Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-13
The Giant of the West.

late number of the Dublin Nation. makes
this impressive reference to the future greatness
of this young republic
Sin the east there is arising colossal cen.
taur called the Russian Empire. With civil.
zed head and front, it has the thews and snews
of huge barbaric body. There one mans
brain moves 7O,00O,O00. There all the tradi.
tions of the people are of aggression and con-
quest in the west. There but two ranks are
dstinguishabe, -serfs and soldiers There the
map OF the future includes Constantinople and
Vienna as outDosts of st. Pete sbure.
SIN the West an opposing and still more won.
derful American empire is emerging. We Is
landers have no conception of the extraordinary
events which amid the silence of the earth, are
daily adding to the power and pride of this gi-
gantic nation. Within three years, territories
more extensive than these three kingdoms,
France and Italy put together, have been quiet
y In almost matter Of course fashion, annexed
to the Union.
" In seventy years, seventeen new sovereign
ties, the smallest of them larger than Great Brit
ain have peaceably united themselves to the fed
Grafton. No standing army was raised, no ma
tional debt sunk, no great exertion was made,
but there they are. And the last mail brings
news OF the organization of three more great
States about to De joined to the thirty. Mime
sofa in the northwest; Deseret in the south.
west and California on the shore of the Pacific.
These three States will cover an arena eoual to
one-half of the European continent.
Nor is this mere addition on the map.-
1t Is not piiing barren Pelion upon uncultivated
Ossa. 1t is an actual conquest of new strength
and resources. Already has Minnesota its cap
ital-St. Paul-which has its churches, schools
journals, parties, interests and speculatons. -
The Mormon founders of Deseret are doing what
the purltcns did in Massachusetts two centuries
ago-taklng care to possess themselves of the
best lands and waters in their new State. In
stead OF becoming lawess horde of adventur-
ers, the settlers in California are founding cities
electing delegates, magistrates, sherffs and Con-
gressmen as methodically and as intently as if
they trod the beaten paths of life on tho Allan.
tic shore Of the continent.
"And with this increase OF territory there is
commensurate increase Of industry in the older
states By recent statistics we perceive that man
uactorles are rapidly increasing in what were
the Southern States-most 80 in the Carolinas
and Georgia. The cotton mill is now built be-
side the cotton.fed-a formidable sign for the
Liverpool shippers and Manchester mill owners,
In the Northern and Eastern States every tor.
rent is trained to work Samson-like in the mil.
"The census of 1850 about to be taken in the
United States, will show growth of numbers,
territory and industry, entirely unexampedi in
human history. Let the gray powers" of the
old world look to it let the statesmen of France,
Germany and Russia read the census carefully
though it should startle them. Let despotsm
count every man Of these millions as mortal
enemy, and every acre of that vast common
wealth as an Inheritance of mankind mortgaged
to the eause of freedom.
'ELet Engand's ministers, too read and pom
der well on this, and ask themselves whether
with such a sea and land-rival against England
they can afford, by legalized famine, to force
one-half of our race to flee for a home and laws
into the arms and service of that rival already so
formidable ?
" But let Ireland take it to heart above all
Let her learn that the growth Of nations has not
ceased. Fertile energy and will that will not
bend still builds States whether in the wild PAM
pas of the New World, or the studded and
strengthened regions of the old. America is as
grand field for human enterprise as when the
ships of Columbus first neared the shores of Gu
anihana"--