The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-10-06

/ TERRITOR1AL EXPANSION.
Extract fmn the speesA se.iverea 10 Gov. Seward.
s. psal, Sept. 10.
/ hare never until now occupied tha,
place whence could grasp the whole grand
panorama Of the continent, for the hsppi.
I ness Of whose present people and Of who's,
I future millions Of millions, il is the duty oI
an American stateeman to labor. l have
often heard il said, aud indeed have
thought that one could get very adequate
/ idea of the greatness Of this republic ol
ours. If be could stand, as have stood, ou
deck Of an American ship Of war as she
crossed the Mediterranean, passed through
the lonian islanjs, asccnded the Adriatic,
bearing at the mast head the stripes and
stars that command respect and inspire fea,
| equally among tho semi- bar harians Of Asia
and the most polite and powerful nations
Of Europe. l have often thought that
could lift myself up to the conception Of
the greatness Of this Republic Of ours BY
/ taking stand on tho terrace Of the Capitol
at Washington, ard contemplating the con.
centration Of the political power Of the
American people, and then following out ia
my inagina,ion the dispatches hy which
that will, after being modified by the Ex-
ecutive and legislative departments, went
forth inSaws, aid edicts, and ordinances
/ for the government and direction on great
people. But after all n, such place "a
either Of these is equal to that | now occupy.
seem to myself to stand here on this emu
ence rs the traveller who climbs the dome Of
ST. Peters. in Rome. There through the
opening of that dome, he seems to himself
to be in almost direct and immediate com.
munication with the Almighty Power that
directs and controls the actions and the Wills
Of men. and he looks down with pity on the
priests and votaries below who va;nly try,
by poring over beads and rituals, To study
| out and influence the mind of the Eternal.
Standing here and looking far of into the
Northwest, | see the Russian, as he busilv
occupies himself in establishing seaports
and towns and Notifications, on the verge
of this continent, ms tho outpos,s Of ST.
Petersburg. and can say eco on and build
up your ou,pos.s all along the coast, up
even to the Arctic Ocean-they will yet
become the outposts of my own country
States in the Northwest" So look or on
Prince Rupert's Land and Canada, and see
there an ingenious, enterprising, and ambi.
tious people; occupied with bridging rivers
and constructing canals, railroad and tele.
graphs; to organize and preserve great
British provinces North Of the great lakes.
the st. Lawrence, and around the shores Of
Hudson's Bay, and am able to say, it is
very well; you are building excellent States
to be hereafter admitted into tho American
Union. (Applause.l can look Southwest
and see amid all tho commissions that are
breaking the Spanish American Republics,
and in their rapid decay and dissolution.
the preparatory stage for their rcorgnniza.
ton in free, equal and SO f.governing mem.
bers of the United States Of America. In
the same high range Of vision | can look
down on the States and the people of the
Atlantic coast of Maine and Massac achusctts,
OF New York and Pennsylvania, Of Virginia
and the Carolinas, and Georgia, and Loui.
siana, and Texas, and round BY tic Paci6c
coast to California and Oregon. can hear
their disputes, their fretful controversies.
their threats that If their own separate in.
tercsts are not gratified and consulted by
the Federal government they will separate
from this Union. lam able to says "pea &C,
be STILL" These subjects Of contention and
dispute that so irritate and anger and pro.
yoke and a!cnate you, arc but Temporary
and ephemeral. These institutions which
you 50 much desire to conserve, and for
which you think you would sacrifice the
welfare Of the people of the continent, are
almost as ephemeral as yourselves. The
man is born to-day who will live to see the
American Union, tho American people,
coming into the harmonious understanding,
that this is the land for the white man, and
that whatever elements there are to disturb
its present peace or irritate the passions Of
its possessors, will in the end, aud that end
will come before long, pass away, incffect.
ual in any way to disturb the harmony OF, !,
or endanger the stability, of this great
Union. (Applause).