The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-02-11
The Future Of America.

Mr.. Philarate Charles, a distinguished
triter OF Paris, has contributed long ar
aicle about the United States, to the Recue
gles Ceaur MondeS, of which the following
are the concluding paragraphs:
What is America to become? 1t is not
difficult to define it. An aggrandized Eu-
/. rope, and what is Europe The space com
prised between the Alleghanies, parele. 10
Il the Atlantic, and the Rocky Mountains par
allel to the Pacific, is as it is well known,
six times larger than France. If to tins is
added the $50 leagues OF the old States, and
the new territories acquired recently from the
Rocky mountains to the sea, imagination
itself is astonished at these proportions. 1t
is the fonrth part OF the whole globe. Thus
the American does not see his country from
the belfrey, but in the race and society to
which he belongs
The inhabitant from New y YorS goes with
out trouble to New Orleans, and the Lou
isianian easily becomes acclimated in Ken
tueky. Provided you leave him those laws
and manners which permit him the free de-
sires of his American strength, he is hap
py, aud he feels that he makes part of a
grand organic and harmonious body Laws,
soil, country, manners, remembrances, de-
sires, institutions, PRIDE, passion, qualities,
all is in harmony. The partial democracies
Of which the Union is composed are as solid
and as subtle as the best organized States !;
they have theirsroots inthe souls of the peo-
pie, and their sap in the habits of the com
munity. Obscure yesterday, marching in
bold step in the unknown, America cares
little for the present, the future is her own.
One fact governs her whole life; it is ex-
pansion, activity, energy, tendency to va
riety, the go-a-headism. Her moral vigor,
identical in its cause and in its essence with
the eternal strength of Rome under the
Scipios, of France under Louis XIV, of
Spain under Isabella, Of England since tbe
Georges, moves in space far more vast.
The American soul. profoundly identified
with the institutions of the country, desires
only what can and must result from the
same institutions and the national manners.
Everywhere the people work. live at ho-
tells, marry young are fond OF adventure, are
not much afraid of bankruptcy, or danger,
v or even death, and they are certain that
there will be always land enough for cour-
n ageous American.
Il To this vast social experiment, of which
The United States is the workshop, must be
added the physical that nature is incessant-
ly carrying on. The rivers change their
beds, Niagara is receding, the forests fall,
n prairies burn up, the temperature becomes
mider ana more temperate, the mlasma
which exhaI4 from newly stirred soil lose
their morbid power, the means of subsis-
tence increases she population doubles every
twenty years, and it is only preparatory
4 work. The heroic age, the epoch of war
announces itself: this strong race, which
absorbs many other, is far. very far, from
having filled up its borders, from Russian
America and the Samoyedes to the Isthmus
Of Panama.
The tendencies of North America are
then. to conquest on the one parton the
other, to the expansion of the federatve
groups; and not in any manner, as some
English travellers seem TO believe, TO the
transformation ofrepublics into monarchies
Inc breaking up OF the conlederated States
'Iso two or three groups is probable. when
he Whole shall be composed OF fractions TOO
numerous and too powerfui for the borders
| ues.ined to enclose them. Already the IN
aaOl'anis of Mississippi have some incIina
''vu 70 detach themselves from the State,
E "'heh iorm the Atlantic border. Texas