedom.
Let England's ministers, too, read and
ponder well OH this, and ask themselves
whether. with such a sea and land rival
against England, they can afford,
by legaising famine, to force one.half of
our racefo flee for home and laws into
the arms and services of that rival already |
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But let ireland take it to heart above all.
Let her learn that the growth of nations
not ceased. Fertile energy and the
will that will not bend still build up States.
whether in the wide painpas of the New
Word, or the studied and straitsped 70.
gions of the Old, Am&iea 10 no grand n
field for human enterprise as when the
ships OF Columbus first neared the shores
Of Guanahapi. Ireland ia not only still the
land of promise to the rich in hope, unex.
in the prizes for devotion and
if the Irish people rise to the Level
Of their iortune.--Dndt,n Ntssoa.