Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-02
Young America.

This sObqu obtained by party of Progressives ahopph
intended dersve ephet is when thought of for
nickname full OF meaning power, force Young America
In how young Our history but the span of mans life
our progress in all that eevaes and ennobs the race can
scarcely be crushed within the space often centuries Young
IN age, though old in experience Young age though g
ant in physical power and greatness We can stand and look
back at the Past and the steps our Present Young
we are nation but how old in force Why our snews
yet not full grown the blood of expansbty vet
cooling curdng in The heart of Young Amer
ca yet immature hrobs quick light but with the firm
ness OF manhood Its embrace is fatal its anger be dread
its love be coured 1t has the impulses of youth temp
cred by prudence drawn from age but from native
by and greatness SOUL and perfect knowledge of cooss-
al strength
The name Young America, is symboical, and the name
thrown in derison may yet become the slogan of the
and terror to the world and the of mankind We say to
the old foges, beware of Young America
by the way, we have met with views of Tocquevle
which please not much because of their originality
from their presentation of the controlling philosophy
and the like picture they present of the progressive spirit
nursed by democratic institutions. Tocqueve French
who visited country some years since and on his
return home he gave the world his observations He saws
the inhabitants of the United States ettered by the
of their profession they escape from all the peudces
OF their past station they attached to one line
OF operation than to another they prone to en-
poy old method than they no rooted hab
other nations might exercise upon their minds from conyic
ton that their country unlike any other, and that sua
ton is without precedent in the world America is land
OF wonders, i'll which every thing in notion and
every movement Improvement The idea of novel
W Is there ndissouby connected with the idea of ameora
ton. No natural boundary to be the efforts
man and what yet done only what he has not vel
attempted.
Is this picture Of Youth Old Age To us it is instinct
with the impulses of Youth Youth dares the
worst while grappes with the Past Present Future and
IN the struggle deems victory certain improvement inevitable
Again he says The whole lie of American passed like
continually operation throughout the coun
try they ultimately mpart irresistible impulse the
onal character The American taken chance specimen
his countymen, then be of singular warmth il
his desires, enerpng fond of adventure, and above all
innovation. The bent is manifest in all that he does
he introduces into his political laws his religious doctrines
his theories OF social economy, and his domestic occupations
he bears with him in the depth of the back woods well
in the business OF city is this passion applied
maritime commerce, which makes him echeapest and II
quickest trader in the world.
This is Young America, and how the picture is,
man may learn who will his eye back only fifty years.
The geographical boundaries of the nation have exparAed
f the that population has increased and we at
say that the boy walks the national
polls this day, with down upon his CHM who wiYyet
the and stripes the battemens of NE More
and ministers of justice dispensing law in the icy region
othe Poe and many degrees below present frontier in til
cline of the Equator.