Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-06-03
Plymouth, Ohio, Saturday, June 8
Manifest Destiny.


giving an account Of what had been done,
and added:
al have just affixed my name 10 the
treaty with deep grief, for foresee inf.
mite trouble TO Spain from the existence
of a North American Republic. This
Republic has been ushered into the world
a pigmy but the day will come when
i, will have grown into gigantic proper
lions and be Colossus"
He then stated that "the United States
would move down to the Gulf of Mexi-
CO that they would take Florida aud New
Spain, (Mexico,) and at last The Island OF
Cuba"
Count Amanda was right. He was a
prophet. And ii has only taken about 10
years 10 verify lis prophecies. Most of
the events which he anticipated have al
ready taken place. Florida and Louis
lana came in and aided materially in
swelling the pigmy Republic into Co.
los,us. Then Texas. then California and
Nsw Mexico, were absorbed, making US
altogether, pretty respectable sized ma
ton.
But still, Notwithstanding these acces-
sions, our Manifest Destiny is not yet &C.
compllshed. Our national appetite in.
stead of being appeased by the territorial
,i,-bits it has had to tickle l., is only
sharpened, and like Oliver Twist it is
asking for more.
The more we get the more want. New
Mexico and California was but the pre-
lude 10 the balance of the Greasers' pos.
sessions. Santa Ana when he gave US
those strips might have just as well Civ
en- US all the rest, and saved The TWO gov.
ernments another war or two. Spain
when she sold Florida, would have done
just as well had she thrown Cuba into
the bargain, for we'll have it, and all
she'll go for it will be musket balls. Sc
nor Amanda, in 1883, foresaw this, and
were he now alive and administering the
affairs Of Spain, he would, like Captain
Scott's coon, come down gracefully, and
not make himself ridiculous by throwing
obstacles in the way of our Manifest Des
tiny.
That we are TO have the Sandwich Is.
lands is fixed fact. France has lost her
supremacy there-.he natives are thor
oughly Amercanised. They have gone
through the preparatory course. All
tile more striking characteristics of oul
people are already observable in them
They have emerged from their state oI
primitive simplicity, and wear duck irou.
sers, chew tobacco, drink whiskey ano
steal. The native arislocracy, in imita
ton of our Kentucky chivalry, also car
~ revolvers and sword-canes. Mucl
has civilization done for them. Of cours,
the immediate annexation of the Sand
wch Islands is big spoke in the whee
of Manifest Destiny,
Within a few weeks past, Nantes
Destiny has found another opening. Sc
nor Jose Barrundia, the accredited Min
lister of the Republic of Honduras, to ,h'
United States, is at present in Washing
ton, with proposals to annex that Repub
lie to ours. As it would make two sucl
states as Ohio, it is large enough to b.
quite an object-especially as they arr
anxious--not 10 sell-buI 10 absolutely
give us THEN territory. The PROPOSE
ii is at present under consideration
Tne country is very rich. The mos
valuable woods such as mahogany, fustic
&c., abound in great profusion, and woul
be valuable, were it not for the fact tha
! the natives are too lazy to do anythin,
more than to commence the cutting dow
of tree, and, owing to some thirleel
different varieties of fever they cultivat
down there, foreigners can't live len
enough to complete it. The inhabitan.
number about 300, 900, ore mixture 0
Indian, Spaniurd and negro, retaining al
the original laziness Of the Spaniard, tn
filth Of the negro, and "cussedness" G
the Indian. Their color is neithe
white, red or black, but a mixture Q
all three, closely resembling the twiligt
Of a hot day. They have one city; bu
outside Of that they dispense with panta
looms and houses. Pantaloons they fee
TO be an encumbrance ;--lhey woul
build houses, but earthquakes occur j
such rapid succession, that wheneve
they get one nearly finished, one of tbes
pleasant calamities is sure 10 knock o,
the underpinEing, and down it come'
Still these little obstacles won't troubl