The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-03-15

certainly say that this new element vii
not ehaBge the centre Of power 10 the
world
Our nation il 4 universal solvent
Put the children q q dozen nations in-
to our free schools and thsy will al
come ont Americans And when ] sec
T tho Germans in Hartford and New York
setting up. and demanding German
schools, it docs not worry me in the
least, for I know il cannot como to any.
thing Those who enjoy our privileges
and breathe our air must become Amer
icanized They cannot help ii and
that for a strong reason, yiy that the
Amrtcaa character inprsssss a'elf upon
l0baieUa L touches It's strong, intel
ligent, active, direct, practical, and is
everywhere a power. assert that it is
not hosting, but a simple truth, TO say,
thoro is no character on Garth 50 Ger
tain to impress itself on the world, as
the American.
The Chinese must and will learn our
language, gradually adopt our dress and
customs. and when he reads our Bible,
and learns our religion, il laying aside
his own language It will be comparative
/ ly easy to drop his idolatry, and become
Christian believer. In two Sabbath
schools, I have seen, on m average, a
hundred Cinnamon in each, delighted
to learn to read in English, and having
the Bible for their reading-book The
force, the cool energy, and the persis-
tent power Of the American character,
is something which makes deep i'm
preston upon weaker races
IT. then, | am told, as I am almost
every day, that this conglomerate mass,
made up Of Anglo-Saxons, Europeans,
Africans, Cinnamon, and sprinkline Of
all nations, is hereafter to cement into
a sort Of pudding stone race, I reply, it
may be so, but | do not believe it. God
has given this continent to the strong
est race on earth, and to tho freest and
best educated part Of that race, and
I do not believe he is going to let it
drop out othands that can handle the
globe, and put it into hands that are
hands without educated brains.
1t is puttingour government and our
civilization, and our educational institu-
tions, and our Protestant religion, to a
test more severe than waa ever put up
on people. England, the old hive, is
| full, and there can be no such influx Of
foreign elements there but here they
come, and will come-to be scattered
over a vast territory, TO be instruct
ed in human responsibilities, and be the
risk great y, small ,hangins vtel 90 like
avalanche, threatening to fall on us and
grind us to powder, or hanging over us
like a cloud, to be dissolved in fruitful
showers to gladden. every part Of the
land--be it the chest into which the gi-
ant is to be pressed, and the lid shut
down, and the chest thrown into the sea
or be it the treasure-box, out of which
uncounted blessings will dow--we must
accept it, ard feel, that for wise and
good purposes, God has opened the
door OF hope to other portions OF his
family, and is sending them here to
share our inheritance, and to be en-
lightcned and blessed BY our sympathy
and kindness.
You now see why have attach cd SO
much importance to the slope west Of
the Rocky mountains. On that slope
hangs the future Of his country! Here
tofore we have said that the great val
ley Of the Mississippi is to contain the
numerical population Of the country,
and guide its destiny and 80 it would
had it not been that the whold thing is
altered by settling California, and bring
ing the ocean Isles, China, and japan,
and all the East to our very door, and
had it not been that tho swarming,
teeming population Of those countries
have found out that here is food, and
here labor is needed, and will bo re-
warded, and hence they flow in, like the
waves Of the Pacific, increasingly, till the
demands for labor are satisfied this is
inevitable. have geen single steamers
come into San Francisco, with from
twelve hundred to fourteen hundred
1 Cinnamon On board-once a fortnight
each and hereafter there must arrive
two such ship-loads weekly, to meet the
engagements already made. Thus the
Golden Gate has become the gateway
Of living stream Of humanity, in the
form Of a hali-ciyilized heathenism. We
ave now to learn God 10 forcing it
upon us-that they, as well as we, are
a part Of Gods family, and must be car
cd for accordingly They may seem like
the two barley loayes that tumbled into
the cams Of the Midianites they may
be for our food or our ruin. And who,
at this hour, tries to cast tho horoscope
! Of his country, without taking this new
element into the account, will make a