Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-09

wealth such rs a poet never dreamed of to
I'LL the great argosies Of Genoa andof We.
nice Who, in so brief timo.e wrough,
all these wonders-l Was il tho work of
! legends of fabulous giants, marshalle6 TO
Their stupendons task ,bv the miraculous
charm of the ring of Solomon, such as we
read OF in the picturesque legends of Ara
! oia! lie who saw 1t as it was ten wears
ago, and sees itas IL is now, might well
conceive that nothing short of supernatural
| power cond have produced the marvellous
change. 1t is miraculous, tits supernatlir-
al-.-Dot miracle of demon slaves driven
! uhder the lash OF some magacian taskmas-
ter but the miracle of American COURAGE
! American genius and America virtue, work.
ing out our eountry's great destihies. under
tue preordained inpusion of Almighty
God, 1t was my fortune, at another time
10 staud on the summit Of the lofty ridge
! of land which divides the sources of the
Mississippi from those of Lakes Superior,
| Huron. Eria and Ontario, having OH my.
| right hand waters Of that mighty river
which drains. and, as it flows on to the
! Gulf Of Mexico, fertilizes the largest and
the rich t valley of cnllivable land on the
! raee'6f the earth; and, on my left hand,
thatSunique succession Of great rivers and
akes--the liver alternately expanding into
magnificent fresh water seas, and the seas
| narrowing again into beautiful rivers and
so, through forest and meadow, and over
| cataracts and rapids, rolling on with lavish
protusion a thousand miles to the far off
| Gulf of ST. Lawrence. Such was the stand,
point of view. Before, behind, all around
| me, were noble forests Of oak and pine and
maple and elm, earth born giants of the
primeval world mud beyond them, stretch
ing far away to the uttermost bounds of the
horizon, verdant savannahs in all the lux
.urlance of natures virginia. unstinted prodi-
9aiity; sublimoly immense as an ocean,
lovely as dream of Paradise. Strcamlets
and lakes were sparkling amid the trees in
the sunlight, like diamonds and sapphires
scattered over the rich tEcsscs OF some fair
maiden rs she steps in the pride of her beau
ty and her youth. All that magnificent
scene however, was but wilderness, where
the Indian stillroamed at willin his native
forests or padded his light canoe on river
and lake; ; and where no sign of cultivation,
nomark Of civilization, was to be seen save
in the glorious banner of the stripes and
stars floating oyersome military station or
outpost, to be witness of the omnipresent
power OF the Union. Here, again, the
thought came to me- can it be that all
this wealth of land and sea is to remain
lost to the uses of human greatness and
happiness? 1t half tempted one to impeach
the divine justice, to reflect that; millions
and millions of men we're at that hour sti-
fling for want of space in the crowded coun.
tries of Europe "cabinen, cribbed, confin.
ed" ir narrow lines, where industry bad
n0fieId to work in, and ambition was dc
vouring its own heart for want of scope
and object; and wives and children were
! and mlsery-whlIst here was earth enough
to be the seat of Imperial dominion, squan-
dered apparently on a handful OF untamed
and untaInabe Indians. But impious would
have been such a thought--the foolish i'm
| piety Of mans improyidonce andjgnorance.
Gods wisdom is not our wisdom. He had
hs own great purposes TO work out in his
own good time, and with the instruments
of his own election. For now, there also
American activity, industry, enterprise, have
een9exerted; andyellow harvest fields on
the prairie, busy mills at the waterfall, pop.
u'oas communities by the riverside, have
transfgured the face Of the desert and an
Other powerful State (Minnesota) has arisen
there to add to the greatness ofthe, Ameri-
can Union.
| Is not that manifest destiny Is not that
a ptovidentiai missionl 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 I'm
ion had perforce to do, was taken to be
the personation of some awful monster.
shaking forth pestilenceand death from its
hcgid hair! Ay,,;h tiisis pioSssT colony.
of Massachusetts, doubled With PlymoutE,
onthe yeryrock of Plymouth itself where
q free compact Of se.fgo9ernment first
| found a footstand on earth, and from which
| poiRt, together with the coeval starting
Fpoint Of jamestown, there moved the two
| parallel columns ofemigration which com
menced Americas marelf--aC that very
place, a good and honoFed friend Of mine
felt called upon to protest against my sug.
gestioH of the onward march, march,
inarch, 2 Of the advancing hosts of civiliza-
tion, liberty and power which follow the
| westward flight Of The eagle Of the Union
Istaad4to my thought. ] reitefate ii. /
stick to the purpose whissli Brought NY f9ss-
father John Gushing, from Riugham in
Epgland TO Mihghau, in Massachusetts.
aay that every ship load Of colcnists which
came 10 tho beginuing.to Virginia and to
Massachusetts, and each one Of us their de.
sceadanis, who aFo but moving ON With an
i a2eeleraiion of the ORIGINAL itnpafus which