, 1858-10-22
A"COuntsrpOISe to the United States"


In the House Of Commons, on July goth,
Mr.. RoEBUCK rose and expressed his con-
viction, that the present state Of North
America was Of great interest to England.
He called the attention of the House to
the fact that England had once planted
thirteen colonies in North America, which
had revolted and increased to thirty-fve
or thirty-six States; and he remarked
1--WE had created a power there which, if
something were not done by England as a
counterpoiss to the United States of Ameri-
ca, would overthrow not only England,
but the earth. He believed that in the
Northern part Of the continent we had the
means Of establishing the counterpoise
which he sought. If England would carry
out systematic plan Of colonization upon
that portion of the continent which now
belonged to her, she would enable the
world to resist what he believed would
otherwise be the predominant power of the
Anglo-Saxon race, now established in the
United States" England had not been
doing anything in the way of cOlonizing
North America since the Revolutionary
war, while "the Americans had increased
from thirteen to thirty-six independent
States, and from three millions population
to very nearly thirty millions, while the
English had remained idle; and though
they had seen the Americans become one
Of the greatest nations, they, notwithstand-
ing that they had the means, had effected
nothing as a counterpoise to the Amsri-
cans. He ,ciShed to see this state of things
ended"
And, says the Cincinnati Commercial, the
Honorable blockheOd thought that the
Frazer gold dust fever would at once plant
colony on the Pacific coast of the British
Possessions, that, If assiduously cultivated,
might become the needed countsrpoise to
the United States Of North America, and
eventually overshadow our nationality.
he was afraid Of the California exodus,
and was only paciied by the assurance Of
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, that all history
gave the information that people who emf
grated to British soil become British.
This the Colonial Secretary illustrated by
citing the conquest by that remarkable
chemical composition-the British soil-of
the several cOnquerors Of England-the
Danes and Normans. That a band of
stragglers might be absorbed in the blood
Of the great British people, concentrated in
a teeming island is, Bulwer's PHILOSOPHY
should teach him, one thing, while an en-
massc emigration into o wilderness is quite
another thing. Emigrants to England,
whether they entered the land with the
sword or the plowshare, would probably,
a. early as the third generation, become
English; but the people of the United
States, who will constitute the bulk OF the
emigration to the new gold land, will retain
their civil character, will despise the silli-
ness and proAigacy of English royalty,
scorn to come under the mild sway of the
British scepter," and found an essential
American State, whose exports of gold
will be TO the United States, and whose
annexation to the Union is only question
Of time. Thus, the inevitable, the irresiSti-
bic course Of nature, will be to increase the
prepOndsrance Of the power of the United
States upon this continent, adding to it
directly the weight Of RObuck's counter
poiSs.