The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-13
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The mighty process OF colonizing continent IL ad
vnncing WITH sach rapidty the other side OF the At
lAntic tast W. Vi the Old World may find some difficulty
n following O. oomprehendng 20 prodisiors develop
ment Yet England, of all nations must be interested
ia the sssles sssa Independently Of Its political mar
vsls Wo ean never forget that II is AngoSaxon pop
uaticn which Is thus expanding itself and that the laws
and Ahsuags Of tAs new Empire have dssosnded from
opr0 0wn- sNeSastAses eyents have occurred, our In
ersst Ia the spct hl been attached almost exclusively
TO accidental cfcmStaibs Owing TO the antagoninm
established bstvsa the nertAn and southern dvisions
Of the AmsFicaa Union conflict ensaes over the ad
misson Of any new State into the federal body and
tho incidenas cd this coniee absorb Satsnon to
tia psjsdea cf tAe isvent itseif The. result u not
i9deed' ysgu suTREi.ipg y ts RrooceSing' in 9uss
" the same light but II dznim from minds
fvs aw moept the issue between frceso aud slavery
shall find ample materials Tor reflection In the Efmplc
facts before Kansas il mainly known In tis country
by the contest which 1t created and which is undeter
mined STILL but intelligence of Monday last contained
the information that the bill for admitting Minnesota
into the Union had passed the House of Representatives
and yesterday reported that entirely Territory
the southeast of Kansas undergoing the first stage
of political organization The reader has probably little
conception of the wonderful growth which these
siye extensions imply In reality not the marves
of American nature comparable in magnitude to these
features Of American progress The new province OF
Kansas itself larger than Great Britain Minnesota
extensive still and the district in which the fresh
tion will arise contains exceeding that Of France
A few years ago line drawn from Wisconsin in the
orh to Louisiana in the South would have left TO the
West unoccupied and unrecaimed the larger portion
of the whole territory pertaining to the American Unio
1t is into this vast that civilization has been
penetrating with unexampled strides In the South the
enormous province of Texas in the North the vast dis
tric Of Minnesota and in the centre the famous country
OF Kansas have been brought under organization
or less perfect and the establishments the coast Of the
Pacific and the borders of the Great Salt Lake represent
start from the opposite side Two circumstances have
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increase beyond any former the progress Of the
Union These tho discoveries of gold and the mgra-
tions Of the Mormon community The first report of the
treasures Of California not only attracted new stream Of
emigants from Europe to America but carried them to
part of the continent where, except for such attraction
considerable settlement would probably have been
formed California though SO little known and remote
became in very short time one OF the most important
States of the Union and impaired character to the
country the Pacific coast The movements of the Nor
operated in similar direction and produced the
mature and abnormal colonization of secluded territory
between California and the West The next extension,
that OF Kansas proceeding from the West almost touched
the point which had been reached from the East and it,
indeed could consider the TERRITORIES of Kansas and
Utah regularly settled and occupied over their entire
areas the colonization of the continent Ia these atitudes
would be actually complete, nor would there be any
tera} break between Washington and San Francisco.
The State projected to be named Arizona will
lie between the northwestern frontier of Texas and the
southeastern frontier of California, being formed in the
Territory hitherto known New Mexico. Its position
will be best ascertaned ordinary map by reference
to the rivers Gla and Colorado which will be the chief
cVs ribrtorics 10 its irrigation Such however b the
present aspect OF the great North American continent
f trac of territory have been occupied and
oansed rapidly that in directions the march OF
civilization from the Atlantic to the Pacific may be
garcd as almost complete and the railway which is to
connect the two will express the accomplishment
Of the fact This however, is only the delneation Of
empire. To fill out frame mighty will call for gem
erations of progress and for the continuous expansion
of those energies which have been sgnaly developed
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