Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-03-28

but such theories are fast becoming to be regards
MS falIacies Tn addition to extracts we have hereto
fore made we take the following paragraphs fror
the London Atlan9un in commenting ON the Amer
lean census
i. Great Britain alone excepted, no State in Emop
could now maintain equal ornaments in the field 70
any length of time This marvellous growth is de
ranging the old traditions of balance and power
America is not only first class State in few years
if no internal disorder shall occur, she will be tn
greatest of them ALL Should the 1840-50 rate O
increase be maintained for fifty years the population
will then amount to 190O00,000, nearly equal t
that of the whole of continental Europe Were j
possible to conceive the same ratio maintained To-
another fifty years, the census of 1850 would Civ
the astonishing number of 1.696,000000! German
wars and French revolutions sink into complete in
significance by the side of considerations like these
"With such a comment, how well we may under
stand the roars of laughter with which the Ameri
can Senate recently received the menaces of Austria
When the United States shook off the yoke of Eng
land their people numbered no more than 100000
when they were last measured against European
power they were not more than 100000 Ter
years hence they viii be equal to France Austria
There hardly to be limit to It's growth. The
Valley of the Mississippi would alone support the
whole population of Europe. In its vast basin, ma
tons growing up if at the bidding of en-
chantment
"The valley already contains about thirteen mill
ions of Inhabitants at the beginning of this century
it did not contain as many thousands! There is q
moral as we'll Notwithstanding from con-
quest to conquest absorbing into itself less energetic
stocks. and planting from ocean to the feest
institutions ever adopted by a nation. America is
destined for its sole Inheritance; the Spanard and
Portuguese will disappear surely as the Gaul, the
Dane, and the Holander. have disappeared, and two
centuries hence the English tongue will doubt be
spoken from the Cape of Storms to the Frozen Ocean
of the North
Such is regarded the destiny of the u States by
unprejudiced observers at distance They know
not to what extent fanaticsm has aienated por-
ton of the Confederacy from the other-they know
not that an unaccountable frenzy has seized on the
minds of New Englanders to wrest from its highest
and noblest purpose the Constitution of the Coned-
ercy, and to establish in its stead the higher law''
of blind zealotism. They cannot understand, and
We do not accuse them of imbeciity when we say So
why it is that people blessed and prospered as
nation should seek to the bond of union which
makes them great in all the elements of true great
relief The scenes enacted in Boston, in the temple
justice ITSELF where the laws of the country were
set at defiance and its administrators revled furnish
the evidence that either the institutions of the
try must be Frustrated before this fell spirit of fanat-
icism or that it must be met, resisted, and over
thrown. They furnish the evidence that the Union,
with all the glory and greatness that surround it,
must give way before such shocks and they impress
upon the christian and the patriot his duty in the
premises that his skirts may be clear of the conse-
quences that must follow submission to the onsaughts
of such unbridled fanaticism.