The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-24

her arstocracy to foster fleets, and furnish troops
Tor that system OF tyranny and cruelty which put
even her own parliament to shame.
But in the United States every man is patrican
every citizen is nobleman--every soldier is a
citizen. Generals spring from the ranks, senators
from the workshops presidents from log cabins, and
governors from the printing Offices. The common
schools make intelligence and learning common
property of which each citizen has share, and in
dividual poweris an all-pervading element among
the people
This 1ndividualsm is wonderful feature in the
character of our nation. If you form regiment of
troops, you find men in every platoon fit to manOeu
vre the regiment. If you call town meeting, ev-
cry man present is competent to preside, and decide
all questions Of order by parliamentary rule The
most jealous vigilance of government cannot curb
the enterprise of such people. One thousand Amer
lean troops well equipped, are physically equal to
five thousand of the southern races-and if placed
in the heart of South America with military stores
and provisions could exercise an influence that
would secure permanent dominion over vast ter
rltory. thousand young men can leave any con-
gressonal district without their absence being felt
among their neighbors. Here then you have the
germ of new Republic, and this feature is becom-
ing so prominent that the settlement in territory
already explored, laid off in qnarter sections and
taxed is too tame for the free spirit of the western
woodsman or the enterprise of the eastern pedlar
of patents.
Looking at things as they are. taking the world
as we find tive can see but one main result, that
until Cape Horn and all the real estate between it
and Bafin's Bay are brought under the dominion of
the New York system of public schools and the
presbyteries synods, conventions, dioceses confer
ences legislatures, and road taxes of the States
people will not be satisfied
AS annalists and journalists we need not dictate
terms to such people; we dsclaim L" Fillibuster
ism," and we hold to the observance of treaties,
but we will never blame q man for saving the life
of his fellow citizen, though he may have been
imprudent enough to jeopardze it on foreign SOIL
and it cannot be deemed crime to settle in an un-
inhabited country or even in which is full of
natural resources where a sparse population from
their semi-barbarous indolence ignorance and
inactivity give no promise of developing those re-
sources either for their own benefit for that of
mankind.
Fertile valleys and mineral hills cannot lie in idle
neglect when railroads, reaping machines, and
steamships are running around them and over them,
and as the of these improvements is, by rapid
strides extending, necessity will demand that the
people who are brought within their influence must
awake to a full appreciation of their advantages
and produce sufficient return from the natural re-
sources of the countries they inhabt. This is du
ty of modern civilization, and all people, who from
stubborness dullness resist the legitimate pro-
gress of these improvements must give place to
those who will labor for the common welfare and
advancement of man.