nd intimate alliance with the Cherokee
Indians, who, occupying as they did the defiles of the Alleghanies,
would form a permanent bulwark between the young Anglo-Saxon republic
and the French possessions on the Mississippi. But the permanent bulwark
could no more resist the advancing wave than a lath and plaster
breakwater could withstand the seas of the Channel. In a few short years
not a vestige of it was to be found, and in less than a quarter of a
century both French and Cherokees had disappeared from the scene. Not
only were the defiles of the Alleghanies opened, but the Alleghanies
themselves have since been virtually removed. Ever since the foundation
of the republic, our American kinsmen have been anxious to emulate and
surpass us in indulging that desire for territorial acquisition, which
seems to be, for the present at least, the ruling passion of the
Anglo-Saxon mind. Confined at first between the Alleghanies and the
Atlantic, they gradually spread westward to the Mississippi, of both
banks of which, from its sources to its _embouchure_, they possessed
themselves as early as 1806. Their coast line, which, originally, did
not extend beyond the St. Mary, was soon afterward carried round the
peninsula of Florida, and along the northern shore of the Mexican Gulf,
westward to the mouth of the Sabine. Not satisfied with this, they
planted themselves in Texas, and some years afterward transferred their
boundary to the Rio Grande. Oregon, New Mexico, and California, fell in
quick succession within the grasp of the confederacy. The entire
disappearance of the Spaniard from the continent is a consummation, not
even doubtful, but simply awaiting the convenience of the encroaching
Anglo-Saxon. For the accession of Canada, time is implicitly relied
upon--the idea of conquest in that quarter being out of the
question--and thus it is that even sober-minded men are beginning to
believe that the time is not far off when the glowing prophecies of the
most sanguine will be realized, that the boundaries of the republic
would yet be the Isthmus, the North Pole, and the two oceans."

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LEDRU ROLLIN'S new work, "The Decline of England," of which the first
volume only has appeared, is, as might have been anticipated, savagely
attacked in most of the British journals. The _Times_ observes:

"M. Ledru Rollin professes to be a philosopher and a statesman, and,
being induced by somewhat peculiar