Lewisburg chronicle, and West Branch farmer. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1850, 1850-03-13

and ruin, and stand to the most distant
times the Queen and :he model Of Nations.
The picture is not quite SO brilliant when
ii is thus con idered. The golden image
is found 10 huve fee, Of clay. The fair
peach OF prosperity is seen 10 have worrn
within ii. and the mighty empire to he me.
nacel with perils from within and from
without. We see that We have no exclu
sve claim 10 the possession Of the virtues
which have raised US 10 the high position
that We hold; that what we have, we
share; tha, men Of our own blood and
language have permcated with our ln,eii-
gence, our industry, and our enterprise,
The remotesl ends Of the earth that our
sons have founded new empires, a, present
as brilliant, and promising 10 be more bril-.
! liant, than our own. Ii we calculate the
growth Of population, we shall find that,
IN fifteen or twenty years hence, or even
earlier, Great Britain will no longer be the
principal seat Of the vigorous race of the
Angl Saxons and that, although tha,
race may continue TO rule the world ii
may not be from the banks of the Thames.
or from any part Of the old country that
gave them birth. An empire twenty, lhr-
ty, or fifty times as extensive, and as rich
as ours, has already arisen on The other
side Of the Atlantic, 10 ent!ce into lis bo-
som The best blood which remains 10 US.
The young. the hardy, the persevering Of
our country, and Of all the countries of
Europe, that groan under the weight of
debt, of difficulty. and OF surplus popula-
lon, and that can not say TO their sons, as
the New World does, that every man is a
man. welcome, for the sake OF his man.
hood, 10 the great ieast OF nature, where
there is enough and to spare for the mean.
est. are daily invited TO leave the shores Of
etfe'e Europe, and settle in more vigorous
America. The growM of the Cn;ted
States is, in reality, the downfaH of Grscf
Britain. All the unhappy circumstances
that are OF prejudice to Us, are Of benefit 10
them. With US, the mouths that clamor
TO be led are causes Of decay. With
them, every additional mouth is an add-
tIonal pair Of hands. and every additional
pair OF hands is an increase Of wealth, |
power, and influence. LIE, US pour our
millions into the great valley OF the MIssis.
slssIppl, and it Will hold and feed them all,
were their number quadrupled. Such is
our great rival in the West. Ia the South
there is another rival almos, equally form.
liable, equally splendid, fed in the same
manner from our entrails, and rising daily
upon our fall. Who shall fix the bounds
of the future prosperity OF the great Aus
rralian continent, While in this old
country the pauper vegetables or dies. &C.
cursed Of the land that produced him, in
that new country the pauper becomes q
Iaborer he no longer vegetables, but lives
and if he lives long enough, he may be-
come patriarch, sitting under the SHADE
Of his own fg-tree. and counting by thou
sands and tens Of thousands his hocks and
herds-a new Job in land Of plenty.
Fertile soil, delicious climate, elbow room,
and freedom from taxation-hese are the
blessings of the Australian. The English.
man enjoys the frs, two in an imperfect
the last are aliens-he knows
Them not, and will never know them while
England holds her place among the nations.
Nor are these the only dangers which me.
mace US. Although our empire stretches
to the East and to the West. 10 the North
and to the Souih-though we have our
hands in Asia, our feet in Africa, our arms
in America and in the South Pacific Ocean,
our own peculiar territory 10 but small
spot in a remote corner Of Europe. We
have only held that corner by the enormous
sacrifices we have made. II was our am
bition TO become a ruling power-giving
the law 10 the world-and we became so
but it was q. cost of debt Of $500, ,O0O,.
900, that pauperizes our population, and
lies like a perpetual and killing weigh,
upon the energy Of all classes. ln addition
to this s,upendous evil, we share the effe,e-
ness of all Europe. There is bu, one EN-.
pire within European boundaries that is
uot worn out and pauperized by debt and
ex,ravagance that empire is Russia and
she is tho enemy Of all the rest, and desires
TO rise upon their ruins. Destiny seems to
have traced her path as il has traced ours.
The Slavonian races will inevitably be the
new lords Of Europe. Tho Anglo.Saxon
race must Be contsnted to b the lords Of
the larger and more splendid inheritance
Of America and Australia. In this case,
what becomes OF the Empire Of Great
Britain. II falls to the ground. and exists
only--Iks other powers and potentates Of
The world-in tho bones and sinews Of its