Earlier text: REPORT FROM BRO. MATTESON.Growth of the United States.
FROM an article in the Methodist, headed, “The Prospective growth of the United States,” we make the following extract, which will be of interest to our readers: It is a remarkable circumstance that even while the question of a perpetuation of our national unity is hardly settled, the country begins to expand in all directions. The first step in this direction was made last year by the purchase from Russia of Russian America. It is a country thinly populated, but a vast tract of land. On its mercantile value, there is not yet a full agreement of opinion; but if the action of the United States Senate reflects in any way the opinion of the people, the purchase is acceptable to the large majority of them, for—a thing not frequent in matters of this kind—the purchase was ratified by all save two votes. While thus foreign rule ceased in the extreme north of our continent, negotiations were actively carried on for the purchase of the Danish islands in the West Indies. These negotiations have recently been concluded, and now await ratification by the Senate. At the same time, it is asserted that the Spanish Government has made to the United States a formal offer of Cuba and Porto Rico for the sum of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. The report needs verification; but though it may be premature, it is by no means improbable. The statesmen of Spain cannot be so blind as not to see the extreme improbability of their being able to retain much longer their hold on their American colonies, especially of Cuba. The spirit of independence in this island is visibly growing from year to year. A steadily-increasing proportion of the children of the educated and wealthy classes receive their education in the United States, and there imbibe the spirit of independence and of republicanism. The fact that it is the revenue of Cuba which with difficulty keeps off from old, sluggish Spain the impending bankruptcy, is coming to be better understood in Cuba, and produces a general hatred of Spanish dominion. Cuba has now its Cuban and American press in opposition to the Spanish, and it is evident that it is only the despotic rule of the Spanish officials which arrests the rapid march of native sentiments. Under these circumstances, Spain must expect the speedy outbreak of revolutionary attempts, which must become more dangerous as the native population increases, and as the intercourse of the people with the independent States of America becomes more intimate. Spain, moreover, knows that Mexico and the republics of46 South America are most eager to give the greatest possible encouragement and aid to every revolutionary movement in the Spanish colonies, and that this sympathy cannot fail to shake the Spanish power, and to hasten on the day of its downfall. Considerations of this kind must dispose the Spanish Government favorably toward the idea of selling what, in the course of time, it will be unable to retain. From reasons too obvious to need any explanations, it cannot expect to find any other purchaser than the United States. It is reported, with what degree of truth we do not know, that, in addition to the offers and purchases mentioned above, other offers have been made, and other negotiations have been carried on. Sweden and Holland are said to be anxious to sell out their American possessions, and even England has been said not to be altogether opposed to the sale of at least some tracts in British America. The United States Government, on the other hand, is reported to have negotiated for the purchase of the Bay of Samana, in the island of San Domingo, and to be anxious to secure the Sandwich islands, the government of which will become extinct on the death of the present childless king. Taken as a whole, these facts and reports unquestionably point to a strong tendency toward the expansion of our national territory. We do not stop to-day to discuss the soundness or unsoundness of this tendency; we intended only to adduce the facts which appear to establish its existence. But it is evident that there are great principles at the bottom of this movement which should be thoroughly elucidated and understood. The inhabitants of the European colonies in America are in a condition of political childhood, and it is natural that, both among these peoples and among the inhabitants of the independent American States, a strong desire should be manifested that all American territory should outgrow the humiliating condition of being European dependencies. This desire must steadily grow as America more and more outgrows Europe in rapidity of development, with the certain prospect of, at no remote time, excelling it in population, power, and influence. And it is therefore a question well worthy the consideration of a Christian and civilized nation, how this great prospective change in the American growth can best be effected in a peaceable, becoming, and lawful manner, and insurrection and bloodshed be avoided. It is worse to see a soul wrecked than to see a boat go down. It would be heart-rending to stand on some shore at night-fall and see a gallant ship struggling for her life with the elements, at last yield and sink before your eyes! But sadder far, to see a man leaving all the promise and glory of a better life for the fleeting mirage of earth, and getting wrecked with Heaven in view. McCheyne’s thrilling lines come back when we see a gay young girl, beautiful, bright and buoyant, “——Choosing the world and its giddy crowd,
Choosing the world and its endless shroud.
“She hath launched her boat
On life’s treacherous sea,
And her all is afloat,
For eternity!” My friend, if you heard a cry for help ring in your ears from some surf-dashed coast, you would not hesitate what to do. The book might be heart-inviting, the home never so happy, but to your heart would thrill the call of a fellow-creature in peril, and the magnetism which makes our nature a brotherhood, would urge you to be up and doing. So listen to the call from souls that are ready to perish. Do something for those for whom Christ died! Save from ship-wreck, if you can, the brother, sister, friend or neighbor, who is within the sphere of your influence.—American Presbyterian. Man Proposes, but God Disposes.
It may not be generally known that but for one of those accidents which seem to be almost a direct interposition of Providence, Prof. Morse, the originator of the magnetic telegraph, might have been now an artist instead of the inventor of the telegraph, and that agent of civilization be either unknown or just discovered. We publish from Tuckerman’s “Book of the Artists,” just from the press of G. P. Putnam & Son, the following reminiscence of Prof. Morse: “A striking evidence of the waywardness of destiny is afforded by the experience of this artist, if we pass at once from this early and hopeful moment to a more recent incident. He then aimed at renown through devotion to the beautiful; but it would seem as if the genius of his country, in spite of himself, led him to this object, by the less flowery path of utility. He desired to identify his name with art, but it has become far more widely associated with science. A series of bitter disappointments obliged him to “coin his mind for bread,” for a long period, of exclusive attention to portrait painting, although, at rare intervals, he accomplished something more satisfactory. More than thirty years since, on a voyage from Europe, in a conversation with his fellow passengers, the theme of discourse happened to be the electro-magnet; and one gentleman present related some experiments he had lately witnessed at Paris, which proved the almost incalculable rapidity of movement with which electricity was disseminated.” The idea suggested itself to the active mind of the artist, that this wonderful and but partially explored agent might be rendered subservient to that system of intercommunication which had become so important a principle of modern civilization. He brooded over the subject as he walked the deck, or lay wakeful in his berth, and by the time he arrived at New York, had so far matured his invention as to have decided upon a telegraph of signs, which is essentially that now in use. After having sufficiently demonstrated his discovery to the scientific, a long period of toil, anxiety, and suspense intervened before he obtained the requisite facilities for the establishment of the magnetic telegraph. It is now in daily operation in the United States, and its superiority over all similar inventions abroad was confirmed by the testimony of Arago and the appropriation made for its erection by the French Government.—Scientific American. A SUBLIME FAITH.—Faith rests with confidence on the word of God, assured that his promises cannot fail. When one has right views of the Divine character, he feels that he could sooner doubt his own existence than doubt the promises of God. The Bible itself furnishes no finer illustration of a sublime faith than the following reply of a poor Scotch woman to Rev. John Brown, of Haddington: Mr. Brown had been pressing her with hard questions, to test her knowledge of the Scriptures, and the strength and depth of her piety. At last he asked: “Janet, what if God, after all he has done, should break his promise and drop you into hell?” The poor woman promptly replied: “Let him do e’en as he likes. If he does, he’ll lose mair than I do!” It would be hard for any one to go beyond this in right conceptions of the faithfulness of God. God has had on earth one Son without sin, but never one without afflictions. The road to Heaven is soaked with blood of fifty millions of martyrs. Rivers of water ran down their eyes. Yet they all, even when on earth, regarded sin as the worst evil in the universe. Oh! avoid the very appearance of evil. God has a right to expect that you will honor him. Do it, and he will honor you. But if you now sin against him, you shall be lightly esteemed. Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak evil of an enemy. Believe not all you hear, nor report all you believe. Mr. Jay once remarked to John Newton, in relation to the conversion of a very wicked man: “If this man is a true penitent, I shall never despair of the conversion of any one again.” “Oh, I never did!” rejoined Mr. Newton, “since God saved me.” A suburban resident proposes as a subject for discussion in country-debating societies, “The killing of hogs in the front-yards of dwellings or on the public streets, as a means of educating young children into a healthy sentiment, and of accustoming them to the brutalities of civilized society.” God tells you, if you repent, you shall find mercy; and will you not believe him? Because thou hast been a sinner, wilt thou make God a liar! —A Mississippian writes to a Kentucky paper: “The state of things is appalling. Distress, want and misery are even now stalking abroad. What it may come to in the dead of winter and spring, God only knows. Every kind of business here is prostrated. Planters are bankrupts by the failure of the crops, and involve the merchants who advanced for them on the strength of the growing crop. The distress here will be equal, I am afraid, to the Irish famine of 1847 and 1848. I assure you, you never saw such a distressed and ruined people as the people of Mississippi, and I presume the citizens of other cotton States are in the same condition, and I see no remedy except within the fold of the Union.” There is said also to be great want and suffering in Louisiana. —A formidable revolution has broken out in Yucatan, Mexico. It is a rebellion against president Juarez’s government. The revolutionists have pronounced for Santa Anna as dictator, and that personage was expected there, but at last accounts he was in Havana. Affairs throughout the republic of Mexico appear to be rapidly relapsing into that confusion and disorder for which that unfortunate country is notorious. —The inhabitants of Lee county, Virginia, were recently thrown into great panic by the wonderful spectacle of three suns rising at the same time. The central orb was encircled by a beautiful rainbow, and surmounted by another iris which extended on either hand above the attendant suns. The two surplus suns were, of course, but reflections of the bona fide sun on the clouds, and after a brief space these suddenly dissolved and vanished, leaving the real sol solum. Great Britain.—LONDON, Dec. 27. Another of those fiendish outrages which characterized the operations of the Fenian Brotherhood has just been perpetrated at Dublin. Telegrams from there were received to-day, giving the following particulars: An unusually large number of letters have recently been received at the post office, at Dublin, directed to prominent officials. Each one of these letters was loaded with explosive materials, designed to kill the person addressed. Several exploded before their real nature was ascertained, but up to this time no person has been killed. A policeman who received one of these letters, was horribly mangled by the explosion. It is not known how many of those dangerous missiles have been despatched. Considerable excitement prevails, both in Dublin and elsewhere throughout the country, on the discovery of this, the latest Fenian outrage. The authorities are actively investigating, and will no doubt probe the matter to the bottom. The Times has an editorial article on the Fenian question. It shows that no less than three thousand special constables have been sworn in and are now serving in London. The writer calls attention to the grave public danger, and calls on the provincial cities and towns to emulate the precautionary measures of the metropolis. The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.—Despatches received from Naples mention that the eruption of mount Vesuvius is continually increasing in power and splendor. Immense sheets of white, yellow, and crimson flame rise hundreds of feet above the crater, and at night the Bay of Naples is lighted up for miles. Lava is pouring down the mountain side in immense quantities, and large stones are occasionally thrown out from the mouth of the volcano. A deep rumble, like reverberating thunder, is heard from time to time, as in the bowels of the earth, and many of the people in the vicinity have left their homes, fearing an earthquake, or other calamity. No such eruption has probably occurred in Vesuvius for centuries, and the spectacle is regarded as one of the most magnificent and sublime ever witnessed in nature. The Failure of the Roman Conference.
It will require a better knowledge than we possess at present of the diplomatic negotiations between the European courts, during the present month, to comprehend fully the extent of the new defeat of Louis Napoleon; but what we do know amply proves the fact of the defeat. From the utterances of the official papers of France and other countries we know that the diplomatic agents of France at every court of Europe made the utmost efforts to obtain the acceptance of the invitation to the Conference for the settlement of the Roman question. The efforts of the agents were energetically supported by the official and semi-official press, which, by systematic misrepresentations of the progress of the transaction, tried to spread the belief that the Conference was a fixed fact, and that only the want of agreement upon some insignificant details retarded its convocation. How persistent the French press was in this misrepresentation, may be seen from the fact that even a few days ago, when the advices from London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg concurrently announced the failure of the scheme, the Moniteur continued to assert that the Conference would take place. The attitude of the great powers of Europe with regard to the French proposals indicates not only a failure of this particular scheme, but a general decline of France in the international counsels of Europe. Napoleon, according to his custom, tried to keep all parties in the dark as to his real designs. He opposed the claims of Italy to Rome, not as the open and outspoken defender of the pretended rights of the Pope, but on the ground of a right of France to intervene in an Italian question. Nothing in the official language of the agents of Napoleon indicated that, like the statesmen of Spain, he aimed at obtaining new guarantees for the perpetuation of the present dominion of the Pope; but the only thing that could be inferred from the hints that had been thrown out from time to time was that Napoleon had in view some new combinations of European powers for securing the independence of the spiritual authority of the Pope, under the leadership of France. The clerical party in France and elsewhere have been jubilant at the last move of Napoleon, as it opposed the claims of Italy upon Rome; but the speech of M. Moustier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which we gave the day before yesterday, carefully refrained from indorsing the views expressed in the name of the clerical party by the Archbishop of Paris and others. The French Senate is a thoroughly Ultramontane body. Nearly all the speakers were ardent exponents of the claims of the Pope; not a solitary champion of the rights of the Italians was to be found among the speakers; but the Minister, while blandly pretending to a thorough sympathy with the views of the Ultramontane speakers, managed to make his speech as ambiguous as are usually the addresses of his Imperial master. A later speech by M. Rouher seems to have stepped a little beyond his usual reserve, and indicated that at the Conference he would openly oppose Italy. The great courts of Europe have emphatically disapproved both the insidious silence of M. Moustier and the clerical tendencies of M. Rouher. The defeat of France increases the hopes of the national party of Italy. They cannot expect the present conservative ministry to take any bold step toward the restoration of the national hope; but the knowledge that Prussia, Russia, and England disfavor the impertinent meddling of France in Italian matters will strengthen the national party, and increase the longing of the nation for Rome. An Italian Bismarck, under the present circumstances, would hardly let go the golden opportunity of concluding the national independence; but, unfortunately, Italy has yet to wait for its Bismarck.—N. Y. Tribune. Publication Department.
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