Butte record., 1854-07-22
YOUNG America in Japan.
Under this head, the C,ticen,

Under this head, the Citizen, contai-
some remarks concerning the opening of
the treasures of Japan to American
enterprise, which will be read with more
than ordinary interest by those who take
au interest in the progress Of the Young
Republic of the West. "With one gi-
ant step it had passed over a vast con-
tnent from oceen to ~ceaR-with another
it now crosses the wilderness of waters,
and bestriding the great Pacific, it now
stands upon two hemispheres. Like the
angel described in the Apocalypse, with
one foot upon the sea and the other up
on the dry land-with one foot in Cali
fornia, and the other in the Japanese
Archipelago-it proclaims the everlast-
ing gospel of freedom to the millions Of
the east, who sit in darkness and the
shadow of death. Having gained i
toothold in that mysterious empire.
Young America has a fucrum upon
which to rest lever that will move the
eastern world.
''Humbolt said, that commercial in
tereourse could not be opened between
the Japan and the west till the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans were united by ca
nal across the Isthtnus of Panama for
that neck of land, said the llustrious
traveller, has been for ages the bulwark
Of the independence of Japan. Open a
way through that, and the productions Of
the east will be brought six thousand
miles nearer the Z. s. American ener-
cy has since constructed railroad acros,
the Isthmus, and there are now other
speedy routes from ocean TO ocean But
these facilities viii not affect the indie
pendence of Japan America ma es no
suhjugated colonies, nor paltry provinces.
Nor is Japan thus brought 600O miles
nearer to the United States, for the
shores Of the Pacific are the present
boundary Of the republic, and Sln Fran
cisco is designed to become the entrcpot
for American commerce, not only with
Japan, bit China, Cochin China, Siam,
and India itself, with all the maritime
countries of Asia, Polynesia Oceanica,
and Australasia, embracing a popula-
ton of SIX hundred millions Japan is
directly opposite California, and will
pour its "golden marrow' into her lap.
Already San francisco merchant, with
genuine Yankee enterprise, has taken
tine by the forcock, and sailed for the
japanese islands in anticipation of Com.
Perry's success. Many other Americans
viii soon follow his example.
"Thus "the star of empire westward
takes its way" and following the sun in
is course, circles the globe, till it rises
in the east, whence empire, and civiIiza-
ton, and light, and the human race it.
self fist sprung.
"The commercial sway Of England is
fast dwindling away. Her ''metcor fag''
pales before the star-spangled banner in
the war Of commerce which is now car
ried against her, not only into Africa,
but Asia and the ends of the earth. The
English journals boast that the report
that the Emperor Of Russia succeeded
in opening Japan is untrue The Czlr
might reiort that England, notwithstan-
ding all her diplnmacy. is to be excluded
a share in the prize which has excited
the cupidity Of all the maritime nations
of the world, and which has been her.
metically sealed for moe than two hun,
dred Years, except to the Dutch and the
Chinese, and open to them only at a
single point, through an islet prison,
and under the most hampering and har-
assing restrictions. The success OF
Commodore Perry IS proud feather in
the cap of the American Republic