Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-04
Progress, East India and South America
IN THREE CHAPTERs--BY vERITAs.
 Chapter tue 1st-Proqress.

another--now and then an isolated change will take place without materially altering the gene ral alsymmetry; but there is tendency all the time to wide spread disruption and resettlng down; and, in our mundane affairs, it is denaon- strated that every such succeeding event carries the general whole step higher towards perfec- ton. You remember, in one of Mir. Burk's ce- lebrated speeches upon American affairs, pre- vlouSly to the revolution, where he imagines an angel exhibiting to Lord Bathurst in his youth the then prosperous condition of his country and afterwards unfolding to him the glorious progress that the next seventy ears would de- veiop--there Is an impressive example described of the progress have in view. Following is part of 1t: If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honor and prosperity that angel should have drown up the curtain and un- folded the rising gIories of his (Lord BathurSt's) country and whilst he was gazing with admi- ration on the then commercial grandeur of Eng land, the genius should point out to him little Speck, scarce visible i'll the mass of the national lnterests--asmall seminal nciple-rather than a atormed body and should tell him. young man there IS America which at this time serves for lit | tie more than to amuse you with stories ofsavage men and uncouth manners; yet shall before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by progressive increase of improve ment brought in by varieties of people, by suc- cesslon of ciylizing couques;s aud civilzing | settlements in series of seventeen hundred wears, you shall see as much added to her by America In the course of single life.'" If l Lord Bathurst could be here at this time. once more to behold the scene-what d wonderful progress he would discover had been made at the end of another lifetime revolution This relates to the progress of but short period and upon only one portion of the globe. We are not driven to take lifetime experience only to enlighten Us upon the subject of an up-and- up progress in mundane affairs--for there is nothing, l suppose, that scientific men-both | Christian and anti Christan-are better agreed
 
 1t could only support the humblest class of of worms--has been the scene, through count less ages, ot a continual progress among its in- Misunderstanding step after step-up and up from the lowest to the highest order of animal ted existence. IL is impossible, it seems to me for those who admit this--and who do not? to dsbelieve that the progress is now going on, and that the time will come, perhaps thousands of years hence--when the naturalists of that day will exhibit the petrifed jaw bone of Mongolian, or of Malay, or d nesro--when those races shall have been long eXtinct--just as they now exhibit the tooth of mastodon or the vertebre of megatherium, especially should they beive it, when they see there is so n'uch room for improvement even upon the most advanced race, and when they see too, that those races which all confess to be in some sense inferior, are every day breaking up and melting away before the consuming advance of the su- | peror Doubtless in establishing this progress sion the Deity Is actuated by motives of the highest benevolence, for it is clear that by it, humanity among men Is established upon surer basis; because increased intelligence and increased energy, through a thousand different avenues, brings increased humanity; and, we iud these characteristics more strongly develop ed in the superior race; indeed these are the chief elements that constitute it's superiority- constitute the leading principles in the latest ad- vance--the torces upon which the line of pro- gress is to be continued And we kno,o that this combination Is also the source of power, therefore we see Intelligence, Energy, Power and Humanity always associated together; and, therefore, upon this account, Nature, in the struggle between the races as she might safely do, makes ''might give right" We conclude then, if God delights in the happiness of intel hgent beings--we all believe this to be His at tribute--we must believe he has provided means for the establishment, all over the earth, of such beings-I might say ace knOw he has provided means'' for, in order to attain this consumma ton sUe see every where the savage, ferocious, cruel and superstitious races giving place or be- coming subordinate to those of an opposite type. Thus, what glorious spectacle will this conti- nent one hundred years hence present to that which 1t presented 300 years ago. In obedience to the same unbending rule of progression the apathetic Asaic must pass of the stage of ex- istence with his monstrous social system so re- plete with degrading idolatry and cruelty The idea of improving those races is mere chimera. Every race follows its nature The Mongal, the Malay and the African are no farther ad- vanced now than they were 5000 years ago. 1 They may be made to conform to civilized ha- bits by being mixed up with superior people, as we have an example in the negro-who has been rescued from the scenes of bis natural barbarty and tanned down, but like the domes- ticated brutes, if left to themselves for no very considerable length of time, with nothing but their own resources to sustain them-they will degenerate to their natural barbarous condition
 CharksviUe, March 20, 1858.