Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-06-15
MlafellanGona.
TWO Ma rIoNAL DREAMS.


The abiding jealousy felt in England TO-
wards the Rlted States has many causes.
some Of them just, more erhars unjust, bu.
one ot them very strong and very little no
| ticed This Is the difference IN the forecast
which i.ngEshnen and Americans make as
% tt3clF own destiny. Some cause, which is
very aIhcait 30 trace. but which IS possibly
the absence OF hereditary anxiety In Ameri-
ca, has upon this point absolutely separated
two people OF the same blood and in most
aspects strangely similar The Englishman.
when he tbjulls at all upon the subject is
very apt 10 forecast an unpleasant future for
los country. 10 believe the day will come
when { Wlli be shut up in she ocean, or
starved iuf want Of corn, or ruined by the
exhaustion 0t IT'S coal, OF deprived 81 it's
pIoeuiHencc In manufactures, Or ia some
way ot other thfoWn back to a sacondary
rank he notion that his country has
reae aet e aemth, and must from som cause
unknown, recede, has for a century been con
stantg present % the Englishmau mind
The American, on the contrary, believes in
b0undiess future almost gisIbty before him.
is the happier for 1t and the stronger, ac-
cepts children with greater Teadluess, meets
the troubles and especially the pecuniary
trouble, OF lie with greater ease and more
perfect stRg.f5pfd Somebody, he thinks,
VIII always be wanting somcthing if he
cannot grow corn bccau make iuciter match
es, ana in a short time I'VE shall be tive
hundred millions, sir, and the scream of the
American eagle will drown the Ye UeumS
Of the Old World and two hundred mil
lions, sir, viii offer a market for lucifar
matches wide as the universe, profitable as
dealings in petroleum oil. Il is all 50
amazingly true, too.
There is no yasteF dream dreaaed On
earth than that Of these Americans, and vet
il is ali within the limits Of the possible. so
far within them that It's realization is more
probable than It's failure. Judging, as hui
man beings are alone entitled to Judge, ON
the evidence, il is much more likely than
not that in 1866 the American people win
be one hundred and fifty millions, speaking
one language, and that English, and posses
sed Of al the knowledge that language con-
talns, with country of all climates and all
sciences, resources scarcely explored, and an
almost total freedom trotn physical distress
Every race, cultivation aud capacity will be
represented IN Its borders, and nearly every
civilization compatible with Rerublicanism
and a very elastic Christianity. The num-
Der of the States will be at least fifty. and
All SA~tA AANtA EASA fAtiA lJCSuitdE cHEiGkE. VIII
have been formed under the gradual opera
ton of laws as different as the marriage
laws Of Wisconsin and Vermont now are,
and of social systems as separate as those
of Maryland and Massachusetts. Expert
nents Of the most gigantic character will
have been tried to the full, experiments as
wild as the Western one OF a nearly unlimi-
ted right Of divorce, or as those social
schemes tried SO otteni 10 Western New York,
or as the idea, SO precious to every Demo
cratic mind, OF dispensing with every con-
troll save that Oh the parish constable
4 hundred aud fifty millions of men of all
races and ali instincts viii be living together
on one soil under all climates and possessed
OF every resource, coal, and iron, aud corn,
aud wine, eoalfelds 50 endless that even
American hyIslness cannot waste them,
lron-tleids % vast that they wilI consume
forests covering a continent corli-G fields
which viii feed she world, aud vineyards
which even now send their produce to the
owners Of Hermitage and JUhannisberg
There i no science such race may not pros
ecate n peace for ages, no form OF literature
i may not deYelope, no discovery possible
70 man ID may not hope to make. 1t will
without an effort, raise 800, 00G, 009i ofrey /
anue By a TAXATION lower than that OF Eng
ahd naw Is. aii.' nploy the whole o. ne'ulg
sas Whole d u, ii works Of pcgcc Distress