Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-28
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
REMARKABLE SPEECH.-The speech deliv-
cred by Caleb Gushing on his recent return to
Newburyport, where he was honored with
public reception by his fellow-citizens without
distinction of party, while exceedingly charac-
teristic, is one of the ablest popular addresses
that has marked the history of American public
affairs, and is destined to tell with powerful ef
feet upon the American public mind We, who
know him well indeed, are aware of the perfect
sincerity with which his philosophical specula-
tions concerning the mutability of parties and
the duty of the patriotic and clear-headed to
reject party allegiance as being always binding,
were uttered. The structure of his really great
and so well-stored mind is such, as that he is
compelled, As it were, to be cosmopolitan in his
politics; and we rejoice that in its mission, it
CHS mind has arrived at the point of sustain
ing the principles, policy and men of the Demo
cratic party, as embracing at this time the ele-
nents Of commendable conservatism and sound
progress; the two great ends to which the gov
eminent Of our Confederacy should look.
We proceed to quote his singular and so ef-
fective effort, wherein he discourses of the des-
tiny Of the United States, of its progress and of
the career Of those who, while protesting to lead
the van in the ful6lment of that great and
glorious end at this time, have been really clogs
and hindrances-pOstponemen of and inter-
ferers with the - march march - march M.''-
forward Of our country in its mission of the
civilization and industrial de velopment of the
whole American continent, which, though thus
embarrassed, is not to be long stayed by such
obstacles, the result of individual cupidity,
brutality and want Of conscience
The MISSION OF IHEAMERIcAS REPUBLIC TO CON-
QCER THE CONTINENT
Is not that manifest destiny Is not that a prov
idential mission Is not that one of the steps in
the ''march. march, march" of the Union which,
when suggested by me, on former occasion, as
what the Union had peTforce to do, was taken to
be the peTsonation of some awful monster. shak-
ing forth pestilence and death from its horrid
hair! Aye, in this pioneer colony of Massachu-
sets doubled with Plymouth, on the very rock
of Plymouth itself where free compact Of self
government first found footstand on earth. and
from which point, together with the coeval start
ing point OF jamestown, there moved the two
parallel columns Of emigration which commenced
America ) march-at that very place a good and
honored friend Of mine felt called upon 10 protest
against my suggestion of the onward .smarch
march, march, of the advancing hosts Of civili-
Zation, liberty and power which follow the west
ward fight Of the eagle Of the Union. j stand to
my thought. ] Teiterate il. / stick to the pur.
pose which brought my forefather, John Cushing,
from bingham in England to bingham in Mas.
sachusetts: 4 say that every ship-load Of colo
nlsts which came in the beginning to Virginia
and to Massachusetts, and each of US their de-
scendants, who are but moving on with an acce!-
IeFation of the original impetus which they gave
US, and every ship load of colonists from Ireland
and Germany, all and each one of us are but tho
humble ministers of God, appointed to occupy to
cultivate and TO civilize America. 1t is oppres-
sion seeking to be freedom. Ii is want demand.
ing to be want no longer. IL is the strong man
without air and without room, and determined 10
have them or die calamity in the struggle for
them- Ii Is the irrepressible expansion of the
over-compressed human energies 1t is the exc.
dus OF the nations. IL is the outpourinp of the
too-ful blood of the Old World into the ali -capa-
clous veins Of the New World. IL IS the founda
fIoH IN America Sof Republican empires TO ont
6OERf IN Numbers and outrie in strength tae pa
rent States Of Europe. say that as the .royk a D.
pointed Of God for 20 do, and, Nth the bless
ting Of God upon us, thar tcork tre riU do. i
rivers run across our path, we will bridge them
II mountains Use up to stop us, we will TUNE
thefni II deserts appear we will reclaim and cul.
tlvate them; IL oceans intervene, we will navi.
gate them, TO which last end so long as there 1.
an oak left upon the earth, gallant ships shall
continue TO be launched into the waters of thi,
our Merrimac No material obstacle can AIRES,
our progress. We woo fair nature which lies be-
lore Us, and we woo il as its conquerer, like the
,hIg OF the old time winning their brides OF
the sea in open combat
say this in the same confidence of conviction
as, one VINO seeing the sun set forth from the por-
70 ,Se W., Ast. may speak Of its onward course
Il
States Were but weak little Colonies of England
scdueieu along the sea-shore. Then thew over
n1~ea tne Aiieghanies into the Valley of the
MlsslsslPpl tthey absorbed the vast domain
OF France from Lake Superior ali around 70 ths
Gulf OF Mexico, and westward to Oregon ~,
they possessed themselves of the two EISrid S =
then OF ieras. AND finally they have marched
on through New Mexico into remote Caiiforn;a
But in our conquest Of nature with onr s,si,.'a.;
arms, and with our dauntless hearts To bacI ,b.
IL happens that men, nations, races NAV. mus,
will, PERISH before MS That IS inc ritabEs TrbeTs
can be no change for the better save at the o,
pense Of that which is-one generation giyes
place to another. Out Of decay springs fresh life
The tribes Of Indians who hunted over the land
without occupying II, retire before us like the
hunted deer and buffalo themselves.-deepel
and deeper into the innermost recesses Of the Con.
tinent. And the Hispano Mexicans, wasting ava
by apparent incapacity Of selfgoyernment, arr
suffering one province after another Of theirs tc
relapse into pristine desolatiOn, and thus 10 be-
come prepared 20 receive the people and the laws
OF the United States. All that is now history
Yet, wise men saw long before that so II was %
De. FROM the present they inferred the future
and spoke Of ii with the positiveness and preci.
sion OF inspired prophecy .'
HISTORICAL FLUCTUATIONS
VI rms a most remarkable proof is to be found
IN nc seCiel Hemolr but recently published.
winch the Count Of Amanda conidentially adj,
oIeeseo 10 MS sovereign, Charles III of Spain
on occasion of signing, In I7s3 the tre,tief 80,
states VI INC Chiteo
81 have just concluded and signed ,, he go
" treaty OF peace with England and thi, negyo,
citation has left in my mind a painfII sen,;,ns.
We have recognized the independence oftbe IT,. ~.
lish Colonies, and that is 10 me a subject OF 1re,
and Of dread France has Few posSessio1s q;
America: but she Ought to have rei.enl,ersd tl,ai
spain. brT Intimate ally, has MANY which now
leniain exposed to terrible COMMISSIONS will
not stop to examine the opinion Of statesmen, as
wen eooatrymea ~ Foreigners, who agree with