Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-19
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'MANIFEST DESTINY,,

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MANIFEST DESTINY"
Though tfightful old fogies and timid cOnscF-
natives may consider the manifest destinyp
doctrine of recent days, as nothing but the over
wrought speculatiOns of visionaries;-the paint
cd illusions,of dreamcTs, yet the sensible think
or and the shrewd observer Of facts and circum-
stances, while he may not bend the doctrine
into the platform of his political faith, is COM
PEELED, atlast, to pay it his respects. he adj
mires the subIimity Of the sentiments tinfuses,
the magniicencs ofthe scROme it eOntemplates,
and the glory Of tho end to which it aspires.
No one can look at the past OF our nation, nor
! at our great and prosperous present, and doubt
| that there is reserved forus glorious destiny.
! There is philosophy to be gathered from his
tory, most profound and most amazing in its
character. 1t teaches great aud mOmentous
truths; aud the truth which the philosophy Of
/ our history teaches, is that there awaits our
nation afuture of greatness, which, Inns hitherto
been unequalled by any of the nations of the
world The splendor Of Greece and the glory.
!, of ROme-natiOns that were-muSt grow feeble;
the power of England and the extent of Russia
f-nations TINT aTe-must be made to appear in
significant in the presence of the United States.
when in the fullillment of her manifest des
tiny.
The fear once entertained by patriotic, though
perhaps unsagacioue politicians, that our Re-
publican Government lacks the energy to suS
tain itself long, has been fully refuted by expe
rience. Sound reason, indeed should have
| taught that government based upon such prin-
ciples as ours, with such subjects as the Alneri-
can people, at such an age of the world and ge-
graphically established as ours, is the 6rmest
and most enduring thar could be conceived.
Thomas Jefferson-the wtsest of American
statesmen-studied all this, he reasoned thus,
and, satisfied with Ills reasons, he attempted to
dtsPel all such fears, declaring the American
Republic to be "t6e strongest gOFsrRMeat on
EARTH
We have almost every element of strength
and perpetuity. Isolated from the old nations
OF EurOpe-beyond the scope of their jealousy
and happily escaped the influence of their faint
ed and old fashioned institutions, we are free
from the riyalries aud disturbances that so much
cripple their progress, and which have proved
the downfall of their predecessors. A brave.
honest and enlightened race, of the very best
blood of the human family, pcopline1 a v1ist and
fertile region, and ardently attached to the gov,
ernment which they properly believe the best
u tnat ever has becin':-lacking nothing to make
them, and the millions that may succeed them
wealthy, prosperous and happy-in short, lack
ing nothing to mako than the greatest nation MS
well as the happiest people on the globe.
But beside these physical and natural causes
significant as they are, it is hard not to see
SAA0 ueAANA w u pONeI--Ol u uINlIle
providence, leading US and actually impelling
US on to that preappointed eminence of national
glory. We have seen the hand of Providence
in the history of other nations, and wherever
that hand has been moved, VIC have seen mo.
mentous consequences follow. We see it now,
moving our own nation-lnoving it upward and
onward, and just SO certain as Providence is
omnipotent must we move and continue to
move, upward and onward still, until the high
destiny prepared for usshall have been attained.
Shall VIC be blind to this destiny aud wilfully
mistake the designs Of this providential hand?
Such would be folly and timidity. We must
brayGy acknowledge them, and must cheerfnlly
| Join in the onward march.
It is with admiration We observe, that some
of our greatest and most Sagacious statesmen,
are boldly coming forward and ayOwing their
faith in the high 'provideutial mission" allotted
the United States. The Hon. @. Gushing, re-
Gently made this the subject of one of the sub
FINEST and most eloquent speeches that ever fell
from that gifted statesman. We could not con-
clude in more heightened sentiment or more
splendid languane eve, the people of the
United States, says he, .'have q Predestlned
fate before us, plain to be seen, according to my
thought, rs II inscribed on the Rdamantine leaves
| OF time with pencil of fire. Nay, it is q pros
vidcntiai mission assigned to US by the visible
outstreched finger of God" Suchis certainly
| a glorious mission. Let us, as nation and as a
Epeople, still preserve our purity, politically and
morally, that we may still be worthy of such q
mission. DELTA.