The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-02


seyeling much of our national territory on ii
Pacific side from the American Union. Til
cry Of secession" and 'tdisunion" never, hea
ven be praised, found favor with the sons {
4 Louisiana, and have, long ago, become 50 stal
that very few, even in agitation-loving Sout
Carolina, take any heed oft We observe, how
lever, that the Washington correspondent of til
Philadelphia Inquirer, in referring to this ne7
: move, takes occasion to differ with those VII
regard it as s*among the schemes Of Wild an
impracticable nature" He reminds the publ
that "thirty years ago, Thomas Hart Benton j
/ the U. S. senate expressed the opinion that tn
Rocky mountains would be the boundary lin
between two republics founded By the Anglo
Saxon race, and less than thirty months ago
n that sagacious statesman reafirmed that opin
ion," and adds, "less than ten years will sufie
to test the accuracy Of bis predictions Th
writer goes on 10 say that, since the bonbasti
swagger and blunder of president Polk re
garding our northern boundary, 1.-THE 40 ant
I 81 40 contest about Oregon, and the subse
quent war with Mexico, which brought in st
large an augmentation of territory. 'fhe mora
tone Of American sentiment has had no fxee
and certain boundary, no horizon within the
view Of which to cultivate the home feeling 0
patriotism"
/ These reflections deserve some attention al
least; nor is all necessary to elaborate the why
and the wherefore. The veriest tyro in Amer
lean politics readily eomprehends them at a
glance. The heavy Chinese infusion into Cal
ifornia, contemplate as that puerile and de-
graded race may be, is bringing the question of
a mixture Of races and language wildly before
The people OF the Ell Dorado; and the Mormon
scandal in Utah is an equally potent element
of doubt and uncertainty for the honor and in
tegrity Of our beloved country, its institutions,
and its federative character. 4 diversity of
geographical position, climate and soil is, of
itself, powerful lever of disntegraton with
The restless and ambitious, not to mention dem
agogues-such only as this California scheme
can possibly enlist; but when the additional ex-
cuse or influence of a diverse race and people
are superadded, the chances Of the triumph Of
sectionalism are rendered many fold greater
Love Of the Union is passion strong and ire
preside in the bosoms of the masses Of the
American people-it is one of the most sacred
and hallo#ed shousehold gods OF every true
American. Were it otherwise. the gravitation
of Union and Liberty" to natural centre
would Be but an imaginary one A hetero-
geneous population would ueutraize, probably !
destroy, this central attachment in less than a /
Hence, it well behooves the rosaries |
of a genuine American nationality to ponder
well upon the statistics, offered BY the Inqui- /
rer's correspondent TIE class Of politicians, |
known as young America red republicans /
progressises,' manifest destiny men, and pro-
lessons of all Ike 'isms,' should hereafter make
hem their primer, in their ineessant tolls at
annexation and extending the area Of free
1om. Our government has already become
almost too extensive for the immediate grasp
md control of the laws, institutions, manners
md customs handed down to us as the legacy of
,ur fathers
The following are the statistics furnished by
he Washington correspondent and referred to ,
n the preceding paragraph: "These States are Z
ar from perfected as respects Improvements, 8
ven in their most improved portions A few ,
will make clear the truths I would :.
nforce THAT we have now sufficient territory. J !,
Jet us make them: Ireland is not as large as
indiana; yet its population is equal to more j,
ian quarter of the whole United States
ngland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, contain i,
8,948 square miles. Virginia and the two
aroinas contain l4O,352 square miles, being :
| ,304, or about one sixtb, more than the for
er; yet the population of those countries num-
IFS 27,61o,86 souls, or 1, s56, $50 more than
lie whole United States. The three States I :
ave named could receive all the people ofIre- :
nd and Great Britain, in addition to their pre-
mt population, and still be less densely popu-
rises within small fraction of twice the area ,
Great Britain and Ireland. All Italy con-
inns but 1878 square miles, or very little ,
lore than Georgia and Florida; yet its popu- :
.tion number 223, 1872 more than that of the
hole United States. It comprises nine sepa- =
ate political governments, viz: Lombardy and >,
'enice, Sardinia, Tuscany and Lucca, States ,
t the Church, Naples, or the Two Cicilies,
'arma, Modena, San Marine and Monaco
AUSTRIA, including its Italian possessions, LON
ordy and Venice, contains 100000 more
eople than the United States; yet its territory ,
only equal to the FIVE States of Virginia, n.
carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida .
rance contains IS, 500, 900 people, or twelve +,
nilions more than the United States; vet its
rea is only so2, 125 square miles, s773 more
han Virginia, the two Carolnas and Georgia.
'ortugal is not SO large as Kentucky; though ,
; population is nearly three and half MILL =
rs or equal to that Of New York and New I,
ersey, The whole of Italy slightly exceeds !
j extent New York and the New England ,
tates; but, as before stated, its population is +