Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846Various
History
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
Besides the acquisition of Canada, which is put down on all hands as a
"gone 'coon," other brilliant results are to ensue from the possession
of Oregon. Mr Ingersoll, (_Whig_,) "a drab-coloured man" from
Pennsylvania--"flattered himself that two years would not elapse before
the Chinese and Japanese--sober, industrious, and excellent
people--would be attracted there to settle. It was only a short voyage
across the Pacific Ocean. Millions of those starving workmen who, in
point of sobriety, industry, and capacity, were among the best in the
world--workmen from every isle in the Pacific--men able to outwork the
English, would flock there."
In the same fine strain of prophecy, Mr Darragh, another "_drab_" of the
_Democratic_ school, observes--
"He was one of those who believed that there were men now here, who
might yet live to see a continuous railroad extending from the
mouth of the Columbia to the Atlantic. The country would soon be
filled with a dense population, and would eventually control the
China trade, and affect the whole commerce of the Pacific. He
trusted in God there would be a beginning of this end. He trusted
that this government would say to the despotisms of Europe--Stay on
your own side of the water, and do not attempt to intermeddle with
the balance of power on this continent. He believed it to be the
design of God that our free institutions, or institutions like
ours, should eventually cover this whole continent--a consummation
which could not but affect every part of the world, and the
prospect of which ought to fill with joy the heart of every
philanthropic man!"
But it won't till you've paid your debts, O Darragh!
Mr Baker, (_Whig_,) another _insolvent_ from Illinois, is very rich and
rapacious--
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