The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-30

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In this work-which is evidently the production OF
ripe schoar-we have the history OF those lew oa'ies
OF which contrary event would have essentially varied
the drama OF The world in all lis subsequent scenes IN
which have been the decisive battes Inc
author has been influenced not by the number OF com
baans engaged by the heceness OF the contest nor py
the numbers who fell in the crash OF opposing hosts ou'
by their practical influence the future social and poll
cal condition OF the wordan influence obvious as TO
induce 10 ask ourselves what would have been our
condition if any OF those battles had come TO dliier
snt termination.
The battles termed decisive" by the author are-,he
Battle of Marathon; defeat Of the Athenians at SYRIA
cuse the Battles of Arbea and OF Metaurus; victory OF
Armnius the Roman legons under Varus the Bat
ties OF Chaons of Tours. and OF Hasngs Joan Of Arcs
victory over the English Orleans; the defeat OF the
Spanish Armada; the Battles OF Benheim and OF Pull
iowa; victory OF the Americans Burgoyne al Sara
toga the Battle of Valmy and the Battle of Waterloo.
The author thus in part preaces his description OF the
Battle Of Saratoga:
Westward the course OF empire takes its way;
The first four acts already past,
frh shall close the drama with the day
IIME's N9Bi.Esr OFFERING IS IT'S LAST.
[Bisaop Berkeley.
OF the four great powers that now principally rule
the political destnes OF the world France and England
the only two whose influence can be dated back be-
yond the last century and half The third great power
Russia, was feeble OF barbarlsm before the epoch
OF Peter the Great and the very existence OF the fourth
in the memory Of living By the fourth great power
Of the world ! mean The mighty Commonwealth OF the
Western Continent, which now commands the admira-
ton of mankind That homage is sometimes reluctantly
given, and IS sometimes accompanied with suspicion and
ill-w. But none refuse it. All the physical essen
tails for national strength undeniaby to be found in
the geographical position and amplitude OF territory
which the United States possess; in their almost mex
hausble tracts OF fertile but hitherto untouched SOIL in
their stately forests, in their mountain chains and their
rivers, their beds OF COAL and stores of metallic wealth.
in their extensive board along the waters Of two
oceans, and in their already numerous and rapdly-in
creasing population. And when we examine the char
acter OF this population, can look on the fearless
energy. the sturdy determination. the aptitude for local
segovernment The versatile alacrly and the nnIesng
spirit OF enterprise which characterize the Anglo Amer-
cans, w,hou, feeling that here he behods the true ele
ments OF progressive might
Three quarters OF century have not yet passed since
the United States ceased to be dependencies of Eng
land. And even II we date their origin from the period
when the first permanent European settlements out of
which they grew were made the western coast Of the
North Atlantic, the increase Of their strength is unparal
leed either in rapidly or extent.
The ancient Roman boased with reason, OF the growth
OF Rome from humble beginnings TO the greatest magn
tude which the world had then ever witnessed But the
citizen OF the United States is still justly entitled TO
claim this praise In two centuries and half his coun
try has acquired amper dominion than the Roman gained
in ten And even if credit the legend OF the band Of
shepherds and outlaws with which Romuus is said TO
have coonized the Seven Hills, find not there SO small
germ OF future greatness we find in the group OF
hundred and five ILL chosen and dsuniied emgrans who
founded jamestown in 1907 or in the scanty band OF
Pilgrim ts'hers who, few years later. moored their
bark the wild and rock bound of the wilderness
that 10 become New England. The power OF the
United States is emphailcally the Emporium qao neque
40 eIordo uum Jtrt minus neque 'ersmenS toto orbs
dmpf,us hunana potst memoria recorddri'
Nothing is more calculated 10 impress the mind with
OF the rapdiiy with which The of the
American republic advance than the difficulty which the
historical inquirer finds ia aseerainng their precise
amount il he consults the most recent works. and
those written by the ables investigators OF the subject
he binds in them admiring comments on the change
which the last few years. before those books writ
ten had made but when he turns to apply the estimates
those books to The present he finds them
the United States has lost It's novelty those States have
ougrown the descriptions which il contains The ceIe
ora,ed work o. ,he french statesman DE Iocqueye,
appeared about fifteen years ago In the passage which
am about 10 quote il will be seen that he predicts the
constant increase oil the Anglo American power, but he
looks on the Rocky mountains as their extreme western
limit Tor many years TO come He had evidently ex-
pecaiion oil himself seeing that power dominant along
the Pacific as well as along the Atlantic coast.
The importance of the power of the United States be-
ing them firmly planted along the Pacific applies no, only
TO the New World but TO the Old Opposite to San Fran.
CISCO the OF that ocean, lie the wealthy but de-
crep empires of China and Japan Numerous groups OF
isles stud the larger part of the intervening sea- and
form convenient stepping stones for the progress OF
merce or ambition. The intercourse OF traffic between
these ancient Asatc monachies and the young Anglo
American republic must be rapid and extensive ANY at
tempt OF the Chinese or Japanese rulers check will
only accelerate armed collision The American will
either buy or force hs way Between such populations
that OF China and Japan the one sde and that of
the United States the other-the former naughty
formal and nsolent the latter bold intrusive and un.
scrupuous-causes OF quarrel must sooner or later arise
The results OF such quarrel cannot be doubted America
will scarcely initiate the forbearance shown by England
al the end OF late with the Celestial Empire and
the conquests OF China and Japan BY the fleets and
armies OF the United STATES, events which many no w
living likely 10 witness Compared with the mag nj
ude OF such changes in the dominion OF the Old World
the certain ascendency OF the Anglo Americans over
Central and Southern America seems matter of second
airy Importance Well may we epea, De Tocquevle'. |
words, that the growing power oil this Common wealth
I'm fat enhertment ddas te monde. al DOM
agindton ellie mtme ne sarrau sdisir la porf{e"
An Engshman may look and ought TO look, on the
growing grandeur OF the Americans with small degree
of generous sympathy and satisfaction They like our
selves. are members OF the great Anglo Saxon nation
" whose race and language overrunninz the
world from one end OF il 10 the other" md whatever
differences OF form OF government may exist between u,
and tbem-whatever "reminiscences OF the DAYS when
though brethren, We srove together, may ranke in The
minds OF u.s. the defeated pariywe should cherish the
bonds OF common nationality that still exist between US
We should remember. an the Atbenans remembered OF
the Sparans at season OF jealousy and temptation that
our race is being OF the blood. speaking the
same language having essential resemblance in our
institutions and usages, and worshppng in the temples
OF the same God All this may and should be borne in
mind And yet an Englishman hardly watch the
progress oil America without the regreul thought tha,
America English and that but for the folly of
our rulers, she might be English stll l, is true that
the commerce between the two countries has largely and
benehclay increased but this proof that the in
would not have been stl greater had the States
remained integral portions OF the same great empire By
giving fair and just participation in political rights
these, the fairest possessions OF the British Crown
might have been preserved 10 II. This ancient and