Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-10-17
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TnE FUTURE SEAT OF POWER
AND 'I't3PULATiON.
From the New York " orld.! = <f.GDEIO
Senator Seward has said in Iii,
recent speech at St. Paul:
The power Of this government here
after is not to be established cithc,
on the Atlantic or the, Pacific coast
The scaports will be the mouths b,
which we shall communicate and cor
respond with Europe; but the powc,
that shall speak. and shall commmu
nicate and express the''will of the mcI
on this continent, is to bel ocatcd in the
Mississippi Valley, and at the; sources
ofthe Mississippi and the St. Law.
renco.s Loud II applause. In othc,
days, studying what might perhaps. to
seem others, trihine and visionary,
have cast about for the future, tho
ultimate central seat for the North
American people. i. had looked a,
Quebec and New Orleans; at Wash.
ington and San Francisco, at Cincin
natl and at St.. Louis, and it had beer
the result of my best con lecture, that
the seat of power Of North Amcrics
would yet be found in the Valley o.
Mexico, that the glorics ofthe Aztec
capital would be renewed, and that
city would become ultimately the cap
ital of the United States of America
But, I have corrected that view, and
now believe that the ultimate, las,
found seat Of power on this great con.
tinent will be found somewhere with
in radius not very far from the spot
where I stand, at the head of naviga.
tlon on the Mississippi river.
In nearly all the speeches made in
the course Of his western journey, Mr..
Seward has given uttcrance to state.
mcnts like the, above, exhibiting a
wider reach of view than is common to
many men now in public life, and, SO
far rs they are just, most distinctly
marking the difference between states
man and the common herd Of politi-
clans. The prediction with which he
tlattered the pride and the hope OF
the people of Minnesota, is a remark.
able one, made enpdssd,.t, and without
demonstration, but doubtless the re-
suit of a careful study Of the move
ments Of population, industrial power
and trade upon the American cont
nent r,zaYra2 g,rra.,4.E
A few facts and obvious differences
from them will show the probability OF
Mr.. Stewards prediction. The cen.
tire ofpopulation, as we'll as industrial
power in North America, moves to-
ward the p Pacific: from year to year in
obedience to laws above human con.
troll and in a line ofdirection which it is
not possible for political influence or
or sectional sea, in the long run, to
defect. The, coming Gems Us, which
will include the records of our great
growth during the last decade, las
unsupported revelations in its leaves.
;Bst they were visible prophecies in
the census OF ten years ago. B That
document showed that, Including
the : Unite d States proper. the
sCanadas and, contiguous provinces,
the present centre of orr 3op.
ulation, white and black, is 4 little
west Of Pittsburgh, ar2 the center Of
industrial and productive power 5,yr@a 1 lit.
tie further tothe east and north. Com
pare thlssfact With their position be
tore the great wovo Of cmi grafton had
swept. over the Westsand1 lett it epopu-
tJus.z The comparison proves that the
ofboth these, centres, is to
the westward and to the north of west,
and the census Of 1860 will abundant-
y verify it: . In five 81 six, more de-
cades those centres will have touched
or passed Chicago. An area Of a great
Circle drawn through Pittusburg7 and
Chicago, then, s5is the line from which,
this centre Of population and power
will not greatly depart. 20 Projected
westward it falls, not far from the point
indicated by Senator, Seward as the
ultimate seat Of power in America
That it cannot pass far beyond that
point, Is Clear, from the conf guration
Of the country-The harrowness Of
the p Pacitic coast States-thet position
OF the great American desert, and OF
the Missonrirriyer, and the remarkable
westward, detection of tile Rocky
mountain range in Nebraska: . s., o4, :,
7 TThere are: now olnoresh spots
on che sun thans:haNe been seen be.
forelin many years. I'd, Some Of these
are visible through smoked glass
TO- the naked eye.r Several stars,
some of them Of great bril1iancy,
(which from their ascertained distance,
must Have been as large as oursdn,
have totally disappeared from cur sky;
land the question has hbeenHTaiscd by
astronomers, whether the,nlight and
heat Of the SIM are ygradually falling
away. sAsthissEould /. rs Ga accompanied 4
by the destruction, e n,,uot,al u9f all The the plants
aud animals on the earth, It IS rather
an Interesting question: The sun s
light and Neat arc diffiinished by che