Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-03-05
THE EXPANSION OF OUR COUNTRY.


We have only 10 revert to the history Of America,
from the discovery Of the country 10 Inc present
,;me 10 b assured that there is inevitable and IRE
Aeslabs law of destiny that drects the onward marcn
Of ApploSa civilization, and points out to the free
institutions Of our country a pathway Of promise
prosperity and power limited only by the boundaries
of this continent. As the aborigines have disap-
pekred before the advancing steps of the original
cooniss and their descendants, We predict the ny
brd inhabitants Of Central America, the swarthy
Mexcans, and the Spaniards in Cuba, will be ull!'
mately amalgamated and subordinated in political
and social system, introduced among them by the
Anglo.Amercans. who have astonirhed The worih
with their enterprise intelligence and peculiar caPaci
~ for the only form government under which white
men should live This Of course, cannot be in day or
wear or perhaps within the present generation Such
events are usually slow in proportion to their magni-
tuds remnant of the red men who were once the
lords of the wilderness from Hudsons Bay 10 the wild
Gufof Mexico, still fingers OH the Pacific coast, like
the last dusky ray Of the sunset hey seem to be ap
preaching. Central America ia si under control OF
the natives; Cuba is stl in possession of Spain, and
Mexico struggles with destiny and writhes in the agony
of the contest like emssculated lion in tho embrace
of a bos-constrictor. But sooner or later the e1'
pansive and expanding asis of the United
States mus, inevitably e1teud over them ALL
Our country attained lis present limits, not in
an hour. The Indian not driven to
the far West in day. And as those Things
we're done, so will these be. BY the same e. 7:es,
by the same influences but, perhaps more rapldiy.-
The true gh, Of liberty, of that conservative self
government, which God ordained for man, to proec.
him from his fellow man. and vouchsafe TO him free.
dom of thought and action on EARTH lie penetrating
the minds and fermenting The hearts of the intelligent
and virtuous vaseals of tyrannic rulers in the old
world az we'll as in the new-and as revolutions in
Europe, now and then, make despos ;remble on their
thrones, 80 do occasional symptoms, in South and
Southwest America, foreshadow changes which the
United States cannot but anticipate with pride and
pleasure Why is il that Cuba is closely guarded
by Spanish soldiers, if there is no danger Of disoy
atty in the citisensl Why is Mexico 80 continuously
torn with intestine strfe, if she has the elements Of
a steady and independent government! Why are
the Central American States at the mercy of conflict.
ing conquerors, if the people capable Of existing
in prosperity and in peace under any system eocial
or political, which they may form for themselves7
These are grave questions for the consideration Of
events as they march on in the career of inferior and
superior races, 1t seems to be decree of destiny
that the Anglo. American must be master Of America
And We say God speed to the edict. But We would
not enforce it by illegma;e means. Let nature take
it's course, and all will be well.