The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-09-20
RxtrnetfrOm the Speech Of Patrick
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In @s Legislaturs Of Virginio upon he eS0s-
iHg Of DE War Of the Revelation. aa
"Sir, you are destined at some period or
other, to become great sgrieulturaI and
commercial people the only question is,
whether you choose to reach this point by
slow graduations, and at some distant peri
od--liDgering on through long and sickly
minority $Tf && - = or
whether you choose rather to rush at once,
as it were, to the full enjoyment OF your
high destinies. IL
you prefer the latter course, as trust you
do, encourage immigration, encourage the
husbandman, the mechanic, the merchants
Of the Old World to come and settle in the
land of promise. Make it the home of the
skillful, the Industrious, the fortunate and
happy as 'Uell as the Gssylum Of the oppressed
Fill up the measures of your population as
speedily as you can, by the means which
heaven has placed in your power, and ven
ture to prophecy that all those now living.
will see this favored land among the most
powerful on earth.
Yes sir, they will see her first in arts and
in arms-her golden harvests waving over
fields, of immeasurable extent-her COM
merce penetrating the most distant seas, and
her cannon silencing the vain boast of those
who now proudly affect to rule the waves.
1t is your true policy to encourage immi-
grafton to this country by every means in
your power. Sir, you must have men. You
cannot get along without them. Those
heavy forests of timber under which your
lands are groaning must be cleared away.-
Those vast riches which cover the face of
your soil, as we'll as those which lie hid in
its bosom are to be developed and gathered
only by the skill and enterprise of men.
Your timber, sir, must be worked up into
ships to transport the products of the soil and
find the best market for them abroad. Your
great want, sir is the want of them, and these
you must have, and ~ia have speedily if you
are wise
Do you ask sir, how you are to get them
Open your doors, sir, and they will come in.
The population of the world is full to over
flowing. That population is ground, too, by
the expressions of the government under
which they live. Sir, they are already stand
ing upon tiptoe upon their native shores and
looking to your coasts with wishful eyes,
They see here land blessed with natural
and political advantages, which are not equal
led by those of any country upon earth-a
land on which gracious Providence hath
emptied the horn of abun ance--a land
where, peace has new stretched over her
white wings, and where content and plenty
lie down at every door. Sir, they see some
thing more attractive than all this. They
see land in which liberty, hath taken up
her abode---that liberty whom they had con-
sidered as fable goddess, existing only in
the fancies of the poets-they see her here
real divinity-her altars rising on every
hand, throughout these happy States--her
glories chanted by three millions Of tongues,
and the whole region smiling under her bles-
sed influences. 70 cas- r,..a .ar
Sir, let this our goddess, liberty, stretch
forth her fair hand towards the people of the
Old World-tell them to come and bid them
welcome----and you will see them pouring in
from the North, from the South, from the
East, and from the West, and the soil be-
come cleared and settled; your deserts will
be filed; and you soon will be in condition
to defy the powers Of an adversary" a