The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1853-08-17
Australia---M Manifest Destiny in
an Oriental View.

Away around on the other side Of the
globe. between the South Pacifc and the Indian
oceans. lies the vast island continent Of Austria
liza not much less. in its superficial area than
these United States with all our accessions
from France. Spain and Mexico A monster
itself, it is the matter nIOnStT0runl Of that
mighty archipelago of monstrous islands,
which altogether, mother and children, con.
stitute the fifth geographical division Of the
earth-Australasia. And this island cont.
nent. one of the many legacies of Capt. Cook
TO the British crown, is now undergoing so
rapidly the process Of transformation from
native barbarism to civilization. that the dull
lest political philosopher can hardly question
its manifest destiny" 1t is evidently des-
tined. and at no far distant day. to become an
independent power among the nations, in fact,
another mighty Anglo-Saxon republic, shar-
ing With ours the commercial supremacy of
the ear;h.
We nave entertained this impression since
the confirmation of the extending golden re-
sources Of Australia, so extraordinary as to
stagger our credulity for time. even with
the fixed fact " of California already before
our eyes. But the varied aud highly inter-
esting Australian intelligence which we have
spread before the readers of the Herald for
several days past. cannot be read understand
lnglY without confirmation Of this original
impression into an established conviction that
Australia must sooner OF later become great
independent republic, with society and with
institutions political and religious, analogous
to our form.
This conclusion is not derived from any
symptoms Of impending rebellion among Her
Britainic Majesty's colonists and gold diggers,
notwithstanding such symptoms are OCCASION
ally betrayed; but it is the natural deduction
from the general drift of the colony to that
advanced condition when colonial guardian.
ship is but as the swaddling bands of infancy
to the young giant bearded to the waist. The
elements in Australia are still in a state of
fusion; they have assumed, as yet neither
shape nor consistency; but they are tending
to the organization Of civilized society, Of law
and order, and the established usages and re-
quirements Of a permanent community
The start has been made, the ground has
been broken, and the work will 60 on. Steam
and gold can accomplish. as they have accom-
plished. results incredible to contemplate, and
miraculous in their achievement.
Colonization to Australia is at length fairly
setting in. The settlement of the country is
fairly under way. by thousands of the same
all-powerful Caucasian elements that make up
the strength and substance, the bone and
blood and muscle of this country and the
British Empire.-With the increase of the
facilities for emigration, the tide setting into
the gold regions will be correspondingly in-
creased and. as in California. so in Austria
liza will the mines draw around them the SUBJ
stantial materials of agriculture, manufactures
and commerce. Thus. almost with the rapidi-
ty Of an encampment in the desert. the en-
during realities Of villages, towns and cities
are rising and spreading all along the gold
coast. By-and-by these people will feel them
selves too large for their colonial breeches,
and England from her past experience, we are
inclined to think, will not waste her strength
by coercing submission upon an unwilling
people, when her own commercial interests
may be better subserved by conceding their
independence.
The theme is suggestive but we need not
here pursue it. In view. however, of the
F." manifest destiny" Of Australia how i'm
portant to US becomes the opening and inviting
field Of commercial enterprise in the distant
Orient. and among that mighty Gordon Of In
dian islands, Of which Australia is the chief.
In this connection, how important the Pacific
railroad, with lines Of connecting steamers to
Shanghai, Canton. and the ports of Australia,
and the contiguous islands.-Hence. too. there
is something Of imposing magnitude in the
commercial aspects Of the mission Of Mr..
Walker to China, California, and Australia,
as solving the problem Of western highway
to Eastern Asia Let us make way then for
the grandest ful6lment of the dream of Col
umbus. when the island continent of the anti
podes shall stand in the dignity Of a great re-
public among the nations, and when the Ian.
guage, society and institutions Of our so-ca!led
raee shall compass three-fourths
Of the circuit Of the globe. Clear the track
IN. y Herald.