Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1853-07-26
.Empirc Of The southern Hemisphere.

IEmpirc oflhe Southern Hemisphere.
sidney Smith long ago ceuticnea ,iho
EnclisIr Government TO- bewnre sbow
,heS colonized' New Holland, stthe
1inra settlement, when Il had ottained]
manhood, should rebel after the Wy of
1.-The American colonies, and other Wash
ing,ons, and F'ranklns and Adams
should arise to pluck other jewels, from
,ho british crown. They needed him
not m they believed il one OF his jokes
the the empty throat of an Edinburs Review
-. But no government on sa.'h ean
II, INV md workings Of great sell ylndlea'
s;"y s.'y '"o ssoc;oi laws. Neither Alexander,
t!ns cns.eS' sssla, ct, ,,,wsl ror Napoleon could
lbribc, c,ax, or bully th.' q" .n,os1 fo, a
You may oyeray the;, L. :. thew
time with legislative rubbish, bu'' :,
will at last burst upward, as stream
Z. leaps out from the cavctnous depths N
which it has been pcnt, pro'laimlns as
manilcstly as il it spake with human
tonguc, the law by which it may ascend
to the level o(its lofty source. Neither
can you reason these principles ont ol
existence, for they will cer at you lhro
your finished logic with gbberings Of
awful mockcry. You londly deem that
your philosophy has cast them out, but
f like the exercised spirit of old, they re.
turn 10 the house from whence they came
and enter in and dwell there. Since
Mallhus published his essay the popu.
iauon Of England has nearly doubled,
: yet the Quarterly Review Of last year
says, "we are likely to experience a
scarcity Of hands for the work set before
us, as Il great empire, 10 accomplish" ="
= What comment upon the reasoning
pride with which we crilicise the eternal
, laws Of progress and devclopcment, by
|, which the Almighty governs his crea.
lures. No. Gol's social laws, like the
fire embodied wheels Of EzckicI's vision.
; $50 high that they were terriol", and
! full of spirit, and covered with eyes,
& move every one straight forward" and
+, at last accomplish that whcreunlo they
are sent. We must recognize those
laws and reverence them, instead oI
l growing at them like cynics or assail.
t ing them like Quixottcs.
f We maintain that the independence
Of the American Colonies was the natu
raj result Of certain social and historic
: principles; anl Sidney Smith, analysing
the connection of historic cause and cf
f.,
=. rectIy as to the results Of similar con
8 nectiou operating upon the Australian
. continent; just as Burke was able tc
! prognoslicate the results Of the French
: Revolution, by a thorough comprehen
d sion Of the Cromwcllian rebellion ii
O England. The times even now betokei
that Mighty issues are to flow from lhi
Australian movement: that the convc
u colony will grow into nation, and tn
d nation into all empire.
II A great empire in the Southern hem
y isphore-is not that something new il
/. world history? Not only SO, but tn
:, Southern empire is to be impregnale,
" with Northern blood, and planted witt
V Northern institutions, Behold the stu
}. pendous cycles in which Providence
o moves! In the fifteenth century II
/. opened the western world 20 the eastern
and after the building up here cf the re
1nowncd institutions of freedom in whic
Ii there has been impaired to the W. ,.ol
- scope of government, and all its vare
aims and functions, more proIoun
signilicancy. He now opens anothe
world in the southern Ocean, to whic
these advanced conceptions may b
4 transplanted, AMI through which tn
p New World may react upon the Old
ii Australia, we doubt not, will yet be
ri como Amercanized, for it lies muc
ut nearer to our California possession
p than to England. If American citizen
c. do not in person go down in s: fcier
cs numbers 10 possess it, the America
l. spirit at any rate will penetrate it, an
le give its form and pressure to the civ
!, polity, which shall be established there
to The fleet despatched TO Botany Bay j
j. 1877, la len with the refuse OF tho En-
slish prisons, is you say, a beginnin
rather inauspicious 20 lead TO the gran
results which we foresee.
T. Is it more inauspicious than til
" departure Of the little Maylower? Til
he gold Of Australia is mere bribc, b
e. which Providence, adapting himself ,
he the weakness Of our nature, designs t
III make use of human selGshness 10 inilia,
ly his ultimate purposes.
he When this gold fever shall have sui
b, sided, then will the new empire begin I
g to play its grand part in history. Ii wi
c. subjugale the surrounding islands Of I'll
sea. Its commercial enterprise wi
connect it with Asia Africa and the Ea
d Indies. Civilization, literature, chris
N tanily and freedom, will thence 60 fort
,y connnefing and to conquer the souther
= !; half of the globe. 1t will lead, as "
=. firmly believe, to train Of results, MOI
er vas1 in the universal bearing, than an
a. event which has taken place since tn
st discovery and settlement ofNorth Amer
=. ca Philadelphia Merchant. '~
- A Human Skelt0n Embedded in Roc K
er The GAINESVILLE Times relates the lol
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