The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-04
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, August 4, 1855.
Europe VS.. America.

The language Of bravado used with
reference to nations is at ali times, we
think, unbecoming and undignified.
In Mr.. Banks report on the neutral
ity laws, there was something Of this
kind towards Great Britain, which we
noticed the other day; and in many
other State papers, within our recol-
lection, in the declamations of Con-
gressional debates and in the columns
of sensational journals of New York,
we have observed such boastful, and,
as we have often thought, useless ebul-
litions of national pride. The great
ness of nation is not accelerated by
bullying language, bnt by the practi-
cal energy of its citizens, in develop
ing its resources to their utmost ex-
tent, by abstaining> from impertinent
interference with the affairs of other
States and powers, and by concen-
trating, in working unity and harmo-
ny, all the powers, resources and
energies of its citizens, for the pur-
pose of advancing the veal of the
people, and the greatness of the Com
monwealth.
Our own internal dissensions for
some years past, and latterly the un-
righteous and outrageous legislation
of q faction which has temporary
control of the Legislative department
of the Government of the United
States, have claimed all the attention
to political matters her people had
to spare. Now that O temporary lull
in these exciting topics has occurred,
an opportunity is presented to take
glance at what other nations are
about. We avail ourselves of this
opportunity, and take occasion to
bring to the notice of our readers
some Of the effects which our gigantic
resources, as developed by the late
war, have had on the public mind in
Europe, and the impression created
there by the physical strength of the
country, when necessity for war is
forced upon the people of America.
Thus, laying aside, this morning,
the discussion of home politics, we
invite the attention of our readers to
an extract which we publish below.
It is from the pen of one of the ablest
publicists and political economists in
France, u well known writer on public
topics, Nj. Michel ChevaIier, who has
been recently writing series of arti-
cles on the subject for one of the
most prominent journals in his coun-
try, the Rerue des deuc blondes. The
extract we append has been trans
lated by the New York Mercantile
Journal, of last week, and will be
read with interest, as coming from
such q distinguished writer, and so
much prominence having been given
to it's publication. It is the conclu-
sion Of his writing on the subject,
and contains the important PROPOSE
ton which most affects this country.
He says:
Zone great reason in favor of a
European Union is deduced from the
appearance of the political Colossus
that has arisen on the other side of
the Atlantic. The United States
offer to our gaze remarkably con-
nected group of separate sovereign
ties, whose external power is already
formidable, and whose rapid growth
is sufficient to set statesmen to think
ing. Very plausible calculations,
which everybody must have read or
cast up for themselves, show that be-
fore the end of the century-a long
time in the life of an individual, but
brief one in the existence of nations
that Union will be an agglommera-
ton Of 10O,O0O,0OO men. In the
formation Of wealth, IN activity and
initiative Of every kind, the Ameri-
can mean ratio is at least equal to the
European. For these various rea-
sons, the 100, 100000 of Americans
would represent a still larger number
of Europeans. The United States
have been fashioned by a civil war of
four years duration to the pursuit Of
arms, and have given proof of mill
tary qualities. The citizens Of the
Union know how to brave death as