New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-11


over1un with slavery. Only one-half Of the United
States ia DOW watchful OF the interests Of freedom
while the other half il seeking 10 extend the area Of
bondage. The dark States will never bear their part
in fulfilling our great destiny nation, until the del
uge of our white population shall have revoutionzed
them and completely swept away that system Of Op-
precision which makes this nation the gazing stock
of the world. The missionary work which is 10 evan
geze this country will not be carried on by the slave
states but by the free The population Of these latter
Is about thirteen millions II the increase for the fu
ture be Of corresponding ratio with the past It viii
give population BY the year 2OOO; OF nearly a
thousand millions. This possible result, the very
eBuDciatiOn Of which seems astounding, may be
dimnished it l. supposed, for several reasons.
He stated three which il has been thought by
come may operate 10 reduce it. First want of room;
second, decrease of foreign immigration; and third
deterioration Of the average character Of people
He alluded TO- and dwet Fl some length upon, the
pacity well a. capabity Of the Great West which
be regards the finest national domain known 10
the world He inc uired into the causes the wonder
full phenomena OF growth. He did not believe with
Carlyle. who said to an American, The secret Of
your prosperity s your abundance Of cheap and fer
tile land The French cOlonsts in this country had
abundance of cheap and fertile land" but French
colonization in America failed. Their failure
not The fortune Of war. or one of the accidents
Of empire What then is il that has given to English
and American colonization success unparalleled in
the history Of the world L. the cause transient or
permanent! He believed that there is great and
permanent cause at the bottom OF 1.-THE religion Of
Christ The ostensibe features of Christianity which
combine TO produce this result three. First the
family is kept pure. De Tocqueville said of French
cOonsts, that they intearred with the natives and
became savages. while the English never failed to
convert the barbarOus into the civilized second
cause il the fact that the fdbOreT who j. ALWAYS the
pioneer in the wilderness, is with Us q civilized,
Chrstianized man. We owe our power of cOOnizing
country TO the fact that our abOring are edu
Gated. And whence comes this character of our people
Clearly from the religion OF our fathers. commu-
.Ify h-a rlCp will lyrqy
for the civilization and education of rs children and
citizens. A third cause is the public spirit or what
may be termed the social cOnstructlveness, of the
American emigrant Kneas is said to have carried the
household gods to Italy; the wagons Of the West
EN- emigrants carry nobler "penates than the AZ
cent hero. Colleges, schOol-hOuses churches, are
iouineyiIg every day to the West in these wagons
As long the Christian religion prevails here the
American people will retain its power of cOOnizing
aud civizing the world. What, then hinders the
progress of country! II il true Slavery holds half
the States in bondage but may not hope that this
terrible system will be swept soon away in the proyi
dence of God May the time not soon come when
every foot of land in this country will be wanted for
free labor Already there indications of Freedom
coming to settle upon the hills Of Missouri, and who
knows how soon such movements there in
progress will be followed by other States Slavery
cannot long protect itself from destruction against the
inroads of free labor He could not believe that God
had doomed half the soil of the nation TO perpetual
Slavery. He had hope in God, and would take
courage.
In regard TO foreign immigration, he believed that
its influence upon the peculiar and native character of
our people is greatly overraed That part of the So
eia fabric which is most sensitive to foreign influence
is language, but where is the evidence that the En-
gis language in this country is being corrupted from
foreign influence He believed that there would be
nothing to fear from Z" want of room, to which idea
he had already alluded. There remains much land
yet 10 be possessed.
To Christianize England and America is to Chris.
tsnize the world and in regard to the importance of
doing this work, instead Of putting it off to do any
other, he applied the text Into any city of the Sa-
mariians enter We not" We have not yet come to
dav of triumph To further carry on the work needs,
he said the cooperation of all Christian hearts in the
country ard he closed by referring TO the connection
of the American Home Missionary Society with this en-
the sympathies, prayers and contributions of the