Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-06


the number Of the United States Sena.
tors to eighty eight. The overland
route to the Pacific will become a great
national highway, dotted along its Dor
ders with towns aud villages AS the out
posts of civilization, and with Forts for
the protection Of emigrants against the
tomahawk and scslpins-knife Of the red
man, who "reads his doom in the setting
SUM-" The simple child Of the forest
looks and wonders at the power Of the
pale-iace and knows not why the great
spirit is permitting his race to become
extinct before the onward march Of civ
ilization. He knows not why the lands
he has SO long occupied for his hunting
ground and covnfelds is to be taken from
him by the pale-iaccd stranger and he
lights and rccedes toward the Rocky
Mountains from the East, and from the
Pacific Coast, and will, in few short
years stand upon these grey old battle
ments CT nature with the remnant Of
his race, aud like the old Welch bards,
chant the ancient songs Of his tribe with
mournful music and at last perish amid
those craggy rocks, leaving no monu
ments to record the history his origin;
and save the rude piles of stones above
the graz S1n0ld Chiefa not -
- 1871 once been
the possessors Of this vast Continent up
on which we live. Thus will the VI let
tered savage perish, and be forgotten,
esoept in romance. Upon our Southern
borders we now behold decaying ma
tons, unable to sustain themselves
against anarchy from within and ag-
gression without, and they are fast
crumbling into ruin. The spirit OF en-
terprise and adventure, and the glorious
inspiration of liberty among the people
Of this Republic, will make the downfall
Of these States the occasion of regener-
ating their fossil remains and pouring
into them them the expanding forces OF
civilization and progress, and these
degenerate and mongrel races will give
way before the onward march of the
Anglo Saxon as did the savages Of the
wilderness before the Pilgrim Fathers.
The Almighty has decreed that this
beautiful earth shall be in the posses
sion Of those who will employ its re-
resources for the elevation of humanity.
Every race which fails to conform to
the laws Of Development and progress
sion, will be swept away like the ancient
Jews with the bosom of destruction. In
Central America, VIC already behold
the beginning Of new Era of regenera-
ton in that half civilized portion of the
Continent. Liberty is expansive and
can no more be suppressed than the inter-
nal forces Of the volcano. Nicaragua is
.
in the hands Of race of Freemen.
Cuba will not long remain Ike a
beautiful diamond in the desert sands.
but be rescued by the devotees Of liber-
ty, and be placed in the glittering crown
that adorns the beautiful brow Of the
smiling goddess. Not by force or fraud,
not by rapine and plumber, not by the
Law Of might, but by the decree Of the
Omnipotent Sovereign of the Universe.
who wills that the millennium Of univcr-
sal liberty, and peace shall soon prevail
upon the earth, will this be accom-
pIished. II England shall interpose
with her armies and navies, she too will
have to give way before irresistible pro-
gress, and the Canadas be severed from
her sovereignty, to breathe the air of in
dependence In the brotherhood of Ameri.
can States. The continent Of America
has been reserved for the sous of free.
men. 1t has been reserved as the Great
Temple OF the living God, where all his
Creatures may sing his praise and give
Him worship in the manner which to
them shall seem the most appropriate. 1t
he's been reserved as vast field where
edncation, science, art, literature, and re-
hGtoa have every conceivable encour-
oeAset Sori their fullest development
y = - most antrammeled activity.
4 III next four years are pregnant with
ssse'ts' Under the stnsdy and
eniniaeratios Of National Demo.
kesideat - hays every reason to
paea vill' move for,