| Show OUR DUn SIO Those Tholo who tremble for tor th conse tM the American victories In till hip former Spanish po possessIons ellon cannot realize how gigantic this coun country country try has hall made practically In the brief time of ono one generation Only the tho other day dBY the tho death was recorded ot of one zen who ho claimed to have seen nil all the tho Presidents or of this country except Washington And yet et In that brief time the country has haa expanded and ond I grown gron moro more than thon any other country And no calamity has befallen Its It inhabitants or o In A writer In Harpers pre cents matter In the form torm ot of an In historical sketch lie Ho that In It was nl the tho evident purpose ot of the European powers to make molo the tho AppalachiAn range the western bound ILl flY ot of this But Dut through the efforts Of statesmen mell like Franklin Jay and Adams England consented to draw the line nt at the river The general at that time seemed to tobe he be that this was M nIt an exceedingly wIld flight ot of the fancy but the tho envoys saw beyond the lie horizon of the multitude They simply lImply broke their instructions Instruction Accepted the amity ot of england and se cc secured cured a clause In the treaty Ir at b by which I the coveted boundary was Willi obtained for forthe the tho American people ot of that time and their posterity But ut the tho genius ot of Jefferson curled the American across the MississiPPi Pi III and over the Mountains do down to the Pacific lie He too bud 1 a struggle for tor hIs policy The to the treaty entered Into n a hun dr deed l years ago are aro summed up as al tol fol tollow follows lows low Franco France bad no rIght to cC code e the States had hod no n right to receive under the conditions condition of the treat treaty the territory was not worth having on an any terms It was va vast t tt it would b tho biane ot of the UnIon It would woul 1 draw valued inhabItants from other parts of the UnIted States It would pol poison on the tho settlers the treaty treat was wa an extra con j the tho President anti the Senate euAte tild not the opinion of nC the country unit men ought aught to oppose o such lIch a pernicious us as the admission ot of Louisiana of n a world and such luch n a world Into our Union It rounds familiar The same timid timidIty It Ity that found Its expression In the tho sentences quoted till agItates some Bomo minds Dut without reason realon The Institutions are Iro safe sall as 11 I long II as Its Ita citizens will 11 maintain them in III the spirit In which they were found founded ed cd And 11 nil as long as 1111 they do this thc they should r realize that the tho more or of he In Inhabitants habitants ot of the earth are brought un under Iler der the educating of these thelo Institutions tile the sooner looner the human fam family II ily wilt will be brought up to that manhood without which there Is no no true trul liberty |
