Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-21

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devoted 10 maintain the Constitution AMI preserve
the Union. love Of our constitutional Union beais
i'm every pulsatiUn Of my heart aud Is entwned VIII
every lgament Of my frame.
Amid all the cares and eujuyments, the duties anu
responsibilities of life. il has been and is still
among my chief pleasures and consultations, to con
template the present position at my cnIntry anu ul
folding the scroll of coming years and centuries L"
endeavUr to realize her advancing greatness emd pros
periry. love to look upon her rs she Is, ana as E
il to be, if the Constitution and the UnIon can Or
maintained and p-rpeusted. | view her m"w, with n
commercial marine greatly more than doubled Wlth'l
the lasl ten years, reacEng now nearly SIX millions ~
TONS already surprising that ut Great Britain. ana al
the relative rnte OF progress, long before 'ie
close Of this century greatly exceeding that OF nj! ir
world conlbre a. long since predctediu my official
reports. see our mighty exlanse ct territory
stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacltc, from the
Lakes of the North to the Gulf of Mexico, orr'i'
pied by nearly thirty millions of people, blessed WIN
far larger share oil happiness, comfort and prosper
" than Providence over before v"uc!.afed to man.
sre twenty four thousand miles of rail road, arendy m
operation n grea,ar aggregate nn NIL The resi- :"
the world. stretching from the Atlantic to the M.sI
sippi, already crnssing TINT great river at var"u,
unts from North 10 South, soon 10 pour their united
tides Of commerce, travel and business int" the one
grea trunk line 10 the Pacific | see the gold OF Cal
iturnia and Australia and vast portion ot the com
m-rce of Asia passing through this channel to ne
Atlantic, meeting here the travel and traffic oil Eu
this nearest, cheapest safest and quickest route to t'
Pacific.
ace the command of universal commerce pas-ii'-
from Europe America and feel thai, ultimately, III,
nation that commands the commerce Of the world
must command tho institutions Of the world and ~
troduce them finally into general adoption, not by The
sword or conquest. but by the moral force oil our
successful example striking down the thrones OF des
pots, and erecting upon their ruins the glorious iaor!'
| Of the peoples will SEE, too what in this probable
crisis OF my countrys destiny, it is my duty again |,
repeat from my Texas letter, thai when Congress ahH
the North shall have wholly ceased to interfere VIII
the question ut slavery, the African race gradually
disappearing from our borders passing i'll part OUT /"
our limits 10 Mexico mud Central AMI Spanish AWcr
"a and in part returning the shores al their allces
tore there, il is hoped o carry Christianity, ciVIs2a
ton and freedom throughout the benighled rrson o
| the SONS OF Ham. Indeed, it is most remarkah.t
fact, that while IN their native Africa the race ha
made no progress, while in the mock repubiicot hny
ii or brutal despot:sm Of Soouque in Jamaica anh II
the British West Indies the emancipa,cd slaves nave
| retrusaded 10 barbarsm; while even in our OWL
North the free black is generally found IN tn.
ials or poor houses hospitals, the ass OF Inc
deaf and dumb, the blind or insane, in pesilien
alleys or cellars, amid Of restitution aud inia
nv vet in Africa, alone, colony of eInanclpaiet
saves, born and raised in the much abused South