The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-17

nayieable rivers running almost by tine very
doors Of our whole people, and where nature
is deficient artificial highways afford iacilties
for the transportation Of all our ProuucS "
cheap and ready markets We nave Quiet
to the ocean and to other countries ~ nai oois
Of unlimited capacity along llne o. ce't IoIa
two thousand miles in extent Inc po"e 70
Of the earth contain inexhaustIble niinIs y
mineral wealth. We have iron, coppei' ,e
saltpetre, gold and silver in quantlues e4us',
to any region in the world. Vur $50 - IS
afford facilities FOR the abundant manu'Ao.u
cloth tocoyerour people and administer IL, " so
comforts convenences and luxury.
population healthy, hardy and indns'r T. so,
q neonle t'native and 10 the manor born nom
oeeneous in race and language, habits ,aM l'
in pursuits and interest, in politics anu les
ion--irl all that bind men together ana n'hNe
them patriotic and powerful. In the lansu~5S
Of Lonis Napoleon, our government .i5
be peace" Our agricultural PRODUCES houiu
attract the commerce Of the world anu ~
ali nations at peace with us. WHIST oenei
powers might depend upon the sInews U wal,
ours would WELD the elements Of Peace, an
would command it with the civilized W1rin
and no nation on earth would be so mucn IN m
terested and 50 anxious to preserve Hlenuly
relations with us as our quandam no,unein
brethren. So deeply concerned Wouio W.
be for our favor, our commercial n1entpa,P
and our, social intercourse, that they WOulu
ever be to us what France is to Sardinla-ah-
ually ready and willing to drive every lnvAoeI
from our soil. With all these elements Oh
wealth, prosperity and happiness, increaslns'
/ expanding and developing themselves as poPII
| iatlon thickened an consumption requlIeu'
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our power and our glory But we should
not stop here. Our expanding policy would
stretch far beyond our present limits, CUBA,
now withheld from us by the voice and VOTES
OF our abolition enemies, would soon be ours
She could not be held by Spain year after
our government was formed No neutrality
laws would restrain our adventurous sons
and Spain would feel the necessity OF her
situation, and the certainly Of its loss aud
would soon transfer il to the southern repuh-
lie.
And Central America 10 rich in tropical
products, essential TO the wants and luxuTieS
Of mankind, sugar, coffee, cocoa. and every
variety Of delicious fIiits--a land bounding in
rich soil, and covered with dense forests oil
valuable woods--a country highly adapted to
slave labor, and requiring only the superior
genius and enterprise Of the Anglo American
race TO make it Gloom and blossom like
the rose"-Ccntrll America would at an early
dry fall under the vigorous influence Of our
enterprislng people and join their destiny to
ours. Now, the same feeling Of anti slavery
jealousy and hatred which keeps Cuba from
our grasp, suppresses every attempt to revo-
lutioninize Central America, and makei what
nature intended it to be, part and parcel Of a
great slayeholding confederacy.
| Cat1ay.afad frnr1a tho Nnrfh o,,l ,,nstal IN
gether as an independent power, we should
take all Central America withuOuf sisterhood
of States and soon settle il with thriving
prosperous and growing population Of SOUTH
ern people, with language, religion, taste hab
its, interests, pursuits and objects similar tC
our own. With no abolition emigratng aid
societies TO impede our march or interfer'
with our legitimate and natural expansion, We
should stretch our arms all along the line .
Northern Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, ant
soon have chain of slave States from the SCI
to the Gulf of Mexico and then with our Cen
tral American population on one side progress
ing upwards, and our southwestern population
on the other side pressing downwards al
Mexico would fall by degrees into our pos
session, and become Americanized and trans
formed into slave States As our slave popu
Iation, by its rapid increase, would fill up til,
Atlantic States and the valley Of tie Missis
i sippi. and become too dense within present
limits for our safety or profit, it would gradu
ally and naturally overflow across the line IN
to that vast region Of inviting climate and soil
and here and there, under the dominion of the
white man, live and flourish for ages to come
And thus with Republic larger in extent
than all Europe united under a government
more perfect than was everforned by the wis
dom and patriotism Of man-with fiIndamen-
tai laws to preserve our institutions from de
cav for all time to come, homogeneous in every
thing, we should exhibit to the world an ex-
ample of greatness, prosperity and power.
which nothing but the hand Of God could
ever weaken or destroy.