Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-03-28
From the South Carolnan.
The AggressEons of Rcpu icnnism.

The republican institutions of the United States
are becoming eminently aggressive in their charac
ter. They number host of apostles and preachers
The principles on which they are founded are now
carr5sd to every shore the jealous dread, the Sleep
less vigilance of the ancient desposms prevent not
their inroads on their dominions and whilst they
measure their strength by their standing armies and
imagine their greatness to be rendered impregnable
by the massiveness and extent of their I" wooden
| wallis to their utter amazement and dismay thew
behold power rising in the West, begirt by no de-
fences But those the God of nature has assigned it
and whose giant strength points alone to the intel-
gence of the people as its and to republican
institutions as its sure support and stay
The lapse Of ten years brings round the usual pc
Rod for taking the American Census. As the first
returns reach the eastern hemisphere its despots and
its monarchs startled by the toll of the mid
night alarm bell; and that which is transacted quiz
city here as matter of course, for general Informal
ton, and for equazing legislative representation
strikes terror to the hearts of those whose thrones
erected the furnished thousands of their SUBJ
Jects and the glitterng tinsel of whose regal para
phernalia leaves millions in rags and starvation
We believe the present progress to be in accordance
not only with the natural advancement in human
knowledge earthly science, but more peculiarly and
specially the manifestation of the CARRYING out of the
ultimate design of overriding and al-wise Pro-
yidence-the universal reign of CHRISTIANITY.
We have already quoted the comments of the press
of Great Britain her orators and her statesmen on
the extraordinary developments being brou sht to
light by the returns of the present But let
1t be remembered that thus far these returns are on
ly indccs of the rapid increase of population When
that vast compendium of countrys greatness I'M
folds to the reader Of its pages the statistics of her
lnternal commerce. the extent of her mighty and as
yet unfathOnled, resources :. when line after line
page after page and figure after figure reveals the
untold wealth-the unparalleled greatness of that
nation, which in the general history Of the world
would seem to have sprung int existence but YES
terday, his mind will scarcely be able to grasp its
revelations as reality, its statistics as facts The
American census of 1850 will be the most success
full missionary of republican liberty that has ever
been enlisted under its banner
The fore-rUnners Of this wonderful messenger are
to be found in the letter of Daniel Webster TO the
Austrian Minister in the joint resolution Just passed
by Congress for the relief of Kossuth and bis exed
companions and in the manifestations of the nations
sympathy with every people struggling for their
rights But these although cheering in their express
ions, and sincere in such expressions yet they might
be regarded mere sentiments. uttered from the i'm
pulses of a generous people. But in the census
with Its ponderous columns of NAKED and unyarnish
cd facts and fgures-we give to the nations Of the
world q practical demonstration of the magic mhu-
ence of our institutions The preaching of that vol
ume will be more effective than the most eloquent
apostle of liberty ever inspired by Heaven COM
missioned earth. Its success is certain. because
Truth will be written on every page. The peaceful
aggressions of Republican America. ere centuries
have elapsed, will have Frustrated in the dust the
Thrones and Empires of monarehical Europe. The
rejecting and thinking mind will not call such pre-
dlction visionary.
Statesmen and theorists may descend on the pre-
per equilibrium ofnatons the balance of power