Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-10-24
Our Country and the Future.

Under this head writer in the Wool Gr0lCer,
monthly agricultural magazine, published IN the
city of Buffalo, makes some pointed remarks on
the destiny of our country, founded on past expe-
rience and her present condition. Tie sets out
with the general proposition that there never has
been a time in our national existence when the
way was so plain for the future and rapid aggran-
dzement of our country at this very hour and
demonsira,eshis proposition thus :
The over-ruling hand of Providence is visible
in all the events of the last half century, and the
finger of the Almighty points with unerring preci-
sion TO what we to expect in the coming years.
The hand writing upon The wall was not more
plain while the Interpretation can be made by the
most simple.
! Our country now extends from ocean 10 ocean.
From its eastern shores it has easy access 10 the
old nations of Europe. From lis western 1t has
as easy access to the still older nations OF Asia
The tide of emigration first set from the shores of
Europe, and gradually peopled the Atlantic bor-
der From the over populous nations of Europe
we have drawn largely for that population which
now makes much of our power and wealth. 1t is
safely estimated that with the emigration from this
rapid increase, but far short of what we now re-
ouire to develope the immense recources Of our
country.
Heretofore all the Southern portion Of our
country has had but little benefit directly from Eu-
ropean immigration.
The South requires labor, and that can only be
had from dense population. Heretofore they
have had no Immigrants. The door is open
ed through which they can draw them to an un
limited amount
We refer to China. Already the stream begins
TO run this way Even the Chinese are
Aockiup to our shores upon the Pacific. China is
the hive already TO swarm, and she can spare US
millions OF intelligence industrious, and desirable
citizens, who are accustomed to labor. When
they find there is eliminate here good as their
own, where they cultivate tea, and cotton, and
sugar and rear The silk worm, and the South Is hap
pilv all this-they will come as rapidly as means
can be furnished 10 bring them away. The Aslat-
ic is destined to supplant the African because no
bar exists to a mixture Of the Aaslalic and Euro
pean blood.
China then, will become to the South what Ire
land is to the North-a reservoir from whence to
draw for labor, and an active population.
1t is the duty of our Government to take i'm
mediate measures to facilitate immigration from
China, by causing that Government to remove all
the country, and TO make it an object for them to
settle among
Regular steam packets should be established
between Panama or San Francisco and Canton,
and every possible exertion made TO induce free
immigration, especially of those who understand
the cultivation of tea.
"A brief statement of the climate, the advanta
ges they could enjoy, should be prepared and cir
culated through the empire. Ample appropra
tions should be made by Congress- and our dplo
matte relations should be placed upon the same
footing as the most powerful European nations
We must not only nave the trade, but we must
have the surplus population of China
The stream of immigration from Europe has
swollen to food Let US have a mighty torrent
from Asia. Give US an uninterrupted flow from
thence for a few years, and we shall indeed be-
come the heart and centre of the globe. And all
this must transpre, as certain as the future must
become the present
And when this does come to pass, it is easy to
see the result. The South will become more
densely populated than any portion of our country,
and that millennium Of our naiion-a freedom from
sectional strife for political power-wil dawn up
on US.