Weekly national intelligencer., 1852-09-11


physical obstacles 10 such reunion necessary All
the conditions have happened and concurred Liberty
has developed under improved forms Of Government and
science has subjected in Western Europe and in
America. Navigation, improved by steam, enables men
to outstrp the Winds and intelligence conveyed by cleo
tricy exoes in velocity the light With these favoring
there has come also sudden abundance Of
god that largely relieves labor from its long subecton
to realized capital Sir this movement Is delusion 1t
will stop than the emigration from Europe our
own Atlantic shores has stopped, can stop while la
Dor Is worth there twenty cents and here fifty cents day
Emigration from China cannot stop while labor is worth
IN California FIVE dollars day, and in the West Indies
ten dollars month, and yet is worth in China only FIVE
dollars for that period Accordingly have sixty
seven ships filed in three months Of the present year
with emigrants in the ports Of Hong Kong Macao
and Whampoa, and afterwards discharge them on the
shores Of California and Of Cuba and other islands Of the
West Indies
Sir have you considered the basis of this movement
that this continent and Australia capable of sustain
ing and need for their development fve hundred mil
hons while their population is confined to fifty millions
and yet that Asia has two hundred millions Of excess
AS for those who doubt that this great movement will
quicken activity and create wealth and power in Califor
mia and Oregon, leave them to consider what changes
the movements similar in nature but inferior in force
and slower in effect, have produced already on the At
lantic coast Of America. As those who cannot see
how this movement will improve the condition of Asia
leave them to reflect upon the improvements in the con-
on OF Europe since the discovery and colonization Of
America Who does not then that every year here
after European commerce. European politics. European
thoughts and European activity although actually gain
ing greater force-and European connexions although
actually becoming intmate-wll nevertheless rela
uyely sink IN Importance while the Pacific ocean, its
shores its islands, and the vast regions beyond will be-
come the chief theatre Of events in the Worlds great
hereafter! Who does not that this movement must
effect our own complete emancipation from what remains
OF European influence and prejudice and in turn deyelop
the American opinion and influence which shall remoud
constitutions laws, and customs in the land that first
greeted by the rising sun Sir although am no Social
st. no dreamer OF suddenly coming millennium never
eless cannot reject the hope that peace is to have
he sway and that as war has hitherto deaced and sad
dent the Atlantic world the better passions of mankind
win DON have their development in the theatre of
numaL activity.
ComL is the great agent Of this movement What
ever nat ion shall put that commerce into full employ-
nent ano shall conduct it steadily with adequate expan
;on will become necessarily the greatest of existing
States gre ater than any that has existed Sir you
will claim IL at responsibility and that high destiny for
,ur eoun ry Are you that by assuming the
,ne she viii ain the other? They imply nothing less
han universal and the supremacy of the seas
We second England indeed but nevertheless how
ar not behind her in and in extent Of
empire pray know where you will go that you will
not meet the flag Of England fxed planted rooted into
he very earth? If you 60 northward it waves half
If this continent Of North America, which call
las, the Bahamas an0 the CaYibbee Islands. On the
Falkland Islands it guards the Straits of Magellan;
The South Shetland Island it watches the passage round
he Horn; and Adelaide Island ii you that you
along the southwestern coast Of America is at Ga
opagos overlooking the Isthmus Of Panama and having
auted there and at Vancouver you only take leave of
in the far northwest when you entering the Arctic
Ocean you visit Africa, you find the same victorious
guarding the coast Of Gambia and Sierra Leone and
IT. Helena 1t watches you at Cape Town you pass
nto the Indian Ocean; while the northern passage
hat vast sea 1t demands your recognition from Gibraltar
IS you enter the Mediterranean from Malta when you
bass through the Scilian Straits the fnan Islands
waves in protection Of Turkey and at Alden it guards
ha DoI g.. -
Wherever western commerce has gained entrance to
he continent of ASIA there that flag waving over
ubjugated millions-at Bombay at Ceylon, at singa-
,ore at Calcutta Lahore and Hong Kong while Aus
raia and nearly all the islands of Polynesia acknowledge
is protection.
Sir need not tell you that wherever that flag waves
is supported and cheered by the martial airs of Eng
and. But not for that The sword is not the
most winning messenger that be abroad; and
commerce like power upheld by armies and navies may
time be found to cost too much But what to be re-
sarded with more concern is that England employs the
steam engine even more vigorously and universally
han her military force Steam engines punctually de-
parting and arriving between every one Of her various
and her island seat Of power bring the raw
material for every manufacture and supplies for every
want The steam engine plies necessarily there day and
night converting these materials into fabrics Of every
ety for the use of man. And again, the steam engine
oreyer and without rest the face of the Deep
not only distributing these fabrics to every part of the
globe but disseminating also the thoughts the princ
oles the language and religion of England Sir we are
'oiu inueeu 70 uare competition with such Power Me-
iertheles the resources for it adequate We have
oa and iron no less than she, while corn timber cattle
lemp WOOL cotton, silk, OIL sugar, and the grape quick
ver lead, copper, silver, and gold all found within
ur own broad domain in inexhaustible profuson What
Energies we have already expended prove that have in
eserve all that needful What inventions we have
made prove equality to any exigency. Our capital
Increases while labor scarcely knows the burden Of
ion. Our Panama route to Chnn has decided advan-
age that Of the sthmus of Suez and at the same
ime vessels leaving that country and coming round the
Iorn will reach New York always least five days SOON
r than vessels Of equal speed double the Cape of
food Hope and make the port Of Liverpool.
Mr.. President how conspicuous part in
he great movement of the age California and Oregon are
sustain and that as yet they separated from US
md isolated. They will adhere only SO long as our
Government over them shall be conducted for our be-
left, but for their Their loyalty great but it
annot exceed that Of the thirteen ancient American CO.
onies Great Britain and yet the neglect and oppres
on OF their commerce undermined that loyalty and
ulted in their independence hear often dangers to
he Unon and lines of threatened separation drawn
)y passionate men or aarusts parallels of latitude
'ut In my Judgment there is only danger Of
'nce and that involved in the possibility Of criminal
legect Of the communities the Pacific coast while
he SUBMITS Of the Rocky Mountains, or of the Snowy
Mountains, mark the only possible line of dismember-
worst calamity that could befa only my country at
ner most auspcous stage Of progress but mankind also
n the hour Of their brightest hopes. l would guard
against by practising impartial justice toward the new
md remote States and Territories whose political power
s small while their great and by pursuing at
tho same time with berality and constancy the lofty
course which they indicate of an aspiring vet
md humane national ambition.
REMARKADLE FLIGHT or BrRps--on Thursday last,
during southeast storm number Of birds new
this part Of the country discovered the farms
this vicinity and Friday immense numbers Of large