influence. The Anglo-Saxon civilizes the other races or devotes them to
extinction. And yet South America is naturally better than North. It is
richer and more productive, and endowed with a system of rivers compared
with which that of the Mississippi seems trifling. Had it been settled
by Anglo-Saxons and Germans instead of Creoles and mixed breeds, it
would long since have worn another aspect; steamboats would have covered
the rivers up to the very foot of the Cordilleras, and the vast plains
would have been occupied by flourishing towns and cultivated fields.

The parallel which Dr. Andree draws between the history of the United
States and Europe for the last fifty years is so strikingly put, that we
make room for a single passage by way of specimen:

"A comparison of the history of Europe and of North America
during the time since the first French revolution is in every
respect to the advantage of the United States. The old world
has been convulsed by wars, a military emperor has had the sway
of Europe, and broken kingdoms into fragments; blood has flowed
in torrents, and thousands of millions have been wasted for
unproductive purposes and on royal vanity. Since the fall of
the Great Soldier the nations have incessantly risen against
their rulers, and more than a million of men now stand in arms
to restrain the people and serve the passions of monarchs and
their cabinets. Only sixty years ago the entire valley of the
Mississippi was still a desert, a wide wilderness, with hardly
here and there a settlement. Now we see this empire in
subjection--conquered, not by soldiers, with waving banners and
sounding trumpets, but by the toil of the farmer, the skill of
the artisan, the enterprising spirit of the merchant. They have
drained morasses, cleared up forests, opened roads, dug canals,
built ships, and founded flourishing states. Within the period
of two generations they have peopled that wilderness with ten
millions of industrious inhabitants, and opened a new home to
the arts of peace, to civil and religious liberty, to culture
and progress. In these sixty years, not so much blood has been
shed in wars against Indians in the Mississippi valley as in
one of the hundreds of battles fought by the soldiers of
European states, most of them for useless or even pernicious
ends. No blessing has