Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-09
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The Manifest Destiny" Of darnagogue.
and Democratic Admins rations. l. moi tina,
great and glorious destiny for which true
patriots labor and good men pray. II IL no,
the destiny Of national safety. much less Of
Republican honor. 1t Is abhorre., 10 the
principles Of our Government. and shouli
be condemned by every ,ru. American W.
should scorn to be imitaior- Of that which
hn. most disgraced empire. and monarchies
in following out wha, their ambition made
them believe was THEN " Manifest Destiny"
-Ga-sne.
Every age Of the world has had its
croaking, tim d, and shor, sighted
people, whose terror at the signs OF
progress and improvement has made
their lives n perpetual nightmare, and
filled their death bed reflections with
gloomy and horrible f~orebodings.
When Columbus launched his three
small vessels upon the trackless and
unknown Ocean in quest Of this New
World, thousands Of just such men as
the editors Of the Gazette, saw nothing
H. the adventure but rashncss and folly.
When the Pilgrim Fathers encountered
the native population of New England
under Phillip and his associate Indian
Kings, hundreds Of just such croakcrs
Is our neighbor, lamented the wrong,
and ontrages perpetrated by the In
dams, in Selling their lands, and iilli-
clustering away the sovereignty which
the God Of Nature had bestowed upon
their own peculiar race. When the
thirteen Colonies, smarting under the
usurpatious Of the British King, de
ciared their independence of his an.
thority, just such men in the Colonies
rs our ncighbor, howled aud shrieked
in an agony of fear and terror al the
Manifest Destiny" which WAS carving
on to completion the DEGREES of the Az
mighty, respecting tho future of thi.
Continent. When that peerless dem.
Ocrat and statesman, TnoMAs Jtr,nn.
BON, purchased Of France in ls02.
another empire in the Louisiana Grant,
men like our neighbor warned the
country against the inevitable ruin.
such expansion ofterritory would briue
upon the Country. The war Of 1872
was opposed by the same class of rhar
isecs. The Florida purchase Witnessed
,he renewal Of their agonics, and when
Texas was admitted into the Union
the bleatings Of this class were heard
in every valley and on every plan.
The WAL with Mexico, cw ricd on to
punish that barbarous race for robber-
ies and murders committed upon our
citizens, was char ctcrized as piratical.
and prayers went up from such men as
Our neighbor, that our brave soldiers
mign be met upon the soil ot Mexico
with bloody hands and hospi,able gra
YES" When New Mexico and California
were purchascdfor* ,OOO, 900 thenthe
destruction Of divine wrath was sure &,
overtake this people, and the national
union he dissolved. Yet Manifest
Destiny" from the time when Colum-
bus landed upon our shores until now,
has been steadily and surely working
out its own DEGREES, aud covering this
beautiful continent with the glorious
trophies Of Civilization. From being
weakened or in any way cniecblcd hy
this enlargement OF our dominions, We
have become more compactly knit TO
gether in the brotherho d Of States.
and by the ties Of mutual interest and
dependence. II is true that the party
to which the Editors Of the gazette
belong, have labored night and day, to
ktroy the union Of the North and
luti', and ut this hour would heartily
koice to see the two sections entirely
dependent Of each other; and vet
he hypocritical pharisees denounce
f'Man,fcst Destiny" for fear of that
| disunion which they so assiduouslv
strive to bring about.
Our Manifest Destiny" is that OF
the peaceful regeneration of a Cont
nent plunged into all the darkness OF
Ignorance, superstition and crime. Our
forefathers found this Continent "A vii
derness, ovcr which roamed "a savage
race, which they and their descendants
have nearly exterminatcd, only because
they refused the boon Of absorption
into the army of%social progress. So We
find n portion Of this Continent o
in the possession Of a race of Spanish
robbers, whose vain efforts for 25 years
1t self-governhent have ended in total
failure, and left the poor wretches in a
d~eplorablc condition OF perpetual
anarchy. Ii We car succeed in putting
an end to this destructive confusion.
by acquiring sovereignty over that
territory BY honorable means, we
shall render essential service to them
and to Humanity. The Sun of Civil
sation is ascending to the high meri-
dian, and is pouring its glorious efful.
gence upon this Continent. 1t will
warm and nourish every element Of
progressive humanity, and will dry M
and wither every noxious weed tina,
seeks to choak the growth of inevita
bic good. Indians and Spaniards
buffaloes and bears, and every thing
inimical to the development OF HUI