Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-01

The Two ADVANCING CoLUMNs.-The New
buryport Herald has the following excellent COM
ments on that portion of Ex-Attorney General
Cushing's speech in which he alluded to the two
great 4" advancing columns of emigration" from
the Eastward to the Westward of this continent,
in the grand march of civilization and terrific.
rial extension toward the uttermost regions Of
the Occident'':
" Mr.. Cushing, in his great speech here last
week, spoke of the destiny of the two columns
pushed out from Plymouth and jamestown, and
their mission of progress for the redemption Of
the continent. No one can have failed, however
to observe the unequal step with which they
march, march, march, Plymouth stands seven
teen millions to-day, to Jamestown's eight mil
lions; and what will be the result when, at no
distant day-speaking of the life of nation
II shall stand Seyenty.fve millions to TWENTY
FIVE The jamestown column, as it has passed
along, has deyoured what was before, and killed
what was behind AS with the hoof of the an.
Gent conqueror's horse, the grass has not grown
where it passed. Virginia is but the shadow Of
what 1t was, and fading out at that The Ply
mouth column has elevated, strengthened and
misunderstanding like the breath of Spring.
making the wilderness to blossom, the solitary
places to be glad, and the voice of singing to be
heard in the land. While jamestown is blotted
out and has left no mark where it was Plymouth
ANAAANNtA' - AtSNAASAAAAAE
its schoolhouse, as two hundred years ago,
While Norfolk is in decay, and its spacious har.
Dor given up to few oyster gatherers and the
cutter for the collection of the Virginia negro tax
Boston is full of palace warehouses, where are
gathered the riches of the Indies-of princelv
houses where merchants, surprising those Of
Tyre and Venice, reside-of temples of religion
and schools Of learning and works of art, that
entitle her 60 be called the Athens of America.
while commercially she stretches her arms to the
ends OF the earth, and opens her broad bay to re-
ceiye the commerce of the nations. Virginia has
dwnded at every census, and is destined yet still
more to dwindle, till a new race shall infuse new
blood and new life into her veins Massachusetts
has grown stronger, sturdier, richer, and at the
last apportionment for members of Congress, was
the only State upon the Atlantic that increased
its number.
There are two columns moved by destiny il is
true; but the one travels in Virginia two.
wheeled cart, without springs, without eyidenc-
ing that there was wheelwright or blacksmith
in the world where it gree, drawn by a halEfed
donkey, with prmeval yoke upon his neck. and
a negro-dryer behind more stupid than the lack.
ass; and the other goes by steam with the iron
horse snortlng over the rail track, and if forty
miles an hour was not fast enough, holds the tel
egraph wire in its hands, and breathes lightning
from its nostrils to announce its progress to the
distant places ahead. Yes; there are two col.
umns, but they compare like the two largest ry.
ers Of the globe, the jamestown representing the
Mississippi, low, and narrow, and choked at its
swampy mouth and the Plymouth like the Am.
AEON, rushing on, deeper and clearer, and wider,
till no bridges can span il, and no vision reach
from shore to shore. The Plymouth column
startstfrom the Atlantic, with one wing touching
jamestown, and the other resting upon the great
lakes, and when it has eaped the Rocky Noun.
tans, stands alone upon the Pacific shore. The
jamestown has no northern side, and tapers away
narrowing to the single State of Texas, Of which
itholds but the south. eastern side and when it
marches, Marches marches, beyond that it
must take a short turn down over the Rio
Grande, to plumber the half breed Mexicans Ia
maulipas must be its next State and by the time