The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
The London Press on the United
States.

The London Post, in an article referring
to the enthusiastic reception of the Prince
of Wales in the United States, grows COM
plimentary to the universal Yankee nation:
The son and heir of Queen Victoria,
though travelling in private capacity, is
welcomed and feted along every inch of his
journey. All press to look at him, all are
proud OF his coming, and wish him to carry
away only pleasant and atfectionate recol~
lectiOns OF a remarkable tour. Such visit
is great epoch in the young Princes life,
the recollections of which can never fade
from his memory. He may visit Canada
and the States again before be is King of
Eng LAND, and be as we'll received; he may
see India, and other portions OF his mothers
vast dOmini0ns, and wherever he goes he
will be honored with the loyalty and love of
his mothers subjects; but nothing, one
would think, will ever equal in depth, clear
ness and freshness, the impressions of this
first transatlantic trip. But it is scarcely
less an epoch in the history of the United
States. 1t is a middle point between
two eras. The old will compare the public
feeling now displayed with what they knew
in their youth the young will recount it in
years to come as great event to date from.
What past is that which the history of
the United States presents! What a
growth! What progress from the dis
advantages of distant and ill-governed
colony to all the strength and influence of
great nation To its fertile soil men
have focked from all parts of the world,
and have been absorbed into its mixed
population. They have penetrated the
dense woods, crossed the prairies, cleared
the forests, spanned the gigantic rivers, and
planted themselves in all directions. Scat.
tered farms have grown into fourishing se.-
Elements, which again have increased into
towns, have become centres of commerce
and communication, have attached round
them the industry and enterprise of new
corners, have been brought near to other
cities by the Railroad, and nearer still by
the telegraph, have combined their political
influence and organized themselves into
States, and by their admission into the Un-
ion have become component members of one
of the richest, most prosperous and most
powerful nations in the world. ALI this has
happened within living memory. Indeed,
it is happening every day. 1t never stops.
Daily the population is augmented from
without as well as from within. Every day
new havoc is made with the old trees. Civ
ilization presses farther and farther to the
remote West, and fresh sources of wealth
are opened up. There is no want Of space.
Ifpopulatiop presses too heavily in one place,
cheap and hasty migration in another rec
titles the inconvenience. Labor is welcome
everywhere, and everywhere it is well re.
paid. New states of society, creating new
wants, are continually supplied by new de-
velopments of industry and new combina-.
tions of the inventive faculty. Nor is all
this enterprise confined to the States only
There is not a port or market in the world
where the American merchant is not repre-
sented American ships, American clocks,
American cotton, American shoes, and
American leather are everywhere.