The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-07-03

There is a mysterious law which gov
erns the migrating instinct of the human
race, and turns it constantly towards the
West. The history of every age and ma
ton corroborates the existence of such a
law. From the vast elevated plains of
Central Asia, at various periods, mighty
tide of nations rolled onward ina westerly
direction. From the East, Europe re-
ceived her first permanent settlers. Start
ing from that quarter, the Huns, the Avars
and the Mognls oyerrun Europe during
the middle ages. The Arabians carried
their language ef i Gced far to the West.
Acted upon by this centrifugal power, as
it were, Europe, in the fifteenth century,
had to seek new territory to satisfy this
restless migrating instinct. America was
discovered, and new impetus given to
emigration. Over the ocean, with pow
er and intensity never before witnessed,
poured tide of humanity; and the pri-
meval forests of the New World bowed to
the ak of the settler. Every nation con-
tributed to its increase, and the board
was rapidly populated. Nor did it stop
long on the maritime skirts of this conti-
nent. A free scope for its unrestrained
development being given, the migration,
with gigantic strides, hurried irresistibly
towards the West, overlapping vast inter-
yals of space. The adjoining country was
quickly filed. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin and other Territories
sprang up like magic, into gigantic COM
monwealths, and over them the tide of
emigration rushed into Kansas and Ne
braska, whence it is even now seeking
new outlets into Arizona, Utah and New
Mexico. The discovery of the gold fields
of California seems to have been merely
instrumental in quickening this westward
movement, and the States on the Pacific
coast will soon be as far advanced, if not
ahead, of their sister confederacies on the
shores of the Atlantic.
Incalculably beneficial to the whole
human race, this innate migration ever.
proves. Stagnation and decay are the
inevitable results in those countries where
this movement is forcibly checked or sur
pressed. China and japan are living
monuments of the folly of endeavoring to
retard emigration, while the countries in
Europe, from whose boundaries it was
allowed free egress, are mos. prosperous
and happy. It is spontaneous and nat
ural instinct, not confined to the human
species, but manifested in every living
thing. The organic nature is subject to
this law. Nearly every species of plants
or grain of domestic use in this country,
are the original products of the East
The potato and tobacco plants are almost
the only exceptions. Indian corn has yet
to be proved indigenous to America, and
many naturalists have given it as their
opinion that it is endemial to foreign soil
1t is wise and wholesome creation of
nature, this law of migration, and the
country which recognizes its good results,
and allows its free scope, is invariably the
most prosperous It is the recognition of
this policy which has placed America in
the vanguard of the worlds grand march,
and rendered her great and respected
among the nations of the earth. Her
people are cosmopolitan, and the efforts Of
their policy are seen in the quickening
civilization and growing greatness of their
country, whose mission is yet unfulfilled,
but whose destiny is sublimely grand
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