Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-19

as follows. -Ir,
m nht COLONIZATION OF THIS CoNTINA.,
ri. 'nee hundred and sixty years have passed since
of o'd was revealed to mankind by the discovery
,nn,. 'nd though three centuries and half afford
elsns.. 'ne doing Of many deeds, yet scarcely year
"anout adding new marvel to the influences of
"eica upon the progressive civilization aa or,so g -.
human "a &C. aa comfort oi Inc
We OK on the map, at the port On Of hi, Conre,
US at present, a. oazed at the vas, e.n,n
,f az: ~ our erritorisI limits With ,,cb .ss ,h ~ ,h;a
ominonnn n IN he middle o. the last century the British
hores p nerca were ut fringe uron the Atlantic
ouhwesta, ming in the day Of Fundy, their outline ran
nl NV. dy skirp the eastern shore Of Lake Ontario
len desce cd the northern spurs of the Aeghanie and
nor,be ng aong the slopes Of those mountains struck
Altar angle Of Florida, and finally terminated on
eadh dc the mouth of the Alstamaha. The average
est this scant region not more than five degrees.
northwest lay the prmeval forests the gigantic
ovr ad rivers claimed by the French Canada and the
cs of Louisiana while south, the Gulf Of Mexico
h ae Atlantic, stretched the romantic shores of Florida
~ dominion Of Spain. Il not until the epoch Of
nd troubles, Of which am about to speak, and the
oi our Revolutionary war, that The Ohio became the
sns ed boundary between the white and the red man
who entering Of those floating palaces of the
waters at Brownsville, and descending the Ohio to
,as Iisssspp, and the Mississippi the Gulf hardly
We that within less than eighty years the whole Of this
n6ceni region, where the progress Of trade has not ef
all traces of romantic nature still dreary and dam
GUS wilderness enanted alone by the wild beast by
man beings almost as savage. There still living
10 recolect the legends Of Indian warfare foray Mary
nd, Pennsylvania or Virginia, and the escape
the death of some ancestor by the oahawk and scaping
nfe. There those amongst u.s. too whose hair still
answered who may remember their sport boys watch
ing the struggling Indians-haf begga half banits-who
every winter hronged streets, but whose only the
bow and the TO win the pennies ventured
der 10 test the sureness Of their aim.
But where now, is the :" Far West" which in those
aS thing ;pJa a6n;,o
sonethng denoting pers of journey and Indian cruelty Il
was then that had still territorial boundaries to settle with
Britain and titles well rights to adjust with stubborn
tribes was then that the far-seeng and comprehensive
merchant laid the foundation of his wealth by tracking the
beaver in its widest hauns in Oregon. was then that
California remembered field of romantic missionary
labor cherished under Mexican Viceroys but as land Of
abandoned enterprise 1t then that young and rest
less spirits sought the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi as
homes which were beginning be fully redeemed from the
hunter and the savage That the Far West of those
days But now strange names salute ears sounding no
more OF Indian conquests but monuments as
long language shall last of victories over civilized men
We have abandoned Indian nomenclature and the
calendar OF Christian Santa Fe the Rio Bravo del
Note-he Colorado of the Wes-the Pecos-the Gila-the
Valleys of San Juan and Santa Cara-he Plains Of the a
cramento and San Joaquin, and the upland Vale at the foot
OF Mount Sha',-the Great Basin, around whose saline
waters The Mormon enthusiasts have nestled seeking refuge
among the savage from the bgoed prosecutions of cviza
hon-Monterey-San Francsco-San Dego-Chrysopo!e or
the Golden GATES and last of ALL the Pacific itself for an
There no longer "FaI West" States, now planting
on the brink Of the Pacific and washed BY SURGE curb in
that direction, the utmost possible limit Of our dominion
Gold in apparently nexhausbe quantities has mapnetical.
attracted on immense population in the brief space of three
years The first great experiment Of planting the Anglo
Saxon race the Pacific facing the Indies with clear and
short highway in front, is longer problem to be solved
Inc tide OF emigration sets exclusively from East
Wes but rapidly GIBBS and surges backward China Hin
dun, the Australian colonies the Pacific Islsnds the Chill
an Peruvian, and Mexican States pour their motley crowds
OF eager immigrants along the whole from the Cia
the Columbia The icy tops of the Sierra Nevada are passed.
and the great upland Basin Of Utah the thorough
are OF traders, pilgrims and from the far East
through the wilderness to Santa F, and thence along the
southern passes Of the mountains other crowds press each
other, to and fro, on the path Of the modern Ophr. And
thus in the progress Of few brief years, the swollen tides
humanity, bursting the barriers Of the Aegbanes from the
and OF the Nevada from the West must at last meet
and mlnge in the great valley of the Mississippi which
destined to become the central Of our mighty Union
in Gods genial providence of gradually opening the re-
o. THIS world for the progress Of mankind there is the
o perfect accommodation to the enaging and
ces our race. Every thing is disclosed once
sooo the desirable the necessary, hidden away in
n secret places, and the task Of aborous enterprise
'sed on man for their discovery and useful preparation
e haSelous as the modern developments Of industry
ence, and sometimes Of apparent chance, there is
.aus'on IN these resources; for of success
seem 70 keep constant pace with each new labor and enter
Ptse. out nenehcen Parent works out his wonderful
oy human agents, not by miracles Humanity with
W ues ano all It's sins, is charged with the noble task
ocpp"eHi ana thus the results become the work of
man. and are made the trials tests of his responsibility
Inc Old World became crowded. and space was REQUIRED
IN which the camped and burdened millions might find room
for industry and independence-and new Continent was
suddenly disclosed for their occupation The old poIca
systems Of Europe and Of the nations decayed in
sequence of the encroachments Of individual mower mai.
despotc by-corruption orce-and virgin country was
forthwith opened refuge for the oppressed masses in
which the principle Of absolute political and religion. freedom
might be tried without any convulsive effort cast of the e
of feudaism The labor Of man. in this new world
began strip commercial countries Of their forests or made
them TOO valuable for fuel and suddenly the heart Of the
earth found to be veined with minerals which will the
lives of the msesc monachs who sbads and shelter the
face Coal thus becomes the most potent agent in
cial development for without il, the could not be
vered with the rspidy and cesnty that modern wants
The increasing industry and invention Of the largely
augmented populations Of various countries required either
greater amount Of capital represent their productions
standard Of value for the precious metals already n cir
custon; and at apparently by accident ad-
discovered amid the osts and forests of the Pacific
godea region which the tabled sands Of PscoIus
allied. AZ last Steam itself becomes too slow for
kind and human Skill chsnng magnetism to its purposes
and acing the earth with s wires embroders the whole
world with the electricity Of thought But all these vast store
houses Of invention, comfort and wealth placed st
doors, in the midst Of civilization ready be grsped