The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-03-06
The Giant OF the West.

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this impressive reference to the future greatness
of the young republic:
"In the East there is arising a colossal cen
taur, called s.Russian empire" With civiliz
zed head and front, it has the thews and sinew.
of savage barbarian body. There one man.
brain moves 7O,OOO,0OO. There all the tradition
of the people are Of aggression and conquest il
the west. There but two ranks are distinguish
able; serfs and soldiers. The map of the futur,
includes Constantinople and Vienna as outpost
of St. Petersburgh.
elm the West an opposing and still more won
derful American empire is emerging. We, isl
anders, have no conception of the extraordinar,
events which, amid the silence Of the earth, ART
daily adding to the power and pride of this gi
gantic nation. Within three years, territorie!
more extensive than these three Kingdoms Italy
and France, put together, have been quietly anc
in the most matter ofcourse' fashion, anne xec
to the s'Union." In seventy years, seventeen
new sovereignties, the smallest of them larger
than Great Britain, have peacefully united them.
selves to the federation. No standing army was
raised, no national debt sunk, no great exertion
made-but there they are. And this late mail
brings us news of the organization of three more
great States, about to be joined to the thirty
Minnesota, in the northwest; Deseret, in the
southwest; and California, on the shore of the
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of earth equal to one-halfof the European CONT
| nent.
"Nor is this mere addition of dominion on
the map 1t is not piling barren Pelion upon un-
cultivated Ossa. 1t is an actual conquest of new
strength and new resources. Already Minneso-
ia has its capital st. PauD which has its church.
es, schools, journals, parties, interests, and spe
culations. The Mormon founders of Deseret
are doing what the Puritans did in Massachu-
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themselves of the best lands and waters in their
new State. Instead of becoming lawless horde
of adventures, the settlers in California are
founding cities, electng delegates, magistrates,
sheriffs and congressman, methodically and
intenty as if they still trod the beaten paths of
life on the Atlantic shore of the continent
Sand with this increase of territory there is
commensurate increase of industry in the old
er States. By recent statistics we perceive that
manufactures are rapidly increasing in what
were "the southern states-most so in the Car
olinas and Georgia. The cotton mill is now
built besides the cotton feld-a formidable sign
for Liverpool shippers and Manchester mill
owners. In the northern and eastern States ev
cry torrent is trained to work Samson-like tin
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| "The census of 1850, about to be taken in the
United States, will show growth of numbers,
territory, and industry, entirely unexampled in
human history. Let 'the great powers OF the
Old World look to it-let the statesmen of Ger
| many, France, and Russia, read that census care.
fully, though it should startle them Let despo.
tsm count every man ofthose millions as NOR
tai enemy, and every acre of that vast Common.
wealth as the inheritance humankind most guag.
| ed to the cause of freedom.
"Let England's ministers, too, read and pom.
der well on this, and ask themselves whether
with such sea and land rival arising against
England, they can afford, by legalzing famine
to force one half of our race to flee for home
and laws into the arms and service of that riva
already so formidable,
'.But let Ireland take it to heart, above ALL
Let her learn that the growth of nations has no
ceased-Fertile energy and the will that will no
bend, still build up states, whether in the wide
pampas of the New World, or the studded ant
stratened regions of the Old. America is al
grand field for human enterprise as when thu
ships of Columbus first neared the shores of Qua
nahani; Ireland is not only still the land of pro
mise to the Irish race, but land rich in hope
inexhaustible in the prizes for devotion and &c
MUS, if the Irish people rise to the level of thei
fortune.