Daily American telegraph., 1852-08-16

and the vast regions beyond, will become the
chief theatre of events in the Worlds great
Hereafter Who does not see that this move
ment must effect our own complete emancipa-
ton from what remains of European influence
and prejudice, and in turn develop the Ameri-
can opinion and influence which shall remonld
constitutions, laws and customs. in the land
that is first greeted by tho rising sun Sir,
although am no Socialist, no dreamer of
suddenly coming millennium, nevertheless can
not reject the hope that Peace is now to have
her sway, and that as War has hitherto de-
faced and saddened the Atlantic world the
better passions OF mankind will soon have their
development in the new theatre of human
activity.
Commerce is the great agent Of this move
ment Whatever nation shall put that COM
merce into full employment, and shall conduct
| 1t steadily with adequate expansion, will be-
come necessarily the greatest Of existing States
greater than any that has ever existed. Sir
you will claim that responsibility and that high
destiny for our own country. Are you SO sure
that by assuming the one she win gain tho
otheri They imply nothing less than uniyer-
sal commerce and the supremacy of the seas
We are second to England, indeed but, never
;heless, how far are we not behind her in COM
merce and in extent Of empire | pray to
know where you will go that you will not meet
the flag Of England fixed, planted. rooted into
the very earth you go northw ard, it waves
over half of this Continent of North America,
which we call our own. If you go southwark,
it greets you on the Bermudas, the Bahamas,
and the Caribbee Islands. On the Falkland
Islands it guards the Straits of Magellan; on
the South Shetland Island it watches the pas
sage round the Horn; and at Adelaide Island
it warns you that you have reached the Ant
arctic Circle. When you you ascend along the
southwestern coast Of America, it is seen 1t
Galapagos overlooking the Gsthmus of Panama;
and having saluted it there, and at Vancouver,
you only take leave of it in the for Northwest
when you are entering the Arctic Ocean. Ii
you visit Africa, you find the same victorious
cross guarding the coast OF Gambia md Ser
IA Leone and St. Helena. 1t watches you at
Capo Town as you pass into tho Indian Ocean;
while on the northern passage to that vast sea
it demands your recognition from Gibraltar,
as you enter the Mediterranean; from Malta,
when you pass through the Sicilian Straits;
on the lonian Islands it waves in protection
Of Turkey; and st Alden it guards the passage
from the Red Sea into the Iudian Ocean.
Wherever Western commerce has gained an
entrance to the Continent of Asia, there that
flag is seen waving over subjugated millions--at
! Bombay, at Ceylon, at Singapore, ut Calcutta,
at Lahore, and at Hong Kong while Aus
tralia and neurly TIL tho islands of Polynesia
acknowledge its protection.
\ Sir, need not tell you that wherever that
| flag waves it is supported and cheered by the
martial airs of England, But | care not for
that The sword is not the most winning mes
scnger that can be sent abroad and commerce
ike power, upheld by armies and navies, may
in time be found 10 cost too much. But what
,r .lzI IL Al.
| England employs the steam engine even moro
I vigorously and more universally than her mill
tary iercc. Steam engines punctually depart
ing and arriving between every one of her vari-
Gus possessions and her island seat of power
bring in the raw material for every manufac-
turc and supplies for every want. The steam
engine plies necessarily there, day and night,
converting these materials into fabrics Of every
variety, for the use of man. And again the
steam engine forever and without rest moves
over the face Of the deep, not only distributing
these fabrics to every part of the globe, but
disseminating nlso the thoughts, the principles,
the language and religion of England. Sir,
We are bold indeed TO dare competition with
such Power Nevertheless the resources for
it are adequate. We have coal and iron no
less than she, while corn timber cattle hemp,
wool, cotton, silk oil, sugar, and the grape,
quicksilver, lead, copper, silver, and gold, are
all found within our own broad domain in in
exhaustihle profusion. What energies we have
already expended prove that we have in re-
serve all that are needful What inventions
we have made prove our equality to any exi-
gency. Our capital increases, while labor
scarcely knows the burthen of taxation. Our
Panama route TO China has a decided advan-
tage over that of the lsthmus Of Suez, and at
the same time vessels leaving that country and
coming round the Horn, will reach New York
always at least FIVE days sooner than vessels Of
equal speed can double the Cape OF Good Hope
and make the port Of Liverpool.
] Mr. President we now see how conspicuous
o part in the great movement Of the age, Cali
! fornia and Oregon are tosustan and that, as yet,
| they ore separated from us and isolated They
will adhere tons only 50 long as our government
over them shall be conducted. not for our bene-
fit but for their own. Their LOYALTY is great. but
it cannot exceed that of the thirteen ancient
American colonies to Great Britain and yet
the neglect and oppression Of their commerce
undermined that loyalty, and resulted in their
independence. hear often Of dangers to tho
\ Union and see lines of threatened separation
drawn hy passionate men or alarmsts, on par
allels Of latitude; but in my Judgment, there
il only one danger of seveTance-and that IS m
yolved in the possibility Of criminal neglect OF
the new communities on the Pacific coast,
while the SUBMITS of the Rocky Mountains. or
ofthe Snowy Mountains, mark the only possible
line of dismemberment Against that danger
would guard as against the worst calamity
that could hcfal, not only my country, at her
most auspicious stage of progress, but mankind
also, in the hour Of their brightest hopes.
would guard against i by practising impartial
Justice toward the new and remote States and
ytyhn
their wants ore great, and by pursuing at
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