The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-03-21
The Giant of fhe West.

makes tniS Impressive reference TO the fu-
ture greatness of the young republic:
sin the East there is arising colossa
centaur, called Russian empire" With
civilized head and front, it has the
thews and slnews of savage barbaric
body. There one mans brain moves 10,
100000. There all the traditions of the
people are Of aggression aud conquest in
the West. There but two ranks are DIS
tinguishable-serf and soldiers. There
the map of the future includes Constan-
tlnople and Vienna as outposts of St. Pc
tersburg.
SIN the West al opposing and still
more wonderful American empire, is
emerging. islanders, have no con-
ception ofthe extraordinary events which,
amid the silence of the earth, are daily
adding to the power and pride of the gi-
gantic nation.-Withn three years ter
rItorles more extensive than these three
kigdoms, France, and Italy, put together
have been quietly, and in a most "matter-
of-course' fashion, annexed to the Union.
In seventy years, seventeen new sover.
eighties, the smallest of them larger than
Great..Britain, have peaceably unitd them
selves 10 the federation. No standing ar
my 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-Minesota
in the northwes;; Deseret, in the south
west, and California, on the shore of the
Pacifc.-These three states will cover an
area of earth equal to one-half Of the Eu-
ropean continent.
''Nor is this mere addition of domin-
ion on the map. 1t is not pilIng barren
Pelion upon uncultivated Ossa. 1t is an
actual conquest OF new strength and new
ources.-Already Minnesota has its cap
ital-St. Paul-which has its churches,
schools, journals, parties. Interests and
speculatioks. The Mormon founders Of
Deseret are doing what the Purltans did
IN Massachusetts two centuries ago-la-
king care 10 possess themselves Of the
best lands and waters in their new state
Instead of becoming iawless horde of
the settlers in California are
founding cities, eIecLing delegates, mag
istrates, sheriffs. and congressman, as
and intently as they still
trod the beaten paths of life on the Allan
tic shore of the continent. I.
"And with this increase of territory
there is a commensurate increase of indus
try in the older States. BY recent statis-
tics we perceive that menufactories are
rapidly increasing in what were .'the
southern states'-most in the Carolinas
and Georgia. The cotton mill is now
built beside the cotton field-a formidable
sign for Liverpool shippers and Manches-
ter Mill owners. In the northern and cas-
ter states every torrent trained to work
Sampson-like sin the MILL ..5-f
1.-The census of 1850, about to be taken
in the United States, will show growth
of numbers, territory, and industry, entire
ly enexampled in human history. Let
''the great powers of the old World look
to it-let the statesmen of France, Ger
many, and Russia, read the census care-
fully, though it should startle them. Let
despotlsm count every man OF those mil
lions as a mortal enemy, and every acre
of that vast Commonwealth as the inherl
tance of mankind most gagged to the cause
OF freedom. t
.'Let England's ministers, too, read and
ponder well on this, and ask themselves
with such a sea and land rival
arising against England, they can afford by
famine, to force one half of our
race TO flee for home and law into our
arms and service of that rival already so
formidable! -f..,
''But leI Ireland take il to heart above
all. - .-- "a
Let her learn that the growth of nations
has not ceased. Fertile energy and the
will that will not bend, still build up states
whether in the wide pampass of the New
World, or the studded and straightenedre-
gions of the Old. America is as grand
field for human enterprise as when the
ships of Columbus first neared the shores
of Guauahani; Ireland is not only still the
land of promise to the hish race, but
land rich in hope, inexhaustible in the pri
zes for devotion and genius, if the Irish
people rise to their fortune.
.'There is great demand says Yam
kee pedlar, ..for species of plaster, which
will enable gentlemen TO sick to their
business.
Cassius NJ. Clay objects to the propo-
sed new Constitution for kentucky, on
account of some grammatical blunders IN
ii, The Bible is liable TO the same ooJec-
tions.
Two daily German papers are now
published in Milwaukee, making fiUe daily
papers for city not yet Ii years old.