Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-17
The Future Of Amsrica

The Future Of Amsriea.
The Loxisrine Joxs~sl directs public attention
20 the extracts given below from the closing
pages Of very clever book recently published
and entitled "7M Wests~ World, or Trarels 10
tie Uniied States, BY .aler. Mackay." The author
has high reputation as PLAN, practical man
who deals in facts, and who took time to verify
he statements as to the facts he came to ascer-
Tin. Ills book has already gone through two
editions in London and so added to his reputation
that he was selected to make new examination
Of the British possessions in India and Australia,
in reference to the growth Of cotton FOR the Eng
ish market
The leading newspapers OF England (says the
Jourral) are beginning to endorse Mackay's
opinions. 1t is very certain that the temper and
tone of certain Journals which for long time
made abuse AMI Misrepresentation Of America
the staple of their leading articles, are very much
changed.
MI Mackay spent the wears 1916 and ISL! IN
the examination of every part Of the then United
States. His object was not to ascertain how
much they expectorated, but to see what tney
could AID were likely to do in competing win
England. Here are his conclusions:
In estimating our own position amongst the ma
lions Of the earth, we are too little in the habit
Ct taking the growing power, wealth, and III
huence Of America into account We thnk we
do enough, when we measure ourselves against
the nations of Europe, and take steps to maintain
cur supremacy amongst them. America Is far
w to have much influence upon oar political
,rr ngements, and we accordingly attach but lit
tie consequence 70 her in any light. This Is a
great mistake. America is the only power on
earth which we have to dread. We have not to
tear her politically, for reasons already mentions
ed /; we have not to apprehend any military chas-
tsement at her hands, for in that respect we
know both how 10 aveage and defend ourselves;
but we have to fear the colossal strides which she
is taking In industrial development. We have
less reason 10 dread the combined ornaments of
the world than the silent and unosteatatois ope-
rations of nature, and the progressive achieve
men;s Of art on the continent OF America. We
bcgird ourselves with fleets, and saturate the
community with military and police, and think
that we have done all that is needed for the per-
petuation Of our inf fence and the maintenance of
our power. Bat in all this we mistake the real
source Of our power. What is it but our matcr-
al wealth. Nlpoleoa confessed that it was the
gold more than the arms OF England that hum
u
try. II may be hum;liating to confess It, bat II
is not BY surrounding ourselves by all the ponp
and panoply of war that we can maintain our
position, but hy the steady promotion and en-
couragement Of our industry. Let our industry
flag. and our unemployed capital viii find invest
ment elsewhere. Let capital once begin TO flow
from US, and the stream will soon become so
broad and deep as to drain US, as nation, OF our
life blood. Unless our industry is kept up,
Am anx-sV ahsnr o.,r
magnetic mountain that extracted all the nails
from the ship. Let us give il wide berth or it
will serve lis in similar manner, and leave US to
sink with our cargo. We can only do this by
let me again repeat it-steadly and zealoasly
promoting and encouraging our domestic in
lustry.
have already sufficiently explained the foun-
dation wa CHI America has laid, both in the mag
niicent provisions Of nature. and the stapcadoas
achievements Of art for future material great
nesss. Her resources in almost every point
Of view are infinitely greater than any VIC pos
sess. Look at her forests, her fertile valleys
and vast alluvial plains. Look at the variety OF
her productions, including the most Of those that
are tropical, and all that are yielded by the tenn
perate zone and look at her mines teem;ns with
coal. iron lead copper, and. has been just dis
covered, with silver and gold. Look again at hsr
enormous territory, and at the advantages she
possesses for turning all her resources into ac-
count; in her magnificent systems Of lakes and
rivers; in her extensive sea-coas. in her MINER
Gus and excellent harbors and in her geographic
cal position, presenting, as she docs double ffons
to the Old World, or holding ont, az it wee, oae
hand to Asia, and the other to Europe. BIT
such resources and advantages are only valuable
when properly turned to account. 1t is only By
their being 80 that they will become formidable
to us. We have only TO look to the race possess
sing them to decide whether they arc likely to be
turned to account or not. The Americans are
EngGshmen exaggerated, il any thing, as regards
enterprise. Ta;s is not to be wondered az, as
they have, as people, more Incentives than we
have to enterprise. Oithis we may rest assured,
that the most viii BE- made OF the resources and
their advantages at their disposal This i, all
that has made US great. We have turned our
coal and our iron, and our other resources TO ac-
count, and the world has by turns wondered at
and cavied the result The American stock of
coal and Of iron is more than thirty times as
great as ours, and more than twelve times as
great as that Of all Europe Tneir other re-
sources are in the same proportion, - compared
with ours. And IL our resources, turned TO good
account, have made US what we are. what will
be the fabric OF material greatness which will
yet spring from the ample development OF re-
sources thirty times as great? II the industry
Of from twenty to thirty millions Of people, with
limited means, have raised England to her pre-
sent pinnacle Of greatness AMI glory, what will
the industry OF $50 900 900 yet effect in America,
when brought to bear upon resources almost il.
limitable? The continent will vet Be Anglo
Saxoafsom Panama 10 Hudson's Bav. What An.
Elo-Saxcns have done, circumstanced as we have
been, is but faint type OF what Anglo Saxons
will yet do, working In far greater numbers. on a
Tar more favorable field Of operation.
IL IS the consideration that America will vet
exhibit, in magnificent proportions, all that has
tended to make England great, that leads one ir-
resstibly, however reluctantly. to the conclusion
that the power Of England mist vet succumb to
that o. her Offspring. There is, however, This
consolation left us, that the predominant in.
daence in the world win still be in the hands Of
our own race. That influence will not pass TO
different race, but simply to different scene Of
action. 1t has heen Eagland's fate, during her
or,ght career, 10 plant new States, which vii! in
merit Der power and her influence after her. On
the continent of North America, on MANY po;nts
on the coast OF South America, at the southern
extremity OF Africa. throughout wide Australia,
New Zealand, in Van Dieman's land, and the
indian archipelago, the Anslo-SAxoa race vii
prevail, and the Ang,o-Slxon Language be spoken,
son2 after Englaad's g,o,ies have become historic
ana traditional, These different communities.
uo.T'shlng remote from each other, will all be
animated BY kindred spirit, and will cherish a
common sentiment Of a,lachms,t Ia their com
mon parent, who will long exercise moral in.
nac0ce over them, after her political power has
eeen echpse,l. Not that ENGLAND win moi always
0e able to maintain her n,sitioo in E,rons 1,,s
powers which arD A.. II AUG