Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-08
American PIogtess.

Baekwood's Magazine, whose former ombit-
tered hostility to everything American will be re-
coleeted,seems at last TO have opened its eyes to
American progress, and to have become oonvin-
ced of the perpetuity of American Institutions
In its last issue it says
Although the eyes of the world are Just now
directed almost exclusively to Eastern Europe,
in which events are occurring of far more than
national import, IL may not be either i-timed, or
uninteresting,to east hasty glance over another
quarter of the globe in which development of
power is going ON, silently but rapidly, unatten-
ded by the startling incidents of battle by land or
sea, yet not less pregnant with results which
may influence the destinies of a large portion of
the human race. We need scarcely say that
our remarks point to the American Republic aud
that it is that young giant of the West whose
growth to maturity affords an object of contem-
pation infinitely moreinstructive than any which
barbara Russia presents in her fronzied struggle
for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, or the powers of
Western Europe afford in Il cir i'll eemcntcd and
doubtful union to rerei the aggressor. Until with
IN the last few years we have been too much in
the habit of treating the accounts brought before
us of American progress to greatness as extrava-
giant gasconade. The governments of Europe
have been disposed 10 ignore the protensions
which she has put FORTH until, from one after an
other, she has wrung PREPARATION for actual or
imagined wrongs. Even when we saw her flag Hy-
ing in every port of the world and felt the active
competition of her merchants and ship-owners
we were disposed to regard her rather as an in
terloping traficker, with whom. from her distance
from US and isolated position, Europe could have
little sympathy. than as the germ of powerful
nation with mighty future in prospect With
"a view to bring about proper recognition of the
actual and growing Importance of America as n
member of the great family of nations we pro-
pose here to give few statistics illustrative not
only of the innate elements of strength and pro-
gress which she possesses, but also of the genius
shown by her people in turning them to profitable
account.
But we turn once mere before concluding 10
the great country of the West, with view to
inquire whether its institutions, and their past
working, afford guarantee of its permapence
and continued prosperity. There was aeperiod
lin 1923 if we remember arght-when disrup-
ton threatened the integrity of the Union. and il
was prophesied thatinterests different as those
of the Southern States and the New England and
Western States, must ultimately bring bout their
separation. Even now the slavery question il
provoking serious discord,and may have, to those
who have not studied the position of the country.
a Somewhat menacing aspect. But since 1898
much has been effected to cement confederation
The various lines of railway and other communi-
cations running from North to SO 18th on the At
lantic seaboard, and along the valley between the
Allegheny and the Rocky Mountains, through
every variety of climate and of soil, from the
temperate nearly to the tropic, have created a
vast Interchange of the products, both of agricul