Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-09
THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED
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at Washington, indicate that the immigra.
ton to this country during the ensuing
year will be greater than ever before dur
ing an equal period of time. The Ger
man ports are being crowded with the sur
plus population Of the surrounding
regions and from all parts Of Europe
similar indications seem to present them
selves. The pent-up countries Of the Old
World have not elbow-room, even geo.
graphically, for the natural increase Of the
human family within their dominions.
England has escaped being overturned by
her democracy because Of the colonial out
lets which afforded a political safety-valve
that prevented her aris,ocracy from being
blown sky-high. Her American colonies
first, and Australia latterly, drew off the
restless and e~ntcrprising, whose presence
would have been dangerous to the estab-
lishcd order of things. With an oppor-
tunity TO enjoy unlimited freedom here,
there was less motive for running the risk
against heavy odds of securing it at home,
where success would be doubtful, and
failure %ruinous. The beacon light OF
American liberty was the star that led
them on to the new land Of promise in the
| West. Every cause that tended to stimu-
late this emigration to these shores exists
still, and with augmented power and in
| auencc. The avenues Of advancement at
| home are closed to these myriads as rig
idly as ever and the workman, the me-
| chanic, the man Of humble rank in life,
knows that the hereditary grooves in
| which society moves dooms his offspring
to the same condition as himself. On the
other hand, the inducements to lead them
here have become magnifed q hundred
fold. The results of the war; and the
| establishment of universal freedom has
| rounded out to perfection the idea on
| which our institutions are based. The
name Of slavery, artfully harped upon by
our enemies, was always brought forward
as n foil to the culogies of our friends, and
was referred to rs making n mockery of
| our claims to be recognized rs the leaders
| Of progress and liberty. That source of
disparagement no longer exists; and the
| dignity Of American citizenship is cores
| pondingly enhanced. The proves dis
played during the war, surprising any
thing hitherto recorded in history, places
US in the front rank Of nations as a mill
tary power, and in possession of sources
Of national wealth and greatness which are
capable Of illimitable expansion; and con-
s%euuently the fascination which great
power always presents to the human mind,
and the desire to be identified with it,
present an additional attraction to those
whose native land has been made a prison
or a desert, and who seek u new home for
themselves and their posterity. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that the European
myriads should seek these shores, and
transplant their household gods to it's
domestic affairs.
This influx Of population is one Of the
elements which go to make the future
America the greatest commonwealth that
ever existed. To have a territory OF
boundless extent, and u soil Of inexhaust-
ible fertility {; a profusion of mines and
minerals, rivers and harbors to float such
a navy as never before rode the waves; to
possess these sources Of wealth and power,
and at the same time to be supplied with
an adult population the most active, enter
| prising. and indomitable that ever went TO
people n new country, is TO possess hdvnn-
tages, as we have said, never before con-
ferred on a nation. l, is the flower Of a
people that always emisrates, under the
spur Of discomfort with their homes or as
piration for a better destiny the men who
mould the character and the fate of na-
tons, ever since the old Mortimer spread
themselves over the rest Of Europe. Their
advent here is the one thing necessary to
insure the early realization Of the great
ness which the country is, sooner or later,
destined to attain.
1t is no rhetorical eSaggeration to say,
that the future OF America is encircled with
q halo OF promise such as has had no pre-
cedent, and that it is destined to be the
ruling Power Of the EARTH Russia is a
land Of barbaric splendor, and is undoubt-
eddy a great power, but can never exert a
commanding influence outside Of its own
| dominions /; and in art, science, literature,
and the higher elements Of civilization, it
makes no p%retensions. France, through
the Titanic commissions of the Revolution
and the marvellous genius of the First
Napoleon, dazzled the world for q time;
but its present ruler wisely contents him
self with taking care Of number one and,
except in the case Of MAMMALIAN, has
avoided everything like foreign conquest,
and that exception and its results are not
likely to become a precedent. England
has seen her palmiest days, and hencetorth
her star is on the wane. She retains her
provinces now because they are practically
independent, and she could not hold on to
Canada or Australia for a day, if they de-
sired to break loose. She has owed more
to her subtle and scheming diplomacy
than to her physical power; and, by set
ting other nations by the ears. managedto
benefit BY the q%uarrels and profit by the
weaknesses it produced. Westward. the
star of empire takes its way u, and Amer
lea shall ultimately rule the sentiment
and give law to the world.
Perhaps the only State in ancient or
modern times that could claim comparison
with these United States was Rome. in
the time OF its meridian splendor ; yet that
great power had laid up the elements OF
ultimate decay among the fundamental
principles Of its Government, from which
we may easily exempt ourselves. Rome
extended her power by %conquering other
peoples, with different aud often antagon-
istic civilizations, which might be borne
down by the weight of imperial ~despotism
while the power Of the Caesars remained
undiminished, but Immediately broke
away from the yoke when the central
rigor became relaxed. Thus the unto
ward ambition which aimed at the empire
Of the world was the cause which hasten
ed the decay Of the power it founded, and
rendered its ruin more absolute. But
America is one country, presented to us
by nature with a carte blanche to 90 on
and erect upon it a grand homogeneous
nation. There is an attempt, indeed, to
incorporate into our political system the
evil principle which wrought the destruc-
ton Of previous empires; and to hold a
vast COLONY in the bonds of military sub