Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-11

forbade the extension Of the settlements in North Amer
ca beyond theOhio But. without such prohibition the
still unbroke power Of the Indian tribes would have pre-
vented amy such extension The successful result the
revolutionary war did materially alter the state
things IN hisrespect The native tribes still for
midaoe, andthe British posts in the Northwestern terri
tory were retained So little confidence placed in the
value Of It'll to land within the limits Of the State
OF New York that the enterprsng citizens Of Massachu-
sets, Gormal and Phelps, who bought six millions Of
acres o. lana IN the Genesee river shortly after the Peace
Tor lew Gems the acre, were obliged to abandon the
greater part the purchase from the difficulty of finding
under purchasers to take enough of it of their hands
enable them meet the first instaments
On one occasion, when Judge Gorham was musing in
state Of ment depression the failure of this magnf
cent speculatn he visited by his friend and towns
man. who hadreturned from journey to Canandagua
then This friend tried to cheer the Judge with
bright yoi of the future growth of western New York
and kindng With his theme, pointed to son of Judge
Gorham who yas in the room, added, you and shall
not live to seehe day. but that lad he reaches three
score years and ten, will daily stage coach running
as far as Canodaigua" That lad is still living What
he has seen IN he shape Of travel and conveyance in the
State OF New G not necessary before this audience
to say lLangher and applause.
1t was the aption Of the Constitution of the United
States in 1889 vhich gave stability The Union and con-
dence to the IDple Applause. This was the Prone
thean ire whchkinded the body polite into vital action.
1t created nitpna force. The Indians the south
west were pacsd. On the Northwestern frontier the
troops of the G0eral Government first defeated
but after the toy of Wayne and the peace of Greene
vlle in 1885, tie British posts surrendered and the
tide of emgratjn began to pour in 1t rather how
ever from the {der States than from foreign countries
The vast regiornorhwes of the Ohio had already recev
ed its political organization Territory Of the United
States by the immortal ordinance of 1857 Applause
While Providence thus opening on this continent
the broadcast rgon that made accessible to hui
progress want adventure it happened that the
kingdom Of Europe shaken by the terrible convul
sions incident ta the French Revolution France herself
rst and Afterwards the oonriss nraran y her rsyolu-
tonary armes poured forth their children by thousands
believe there official returns of the number Of
to the United States at the time but it very
large Among them was NJ de Talleyrand the celebrated
Minister of in France from that Of the
Directory in 179 to that of Louis Philippe, in whose
reign he died Isaw Peales Museum in Philadelphia,
the original NOTCH subscribed by him in 1894 of his pur
pose to become aetzen OF the United States Louis Phi
ppe himself engrated to this country where he passed
three years andis well remembered by many persons still
living He habtay spoke with gratitude of the kindness
which he experienced in every part of the Union.
As yet acquisition of territory had been made by the
United States byond the limits Of the British colonies
but in 1903 rst important step was taken in the pur
chase Of Louisiana, by which our possessions
tended though Fith unsettled boundary, both the
south and the FORTH to the Pacific The in
1872 reduced th Indian tribes in the Northwestern States
and the campans of General Jackson few years later
broke the power Of the native the southern from
tier Florida vas acquired by treaty from Spain in 1919
and the indians in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
removedEo the west Of the river Mississippi ten
twelve years later. Black Hawks in Wisconsin took
and after THAI event. had extinguished the Indian title TO
all the land east of the Mississippi and to considerable
tracts west that river Texas annexed to the Union
in 1885, and in 1913 New Mexico and California were
added to our vast domains. Applause
have asyou perceive, run rapidly over these dates
compressingnto paragraph the starting points in the
history of future commonwealth simply in their bearing
on subject Of emigration These Acquisitions in
ferior in extent all that there solid in the Rortn
conquess have resulted in possession of Of
territory of the width of twenty degrees OF latitude,
stretching from to and nearly equal in extent
to the whole of Europe. Square miles of the United
States 3260,078 in Europe 8, 100,97l see American
Almanac for 1853 PIP 3l5 and 216 1t is all subject to
the power of the United States portion of has attain
ed the civilization Of the Old World while other portions
shade off through oil degrees Of culture, to the log house
of the frontier settler the cabin Of the rapper and the
wgwam of the savage. Within this vast domain there
millions Of Of fertile land to be purchased at
moderate prices according to its position and its state OF
Improvement and there hundreds Of millions Of
in the state onaure and gradually sold at the Govern
ment price Of dollar and quarter per
1t is this which strikes the European imagination
The Old World is nearly all appropriated by ndi
viduals. There public domains in most foreign coun
tries but of comparatively small amount and mostl
forests With this exception, every of land in En-
rope is private property and such countries Eng
land, the Netherlands France Germany and Italy, wha
little is solids sold only ut high price presume thu
number Of landhoders in Engand far less than in th
State Of New York In the Of the French Reyou
ton the land has been greatly divided and sub divided il
France and in Germany, and is held in small farms
but, owing to the limited quantity of purchaseable land
these farms when sold sold only high prices Gene
rally speaking the OF the inhabitants in Europe
gard the ability hold and occupy considerable landed
property the summit Of human fortune The sugges-
ton that there country beyond the where fertile
land is TO be purchased in any quantity at dollar and
quarter per acre, and that dollar and quarter TO be
earned in many parts of the country by the labor OF
single dny strikes them as the tales Of Aadns lamp OF
Ali Babas caves would strike if thought they were
true IApplause They forget the costs and sacrifices
of leaving homethe ocean to be traversed-the weary
pilgrimage in the land of strangers after their arrival
They see nothing With the minds eye but the land OF
promise :" they reflect upon nothing but the fact tha
there is region the earth's surface where few days
unskilled labor will purchase the feesimpe Of ample
farm. [Applause
/ Such an attraction would be irresistible under any
to the population of old country where
as have Just sad the land is all appropriated, and t
be purchased only any considerable quantity at price
which put its acquisition beyond thought of the
But this is but half the tale It must not be forgotten
that n this ancient and venerable Europe whose civil
zaton the growth of two thousand years, where SOM
Of the luxurious refnements Of life carried to per
lection Of which have scarcely idea in this country
considerable part Of the population even in the mos
prosperous regions pass their lives in state but
remove from that of starvation-poorly fed, poorl,
clothed poorly housed without education, without poll
teal privileges without moral culture. The average
wages of the agricultural laborer in England est
mated year AFRO at 0s. Cd. sterling (about 2.37]) pc
week The condition OF the working population on tn
continent of Europe is in degree better II ms good
They eat but little animal food either in England tn
continent We form romantic notions at distance 0
countries that abound in wine and oil but in the bes
governed States Of Italyin Tuscany, for nstanceth
peasantry though they pass their lives in the vineyard
and the olive orchard consume the fruit Of neither
have the Tuscan peasants unable 20 bear the cost
the ordinary wine from the vineyards in which he