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

Parliament, in successive works of
great lletail adoWsindependence,
naval supremacy, commercial prosper
ity immigration from the old world, and
anew 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 q burden.
Amanda, the Spanish statesman and d.
plomatist,T predicts TO- his King that
the United States, though aboms:a
/" pygmy,"" viii soon be. a COLOSSUS"
[under whose influence Spain. will lose
Ealls 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 nm
abominable tyranny. Burns, tho 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 na-
tional dignity, winning the respect.
confidence, and affection Of the world.
Fox, the liberal statesman, foresees 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 powersand 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 theseondition
Of mankind. Canning the brilliant
orator, in a 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 foreseeipg the peril
from slavery proclaims the future gran
deur of the republic, covering "almost
all North America, and making the
continent itsdomain, with a population,
equal in rights, counted by thehundred
million. C6bden, whose fane will be
second only to that of Adam Smith
among all il this catalogue, scalmly pre-
diets; the separation of Canada from the
mothersaspantxy by peaceable means.
! Alaman, the Mexican statesman and
historian, announces that Mexico, which
las 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 pail
over his country. =
| It is on accouot of the yaledictory
words of his history that I Introduce
the name Alaman, and nothing appears
more striking in this gallery. Behold
Mexico,- will be without doubt, a land
of prosperity from its natural atlvan.
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 o.
} it, leaving hardly a memory of thei,
existence, even as the nation which
built the edificos Of Palcnque, and those
which We admire on the peninsula o.
Yucatan, was destroyed without it's be
) ing known Whit itswast or how it dis
appeared even Us the Toltecs persisted
! by the hands of barbarous tribes com
! ing from the North, no record of then
remaining but the pyramids Of Cholul,
and Teotihuacan !; aud, finally,eve
the ancient Mexicans fell beneath stht
r power of Spaniards, the country gaining
infinitively by this change Of dominion
7 but its ancient Observation-Disclosures rthrow1
, 80 ikewiseit its presentinhabitant shall
be ruined and hardly obtain the com
passion they have merited, and the
u applied to it what a celebrated Latin
poet said of one of thesmost celebrated
personages of Roman history, sta
ma0,si nonli,lis ,tn,bra-nothing more
remains than the shadow of a name illus.
trons in another time. May the Al.
mighty, in whose hands is the fate OF
all nations, and who by ways hidden
from our sight aliases or exhalts them,
according to the designs of His provi-
dcnce, be pleased to grant unto ours
the protection by which He has SO often
designed to preserve it from tho dangers
to which it has been exposed
| Most affecting words Of prophecy
Considering the character of the author
as 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 Ill 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 he consigns the present people
to oblivion, while another enters into
those happy places where nature is so
bountiful And so q Mexican leaves
the door open to the foreigner.
All these various voices, of different
times and lands. mingle and intertwinc
in representing the great future of our
republic, which from small beginnings
has already become great. 1t was ut
first only grain of mustard-sced.
(which is, indeed, the least of Ill seeds;
hut when it is grown, it is the greatest;
among herbs, and becomes Il tree, SO
that the birds of the air come anil
lodge in the branches thereof" Better
still, it was only II little heaven, hut it
IS fast lcaycning the whole continent.
Nearly all who have l,rophesicd speak
OF "Amcric.," or "Nurth America"
and not Of any limited circle, colony or