The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-30
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&1 Special notices Is cents a line
Manifest Destiny.
The waters of American ENTERPRISE
and energy seem to be overfowing
everywhere. While the boundaries
OF the ''great West" still remain un-
attained, and the stream of popula-
ton still sets in that direction, new
and attractive fields are being opened
for our daring and adventurous
people. Mexico and Brazil have both
thrown their gates wide open. and
are inviting and welcoming American
emigrants with every demonstration
OF hospitality. Never before did the
Old and popular doctrine of manifest
Destiny" seem SO likely of fulfllment
as 1t does now, with this universal
extension of Americans and their
ideas all over this continent. Wher-,
ever the American goes and settles.
like ''ill weeds" he "grows apace.' -
and soon roots out all other weeds of
the country.
Who believes that the element of
American population now seeking
Mexico and Brazil, does so from any
special love and admiration of impe-
rial governments and institutions, or
that it will long be content to occupy
q subordinate position in the land of
its adoption 4? The only question is
one OF time and numbers, and, sooner
or later, the two countries now in
process of Americanization will feel
TIE controlling influence of Anglo
Saxon presence. It matters not whe-
ther the emlgrants be discontented
Confederateso or shrewd Down casters.
or both combined, the result must be
the same. Whether in contact with
the good-natured and affable Portu-
guese of Brazil, or the obtuse and
stolid Mexican, the American cement
Will predominant, and, peaccablv or
violently, will ultimately assert its
superiority in mind and matter. Let
him who doubts the truth of this
proposition regard the examples of
It's correctness, presented in the cases
OF Louisiana, Florida, Texas and CAL
lfornla, where the traces of the orici-
nal foreign population have almost
been destroyed by absorption. This
ascendancy is notnecessarily preceded
or attended by revolutionary distur-
Dances OF the State. 1t may be, and
is the consequence of that gradual
and almost timperceptible supplanting
OF all the old materials of the country
by the new, first in the spheres of the
arts and sciences, and finally in those
OF morals, government and religion.
The new race engrafts itself upon the
commerce, industry and institutions
OF the country, and it's superiority
being tacitly conceded, the consc-
quenccs which logically result there
from are peaceably accepted, from a
consciousness of the benefits likely To
accrue to individuals and the State
by the adoption of such course. In
the meantime, the power of lunl,tu1e
is exercised as an efficient auxiliary
IN the progressive revolution. The
tongue of the new race becomes DO.
pular, and IS generally acquired, thus
waglng a war of determination on the
language OF the country and when
the language OF people decays, they
begin to lose their identity.
Thus, in the manner and by the
means which we have described, al
the countries on this continent, tt
which any large or considerable
stream of emigration from the United
States may be directed, will, in course
OF time, become Americanized, ant
that fact accomplished, they viii
knock at the door of the American
Union for admission But in Brazi
and Mexico, before the step last indi
Gated can be taken, the imperial Go
vernments now existing there will il
some way have to be superseded
How that is to be done, we will no
ct present explain, but will leave /,
Yankee ingenuity to discover.
Rich1n0nH Times