New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-04
TRUR AND FALSE PROGRESS.

TRtE AND faLob Hhp'hh
Every observing farmer will have noticed .
among his neighbors men who aspire 10 go |
ahead upon radically diverse principles Oae
ia possessed by an overmastering desire 10
own all the land that joins him ready to
20 70 law for a questionable road, and perPet-
ually encumbering their acres, no matter no"
many. for the means of adding to their number.
This sort can never have enough, and the more
they get the more they want. Meantime their
fields lie waste or run to weeds, simply because
they have neither time nor means to devote to
their improvement. Their estates are swelled'
but not their products; they have more land'
but not more wealth nor more comfort their
csres and taxes increase while their joys and
incomes are apt rather to fall Off until finally
some commercial revulsiOn Overwhelms them,
or excessive anxiety destroys their reason II
not their lives and they fall victims to that
rapacity which has been the bane OF their ef-
istence.
The other sort consider their present pos
sessions abundant so long as they are suscep-
tible Of improvement, aud understand that IL
ia far easier and wiser, in tho great majority oil
cases. 70 double the depth and richness OF soil
IN n farm than to double the number oil its
acres Each knows that an acre which Will
Weld in the average fifty bushels oil Corn Is
worth far more. other things being proportion
ate. than two acres that would yield twenty
| Eve bushels each and he aims rather to IN
crease the productive capacity than the super
fetal extent Of his domain. III he had out
ffty acres IN all, but those Of the first quality,
he would realize that these ought to content
him until he shall have brought them to the
highest possible condition and found IN 'heH
perfection. both of fertility and culture
reason Why he, having not work enough Tor Ills
workers. might laudably mediate fresh an-
nexatiOn.
These two farmers fifty symbolic the great
antagonist tendencies which now divide ana
aeitate the American People. The one IN SUB
stance saws: Let us take Mexico, Cuba
Central America; let us subjugate HaJtl and
reduce again her population to Slavery, while
! .cbaining down the Blacks Of Cuba into eter-
nal bondage; in fine, let us subject all we can
reach TO our sway, thus showing our Patriot
ism and devotion TO Progress. - NO, says
the other; 'let us seek glory and growth
through Arts rather than Arms; let us cheq-
.uer our present territory with Railroads and
make it laugh with fertility and abundance
.let US dot its coasts with Harbors and perfect
the navigation Of its Rivers let US I'LL II with
plenty, comfort, intelligence and happiness
and when nothing more is 10 be done here II
will be time enough 70 absorb and undertake
the care of the possessions OF our nelghoors
Mr. Polk achieved the bad eminence OF con
summatiug the Annexation of Texas and bring
ing on a War with Mexico his four years
term witnessed the commencement and close
of the career of conquest by which New Mex
leo. Utah and Upper California were added
70 our dominions, at sn expense OF over one
Hundred Millions He did not scruple TO OF
, fer like sum in hard coin for CuOa, though h'
about the same time vetoed bill providing fo
, the continuous Improvement Of the Rivers ant
, Harbors Of our own States. Had bill beef
{ presented 70 him, spprOprlsting One huhdre'
: Millions for the construction Of double-trael
Railroad from the Mississippi 70 the PaeinC
We presume he would have vetoed It. Gov
{ Troup. of Georgia declared MIN the only srric
8 eonstruer and supporter OF the Constiturio
n we have ever had. not excepting even Jsael
Z son. Yer this is the identical maR who d
g no, hesitate. without even consulting Coz
eress. 70 offer Spain One Hundred MllioE
for Texas. while defeating sn appropriation
: Two Millions for the Improvement OF Of
Rivers and HarbOrs
N A Railroad TO the Pacific would DO far mo-
10 strengthen, consolidate and aggrandiIe II
y Republic than the Annexation Of all the Co
tipent down 10 Darien, With the eusire We
nh Indies thrown in IL would make tits eountl
IL in plsce Of Great Britain, the focus Of Z
le. worlds commercial operations, and 80 enlar
the markets for cur Fabrics a. 70 place 9
Ne great body Of our Manufactures for ever
m yoad the need Of Protection. Give US q
IA foot double track to San Francisco and lines
}, steamers thence 10 Shanghai and Sydney, q
MA the worlds annual product Of Gold viii ere
J. our whole territory in quest Of Food, Gle
ch ing, &c. for it's producers, while the Teas q
a Suices Of the Indiez viii take the same roV
mt TO the marts Of Western Europe. II q