Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-27

CALEB CUSHING AND MANIFEST DESTINY.
The reception of Caleb Cushing. late United
states attorney general. by his townspeople at
Newhuryport, on Thursday, seems 10 have
been very cordial, with respect TO party. He
was addressed and replied at great length,
was escorted to his residence-the same house
from window OF which he pledged himself,
IN his night-shirt, to abolitionism, when a
candidate for Congress and in the evening
ives entertained at brilliant legee in the City
Hall. After the usual complimentary intro
duction, Mr.. Gushing went into tlorid rhap-
sody upon the manifest desting of the United
States-to swallow up and assimilate all the
territories and governments on the continent.
He said
''But in our conquest of nature with our
stalwart arms, and with our dauntless hearts
to back them, it happens that men, nations,
races, may, must will perish before u.s. That
is inevitable. There can be no change for the
better, save at the expense of that which is
one generation gives place to another. Out of
decay springs fresh life. The tribes of In
dams who hunted over the land, without oc-
cupying it, retire before us like the hunted
deer and the buffalo Observation-Disclosures and
deeper into the innermost recesses of the con-
tinent. And the Hispano Mexicans, wasting
away by apparent incapacity of self govern
ment, are suffering one province after another
OF theirs to relapse into pristine desolation,
ana thus to become prepared to receive the
people and the laws of the United States"
He then quoted curious prediction which
Count Amanda addressed to the government
of Spain in 1888, in which our acquisition of
the Floridas was foretold, and it was predict
ed that the Spanish possessions would all ulti-
mately fall into our hands. Mr.. Cushing re-
Dukes Massachusetts, for always pitting her
self against this manifest destiny, and coun-
sells her hereafter to lead and direct in move
ment that he considers inevitably fixed in the
purposes of Divine Providence
"Must it be so forever? Will Massachu-
sets choose always to be the drag or break on
the wheels, and never the motive power it.
self? VIII she constantly struggle to clog the
march of the great event? If she will re-
fleet, she will be satisfied that she cannot stop
1t; nay, she viii see that is her own event, it
Is her very self, that she is vainly striving to
stop. repeat, that from jamestown on one
hand, and from Plymouth on the other, is.
sued the first two parallel streams of emigra.
ton, and Of political and social influence,
flowing one to the Southwest, and the other
to the Northwest which streams, in their
westward progress, are the history, the life,
the soul, the predestined great event Of Amer
lea. You may guide, or at any rate 60 with
the fatal movement. But you cannot stop it
nay, whether you will or not, you are in it
and of it; and must move on with its mo-
ton, either leading or led-for If not leading
you will be led-in the councils of the Union.
Men of Massachusetts, l exhort you to
leave all meaner things to loo ambition and
raise yourselves into your appropriate sphere.
entreat, lmplore you, to abandon all
thought of holding in those viewless coursers
OF the winds, which, with stretched muscles