The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-06

and disruption more certain. This country
has settled one thing, beyond the power Of
politicians to disturb it. and that is, that
the Federal Government shall not intervene
in the home affairs Of the States and that
when they are in preparation for admission,
no power but themselves, guided by their
own wants and interests, shall, or of right
ought to, prohibit or establish, or in any
way control, their domestic institutions.
AN ELOQUENT FEDERATION.
II European powers choose to expand
their empire and energize their people, we
have no protests, no arms to prevent them.
England may push from India through the
Himalayas to sell her calicoes to the NUNS
berless people of China, and divide with
France the empires of India, Burmah and
China. Civilization does not lose by their
expansion. Russia may push her diplomacy
upon Pekin, and her armies through the
Caucasus, and upon Persia and Tartary;
she may even plant her Greek cross again
on the mosque of st. Sophia, and take the
Grecian Levant into her keeping as the
head of its church and civilization. France
may plant her forts and arts upon the shores
OF the Red Sea; complete the canalization
of Suez; erect another Carthage on the
shores of the Mediterranean; bind her natur-
al limits from Mount Blanc, in Savoy, to
Nice, upon the sea. Sardinia may become
the nucleus of the Peninsula, and give to
Italy name and a nationality. Even Spain,
poor and proud, may fight over again in
Africa the romantic wars with the Mores.
Goes, by which she educated that chivalry
and adventures which three centuries ago
made her the mistress of the New World.
She may demand tesritory of Morocco, as
she has, as indemnity for the war. Ame-
RIGA has no inquiry to make, no no protocol
to sign.
These are the movements of an active age.
They indicate health, not disease growth,
not decay. They are links in the endless
chain of Providence. They prove the mu.
liability of the most impartial of human
institutions but, to the philosophic obser-
yer, they move by law as fixed as that which
makes the decay of autumn the herald o.
spring. They obey the same law by which
the consultations change their places in the
sky. Astronomers tell US that the " south
ern cross" which guided the adventurer
upon the Spanish main four centuries ago,
and which low can be seen, the most beau>
tiful emblem of our salvation, shining down
through Cuban and Mexican night Just
before the Christian era, glittered in our
northern heavens The same GREAT WILL,
which knows no North and no South, and
which is sending again, by an reversible
law, the southern cross to our northern skies,
on its everlasting cycle of emigration-does
it not control the revolutions of nations, and
the vicissitudes of empires The very stars
in their course are Knights of the Golden
Circle" and illustrate the record of human
advancement. They are the type of that
territorial expansion from which this Amer
lean continent cannot be exempted without
humiliation. The finger of Providence
points to our nation as the guiding star of
this progress. Let him who would either
dusk its radiancy, or make it the meteor of
a moment, cast again with nicer heed our
nations horoscope.