The Arkansas banner., 1850-12-10
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of the speculations in it. all must concur in adr. tug the great beauty and force with which the ar ticie Is written. We commend 1t to the attention of our readers:
 We are told, on high authority, that there is noih ing under the sua-that what has been may be again-tiat all thi1es revolve In old appoin- ted circIe-that for empires well as tor Individ uals there is period of growth and period Of de- cay-and that neither the mighty the humble escape the operation of the nvariable law which fixes penalty for every transgressioH. and which panished with the same severity the high and the lowiY.
 A modern writer, struck with the power of these old truths, and tracing in the past and present his tory Of Great Britain the operation of causes which must, in the fulness of time, produce it's fall. has drawn vivid picture of New Zeslander, sitting upon ruined arch of London bridge and moraliz- ing upon tie fate of the once mighty empire, be. come as much thing of Inc past as Rome, Greece, and Assyria. But when We read the eloquent paCe we smile at the prediction of the writer We can not believe that Babylon, that mighty city, who gOriiied herself aud lived delicousIy." who said in her heart "l sit as Queen and shall see no sor- row." shall ever fall from her high estate. We think Of the wealth. the enterprise, the indomtable courage, the intelligence, the zeal, and the peiy of her sons-we see her wonjrous progress in arts that Greek and Romrn never knew--ths lrinmphs of her science, and the blcssinRs of q civilization superior to any ever enjoyed by the earlier ages of the world, and we fancy that in these things there are germs of stability and progress which shall grow up aud flourish in allertiHe, bearing the nsme and fame, the power aGd the glory of Great Britain lo the renotest generations.
 IL is well, however, that we should sometimes view the other side of the picture, aud ask ourse- yes more calmly whether our empire is indeed so firmly roOted-so endeared to the world by its ius- tice, humility, and banefcenee-so supported by its own integrity-so much removed from all pos sibIisy of rivalry as 10 defy the agencies of decay and ruin, aud stand 10 the most distant times the queen and the model of nations The picture is not quite brilliant when il is thus consitiered. The golden image is found to have feet of clay The fair peach or prosperity is to have worm within il. and the mighty empire 10 be menaced with pers from within and from without. We sec that We have no exclusive claim to the possession nf the virtues which have raised us 10 the high DO si'Ion that we hold; that what have, we share; that men Of our own blood and !anxnaaa have ,er i. meated with our intelligence, our indus ", and our enterprise, the remo,est ends of the earth that our sons have founded new empires at present as bril- liant and prom-ing in the future 10 be more bril-. liant than our own if we calculate the grow th of populations, We shall find that. in fifty or twenty years hence, or even earlier. Great Britain will no longer be the principal seat of the vigorous of the Anglo Ssxons; and that, although that may continue 10 rule the world, t may not be from the banks of the Thames, or from any pat of the old country that gave them birth An empire, twenty,
 
 ours, has already arisen the other side of te AL laniic, 10 entice into it's bosom the best blood which remains to us The young, the hardy, the perse- vering of our country, and of all the countries of Europe, that groan under the weight of debt, of difficulty, and of surplus population, and that cannot say to their sons. as the New World does. that every man is man, welcome, for tho sake of his munhood. to tine gr,ut feast of Nature, where there is enough and to spare for the meanest, are daily invited to leavo the shores of effele Europe, and settle in more vigorous America. The growth of the United States is in reality, the downfall Of Great Britain. All the unhappy circumstances that are Of prejudice 10 us, of beneht to them With us, the mouths that camor 10 be fed are causes of cecay. With them, every additional month is an additional pair of hands, and every additional pair of hands is an increase of wealth. power. aud iniu- ence. Let us pour our millions into The great val ley of the Mississippi, and il will hold and feed them all were their numbers quadrupIed. Such Is our great rival in the West, In the South there is aao ther rival almost equally formidable, equally speD. did, fed in the same manner from entrails, and rising daily upon our fall Who shall fix the bounds Of the future prosperity of the great Australian con tnentl While in this old country inc pauper vegs- tates or dies accursed on the land that produced him, in that new country the pauper becomes laborer he io longer vegetates, but ves and, if he lives long enough, he may become a patriarch, sit- ting under the shade of his own tig tree, and coun" ting by thousands aud ten thousands his hocks and herds new Job in land Of plenty. Fertile soil, delicious climate, elbow room, aud freedom from taxaon-these are ihe blessings of the Australian. The Englishman enjoys the first two in mper- feet manner the last are aliens-he knows them not, aud will never know them while England holds her place among the nations.
 Nor are these the only dangers which monaco Although our empire stretches to the East and 10 the West, 10 ths North and to the South-though we have our hands in sa, our feet ia Africa, our arms in America and the South Pacific ocean. own peculiar territory is but spoti remote cor ner of Europe. We have only held that corner by the enormous sacrifices we have made. It our ambition 10 become ruling power-giving the law 10 the worj-and become so; bat n at cost of f Es00,030,D00 that paup-fizes our popula- ilOu and lies like U perpetual aud killing weight upon the energy of all classes. In addition 10 hs stupe ndous evll share the effe,eness of al Ea rope. There is but one empire within European boundaries that Is not worn out aud paupeTised by dent and extrasagaaee-that empire is Russia, and she the enemy of all the rest, and desires 10 rise upon their ruins. Destiny seems to have traced her path as Il has traced ours. The Sclayonian races will inevitably De the new lords of Europe. The Anglo Saxon race must be contenied 10 be ths lords of tho large and mere splendid inheritance Of America and Austria. In tAis what becomes of lAsl empire of Great Britain It falls 10 the ground aud exists ony--like other powers and po- tentates of The world--in the bones aud siasws of it's sons and successors, transferred to n new soil, aud enjoying privileges blessings, and opPorluni- ties from which their forefsthers were excluded.
 Let those who dream Of perpetual Britain think upon these things The signs of decay arc around us on every side. h fall we shall have iew friends. la prosperity we have not compof,ed our selves so hamby l0 be justified iu the e4pec'a- ton of sympathy or aid from any quarter Our very exeelieneeThas made us foes and our violence au! cupidity have estranged the uatiens. We may have peoPled the earth. we may have spread far and wide our arts and our arms, our commerce and oaI civilization; but we have not had Stsnding room fol our owB Pretensions, Events are more powerful than we are. We must. saon or later, yield ou place to the prudent the less emba Tasscd more vigorous oifshoots of our race, and consent [