Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-09
TO THE EDITORS.

the poetical works Of that truly remarkable man Lor
! BYRoS paused, as had done many times before, OIL
the following:
The name of Commonwealth is past and gone
4 Der the three fractions Of the groaning globe;
Venice is crush'd, and Holland deigns to own
sceptre, and endures the purple robe;
4 If the free Swtzer yet bestrides alone
His chainess mountains, It's but for tme
/ For tyranny Of late is cunning grown,
And in its own good season tramples down
The sparkles of our ashes. One great CLINE
Whose vigorous offspring by dividing ocean
/ Are kept apart and nursed in the devotion
| OF Freedom, which their fathers fought for and
! BeQueathed-a heritage Of heart and hand
And proud distinction from each other land
Amongst those elements of history we very loosely
term Revolution other more misapped
than the events which gave atonay the Anglo Saxon
colonies OF North America. The consummation of that
perhaps the greatest event in modern history in it.
self the regular production of from adequate
causes In its incipient and progressive similar
principles have prevailed
Your readers and yourselves will pardon what would
without explanation, be justly regarded presumption
My reason is show that what state is altogether
what have read, but what i have and observed
through upwards of seventy years. and which ''my ia
Tiers fought for" Under the age of years. led
by my parents to the extreme frontier when the Ohio
was our RUBIcoN. was born with the Revolution lived
with it, if humble idle spectator I'd the event
venture to deny the proprety Of using the term Re-
yolution.
The people of these colonies subjects OF the Bri-
fish Crown; but they not slaves they we're free
Their resistance arbitrary power produced ne of the
blind aud nfurate desperation Of slaves in revolt No
other mistake made in the reoitas of human
tention could misrepresent efectuay the
and what contributed the of that great
enterprise The colonists free; they dem,nded
from the Crown than to be left free Inat1aton Of
power produced insult and refusal The colosts APP
pealed to heaven and the appeal was SUSTAINED The
two parties stood in presence and opened drama yet in
action and to which antecedent contemporary COM
paratye example be shown
The AngoSaxon people of those colonies rose to de-
fend what they possessed other encroachmclts were
added They exposed to military coercion, resist
ed, and maintained their object have already observed
that the colonists ree and add thathe event
most clearly proved that they had been nurturd in free
1t could not be otherwise; what other condition
OF human society could have prepared for the crisis such
constellation of great to take their PLACES on the
field and in the cabinet and far more influential
nation than could have been foreseen by the limited
tai vision of man added to the earth.
In its incpient and progressive state, however, am
fully convinced that similar principles Of increase have
prevailed Except in magnitude of result have not,
through rather heightened life spent the
prsing all the decennia enumerations been able to sb
serve except augmented numbers and spread of domain,
any change exraneous influence which could, to any
extent worthy notice. check progress producing national
advance which be traced with all the precision
Of mathematical analysis In the period which preceded
nationality the regular increase it is rational 10 pre-
sumo though disturbed rather than checked occasionally
by war; that the real principles of increase opera
tive If so, the people in number augmented bsfore as
they have done since that great change effected to
which, with gross improperly, nave given and retain
the title of Revolution. In the whole Rcipient
progressive Advance and close of the struggle betveenthe
State and its North American colonsts the
latter acted to prevent revolution. They succeeded
which people did who to obtain freedom.
here repeat emphatically the terms which have
used when speaking Of national increase.
The appended table viii show conclusivey, as far
have been made the accordance OF
the results with those procured by supposed nearly
gular increase of deceaniay that under all
circumstances the general population advances under
nearly regular law Of augmentation, and that this law
has been in force coeya with Anglo Saxon history in
North America.
The appended analysis win show the comparative re-
suits OF the actual and thelaw Of increase
one-third decennally:
Census, 3,929827 Census, 1s20.....9 6SS, l91