The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-20

Before the choice OF Botany Bay as penal settlement
by toe English government. the administration OF Pitt
had determined transport criminals island in the
riyer Gambia, on the western coast OF Africa. Burke
opposed the with all the powers Of his eoquence
and able to arrest i only second appeal the
House oil Commons al The very last moment In " Wrax.
aPs Poshumous Memolrsr the following account is
given Of this attempt Of Burke: 1tia
-" lhs eloquent aud pathetic appeal, though II failed TO
produce immediate effect was not followed up by any
spe,s nos YET dad not the less operate TO redress the
evn The sabne, compelled 10 abandon the pessilent
oshks OF he Gambia IN The course oil The subsequent
year made choice OF portion OF the earth better cacu
lated tor every object oil policy and punishment without
losing sight OF humanity alinde 10 the settlement OF
n,.ny Bay situate "a TIE oneT SMsm'hs,e u hsppy
probably, IN the Of two three centuries may
arse along the shores OF the Pacific and Indian oceans
vast empire and civilized Yet martial people who after
suhiecns The immense ae6ipelayo scat,.red nv Ns,r
NJ the extremity Of Asia IRON New Guinea quite 10
Japan, will probably contest for the naval supremacy OF
the Pachc itself with their counlrymen established on
the western shores OF America Such he modes by
which Providence diAuses moral we'll as religious
light over the dark and savage portions of The planet
transferring knowledge civilization, liberty, and science
successfully from one extremity of the world 10 HE
other. Who can say that before the year . 500 from
Christ Europe. and particularly the western nations oil
this favored quarter oil the globe illuminated
may not sink nio the condition. of Egypt, OF the Lesser
Asia, and OF Gieececounines TO which iondly turn
our eyes The cradles OF art OF poetry. and OF history
May Eng land TALL to the level OF that spot which has
been denomnaied
8a - Land Of l,st Code and x ike men"
while Van Debans Land California lin whose vcn-
iy Swift hardly more than century ago planted his
Lput end his Brobdgnag, as if out Of the reach Of
geographical parsu may enjoy fretdom arls and lei
tiers. 18th April. 1855
We style this scrap Of forgotten history for how
many know II al The settlement Of Botany Bay that
time depended upon accident AS such, ii is matter
OF curious interest But the reflections with which
Wrsxall accompanies his statement sill more curious
,In
ously with the event, and these reflections were sug-
gested by il. They furnish something than re-
maIkahse political conjecture and almost his
torcal predictions not warranted by any circumstances
then patent 10 the most acute observer Ii is merely
q lucky guess These memoirs were published in 1926
as the introduction is dated 18Th of May in that year
long long before any had occurred suggest such
an astonishing result the conquest OF California.
the growth Of great colonyin Australia.
In come xon with this subject il is remarkable that
England Was compelled to look for penal settle
ment in consequence OF the recent independence OF the
United States, where formerly all her criminals had been
sent; for Wraxall says: "From the inability OF convey
ing criminals the Atlantic TO their ancient des,na-
tons they had accumulated in the ias of the kingdom
to the number OF several thousands"
The FIRST intention OF sending them 10 the presidential
shores OF Africa was changed, and penal colony
was formed in New Holland These chances accidents
in human hisioiyas they seemed at the tne--are after
oil not foraitous. GoD REIGNs HISTORY p Upon
this simple what great consequences depend
ent2 The United Slaesa former penal colony of Great
Blilan-becomes independent. and after prosperous
career OF seventy years acquires California, gold coun
Try, and establishes al once prosperous and popnous
Commonwealth those distant and uninhabied shores
Tie new penal colony of Great Britain in New Holland
viii these seventy years, does become, as WTaxal pre-
diets thriving State and by most remarkable coinci.
deuce is al almost the moment OF time discovered
also be gold country. Each draws by this great at
traction ems alton unparalleled in the history of the
world each secures The advantages al OF Stree
dom, arts, and letters" And as both start in the
for supremacy upon the vast waters OF the Pacific
and Indian oceans, and The populous countries which
border upon them, may form eonecures as 10 the
result, and predict according 10 wishes our fears
with whom i'll remain the victory. As for ourselves we
have fears. The events in national history during
the past fifty years have marched onward in such majestic
progress as to tend only TO commercial supremacy in
the world. To us there seems presumptuous inter
probation OF proyden,ial designs in asserting this mani.
fes, destiny. BY securing California have secured
the supremacy OF the Pacific oceanfor territory
compact is easily isyersed in time By railroads. and filling
rapidly with an enterpIlsiDg and industrious population
is placed IN such an advantageous geographical relation
ali these countries furnish US with the greatest
facilities for commercial intercourse and exchange There
cannot be that separation OF interests 10 our case that
mus always exist between countries so widely apart as
England 10 from New Holland. Those interests in a
comparatively short time will divide The slender poti-
cal connexion which now holds them together Blu, a
railroad across territory will bind Us ndssoubIy in
one compact territory, with population homog in
character Notwithstanding he diversity of origin, and
with Interests which. with every revolving year. will be
seen TO be most intimately connected and depe upon
each other. Every consideration should induce us 10
strengthen the bonds OF political union--every consdera
ton whether moral social, relgous-for in that po
ical union will be found the secre, OF our social hap
pness and our political prosperity.