The Nevada journal., 1854-01-20

There is no condemnation, which the voice OF
freedom will not pronounce upon US, should we
prove faithless to this great trust While men
inhabitng different parts of this vast continent
1 can no more be expected to hold the same
r opinions, or entertain the same sentiments
than every variety of climate can be expected
to furnish the same agricultural products, they
can unite in common object and sustain COM
7 mon principles essential to the maintenance OF
r that object. The gallant men of the south and
: north could stand together during the struggle
OF the Revolution; they could stand together
in the more trying period which succeeded the
clangor of arms. As their united valor was ad-
equate to all the trials of the camp and danaers
OF the held, so their united wisdom proved equal
10 the 5reatcr task of founding, upon deep
ana broad basis, Institutions, which it has been
our most sacred duty TO sustain. It is but the
ieeole expression Of fahh strong and univer-
sal, to say that their sons, whose blood mingled
|, 80 often upon the same field, during the war of
t, lclI, and who have more recently borne in tri-
omph the flag OF the country upon foreign
SOIL, will never permit alienation of feeling to
weaken the power of their united efforts, ioor
internsl dissensions to paralize the great arm Of
freedsh, upffted for the vind;oation of selfgov-
ernment.
as seem to me espially worthy of your consid-
GRAFTON. In providing for the present, you can
hardly fail to avail yourselves of the light
which the experience Of the past casts upon
The growth Of our population has now
brought US id the destined career Of our nationS
, history to point at which it behooves us to
| expand our vision over the vast prospective.
Tho cunoocuivn rofurra If tho non
sus since the adoption a the constitution have
revealed law Of steady progressive develop
ment, which may be stated, IN general terms, as
a duplication every quarter century. Carried
forward, from the point already reached for on
ly short period Of time as applicable to the ex-
istence of nation, this law of progress il un-
checked, will bring US to almost incredible re-
suits. A large allowance for q diminished
proportional effect OF emigration would not
very materially reduce the estimate, while the
increased average duration of human life known
to have already resulted froA the scieAtifc and
hygienic improvements Of the past fifty years,
will tend to keep up through the next
fifty or perhaps hundred, the same ratio OF
growth, which has thus been teveaed in 1ht}
past progress and to the influence of these
causes may be added the influx of laboring |
masses from eastern Asia to the Pacific side of
our possessions, together with the probable ac-
cession of the populations already existing in
other parts of our hemisphere which within the
period in question: will feel with yearly increas-
ing force the natural attractions Of 50 vast. pow
erful and prosperoasa confederation of selfgov-
erning republics, and will seek the privilege of
being admitted within its safe and happy bo-
som, transferring with themselves, by peace
full and healthy process Of incorporation, spa
cious regions ofvirgin and exuberant soil, which
are destined to swarm with the fast-growing
and fast-spreading millions Of our race.
These considerations seem fully to justify the
presumption, that the law of population above
stated will continue to act with undimiuished
effect tn. ough at leasss the next half century
and thousands of persons who have alteady ar
rived at maturity, and are now exercising the
rights of freemen will close their eyes on the
spectacle of more than one hundred millions of
population embraced within the majestic pro-
portions of the American Union. 1t is not
merely as an interesting topic Of speculation
that present these views for your considera-
ton. They have important practical bearings
upon all the political duties we are called upon
to perform. Heretofore, our system of govern
ment has worked on what may be termed a
miniature scale, in comparisons with the devel-
opment, which it must thus assume, within a
future so near at hand as scarcely to be beyond
the present of the existing generation.
1t is evident that confederation so vast and
so varied, both in numbers and in territorial
extent, in habits and in interests, could only
be kept III national cohesion by the strictest
fidelity to the principles Of the constitution as
understood by those who have adhered to the
most restricted construction of the powers
granted by the people and the States. Inter-
preted and applied according to those princi-
pies, the great compact adapts itself with
healthy ease and freedom to an unlimited ex-
tension of that benign system of federative seH
government, of which it Is our glorious, and
! trust, immortal charter. Let us, then, with
redoubled vigilance, be on our guard against
yielding to the temptation of the exercise of
doubtful powers, even under the pressure of the
motives of conceded temporary advantage and
apparent temporary expediency.
The minimum of federal government, CON-
patible with the maintenance of national unity
and efficient action in our relations with the
rest Of tho world, should afford the rule and
measure of construction of our powerS under
the general clauses of the constitution. A
spirit of strict Difference to the sovereign
rights and dignity of every State, rather than
q disposition to subordinate the States into
provincial relation to the central authority,
should characterize all our exercise of the re-
spective powers temporarily vested in us as o
sacred truth from the generous confidence of
our constituents
In like manner, as a manifsty Indispensable
condition Of the perpetuation of the Union,
and of the realization of that magnificent ma
! tional future adverted to. does the duty become
yearly stronger and clearer upon US, as citizens
of the severa, States, to cultivate fraternal
and affectionatc spirit, language and conduct in
regard to other States, and in relation to the
varied interests institutions, and habits of SEN
timent and opinion, which may respectively
characterize them. Mutual forbearance, res
pect and nou-iutrference in cur personal action
as citizens, and an enlarged exercise of the
most liberal principles of comfy in The pnblic
dealings of the State with State, whether in
the legislation or the execution of laws, are-the
means to perpetuate that confidence and fra
teenity, the decay of which a mere political