American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-24

Hindostan, the Australian colonies, the Pacific
Islands, the Chilian, Peruvian, and Mexican
States pour their motley crowds of eager immi-
grants along the whole coast, from the ella to
the Columbia. The icy tops of the Sierra Me-
yade are passed, and the great upland basin of
Y tab becomes the thoroughfare OF traders, pill
grims, and caravans from the far east. Through
the wilderness to Santa Fe, and thence along
the southern passes Of the mountains, other
crowds press each other to and fro on the path
iof the modern 0phir. And thus, in d progress
OF = few brief years, the swollen tides Of hui
manity, bursting the barriers Of the Aneghanies
from the east, and of the Nevada from the west,
must at last meet and mingle IN the great val
ley Of the Mississippi, which 10 destined to be-
come the central mart or our mighty Onion.
K In Gods genial providence of gradually
opening the resources Of this world for the pro-
gress of mankind, there is the most perfect ac-
commodation to the enlarging wants and capaci-
tiesaof our race. Every thing is not disclosed
at.once. The5good, the desirable, the necessary,
are hidden away in the eartils secret places,
and the task of laborious enterprise is imposed
on man for the discovery and useful prepara-
ton. Yet, marvellous as are the modern de-
yelopments of industry, of science, and some
times even of apparent chance there is no ex-
hausnon IN these resources for new means of
success seem to keep constant pace with each
new labor and enterprise. Our Benefcent Pa
rent works out his wonderful schemes by human
agents, not by miracles. Humanity, with all its
virtues and all its sins, is charged with the
noble task Of free Development, and thus the re-
suits become the work of man, and are made the
trials and tests of his responsibility.
tF The old world became crowded, and space
was required in which the cramped and bur
dened millions might find room for industry and
independence-and a new continent was sud-
denly disclosed for their occupation. The old
political systems of Europe and Of the Eastern
nations decayed in consequence of the encroach-
ments of individual power made despotic by
corruption or force-and a virgin country was
forthwith opened as q refuge for. the oppressed
masses, in which the principle of absolute po-
litical and religious freedom might be tried
without any cenvulsiye effort to cast off the fet-
tiers of feudalism. The labor of man, even in
this new world, began to strip commercial
| countries of their forests, or made them too
valuable for fuel; and suddenly the heart of
the earth is found to be veined with minerals
which will save the lives of the majestic mon
archs who shade and shelter the surface Coal
thus becomes the most potent agent in com
mercial development; for, without it, the seas
could not be .trasersed with the rapidity and
certainty that modern wants exact. The in
creasing industry and invention of the largely
augmented populations of various countries
| required either greater amount Of capital to
represent their productions or new standard
of value for precious metals already in circula-
| ton; and at once, apparently by mere accident
an adventurer discovered, amid the frosts and
forests OF the Pacific, q golden region, in which
the fabled sands Of Pactolus are realized
At last even steam itself becomes too slow for
mankind and human skill, chaining magnetism
to its purposes, and lacing the earth with its
wires, embrviders the whole world with the
electricity of thought. But all these vast store
houses OF invention, comfort and wealth are
not placed at our doors, in the midst of ciyiliza-
ton, ready to be grasped, comprehended or
used with equal ease by the dainty idler or the
patient worker. Far away in distant regions
they lie. Far away amid forests and perils
Far away in lands which are reached by dreary
voyages Far away-requiring the renewal of
hope in Responding hearts, and renewal of
energies in broken men,. There they lie-long-
concealed and wisely -garnered temptations-to
be discovered at the appropriate moment in the
world s progress, and to lead man thither as the
founder of new field of human industry.
In this genial development of our globe, three
classes ofpersons have always been needed: the
Discoverer, the Conqueror, and the Pioneer.
Emigration is the overfowing of a bitter cup.
Men do not ordinarily leave their native lands
and kindred for the perils Of the wilderness, or
for country with which they have no commu-
nifty of laws, language, or present interest un-
less poverty or bad government crowds them
into the forest. When the Discoverer and the
Conqueror have found the land and partly
tamed the savage, the Pioneer advances into
their field of relnquished enterprise, and his
task partakes, in some degree, of the dangers
incurred by both his predecessors. He is al
ways lover and seeker of independence, and
generally pursues il with a laudable desire to
improve his lot; yet the perfect exercise of this
independence sometimes becomes selfshly ex-
elusive Its essence, in our country, is the
complete self-reanee Of the one man or the
one family. This spirit Of social, political, and
industrial independence, occasionally becomes
wild, inpatient, and uncomfortable. Its mild
est exhibition under such circumstances is in
rude manners wayward lawlessness, which
outraged neighborhoods are wont summarily to
redress. Ee s.a
True civilized liberty does not countenance
such mockers Of justice within its pale, and thus
there are multitudes who not only 60 volunta-
rily and wisely into new lands, but other heed
less or soofing crowds are scourged by society
into the sombre forest Slowly and surely are
these elements OF new States gathered, purged
and crystallized around the centres of modern
civilization. Hope, ambition, misery, ayarice,
adventure, noble purpose, drive off inpatient
men who will not be satisfied with the slow,
dripping accretions Of wealth in the old oommu-
mites. They acquire fortune and position by a
leap. Independence demands space for the
gigantic inspirations Of its lungs, and flies head
long to the forest The wandering woodsman
or hunter gathers his brothers in armed masses
for protection amid this chaos Of unorganized
freedom, and they support each other cheerfully
in seasons of danger or disease
But the social law Of humanity vindicates
itself against the eager spirit of perfect indie
pendence. Wherever man who has once either
drained or slipped the cup of civilization IS
found, there must he be fed and clothed; nor
does he cease to yearn for the rehnquisneu
luxuries, amusements, or comforts oil the honie
he abandoned beyond the eastern mountains.