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

| own history, in a youth illumincl as
that Of Turgot, saw the prcdominancc
Of the colonies in population and
power, followed by the transfer Of en-
piro to America !; then the glory of ill
dependence and it's joyous celebration
by grateful generations then the tri-
,lmpll of our language; and, finally,
the establishment Of our republican
institutions over au North America.
Then came the Abbc Gallant, tho Nea-
politan Frenchman who, writing from
Naples while our struggle was still UNI
decided, gnyly predicts the downfall of
Europe, tho TRANSPORTATION toAmerica,
and the consummat;on of the greatest
revolution Of the globe by establishing
the reign of America over Europe.
There is also Adam Smith, the illus
trious philosopher, who quietly carries
the scat of government across the At
lantic. Meanwhile Pownnll. once a
colonial governor and then u 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
cetle the systems of Europe md arouse
the courses of royal minister's. Hart
ley, also IL member of Parliament, and
the British ncgotiator who signed the
uctinitivc treaty of independence,
brayely Announces in Parliament TINT
the New World is before the colonists,
and that liberty is theirs and afterward,
us diplomatists, instructs his govern
ment that, through the attraction of
our public lands, immigration will be
quickened beyond precedent, anu 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 colossus"
under whose influence Spain will lose
all her American possessions except
Cuba and Porto Rico. Paley, the
philosopher, halls our successful rcvo-
luton us destined to accelerate the fall
of slavery, which he announces as an
abominable tyranny. Burns, the truth.
full poet, who loved mankind, looks for
ward a Hundred years, and beholds our
people rejoicing in the centenary of
their independence. Sheridan pictures
our increasing prosperity, and the ma
tional dignity, winning the respect.
confidence, and affection of the world.
Fox, the liberal statesman, forcsccs the
increasing might and various re-
lations of the United States, so that a
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 and glory of the American
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oceans, and swaying the world. Tar
Oily Jefferson appears with national
anxiety for the union, and yet anllollnc
ing our government as the familiar and
precious model to change the condition
of mankind. Canning the brilliant
orator, in much-admired flight of clo-
quencc, discerns the New World, with
its republic just called into being, re-
dressing the balance of the old. De
Tocqueville, while forcseeing the peril
from slavery proclaims the future gran-
deur Of the republic, covering "aimost
all North America" and making the
continent it's domain, with IL population,
equal i'll rights, counted by the hundred
million. Golden, whose famo will be
second only to that of Adam Smitl,
among all in this catalogue, calmly pre-
diets the separation of Canada from the
mother country by peacc:.ble means.
Alaman, tho Mexican statesman and
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 posscssors and with these
prophetic words, the patriot draws Il 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 i'll this gallery. Behold
Mexico, will bc without doubt, II land
of prosperity from its natural atlv:.n-
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 cpochs to perish from the face OF
it, leaving hardly a memory of their
existence, even us the nation which
built the cditiccs Of Talenu,le, and those
which we admire ON the peninsula of
Yucatan, was destroyed without it's be-
ing known what it WIS or how it dis
appeared even as the Toltecs persisted
by the hands of barbarous tribes com
ing from the North, no record of them
remaining but the pyramids. of CholuIu
and Teotihnacnn aud, finally, even as
the ancient Mexicans fell beneath tho
power Of Spaniarls, the country gaining
1niinltivcly by this changcof dominion,
but it's ancient mastcrsbeingo verthrown
so likewise its observation-disclosures shall
be ruined and hardly obtain the COM
passion they have meritcd, and the
Mexican nation of our days shall have
applied to it what IL celebrated Latin
poet said Of one Of the most celebrated
pcrsonages Of Roman history, stat
HtMyni u0Uainis uh,b/u-nothing more
remains than the shadow Of q name illus
trous in another time. May the Al
mighty, i'll whose hands is the fate of
all nations, and who by ways hidden
from orr sight abuses or exialts them.
according to the designs of His provi-
dcncc, be pleased to grant unto ours
the protection by which lie has SO often
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 All
g,lish that lie made this terrible record
for the land whose child and servant he
was. Born and rcarc,! in Mexico, hon
orcd by nll it's important trusts, and
writing the history Of its independence,
it was his country, having for him all
that makes country dear and yet thus
calmly lie consigns the present people
to oblivion, while another enters into
those happy places where nature is so
bountiful. And so Mexican leaves
the door open to the foreigner.
All these various voices, of different
times and lands, minglc and intcrtwinc
in representing the great future of our
republic, which from small beginnings
has already become great. 1t was ut
first only IL grain of m,lstarl-sccd.
(which is, indeed, thelc:st Of all seeds:
b''t when it is grown, it is the greatest
among; herbs, and becomes II tree. so
tl'": the bird: OF the air COME and
h"IS" in is' branches thereof" Better
stu, IT. was only :. little lrayrl,, but il
i; fast lrarr,'inS the whole continents.
Nearly all who have propl,csicd speak
OF "Amcric;,,' or "Nrrth Amcrica. /"
and not OF any limited circle, colony or