The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-22

and Princeton, and many another we'll fought
Held, where the sons of New Jersey went forth TO
battle Pennsylvania may point to Germantown,
Paoli and Brandywine; there her freemen crossed
the Delaware at night; thick floating ice and shv-
ering seet could not deter them-iberty warmed
them. Washington was with them; and with
that mornings dawn one thousand captive merce-
naries announced their victory. There too stands
the city of Penn, where sat the glorious Congress
OF 10, where the daylight of liberty and union first
dawned upon the hopes of America Delaware
and Maryland-the shores of the Delaware and
Chesapeake-proclaim their valor; their Smith
and their Howard enrol their names high on the
records of the Revolution. Virginia--she gave us
w ashington and Jefferson; and Yorktown saw the
last conyulsive struggle of expiring tyranny. The
Carolinas and Georgia--Savannah and Charleston,
the Cowpens, Camden and Eutaw, drank the blood
OF southern chivalry, and saw the ''chdrcn of the
sun go iorth TO die or conquer. And are not all
the States our common country Are they not all
dear to every patriot heart? Was not their victo-
ry our victory-their Washington Washing
ton-ther banner our bannerS And shall sever
these now United States, or tear the sar of Misss
slppl from the American constellation. No the
voice from her Legislature, her people, proclams,
the Union shall be perpetual.
The eyes OF the world are fixed upon the destiny
of the American Union. For half century it has
endured, and beneath its benignant influence the
advance OF our country Ia unparalleled. We have
more than quadruped our population, and nearly
doubled the number OF the States. Three com
munities are ready to emerge from territorial pu-
pilage, and take their rank members of this
great Coniederacy. The triumphs of the Union
most conspicuous in the beautiful valley of the
West. Kentucky, the oldest OF the Western
States, long since the Revolution, was the haunt Of
the savage. How changed the scene! The hum
OF industry has succeeded the war whoop and the
warriors council, seated beneath the shade of the
forest, has given way to great and powerful and
patriotic Commonwealth. Years after the adoption
OF the American Constitution, the savage warrior
drove back from the soil of Ohio the defeated armies
vi Harmer and st. Clair; now, more than one mil
hon OF people reside within the limits ofthat mighty
State, and westward still the wave of population
rolls its unebbing tide. The progressive improve
ment OF our own State challenges our wonder and
adniraton-the ink Is scarcely dry upon the trea-
ties which redeem from Indian occupancy more
than one hall our territory and already the fertile
lands and praries of the Yazoo and Tombigbce, and
their numerous tributaries, witness the rapid influx
OF an enterprsing and industrious population,
which must soon give TO Mississippi a high rank
and influence in that Union which she has resolved
shall be perpetual The number within the valley
IL the ONO and Mississippi now far exceeds the
entire population with which we commenced the
struggle Of the Revolution, and fact oustrips fancy
IN calculating the future improvement Of the
west. Within this valley must unquestionably re-
side, at no distant period, majority of the AIneri
can people.
The genius of American Union is advancing to
the very source of the the Mississippi and Missouri
she passes onward and reaches the base of the
Rocky mountains, ascends their snowc clad sum
mlts and looks down on the prosperous States and
happy people that throng the valleys of the Ohio,
Missssippi, and Missouri, from the gushing of
their mountain springs and streamlets to their
let IN the Gull. She sees the mghtiest rivers of
the globe linking in indissoublc union the great
est, frecst and happest people of the earth. What
an empire rises before her view, There innumer-
able iocks and herds grazing on the boundless
prairies of the West--there smile ten thousand
thousand harvests, and countless fields of grain
are waving IN grateful obesiance to the passin q
brceze-there the cotton fields of our own be-
loved Mississippi are white with southern snow,
and there the golden cane throws back the glances
OF our genial sun. There ia unrestricted com nsrce
millions OF happy united freemen are moving upon
the bosorns Of their mighty rivers, exchanging, in
the rising cities and prosperous that crown
their banks, the products of their various climes.
There liberty dwells, and smiles alike upon the
poor mans cottage and the rich mans home.
There freemen the equal and the only sover-
eigns; the government, the laws theirs, and
theirs the countless blessings. They will preserve
this happy Union; and, II preserved, the American
now lives who will surely behold more than one
hundred millions of people within our limits, and
see our principles advancing throughout eman-
cipated universe striking down the thrones Of des
pots, and erecting upon their ruins the glorious
fabric of the peoples will. The woodman's axe
Will then be heard resounding beyond the western
base of the Rocky mountains. There, too, will
upon either ocean floats the sacred banner of the
the Atlantic in the East its evening beams are
sinking around the kindred stars in the waves of
the Pacific, at the western limit of this great Re-
public. Then will the anniversary of this day be
still fondly remembered and United America
proudly proclaim, such country only
thy of George Washing gton-Washingt only was
worthy 10 be the founder of such country.