Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-07-26

DIR. SHERWOOD Strickland's Depot, Duplin county
B. S. KooNcE, Richland Onslow county.
B. BARNES, Black Creek, Wayne county.
VoNEY B. authorizedto receive advertisements
and subscriptions for the Journal in New Philadelphia
and Boston, and receipt for payment for the same
The Greatness and Fermanence of the United States
One of the first in the series of eminent foreigners
who came as travellers to this country, was Brissot
de Warville a Frenchman. He was here in 1887
and on his return to France, published work on
the United States, which was so much regarded al
the time that it was soon translated into English
Brissot entered warmly into the French Revolution
but not into its excuses. When the motion was
made to pass sentence of death the King he spoke
and voted for the appeal to the primary assemblies
When Lafayette was censured, Brissot defended him
Afterwards he himself tell with the Girondists to
whom he had attached himself He carried to
the gulotne, Oct. 31st, 1898. In the Boston Tran
script, from which CLEAN the above information,
we find the following extract from Brissos work on
the United States. 1t is interesting, and shows how
strong his convictions were at that carly day. of the
vitality of our institutions
THoUGHTs ON THE DURATION OF THE AMERICAN
Communicative is a greater probability
that the duration of the American commonwealth
will be longer than any empire that has hitherto ex-
listed, For it is truth, universally admitted, that
all the advantages which ever attended any of the
monarchics in the old world, all center in the new
together with many others, which they never enjoy.
The four great empires, and the dominions of Char
lemagne and the Turks, all rose by conquests none
of the United States has been planted and reared by
union of liberty, good conduct, and all the comforts
OF domestic virtue.
s'All the great monarchies were formed by the
conquest of kingdoms different in arts manners Ian
guage, temper, religion from the cOn0uerors so
that the union, though in some cases very strong,
was never the real and intimate connection of the
same people and this circumstance principally ac-
CELEBRATED their ruin, and absolutely the cause of
1t in This will be very different in the Amer-
They will, in their greatest extent and pOpu-
lation, be and the same people the same in Ian
guage religion, laws, manners, tempers, and pur-
suits; for the small variation in some districts,
ing to the settlement of Germans is exception so
very slight, that in few ages it will be unknown.
The Assyrian and Roman empires were of very
slow growth, and therefore lasted the longest but
still their increase by conquest and the union of
dssOnant parts. The Persian and Macedodan mon
arches soon founded and presently overturned
the former not lasting so long the Assyrian nor
sixth of the duration of the Roman and as to the
Macedonian it lasted but six years. This advantage
of slow growth is strong in favor of the Americans
the wonderful increase of their numbers is the natu
raj effect of plenty of land, good climate, and
mild and benefcent government, in which corrup-
ton and tyranny are wholly unknown. Some cen
turles are already past since their first settlement
and many will pass before their power appears
in its full splendor but the quickness of a growth
that is entirely natural will carry with it marks
of decay, being entirely different from monarchies
founded by force of arms. The Roman empire per-
whom
masters of the world disdaned to conquer 1t will
not be so with the Americans they spread gradual
1y the whole continent inasmuch that two hun
dred years hence there probably will be nobody but
themselves in the whole northern cOntinent from
whence therefore, should their Goths and Vandals
come! Nor they ever have anything to fear
from the South first because that country will nev
er be populous, owing to the possession of mines;
secondly: there several nations and languages
planted and remaining in it thirdly, the most con-
sid rt of HaS in no
that never yet sent forth nations of conquerors
In extent, the habitable parts OF North America
exceed that of any of the four empires and conse-
quently can feed and maintain people much more
numerous than the Assyrians or the Romans The
situation of the region is so advantageous that it
leaves nothing be wished for it can have no neigh
bors from whom there is possibility of attack or
molestation; it will possess all the solid advantages
of the Chinese empire, without the fatal neighbor-
hood of the Tartars
1t will have further the singular felicity of all the
advantages of island; that is freedom from the
attacks of Others and too many difficulties, with toe
great distance to engage in enterprises that here
tofore proved the ruin of other monarchies.
"The SOIL the climate, production and face of the
continent, is formed by nature for great indepen-
dent and permanent government fill it with people
who will of themselves of course possess all sorts
manufactures and you will find it yielding every ne
cessary and convenience of life. Such vast trac
of country, possessing such singular advantages be
coming inhabited by people, speaking the same
protesting lnc SAME fellgOn, ana naV1nE
the same manners; attaining population equal t
that of the greatest empire; sprung from an activ
and industrious nation, who have transfused int
them their own industry and spirit and seen then
worthy of their original inhabiting soil not dan
gerou5ly fertile nor cline generally conducive t
efeminacy; accustomed to commerce; such pee
pie must found commonwealth as indissoluble a
humanity will allow. Suffice it for En- gland tina
she will have been the origin of commonwealth
greater and more durable than any former monal
chy; that her language and her manners will fou1
ish among people who will one day become spler
did spectacle in the vast eye of the universe. TIL
hattering idea of immortality no other nation ca
hope to attain.
"And here let me make observation that shout
animate authors in the English language with a
ardor that cannot be infused into those of any otht
nation it is the pleasing idea of living among
great people, through almost perpetuity of fam
and under almost an impossibty of becoming, iii
the Greek and Latin tongues, dead; known only |
the learned Increasing time will bring ncreasir
readers, until their names become repeated Wi
pleasure by above hundred millions of people ~
THE SIAMEs TWINS DEAD.-The Paris Journal
Debats announces the death, in England, of the f
nous Siames Twins. The Debats states, that acco
ding to the London Medical Times, the two brothe
died of marasmus. A post-mortem examinat
proved what has been constantly supposed
the faculty, viz: that the two cavities of the add
men communicated by means of the hollow ligame
which united them and that the lvers of the twi
were connected by a membrane bride about h;
an inch thick.--Rich. Times.
We cannot better show the improved condition
Ireland than by adducing the following facts:
First quarter of First quarter