Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1853-07-30

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one day be the seats Of popuIous and pow1
erful states. AT present no other language
and national character present the same aps
pearance Of diffusion and propagation. Ger-
mans and French, not to speak of lesser ma
tions, are absorbed and assimiated into the
great English Staple Of the United States.-
Indeed, the day is not far distant when the
language we speak will be the chief medium
of communication throughout the Atlantic,
the Pacific, the Indian and the Southern
Oceans; and wherever the weary emiarant
seeks to rest the sole Of his foot, he will find
himself compelled to change the language Of
his fathers for that of Queen Victoria aud
President Fillmore
Disappointed, then, as we are of unity
and conquest, we are at least sure of seeing
our race the most numerous, she most diffu-
Ised, the most powerful in the world, and Of
Exercising an influence far beyond the scope
of emperors and czars, beyond the reach Of
cabinets, and the organization Of afmies.<-
Whatever may befall the community that
peoples these little isles, it will be consola<
ton, that wherever we go, whether following
gain or flying oppression, we shall every
where find our own countrymen, hear our
language in every port, and everywhere dis
cover that we have changed the cline. but
not the generous freedom, the industry. the
literature, the worship Of our own native
land
1t is the prospect Of these expanding and
Strengthening affinities that imparts so much
interest to the mutual hospilalities shown by
British and American citizens to the diplo-
matte representatives Of the sister states.-
We have lately seen not only the British
minister, but also a distinguished merchant
|of this metropolis, magnifcently entertained
at more than one city of the United States,
and it is now grown up into a custom, not
easily to be broken, that the American min
ter should receive here like welcome at
our own principal seats of commerce and
manufacture. London, Manchester, Liver
pool, Birmingham, and other cities, as occa.
sion may offer, afford the American Minister
an opportunity of hearing and returning the
expressions of that confidence and friendship
and that sense of common interest, which
are felt by every rational person ON both
sides of the Atlantic.
Nor would these festivities be so popular.
or the speeches then delivered be listened to
with such interest, were IT not for the almost
business character of these occasions. A
mere interchange of political sentiment be-
tween two nations, with little to bind them
beyond mutual respect and affection, might
have poetical character, but would never
grow into a custom. 1t is that business cha
racter, that evident prospect Of advantage,
that constant reference to commercial affairs.
which deprives these festivities of senti-
mental character, but also gives them far
more sensible and enduring significance. In
truth, these International banquets celebrate
not sentiment, but fact, not a name bur
a substance; not an historical recollection,
but future full of promise. Ever since the
epoch, so deplorable in the eyes of politi-
clans, which violently removed the United
States from the legal pale of this realm, the
actual conEexion between the mother coun.
try and her transatlantic colonies has been
closer and closer. 1t has now attained to a
pass that our Georgian statesmen never
dreamed Of
The relation Of England to Scotland or
Ireland, of the metropolis to the provinces,
of towns to counties, is not more intimate
and beneficial than that of the British Isles
to the United States The vast and fertile
territory there brought under cultivatioB by
our kinsmen, supplies our increasing popula-
ton here with the materials of labor and the
means Of existence, without which they must
have long ceased to increase and multiply
We contribute the bone and sinew, without
which the planter and the colonist would me-
yer have had encouragement to penetrate the
interior, to cut down the forest, TO drain the
swamp, and cover half continent, in one
brief generation, with network Of RAILWAYS
and teiegraphic wires.
1t used to be said that If Athens and Lace
demon could but make up their minds TO be
good friends and make a common cause. they
would be masters Of the world The wealth,
the science, the maritime enterprise, and
daring ambition of the one, assisted by the
population, the territory, the warlike spirit
and stern institutions of the other, could not
fail to carry the whole world before fhem.-
prosperity of mankind, and mmistering only
more easy and more honorable acquisition,
lies before England and the United States.
and all othe- countries owning our origin and
speaking our language. Let them agree,
not in an alliance offensive and defensive,
but simply never TO go to war with one ano-
ther. Let them permit one another to de-
velope as Providence seems to suggest. and
the British race will gradually and quietly at
tain to preeminence beyond the reach Of mere
|policy and arms.
The vast and eser-increasing interchange
of commodities between the several menu
bers Of this great family, the almost daily
communication now opened across, not one,
but several oceans, the perpetual discovery
of new means Of locomotion, in which steam
itself now bids fair to be supplanted by an
eoualIv powerful but cheaper and more CON-