The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-09
The Course OF mmerce.

The London Tunes, in commenting on the news
from California, throws out the following sugges-
tons for the benefit of its money market readers
"The momentous fact, which nothing can now
do away with, is, that 100000 or 100000 Anglo
Saxons are settling themselves the shores OF the
Pacific A new world is before them. They look
to China, Japan and all the riches of the In
dian seas, and the use they will make of their OPP
portunities may be best inferred from what they
have already accomplished, and from the known
aspirations which the people of the United States
have 80 long directed towards thatregion. Already
the presence of a large number of Chinese lie dis
tnctve feature OF the population of San Francisco,
and already the Sandwich Islands, Australia, and
Southern and Central America have been called
into new life from the traffic that has been estab-
lished. The prophecy of Humboldt, that the activ-
ity OF commerce would be carried progressively
from east to west, is rapidly in process of fulfil
ment. At present, however, there are few signs
that even this fact Ia appreciated in Europe. and
the thing to be apprehended Is, that when, in the
course of few years. the successes arising from II
shall have led 10 excitement, our people, who
regardless Of il now, will then rush furousy to
overdo what should have been done moderately and
deliberately from the first II is prevent foolish
extremes of this sort that every endcavor should be
made 10 familiarze the public with the contcmpla-
ton Of the change that is coming on, and to induce
the spirit of enterprise TO adjust itself TO the
order of things while il nationally and prohta-
bly, do so, instead of waiting to regain, by sud
den and destructive rush, the opportunities that
will have been lost through inattention.
SINGULAR TRArT.-It ia a singular fact, that If
one person does another person an injury either by
word or deed, the person who Injuries becomes the
enemy of the injured that is, if violates his
tract with B, or If a defrauds b, or if does any
thing which he knows to be wrong, and which
will be unjust and injurious to ID, A at makes
up his mind that u is very bad man, and he imme
dately sits himself TO work to make every body
else think he does.
How this peculiar trait in human character
be accounted for, or explained? II is we'll known
that A is argressor; nc docs not himself pretend
that Il has done him any wrong; icy were al
ways friends until A, for some selfish purpose, in
jured b. and, even after the injury was the first
to be offended What be offended forS Not
because b had injured him, but because he had in
jured b! Who was he offended withS Not him
self because lac had injured his friend but he ia of
fcnded with because he (A) has done him an in
| juryl But when a finds that he has injured h
without cause why does he not confess his Elm, and
ask to be forgiven2 he is good man, and has
injured unintcntionally, he will do so; but If be
| is bad man, and the injury was premeditated, he
will add insult TO injury, and injury TO insult, and
will even attempt 10 justify himself in the c7os OF
| the world for so doing; can give no other cxpn
nation Of this popularity in some characters ex
cept this, that IL Ia most commonly found In tho
| poor proud man. lie commits the injury for tn,
| sake of "dollars and cents and then he is toe
| proud to make amend by coniessing it; he feel
that he has degraded himself, and fears that other,
arc of the same opinion, and the only way to hi
mind in which he ca save himself from dis
grace is TO backcn the character OF Il, that he CA
may appear better by the contrast.
Toledo (Ohio) BLADE.