Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-04

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A French View of Ameri-
iCa's Future.
According to M. Pierre de Cou
bertin in an article entitled 9Th,
Philosophy of the History of tn,
United States" (REvUE BtEUE)
the idea is prevalent with US that
We are designed by Providence as
an example to the Old World OF
what a political and social organi-
cation ought to be. 1t is his opin-
ion that our national success is due
in great measure to the fact that
we firmly believe this to be our
mission.
As he studies our past, which he
thinks absolutely necessary in order
to understand our present and di-
vino our future, he finds that few
people have been more actuated by
ideas and sentiments, few more
united by powerful traditions than
We. He finds that the grand idea"
which dominates transatlantic civ
ilization, and the ono upon which
we ought always to count is RENO
vATIoN.
The vagueness of this term is re-
moved by an exposition of the va
rious religious controversies which
have been the nucleus Of the "na-
tional idea" since the landing of
the Pilgrims. In the "dolorous
Odyssey"of a handful of men driven
far from their country by a rugged
desire for individual regeneration,
We find the seed from which has
grown the belief in the predestina-
tion Of the United States. Con-
sciously or unconsciously, every
American believes in 1t, and by 1t
nearly all his deeds are inspired.
The Puritaric spirit has vanish
ed with the Puritanic costume; but
upon the ideal has been built up
collective sentiment on which
rests the whole American philoso-
ply. Having found not the indi
vidual liberty they sought, they
essayed a collective renovation, a
"collectivity" which resembles that
of the Old World only so far as its
sons spill blood and sigh for gold.
To material growth in general, to
the Louisiana purchase in partIcu-
lar, and to tine kentuckian IN PRO-
PRIA PERSONA is attributed the new
regeneration. The author says:
This vast extent of horizon intox-
icated especially the Kentuckian,
who was destined to become the
father of the second phase of the ma
tional idea tErAT d AME) as the Pu-
ritan was of the first. l can but
trace for you hasty portrait of the
Kentuckian; can but say that he
has i'm him little of the Virginian
civilization grated on the tempera-
ment of the trapper and the advent
urer.
Neglect no opportunity of study
ing this strange type of Kentuckian.
1t Is he who reversed the destinies of
the New World. He is found today
in the Chicago man, but weakened
and deformed.
THE Kentuckian loved whisky,
duels, and cards he was mad on the
subject of eloquencej the sense of
greatness was developed in him to a
surprising degree; he magnified ev-
erything. His patriotism was exalt-
ed. Napoleon was his god, the eagle
his emblem. He was bellicOse. He
pushed the war of 1912; he wished to
conquer Canada; he finally obtained
the annexation of Texas, the invasion
of California, and the war against
Mexico. The ease Of the taking of
Mexico delighted him and the treaty
Of Guadalupe Hidalgo fulfilled his
desires.
1.-The United States now extended
from one ocean to the other. Its area
had been Increased five times in for
ty-five years; IL ranked among the
great nations of the world.
"The Kentuckian, obscure worker
In this immense work, had as spokes-
man Henry Clay, with whom Web
ster and Calhoun held their own, all
carried away with the same dream of
national greatness.
"Such are, reviewed with a haste
which gives me some uneasiness and
needs some apologies, the principal
elements of this idea of universal
renovation which has marked so
deeply the American soul with a be-
S~R l. r.
United States are designed by Prov
tion, and leave In history an indelible
line"
Continued fortune, fspidity of
growth, successful settlement of
civil war, anarchism, political cor
ruption, and all economical crises
threatening the government, have
fostered this idea. Men have been
raised up in moments of great peril
capable Of accomplishing a given
work. Thus Washington and Lin
coin were truly providentisl men,
not with the genius of Napoleon,
but of Jeanne d. Arc. Such q mar
velous succession of events has not
failed to leave an impression even
upon the most ignorant Of Ameri-
cans that their country is different
from others.
Then the rapid "Americsniza-
ton" of the European emigrant,
which is nothing short of prodig-
ious. Whether this is as perfect at
bottom as it appears, time must
prove; but the fact remains that in
q generation Europe seems to have
lost all influence over sons who left
her to settle in the New World.
The author makes bold to say that
this is due to success. There is in
the air, in the very life itself, some
thing which captures youth and
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