Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-11-13
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The next four wears viii witness IN

America. we already behold the
forces Of progress slowly awaking and
preparing for mighty and important
results within that period Of time
Minnesota, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah,
Nebraska and perhaps the Territories
Of Washington and Oregon will be ad-
mittcd into the glorious confederation,
swelling the number from 81 to 3s
magnificent States. Other new Terri
tories will be carved out Of these Ter
ritories that uniformity Of size NAV
be observed in the proportion of new
States. Texas may be divided into
four States, as by the treaty Of annex
alton she has the right, adding three
more to the 81, and multiplying the
number Of United States Senators from
% to So. The overland route to the
Pacific States will become great ma
sional highway, dotted along its borders
with towns and villages rs the outpost
Of civilization, and with forts for the
protection Of emigrants against the
tomahawk and scalping knife Of the
red man, who,"reads his doom in the set
ting SUM-" The simple child Of the for
eat looks and wonders at the power Of the
pale face and knows not why the Great
Spirit is permitting his race to become
extinct before the onward march OF
civilization. lie knows not why the
lands he has so long occupied for his
hunting grounds and corn fields is to
be taken from him BY the pale faced
stranger; and he fights and recedcs TO-
wards the Rocky Mountains from the
East, and from the Pacific coast, and
will, In few short years, stand upon
those grey old battlements OF nature :
with the remnant Of his race, and ike
the old Wcch bards, chant the ancien,
songs Of his tribe with mourniul music,
and at last perish amid those cracev
rocks, leaving no monuments to record
the history Of his origin, and save the
rude piles ofstoncs above the graves %,
brave old chiefs, not a spot will tell
that they had once been the possessor,
OF this vast continent upon which we
1--we. Thus will the unlettered eayap,
perish and be forgotten, except in re-
nance. Upon our Southern border.
We now behold dccaying nations una
bic TO >tstan themselves a,ainst an
archy from within and aggression from
cut, and they are fast orunbling into
ruin. The spirit Of enterprise and al
venture. and The glorious inspiration q,
liberty among the people Of this Re
public. will make the downfall of these /
States The occasion Of regencrating
Their fossil remains, and pouring into
them the expanding forces OF true CIV.
hlsatioh and progress. and those dcren
crate and mongrel races viii pi,c way
before The onward march of the Anglo
Saxon, as did the savares of the wilder
ness before the Pilgrim Father, Tho
Almighty has dccrccd that this bcauti-
ui earth shall bc in the possession If
hose who will employ It's resources for
ne elevation Of humanity. Every race
which fails to conform to the laws of
ievelopement and progression. will We ,
wept away like the ancien, Jews. with {
he bosom of destruction. In Central t
America We already behold the beeir.
ing OF new era of Regeneration in :,
bat halt civilized portion OF the cont
ent. Liberty is expansive, and can t
o more be suppressed than the inter
al forces OF the volcano. Nicaragua j, "
the hands of race of frecmen.- \
'uba will not long remain hke beau c
ful diamond in the desert sands. bu, II
resuced by the devotecs of liberty y
nd be placed in the glittering crown i
at adorns the beautiful brow Of the o
niling goddess. Not by force OF fraud p
It BY rapine and plumber, not BY the 7,
" Of might, but by the decree of the :.
mnipotent Sovereignof the:Uniycrse, "
10 wills that the millennium of universal m
'erty andpeaoe shall soon prevailupon W
Q earth, will this be accomplished. IL tn
'gland shall interpose with her ar -
les and navies, she too will have TO
'e way before irresistible progress,
the Canadas be severed from her
'ereignty, to breathe the air of indie str
adence, in the brotherhood of Amer. .oa
n States. The continent Of Ameri- sm
has been reserved forthe sons of free ext
n. 1t has been reserved as the great in al
nple Of the living God, where all Sho
creatcres may sing his praise and mo mo-
e him worship, in the manner which a Ia
hem shall seem the most sppropri- o.
II has been reserved a. vast field IN.
IRE education, science, art, literature cha
religion have every conceivable ton
for their fullest devel. 80
ment and the most unlimited acti,. p.
aritl
he next four years is pregnant with boy.