Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-24

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Sir BuIwer Lytton on the Over
growth Of the United States.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton made his usu-
al yearly address at the meeting of the
Herts Agricultural Society, September 25.
After demonstrating the Importance OF
the Austrian Monarchy in the European
scheme, he treated the American difficult
tics as follows:
''Many of you will remember that when
| | took the chair, now so ably filled, mt our
meeting in this town, there came with me,
as my guest and as yours, Mr.. Dallas, the
distinguished Diplomatic Minister of the
then United States of America. You will
remember the enthusiasm with which he
was deservedly greeted, and the applause
that followed every cEfectionale allusion to
our Republican kins-folk, with whom, new
ertheless, there was at that moment, al
there has been often before, one of those
| irritating questions in which much was
sternIy asked by young brother Jonathan
and mildly conceded by old John Bull
! Well. we EmgliShmcn respected the giant
| Republic i'll lis apparent unity aud its fan
cied strength, and no true Englishman will
| hc mean enough to cxult in the pangs of
/ its separation and the horrors of its civil
[ war. liut even lhen, when sir. nGi.,s was
/ our guest, never conceived, nor ito un-
dcrstnnd how any far thinking Statesman
could conceive. that Fl fo"rth part of the
earth could long be held under onc impe-
I rial government. That separation be-
tween North and South America | have
long foresecn and forctold to be inevitable;
and venture to predict that the y"un GER
men here present will live la see not two,
but at least four, and probably more than
four separate aud Sovcrei n CONFERENCE.-The
arising out of those populations watch 81
year ago united their legislature under
one President, aud carried their mrrrhan-
disc under Il single flag. And. So far from
| thinking that these separations will bc IN
furious TO tue future destiuicS Oi AIHe.
rica, or iniiict IL blow on that grand
principle of selt-gOvernment in which
the substance uf liberty consists, he
licve that such separations Will be at
tended with happy results to the safety of
! Europe, and the development Of American
civilization. If it could have been possible
that, as popuIati and wealth increased,
all the vast continent of America with her
mighty seabuard, and the fleets which her
| increasing ambition, ns we'll aS her eX-
tending commerce, would have formed and
armed. would have remained under one
form Of Government. i'll which the EEccu-
tive has little or ro control over a popu-
lace exceedingly adventurous and eXcita-
NH-t,v 4 A.Nf ri, Al
over Europe like a gathering and destruc-
tive thunder cloud. No single kingdom in
Europe cou!i have been strong enough to
maintain itself against Il nation that had
once consolidated the gigantic resources OF
Il quarter Ct the globe. And this unwieldy
extent Of empire would have been as fatal
to the permanent safety and development
of America herself as the experience OF
all history tells us, an empire too vast TO
maintain the healthy circulation of its own
life blood ever has been, since the world
began, to the races over which it spread.
by their own weight the old colossal en-
pircs of the East fell 10 ruin. 1t WAS by
their own vast extent of dominion that
Rome first lost her liberties, under the
very armies which that extent OF dominion
compelled her to maintain, and finally rcu-
dcrrd up her dominion itself I" the revenge
of the burbarians she had invaded
The immense monarchy founded by
the genius of CharIemagne fell to pieces
soon after his death and those pieces are
now the Kingdoms Of Europe. Bat nrith-
er the empires of the East, nor the Com
wealth of Rome. nor the monarchy OF
| Charlemagne could compare in ex-
tent and resources with the continent OF
America; and'you will remember that the
United States claimed a right to the whole
OF that continent, and the ultimate fate OF
America under one feeble EXecutive-the
the feeblest Executive, perhaps, ever known
in civilized committeeman have
been no exception to the truths OF history
and the laws of nature. But in proper
tion as America shall become subdivided
into different States, each of which is large
enough for greatness-larger than Euro
pean kingdom-her ambition will be less
formidable than the rest of the world, and
do not doubt that the action of emulation
and rivalry between one free State and an
other, sceakiug the same language and en-
loving that educated culture which inspires
an affection for all that enlighteus and ex-
ats humanity, and will produce the same
effects upon art and commerce and the inn
provements in practical government, which
the same kind of competition produced in
the old commonwealth of Greece
Heaven grant that my own convictions
NAV not be erroneous. | am moi
then, one of those who say that the i'm
pending separation of the American States
proves the failure of her experiment of De-
| a,o,rac,, ADv other form of Government