Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-25

la1ltic. Meanwhile Pownall, once al
colonial governor and then member of
Parliament, in successive works of
great detail, foreshadows independence,
naval supremacy, commercial prosper
ity immigration from the old world, and
a. new national life, destined to super
cede the systems Of Europe and arouse
the "curscs of royal ministers. Hart
ley, also member of Parliament, and
the British negotiator who signed the
detinitive treaty of Independence,
bravely anonnces in Parliament that
the New World is before the colonists,
and that liberty is theirs and afterward,
as diplomatists. instructs his govern
ment that, through the attraction of
our public lands, immigration will be
quickened beyond precedent, and the
national debt cease to be burden.
Amanda, the Spanish statesman and d.
plomatist, predicts to his. King that
the United States, though born .
"pygmy," will soon be a COLOSSUS"
under whose influence Spain will, lose
Eall her American possessions except
Cuba and Porto Rico. Paley, the
philosopher, halls our successful revo-
luton as destined to accelerate the fall
of slavery, which he announces as m
abominable tyranny. Burns, tho truth
full poet, who loved mankind, looks for
ward q hundred years, and beholds our
people rejoicing in the centenary of
their Independence. Sheridan pictures
our increasing prosperity, and the na-
tional dignity, winning the respect.
confidence, and affection of the world.
To- %1,o 1s1,nro1 ~
increasing might and various re-
blow, aimed at them must have re-
bound as destructive as itself. The
Able Gregoire, devoted to the slaves,
| whose freedom he predicts, describes
| the power aud glory of the American
republic, resting on the two great
oceans, and swaying the world. Tar
Oily Jefferson appears with = national
anxiety for the union, and yet announc
ing our government as the familiar and
precious model to change the, condition
of mankind. Canning the brilliant
orator, in much-admired flight of elo-
quence, discerns the New World, with
its republic just called into being, re-
dressing the balance of the old. De
Tocqueville, while foreseeing the peril
from slavery proclaims the future gran
deur of the republic, covering "almost
all North America" and making the
continent itsdomain, with population,
equal in rights, counted by thehun6lred
million. Golden, whose fames will be
second only to that of Adam Smith
among all in this catalogue, calmly pre-
diets the separation of Canada from the
m mother; .9 1y peaceable means;
historian, announces that Mexico, which
has already known SO many successive
races, will hereafter be ruled by yet an
other people taking the place OF the
present possessors and with these
prophetic words, the patriot draws II pail
over his country.
1t is on accOuot of the valedictory
words Of his history that I Introduce
the name Alaman, and nothing appears
more striking in this gallery. Behold
Mexico will be without doubt, land
of prosperity from its natural aalvan.
tages but it will not be SO for the race
which now inhabit it. AS it seemed the
destiny Of the people who established
themselves therein at different and re-
} mote epochs to perish from the face Of
) it, leaving hardly memory of thei,
existence, even as the nation which
built the cditicos Of Palen1,le, and those
which we admire on the peninsula Of
Yucatan, was destroyed without its he
) ing known what itswast or how it dis
appeared even as the Toltecs persisted
by the hands of barbarous tribes com
: ing from the North, no record of then
remaining but the pyramids: Of Cholulu
and Teotihuacan and, finally, even az
1 the ancient Mexicans fell beneath. the
power of Spaniartls, the country gaining
infinitivcly by this change Of dominion
but it's ancient mastersbeingove rthrow1
, 50 ikewiseit its entinllabitantss shall
! be ruined and hardly obtain the com
passion they have merited, and The
| Mexican nation of our days shall have
> applied to it what celebrated Lati1
l poet said of one of the most celebrated
personages of Roman history, sta
l astxgni aaonaieis unbra-nothing moro
remains than the shadow of q name illus
trous in another time. May the Al
mighty, in whose hands is the fate oil
all nations, and who by ways hidden
from our sight aliases or exllalts them
; according to the designs of His provi
dcnce, be pleased to grant unto ours
; the protection by which He has SO oftcl
designed to preserve it from the dangers
to which it has been exposed
Most affecting words OF prophecy
Considering the character Of the author
us statesman and historian, it could
have been only with uncomfortable an.
guish that he made this terrible record
for the land whose child and servant he
was. Born and reared in Mexico, hon.
ored by all its important trusts, and
writing the history of it's independence,
it was his country, having for him all
that makes country dear and yet thus
calmly he consigns the present people
to oblivion, while another enters into
those happy places whore nature is SO
bountiful. And so Mexican leaves
the door open to tho foreigner.
All these various voices, of different
times and lands. mingle and intertwinc
i'll representing the grc"t future of our
republic, which from small beginnings
has already become great. It was ut
first only grain of mustard-see
which is, indeed, the least of I'LL seeds;
bnt when it is grown, it is the greatest
among herbs, and becomes - tree, so
that the brls; OF the air come and
lodge in the branches thereof" Better
still, it was "nly IL little heaven, but il
is fast lc:,ycning the whole continent.
Nearly all who have proplcsicd speak
Of America" or "Nurth America, -
and not Of any limited circle, colony or